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)
Summer term 2024
300008 UE Species distribution modelling - Data Analysis and modelling
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Land-use determines the distribution of large branchiopods in climatically homogeneous northern Pannonia. / Devánová, Alžbeta; 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; García‐Rodríguez, Adrián; Colling, Gilles et al.
In: People and Nature, 10.2024.

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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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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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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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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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Protected area network insufficiently represents climatic niches of endemic plants in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot. / Ludovicy, Simon; Noroozi, Jalil; Semenchuk, Philipp et al.
In: Biological Conservation, Vol. 275, 109768, 11.2022.

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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

Karl Hülber (Speaker), Norbert Helm (Contributor), Krystof Chytrý (Contributor), Dietmar Moser (Contributor), Johannes Wessely (Contributor), Andreas Gattringer (Speaker), Johannes Hausharter (Contributor), Patrick Saccone (Contributor), Harald Pauli (Contributor), Manuela Winkler (Contributor), Martin Rutzinger (Contributor), Andreas Mayr (Contributor), Andreas Kollert (Contributor) & Stefan Dullinger (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?

Krystof Chytrý (Speaker), Norbert Helm (Contributor), Karl Hülber (Contributor), Dietmar Moser (Contributor), Johannes Wessely (Contributor), Johannes Hausharter (Contributor), Andreas Kollert (Contributor), Andreas Mayr (Contributor), Martin Rutzinger (Contributor), Harald Pauli (Contributor), Patrick Saccone (Contributor), Manuela Winkler (Contributor), Jonas J. Lembrechts (Contributor), Jonathan Lenoir (Contributor), Pieter De Frenne (Contributor) & Stefan Dullinger (Contributor)

26 Aug 202429 Aug 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Will microrefugia safeguard alpine plant diversity in a warming world?

Stefan Dullinger (Speaker), Krystof Chytrý (Contributor), Norbert Helm (Contributor), Karl Hülber (Contributor), Dietmar Moser (Contributor), Johannes Wessely (Contributor), Andreas Gattringer (Contributor), Johannes Hausharter (Contributor), Andrea Lamprecht (Contributor), Harald Pauli (Contributor), Patrick Saccone (Contributor), Manuela Winkler (Contributor), Andreas Kollert (Contributor), Andreas Mayr (Contributor), Martin Rutzinger (Contributor) & Peter Hietz (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

Andreas Gattringer (Speaker), Franz Essl (Contributor), Konrad Fiedler (Contributor), Johannes Hausharter (Contributor), Karl Hülber (Contributor), Ingolf Kühn (Contributor), Dietmar Moser (Contributor), Sonia Rashid (Contributor), Johannes Wessely (Contributor) & Stefan Dullinger (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

Norbert Helm (Speaker), Krystof Chytrý (Contributor), Karl Hülber (Contributor), Dietmar Moser (Contributor), Johannes Wessely (Contributor), Harald Pauli (Contributor), Andrea Lamprecht (Contributor), Patrick Saccone (Contributor), Manuela Winkler (Contributor), Martin Rutzinger (Contributor), Andreas Mayr (Contributor), Andreas Kollert (Contributor) & Stefan Dullinger (Contributor)

7 Jan 202411 Jan 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Limited impact of microtopography on alpine plant distribution

Krystof Chytrý (Speaker), Norbert Helm (Contributor), Karl Hülber (Contributor), Dietmar Moser (Contributor), Johannes Wessely (Contributor), Johannes Hausharter (Contributor), Andreas Kollert (Contributor), Andreas Mayr (Contributor), Martin Rutzinger (Contributor), Manuela Winkler (Contributor), Harald Pauli (Contributor), Patrick Saccone (Contributor), Mariana Paetzolt (Contributor), Peter Hietz (Contributor) & Stefan Dullinger (Contributor)

7 Jan 202411 Jan 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Limited impact of microtopography on alpine plant distribution

