Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Franz Essl
Franz Essl
T: +43-1-4277-54378
Winter term 2025
290605 VO Climate Change and Climate Crisis - Towards the Eco-Sociological Transformation
300367 VO Naturschutzbiologie - (Bereich Naturschutzbiologie)
Summer term 2025
300424 SE+UE Übungen zur funktionellen Ökologie - Biodiversität & Landnutzung in Graslandökosystemen
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OneSTOP: OneBiosecurity systems and technology for people, places and pathways. / Groom, Quentin; Adriaens, Tim; August, Tom et al.
In: Research Ideas and Outcomes, Vol. 11, e165316, 21.07.2025, p. 1-70.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticle


Threatened Aquatic Plants of the Southern Tigris-Euphrates Basin: Status, Threats, and Conservation Priorities. / Naser, Murtada; Yasser, Amaal; Schoelynck, Jonas et al.
In: Plants, Vol. 14, No. 13, 1914, 22.06.2025, p. 1-17.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


Probable Extirpation of Anodonta vescoiana in Iraq: A Case Study of Unionid Displacement by Sinanodonta woodiana. / Naser, Murtada (Corresponding author); Yasser, Amaal; Geist, Juergen et al.
In: Diversity, Vol. 17, No. 6, 415, 12.06.2025, p. 1-13.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


Beyond the Trail: Understanding Non-Native Plant Invasions in Mountain Ecosystems. / Barros, Agustina; Fuentes Lillo, Eduardo; Aschero, Valeria et al.
In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 34, No. 6, e70060, 06.2025, p. 1-14.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


Biodiversity monitoring of island ecosystems (BioMonI). / Guerrero-Ramírez, Nathaly; Ah-Peng, Claudine; Borges, Paulo et al.
In: ARPHA Conference Abstracts, Vol. 8, e155875, 28.05.2025, p. 1-4.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity. / Pärtel, Meelis; Tamme, Riin; Carmona, Carlos P. et al.
In: Nature, Vol. 641, 22.05.2025, p. 917-924.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


Reconciling links between diversity and population stability across global plant communities. / Lotus Team.
33 p. 2025, Nicht Peer-Reviewed.

Publications: Other publicationOther


Integrating Spatially‐Explicit and Genetic Analyses to Identify Conservation Priorities for Bufo eichwaldi (Amphibia: Anura) in the Hyrcanian Forest. / Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian (Corresponding author); Naser, Murtada; Yaser, Amaal et al.
In: Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 16.04.2025, p. 1-11.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


Combining Hierarchical Distribution Models With Dispersal Simulations to Predict the Spread of Invasive Plant Species. / Lázaro-Lobo, Adrián; Wessely, Johannes; Essl, Franz et al.
In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 34, No. 3, e70026, 03.2025, p. 1-14.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


Ninety years of alien plant species accumulation across regional and local scales in central European fields. / Colling, Gilles (Corresponding author); Glaser, Michael; Buholzer, Serge et al.
In: Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Vol. 383, 109483, 03.02.2025, p. 1-15.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


Changes in weed vegetation across transects in maize fields. / Essl, Franz (Corresponding author); Follak, Swen; Glaser, Michael.
In: Basic and Applied Ecology, Vol. 82, 02.2025, p. 1-10.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales. / Cai, Lirong (Corresponding author); Kreft, Holger; Denelle, Pierre et al.
In: Nature Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2990, 02.2025, p. 314-324.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


GUBIC : The global urban biological invasions compendium for plants: The global urban biological invasions compendium for plants. / Li, Daijiang; Potgieter, Luke J.; Aronson, Myla F.J. et al.
In: Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Vol. 6, No. 1, e70020, 01.01.2025.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


Management Measures and Trends of Biological Invasions in Europe: A Survey-Based Assessment of Local Managers. / Garcia-Lozano, Carla; Pueyo-Ros, Josep; Canelles, Quim et al.
In: Global Change Biology, Vol. 31, No. 1, e70028, 01.2025.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


Nineteenth-century land use shapes the current occurrence of some plant species, but weakly affects the richness and total composition of Central European grasslands. / Midolo, Gabriele; Skokanová, Hana; Clark, Adam Thomas et al.
In: Landscape Ecology, Vol. 40, No. 22, 01.2025, p. 1-18.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


A review of structural and functional connectivity studies in European forests. / Martínez-Richart, Ana Isabel; Zolles, Anita; Oettel, Janine et al.
In: Landscape Ecology, Vol. 40, No. 1, 10, 2025, p. 1-21.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


A Systems Perspective: How Social–Ecological Networks Can Improve Our Understanding and Management of Biological Invasions. / Rickowski, Fiona; Ruland, Florian; Bodin, Örjan et al.
In: BioScience, 2025, p. 1-20.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


Threatened Mammals With Alien Populations: Distribution, Causes, and Conservation. / Tedeschi, Lisa (Corresponding author); Lenzner, Bernd; Schertler, Anna et al.
In: Conservation Letters, Vol. 18, No. 1, e13069, 04.12.2024, p. 1-8.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


Land-use determines the distribution of large branchiopods in climatically homogeneous northern Pannonia. / Devánová, Alžbeta (Corresponding author); Sychra, Jan; Wessely, Johannes et al.
In: Global Ecology and Conservation, Vol. 56, e03300, 12.2024.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


The neglected importance of managing biological invasions for sustainable development. / Lenzner, Bernd (Corresponding author); García‐Rodríguez, Adrián; Colling, Gilles et al.
In: People and Nature, Vol. 6, No. 5, 10.2024, p. 1804-1811.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


