Mag. Johannes Wessely, PhD
Johannes Wessely
T: +43-1-4277-54376
Summer term 2025
300008 UE Species distribution modelling - Data Analysis and modelling
Winter term 2024
300205 VU Analysis of Ecological Data - univariate methods - (Data Analysis and modeling)
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Patterns and drivers of range filling of alien mammals in Europe. / Tedeschi, Lisa (Corresponding author); Lenzner, Bernd; Schertler, Anna et al.
In: Oikos, Vol. 2025, No. 9, e11388, 09.2025.

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Landscape context influences local management effects on birds and bats in Amazonian cacao agroforestry systems. / Aycart-Lazo, Pablo; Ivañez-Ballesteros, Blanca; Ocampo-Ariza, Carolina et al.
In: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, Vol. 385, 109545, 15.06.2025.

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Fine-scale alpine plant community assembly: Relative roles of environmental sorting, dispersal processes and species interactions. / Helm, Norbert; Chytrý, Krystof; Hülber, Karl et al.
In: Journal of Ecology, Vol. 112, No. 12, 12.2024, p. 2745 - 2757.

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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.

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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.

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Venturing Into the Unknown: The Importance of Variable Selection When Modelling Alien Species Under Non‐Analogue Climatic Conditions. / Vorstenbosch, Tom (Corresponding author); Essl, Franz; Lenzner, Bernd et al.
In: Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 14, No. 10, e70490, 10.2024.

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Invasion risk of the currently cultivated alien flora in southern Africa is predicted to decline under climate change. / Omer, Ali (Corresponding author); Essl, Franz; Dullinger, Stefan et al.
In: Ecography, Vol. 2024, No. 6, e07010, 06.2024, p. 1-13.

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A climate-induced tree species bottleneck for forest management in Europe. / Wessely, Johannes (Corresponding author); Essl, Franz; Fiedler, Konrad et al.
In: Nature Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 8, No. 6, 29.04.2024, p. 1109-1117.

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The dawn of the tropical Atlantic invasion into the Mediterranean Sea. / Albano, Paolo G. (Corresponding author); Schultz, Lotta; Wessely, Johannes et al.
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 121, No. 15, e2320687121, 01.04.2024, p. 1-8.

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The climate crisis affects Mediterranean marine molluscs of conservation concern. / Schultz, Lotta; Wessely, Johannes; Dullinger, Stefan et al.
In: Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 30, No. 3, e13805, 03.2024, p. 1-16.

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Pronounced turnover of vascular plant species in Central European arable fields over 90 years. / Glaser, Michael (Corresponding author); Dullinger, Stefan; Moser, Dietmar et al.
In: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, Vol. 361, 108798, 28.02.2024.

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Limited impact of microtopography on alpine plant distribution. / Chytrý, Kryštof (Corresponding author); Helm, Norbert; Hülber, Karl et al.
In: Ecography, Vol. 2024, No. 2, e06744, 02.2024.

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Threatened European butterflies concentrate in areas of strong climatic change and atmospheric deposition pressure. / Rashid, Sonia; Wessely, Johannes; Moser, Dietmar et al.
In: Biological Conservation, Vol. 288, 110352, 12.2023.

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Evolutionary dynamics of Euphorbia carniolica suggest a complex Plio–Pleistocene history of understorey species of deciduous forest in southeastern Europe. / Kirschner, Philipp; Záveská, Eliška; Hülber, Karl et al.
In: Molecular Ecology, Vol. 32, No. 19, 10.2023, p. 5350-5368.

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CATS: A high-performance software framework for simulating plant migration in changing environments. / Gattringer, Andreas; Wessely, Johannes; Hülber, Karl et al.
In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 14, No. 9, 09.2023, p. 2226-2232.

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Niche breadth explains the range size of European-centred butterflies, but dispersal ability does not. / Hausharter, Johannes (Corresponding author); Rashid, Sonia; Wessely, Johannes et al.
In: Global Ecology and Biogeography: a Journal of Macroecology, Vol. 32, No. 9, 09.2023, p. 1535-1548.