Krystof Chytrý (Speaker), Norbert Helm (Contributor), Karl Hülber (Contributor), Dietmar Moser (Contributor), Johannes Wessely (Contributor), Johannes Hausharter (Contributor), Andreas Kollert (Contributor), Andreas Mayr (Contributor), Martin Rutzinger (Contributor), Manuela Winkler (Contributor), Harald Pauli (Contributor), Patrick Saccone (Contributor), Mariana Paetzolt (Contributor), Peter Hietz (Contributor) & Stefan Dullinger (Contributor)

12 Dec 202315 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CATS: Modelling plant migration in a changing environment

Andreas Gattringer (Speaker), Johannes Wessely (Contributor), Karl Hülber (Contributor), Dietmar Moser (Contributor) & Stefan Dullinger (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”

Lisa Tedeschi (Speaker), Franz Essl (Contributor), Bernd Lenzner (Contributor), Anna Schertler (Contributor) & Johannes Wessely (Contributor)

24 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Limited impact of microtopography on alpine plant distribution

Krystof Chytrý (Speaker), Norbert Helm (Contributor), Karl Hülber (Contributor), Dietmar Moser (Contributor), Johannes Wessely (Contributor), Johannes Hausharter (Contributor), Andreas Kollert (Contributor), Andreas Mayr (Contributor), Martin Rutzinger (Contributor), Manuela Winkler (Contributor), Harald Pauli (Contributor), Patrick Saccone (Contributor), Mariana Paetzolt (Contributor), Peter Hietz (Contributor) & Stefan Dullinger (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.

Karl Hülber (Speaker), Johannes Wessely (Contributor), Andreas Gattringer (Contributor), Dietmar Moser (Contributor), Stefan Dullinger (Contributor) & Franz Essl (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

Stefan Dullinger (Speaker), Bernhard Kirchheimer (Contributor), Johannes Wessely (Contributor), Andreas Gattringer (Contributor), Christoph C. F. Schinkel (Contributor), Karl Hülber (Contributor), Dietmar Moser (Contributor), Marc S. Appelhans (Contributor), Simon Klatt (Contributor), Marco Caccianiga (Contributor), Agnes Dellinger (Contributor), Antoine Guisan (Contributor), Michael Kuttner (Contributor), Jonathan Lenoir (Contributor), Luigi Maiorano (Contributor), Diego Nieto-Lugilde (Contributor), Christoph Plutzar (Contributor), Jens-Christian Svenning (Speaker), Wolfgang Willner (Contributor) & Elvira Hörandl (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.

Sabine Bettina Rumpf (Speaker), Karl Hülber (Contributor), Günther Klonner (Contributor), Dietmar Moser (Contributor), Martin Schütz (Contributor), Johannes Wessely (Contributor), Wolfgang Willner (Contributor), Niklaus E. Zimmermann (Contributor) & Stefan Dullinger (Contributor)

20 Mar 201824 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Will alpine plants keep cool under a warming climate?

Johannes Wessely (Speaker), Karl Hülber (Contributor), Günther Klonner (Contributor), Dietmar Moser (Contributor) & Stefan Dullinger (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

Sabine Bettina Rumpf (Speaker), Karl Hülber (Contributor), Günther Klonner (Contributor), Dietmar Moser (Contributor), Martin Schütz (Contributor), Johannes Wessely (Contributor), Wolfgang Willner (Contributor), Niklaus E. Zimmermann (Contributor) & Stefan Dullinger (Contributor)

3 Nov 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Species range dynamics decrease with elevation in the European Alps

Sabine Bettina Rumpf (Speaker), Karl Hülber (Contributor), Günther Klonner (Contributor), Dietmar Moser (Contributor), Martin Schütz (Contributor), Johannes Wessely (Contributor), Wolfgang Willner (Contributor), Niklaus E. Zimmermann (Contributor) & Stefan Dullinger (Contributor)

19 Apr 201721 Apr 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research

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1030 Wien
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T: +43-1-4277-54376

johannes.wessely@univie.ac.at