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Legacy effects of European colonialism on hotspots of biocultural diversity threat

Lenzner, B. (Speaker), Baumann, A. (Speaker), Norder, S. (Speaker), Essl, F. (Speaker) & Fellner, H. (Speaker)

Jan 2026

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Language endangerment and biodiversity threat both correlate with duration of European colonial occupation

Baumann, A. (Speaker), Fellner, H. (Speaker), Lenzner, B. (Speaker), Essl, F. (Speaker) & Norder, S. (Speaker)

17 Sept 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Meeting International Biodiversity Targets on Islands: Current Status and Challenges

Mologni, F. (Speaker), Essl, F. (Contributor) & Lenzner, B. (Contributor)

Sept 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A synthesis on alien mammals threatened in their native range

Tedeschi, L. (Speaker), Lenzner, B. (Contributor), Schertler, A. (Contributor), Biancolini, D. (Contributor), Rondinini, C. (Contributor) & Essl, F. (Contributor)

Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Predicting range dynamics of butterfly species and their host plants with CATS during the 21st century: species interactions matter

Gattringer, A. (Speaker), Essl, F. (Contributor), Fiedler, K. (Contributor), Hausharter, J. (Contributor), Hülber, K. (Contributor), Kühn, I. (Contributor), Moser, D. (Contributor), Rashid, S. (Contributor), Wessely, J. (Contributor) & Dullinger, S. (Contributor)

10 Jan 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Filling the range: how propagule pressure shaped alien mammal’s distribution in Europe”

Tedeschi, L. (Speaker), Essl, F. (Contributor), Lenzner, B. (Contributor), Schertler, A. (Contributor) & Wessely, J. (Contributor)

24 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Habitat-based conservation strategies cannot compensate for climate-change-induced range loss.

Hülber, K. (Speaker), Wessely, J. (Contributor), Gattringer, A. (Contributor), Moser, D. (Contributor), Dullinger, S. (Contributor) & Essl, F. (Contributor)

20 Mar 201824 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The big picture: insight into vascular plant invasions worldwide

Essl, F. (Speaker)

4 Nov 2014 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Österreichs Pflanzenwelt im globalen Treibhaus

Essl, F. (Keynote speaker)

24 Sept 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Ausbreitung der Ambrosie - Zukunftsszenarien

Essl, F. (Invited speaker)

10 Dec 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Evaluating the impact of climate change, management effort and allocation on the future spread and allergy costs of ragweed

Essl, F. (Invited speaker)

3 Nov 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The role of space and time in shaping patterns in biological invasions – and beyond

Essl, F. (Invited speaker)

19 Jun 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Die überforderte Natur Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die Biodiversität

Essl, F. (Invited speaker)

18 Apr 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Aktuelle Verbreitung, Einwanderungsgeschichte und Szenarien des weiteren Ausbreitungsverlaufs in Österreich

Essl, F. (Speaker)

25 Nov 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


GRAssland Communities Experiment

Essl, F. (Project Lead)

Project: Research funding


MOTIVATE: Monitoring of Terrestrial habitats by Integrating Vegetation Archive Time series in Europe

Essl, F. (Project Lead), Jimenez-Alfaro, B. (Co-Lead), Sabatini, F. M. (Co-Lead), Carboni, M. (Co-Lead), Chytrý, M. (Co-Lead) & Norum, R. (Co-Lead)

Project: Research funding


TETRA-CHANGE: Protected areas role for tetrapods’ diversity

Tedeschi, L. (Project Lead) & Essl, F. (Co-Lead)

1/05/2630/04/29

Project: Research funding


Alien Plant Impacts on European Community Thermophilization

Fan, S. (Project Lead) & Essl, F. (Co-Lead)

1/03/2628/02/29

Project: Research funding


The Global Naturalized Alien Flora

Essl, F. (Project Lead)

1/02/2631/01/29

Project: Research funding


Plant Naturalization Risk Under Global Environmental Change

Omer, A. H. A. (Project Lead) & Essl, F. (Co-Lead)

1/01/2531/12/27

Project: Research funding


BioMonI: BioMonI: Biodiversity monitoring of island ecosystems

Lenzner, B. (Project Lead), Vieira Borges, P. A. (Co-Lead), de Nascimento Reyes, L. (Co-Lead), Ah-Peng, C. (Co-Lead), Patiño, J. (Co-Lead), Zemp, D. C. (Co-Lead) & Essl, F. (Co-Lead)

1/04/2431/03/27

Project: Research funding


Population genetics and landscape ecology large Branchiopoda

Schwentner, M. (Project Coordinator), Essl, F. (Project Lead) & Schernhammer, T. (Co-Lead)

11/10/2210/10/25

Project: Research funding


Weave: externer Lead

Essl, F. (Project Lead)

27/04/2226/04/25

Project: Research funding


The biogeography and ecology of alien pathogenic fungi world

Essl, F. (Project Lead)

8/10/217/04/25

Project: Research funding


Developing and applying scenarios of biological invasions

Essl, F. (Project Lead), Dullinger, S. (Co-Lead), Lenzner, B. (Co-Lead) & Moser, D. (Co-Lead)

20/02/1919/02/22

Project: Research funding


Globale Datenbank zu nichtheimi

Essl, F. (Project Lead)

16/12/1416/12/17

Project: Research funding


Klimawandel+Zierpflanzen

Dullinger, S. (Project Lead) & Essl, F. (Co-Lead)

28/10/1331/10/17

Project: Research funding


Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research

Rennweg 14
1030 Wien
Room: 106a

T: +43-1-4277-54378

franz.essl@univie.ac.at