W. Daniel Kissling
(Dr. rer. nat., M.Sc., Dipl. Laök, PGDipl.)
Integrative Ecology and Evolution Section, Department of Bioscience,
Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-08000 Aarhus C, Denmark; Phone:
0045-87154345; Email: danielkissling [@] web.de
I am an assistant
professor in the Integrative Ecology and Evolution Section at Aarhus
University, Denmark. My interest is in
quantitative biodiversity science, including macroecology &
biogeography, species interactions, animal habitat and space use, and
global change (see here
for more details). In my work, I take advantage of recent advances
in technology, computing, numerical databasing, Geographic Information
Systems (GIS), and environmental modelling to (1) better understand
the broad-scale distribution of life on Earth, and (2) develop solutions
to cross-scale environmental problems in global change biology and
conservation management. This requires an integrated and interdisciplinary
effort and my work thus involves collaborations across a variety of
disciplines and countries (see here).
I believe that a sound management of our biosphere requires a quantitative
understanding of biological patterns and processes across space and
time, and a better transfer of ecological knowledge into conservation
management and political decision making.
LATEST NEWS: Towards the end of this year, I will start as an Associate Professor in Quantitative Biodiversity Science at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)
at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Netherlands. Interested BSc.,
MSc. and PhD students and Postdocs can get in contact with me. Please
provide a Curriculum Vitae, a research statement and a project proposal
(2-3 pages) with your inquiry.
Selected publications
(for a complete list click here)
Kissling, W.D.,
Eiserhardt, W.L., Baker, W.J., Borchsenius, F., Couvreur, T.L.P.,
Balslev, H. & Svenning, J.-C. (2012): Cenozoic imprints on the
phylogenetic structure of palm species assemblages worldwide. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
109: 7379–7384. [ABSTRACT]
Kissling, W.D.,
Sekercioglu, C.H. & Jetz, W. (2012): Bird dietary guild richness
across latitudes, environments and biogeographic regions. Global
Ecology & Biogeography 21: 328–340. [ABSTRACT]
Kissling, W.D.,
Field, R., Korntheuer, H., Heyder, U. & Böhning-Gaese, K.
(2010): Woody plants and the prediction of climate change impacts
on bird diversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
B 365: 2035–2045. [ABSTRACT]
Kissling, W.D.
& Carl, G. (2008): Spatial autocorrelation and the selection of
simultaneous autoregressive models. Global Ecology and Biogeography
17: 59–71. [ABSTRACT]
Kissling, W.D.,
Rahbek, C. & Böhning-Gaese, K. (2007): Food plant diversity
as broad-scale determinant of avian frugivore richness. Proceedings
of the Royal Society B 274: 799–-808. [ABSTRACT]