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Post-glacial range formation of temperate forest understorey herbs – Insights from a spatio-temporally explicit modelling approach. / Willner, Wolfgang; Wessely, Johannes; Gattringer, Andreas et al.
In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 32, No. 7, 07.2023, p. 1046-1058.

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Human appropriation of net primary production as driver of change in landscape-scale vertebrate richness. / Reiter, Karina (Corresponding author); Plutzar, Christoph; Moser, Dietmar et al.
In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 32, No. 6, 06.2023, p. 855-866.

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Phylogenetic data reveal a surprising origin of Euphorbia orphanidis (Euphorbiaceae) and environmental modeling suggests that microtopology limits its distribution to small patches in Mt. Parnassus (Greece). / Faltner, Felix; Wessely, Johannes; Frajman, Božo.
In: Frontiers in Plant Science, Vol. 14, 1116496, 2023.

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Relative effects of land conversion and land-use intensity on terrestrial vertebrate diversity. / Semenchuk, Philipp (Corresponding author); Plutzar, Christoph; Kastner, Thomas et al.
In: Nature Communications, Vol. 13, No. 1, 615, 12.2022.

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What is the future of high-mountain plant diversity in Europe under climate change? A question tackled by the ERC-project MICROCLIM

Hülber, K. (Speaker), Helm, N. (Contributor), Chytrý, K. (Contributor), Moser, D. (Contributor), Wessely, J. (Contributor), Gattringer, A. (Speaker), Hausharter, J. (Contributor), Saccone, P. (Contributor), Pauli, H. (Contributor), Winkler, M. (Contributor), Rutzinger, M. (Contributor), Mayr, A. (Contributor), Kollert, A. (Contributor) & Dullinger, S. (Contributor)

27 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What kind of temperature variables to use to model distributions of alpine plants?

Chytrý, K. (Speaker), Helm, N. (Contributor), Hülber, K. (Contributor), Moser, D. (Contributor), Wessely, J. (Contributor), Hausharter, J. (Contributor), Kollert, A. (Contributor), Mayr, A. (Contributor), Rutzinger, M. (Contributor), Pauli, H. (Contributor), Saccone, P. (Contributor), Winkler, M. (Contributor), Lembrechts, J. J. (Contributor), Lenoir, J. (Contributor), De Frenne, P. (Contributor) & Dullinger, S. (Contributor)

26 Aug 202429 Aug 2024

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Will microrefugia safeguard alpine plant diversity in a warming world?

Dullinger, S. (Speaker), Chytrý, K. (Contributor), Helm, N. (Contributor), Hülber, K. (Contributor), Moser, D. (Contributor), Wessely, J. (Contributor), Gattringer, A. (Contributor), Hausharter, J. (Contributor), Lamprecht, A. (Contributor), Pauli, H. (Contributor), Saccone, P. (Contributor), Winkler, M. (Contributor), Kollert, A. (Contributor), Mayr, A. (Contributor), Rutzinger, M. (Contributor) & Hietz, P. (Contributor)

16 Jun 202421 Jun 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


Fine-scale alpine plant community assembly: Relative roles of environmental sorting, dispersal processes and species interactions

Helm, N. (Speaker), Chytrý, K. (Contributor), Hülber, K. (Contributor), Moser, D. (Contributor), Wessely, J. (Contributor), Pauli, H. (Contributor), Lamprecht, A. (Contributor), Saccone, P. (Contributor), Winkler, M. (Contributor), Rutzinger, M. (Contributor), Mayr, A. (Contributor), Kollert, A. (Contributor) & Dullinger, S. (Contributor)

7 Jan 202411 Jan 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Limited impact of microtopography on alpine plant distribution

