Mag. Johannes Wessely, PhD
Johannes Wessely
T: +43-1-4277-54376
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
Winter term 2023
300205 VU Analysis of Ecological Data - univariate methods - (Data Analysis and modeling)
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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; Helm, Norbert; Hülber, Karl et al.

In: Ecography, Vol. 2024, No. 2, e06744, 02.2024.

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Limited impact of microtopography on alpine plant distribution. / Chytrý, Krystof; 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.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


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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Postglacial range expansion of high-elevation plants is restricted by dispersal ability and habitat specialization. / Carnicero, Pau; Wessely, Johannes; Moser, Dietmar et al.

In: Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 49, No. 10, 10.2022, p. 1739-1752.

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Biogeography of amphi-adriatic Gentianella crispata (Gentianaceae) : a northern refugium and recent trans-adriatic migration. / Reich, Dieter (Corresponding author); Flatscher, Ruth; Pellegrino, Giuseppe et al.

In: Plant Biosystems, Vol. 156, No. 3, 07.07.2022, p. 754-768.

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Publisher Correction : Relative effects of land conversion and land-use intensity on terrestrial vertebrate diversity (Nature Communications, (2022), 13, 1, (615), 10.1038/s41467-022-28245-4). / Semenchuk, Philipp; Plutzar, Christoph; Kastner, Thomas et al.

In: Nature Communications, Vol. 13, No. 1, 1820, 30.03.2022.

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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


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


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T: +43-1-4277-54376

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