W. Daniel Kissling
(Dr. rer. nat., M.Sc., Dipl. Laök, PGDipl.)
Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity Group, 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 Ecoinformatics
& Biodiversity Group at Aarhus University, Denmark. My interest
is in quantitative
biodiversity science, including macroecology & biogeography, species
interactions, 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 I collaborate with a number of people from a variety of
backgrounds 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:
We have published a PNAS paper about deep-time climate change effects
on present-day species assemblages in the tropics. See here for paper
and press
release
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. & K. Böhning-Gaese (2007): Food plant diversity
as broad-scale determinant of avian frugivore richness. Proceedings
of the Royal Society B 274: 799–-808. [ABSTRACT]