Chytrý, K. (Speaker), Helm, N. (Contributor), Hülber, K. (Contributor), Moser, D. (Contributor), Wessely, J. (Contributor), Hausharter, J. (Contributor), Kollert, A. (Contributor), Mayr, A. (Contributor), Rutzinger, M. (Contributor), Winkler, M. (Contributor), Pauli, H. (Contributor), Saccone, P. (Contributor), Paetzolt, M. (Contributor), Hietz, P. (Contributor) & Dullinger, S. (Contributor)

7 Jan 202411 Jan 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Limited impact of microtopography on alpine plant distribution

Chytrý, K. (Speaker), Helm, N. (Contributor), Hülber, K. (Contributor), Moser, D. (Contributor), Wessely, J. (Contributor), Hausharter, J. (Contributor), Kollert, A. (Contributor), Mayr, A. (Contributor), Rutzinger, M. (Contributor), Winkler, M. (Contributor), Pauli, H. (Contributor), Saccone, P. (Contributor), Paetzolt, M. (Contributor), Hietz, P. (Contributor) & Dullinger, S. (Contributor)

12 Dec 202315 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CATS: Modelling plant migration in a changing environment

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

4 Sept 20238 Sept 2023

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


Limited impact of microtopography on alpine plant distribution

Chytrý, K. (Speaker), Helm, N. (Contributor), Hülber, K. (Contributor), Moser, D. (Contributor), Wessely, J. (Contributor), Hausharter, J. (Contributor), Kollert, A. (Contributor), Mayr, A. (Contributor), Rutzinger, M. (Contributor), Winkler, M. (Contributor), Pauli, H. (Contributor), Saccone, P. (Contributor), Paetzolt, M. (Contributor), Hietz, P. (Contributor) & Dullinger, S. (Contributor)

21 May 202325 May 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 biogeography of geographical parthenogenesis: effects of climatic niches and reproductive modes on Holocene range expansion of an alpine plant

Dullinger, S. (Speaker), Kirchheimer, B. (Contributor), Wessely, J. (Contributor), Gattringer, A. (Contributor), Schinkel, C. C. F. (Contributor), Hülber, K. (Contributor), Moser, D. (Contributor), Appelhans, M. S. (Contributor), Klatt, S. (Contributor), Caccianiga, M. (Contributor), Dellinger, A. (Contributor), Guisan, A. (Contributor), Kuttner, M. (Contributor), Lenoir, J. (Contributor), Maiorano, L. (Contributor), Nieto-Lugilde, D. (Contributor), Plutzar, C. (Contributor), Svenning, J.-C. (Speaker), Willner, W. (Contributor) & Hörandl, E. (Contributor)

20 Mar 201824 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The higher the slower: Range dynamics of mountain plants decrease with elevation.

Rumpf, S. B. (Speaker), Hülber, K. (Contributor), Klonner, G. (Contributor), Moser, D. (Contributor), Schütz, M. (Contributor), Wessely, J. (Contributor), Willner, W. (Contributor), Zimmermann, N. E. (Contributor) & Dullinger, S. (Contributor)

20 Mar 201824 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Will alpine plants keep cool under a warming climate?

Wessely, J. (Speaker), Hülber, K. (Contributor), Klonner, G. (Contributor), Moser, D. (Contributor) & Dullinger, S. (Contributor)

20 Mar 201824 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Species range dynamics decrease with elevation in the European Alps

Rumpf, S. B. (Speaker), Hülber, K. (Contributor), Klonner, G. (Contributor), Moser, D. (Contributor), Schütz, M. (Contributor), Wessely, J. (Contributor), Willner, W. (Contributor), Zimmermann, N. E. (Contributor) & Dullinger, S. (Contributor)

3 Nov 2017

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Species range dynamics decrease with elevation in the European Alps

Rumpf, S. B. (Speaker), Hülber, K. (Contributor), Klonner, G. (Contributor), Moser, D. (Contributor), Schütz, M. (Contributor), Wessely, J. (Contributor), Willner, W. (Contributor), Zimmermann, N. E. (Contributor) & Dullinger, S. (Contributor)

19 Apr 201721 Apr 2017

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T: +43-1-4277-54376

johannes.wessely@univie.ac.at