Mag. Dr. Wolfgang Willner, Privatdoz.
Wolfgang Willner
Winter term 2022
300252 VU Vegetationsökologische Datenanalyse - (Bereich Datenanalyse und -modellierung)
Summer term 2022
300236 UE Methods in phytosociology - field sampling and data analysis
300268 UE Vegetationsökologische Exkursionen - Exkursionen zu Naturschutz-, Vegetations- und Landschaftsökologie in Ostösterreich
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Scale-dependent patterns and drivers of vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen diversity in dry grasslands of the Swiss inneralpine valleys. / Bergauer, Miro; Dembicz, Iwona; Boch, Steffen; Willner, Wolfgang; Babbi, Manuel; Blank-Pachlatko, Jonathan; Catalano, Chiara; Cykowska-Marzencka, Beata; Gehler, Jamyra; Guarino, Riccardo; Keller, Sabrina; Moysiyenko, Ivan; Vynokurov, Denys; Widmer, Stefan; Dengler, Jürgen.

In: Alpine Botany, Vol. 132, No. 2, 10.2022, p. 195-209.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Central European forest–steppe : An ecosystem shaped by climate, topography and disturbances. / Chytrý, Kryštof; Willner, Wolfgang; Chytrý, Milan; Divíšek, Jan; Dullinger, Stefan.

In: Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 49, No. 6, 06.2022, p. 1006-1020.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Rote Liste der Farn- und Blütenpflanzen Österreichs. / Ehrendorfer, Luise Elisabeth; Niklfeld, Harald; Schröck, Christian; Stöhr, Oliver; Gilli, Christian; Sonnleitner, Michaela; Adler, Wolfgang; Barta, Thomas; Beiser, Andreas; Berg, Christian; Bohner, Andreas; Franz, Wilfried Robert; Gottschlich, Günter; Griebl, Norbert; Haug, Gudula; Heber, Gerwin; Hehenberger, Robert; Hofbauer, Markus; Hohla, Michael; Hörandl, Elvira; Kaiser, Roland; Karrer, Gerhard; Keusch, Christian; Király, Gergely; Kleesadl, Gerhard; Gerhard, Kniely; Köckinger, Heribert; Kropf, Matthias; Kudrnovsky, Helmut; Lefnaer, Stefan; Mrkvicka, Alexander; Nadler, Kurt; Novak, Norbert; Nowotny, Günther; Pachschwöll, Clemens; Pagitz, Konrad; Pall, Karin; Pflugbeil, Georg; Pilsl, Peter; Raabe, Uwe; Sauberer, Norbert; Schau, Harald; Schönswetter, Peter; Starlinger, Franz; Strauch, Michael; Thalinger, Michael; Travnicek, Bohumil; Trummer-Fink, Emanuel; Uhlemann, Ingo; Weiss, Stefan; Wieser, Bernhard; Willner, Wolfgang; Wittmann, Helmut; Wolkerstorfer, Claudia; Zernig, Kurt; Zuna-Kratky, Thomas.

Land Oberösterreich, Biologiezentrum der Oberösterr. Landesmuseen, 2022. 362 p. (Stapfia, Vol. 114).

Publication: Book


Explanation of beta diversity in European alpine grasslands changes with scale. / Malanson, George P.; Pansing, Elizabeth R.; Testolin, Riccardo; Abdulhak, Sylvain; Bergamini, Ariel; Ćušterevska, Renata; Marcenò, Corrado; Kuzmanović, Nevena; Milanović, Đorđije; Ruprecht, Eszter; Šibík, Jozef; Vassilev, Kiril; Willner, Wolfgang; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja.

In: Ecosphere, Vol. 13, No. 5, e4066, 05.2022.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Assessment of Drought-Tolerant Provenances of Austria’s Indigenous Tree Species. / Karrer, Gerhard; Bassler-Binder, Gabriele; Willner, Wolfgang.

In: Sustainability (Switzerland), Vol. 14, No. 5, 2861, 01.03.2022.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Vegetation Classification and Survey : development and diversification. / Dengler, Jürgen; Biurrun, Idoia; Jansen, Florian; Willner, Wolfgang.

In: Vegetation Classification and Survey, Vol. 3, 26.01.2022, p. 1-5.

Publication: Contribution to journalEditorial


Distribution maps of vegetation alliances in Europe. / Preislerová, Zdenka; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Mucina, Ladislav; Berg, Christian; Bonari, Gianmaria; Kuzemko, Anna; Landucci, Flavia; Marcenò, Corrado; Monteiro-Henriques, Tiago; Novák, Pavel; Vynokurov, Denys; Bergmeier, Erwin; Dengler, Jürgen; Apostolova, Iva; Bioret, Frederic; Biurrun, Idoia; Campos, Juan Antonio; Capelo, Jorge; Čarni, Andraž; Çoban, Süleyman; Csiky, János; Ćuk, Mirjana; Ćušterevska, Renata; Daniëls, Fred J.A.; De Sanctis, Michele; Didukh, Yakiv; Dítě, Daniel; Fanelli, Giuliano; Golovanov, Yaroslav; Golub, Valentin; Guarino, Riccardo; Hájek, Michal; Iakushenko, Dmytro; Indreica, Adrian; Jansen, Florian; Jašková, Anni; Jiroušek, Martin; Kalníková, Veronika; Kavgacı, Ali; Kucherov, Ilya; Küzmič, Filip; Lebedeva, Maria; Loidi, Javier; Lososová, Zdeňka; Lysenko, Tatiana; Milanović, Đorđije; Onyshchenko, Viktor; Perrin, Gwenhael; Peterka, Tomáš; Rašomavičius, Valerijus; Rodríguez-Rojo, María Pilar; Rodwell, John S.; Rūsiņa, Solvita; Sánchez-Mata, Daniel; Schaminée, Joop H.J.; Semenishchenkov, Yuri; Shevchenko, Nikolay; Šibík, Jozef; Škvorc, Željko; Smagin, Viktor; Stešević, Danijela; Stupar, Vladimir; Šumberová, Kateřina; Theurillat, Jean Paul; Tikhonova, Elena; Tzonev, Rossen; Valachovič, Milan; Vassilev, Kiril; Willner, Wolfgang; Yamalov, Sergey; Večeřa, Martin; Chytrý, Milan.

In: Applied Vegetation Science, Vol. 25, No. 1, e12642, 01.01.2022.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Syntaxonomic revision of the Pannonian grasslands of Austria – Part III: Danube and March-Thaya floodplain (including the Slovak side of the river March/Morava). / Willner, Wolfgang; Kadlec, Gerhard; Staudinger, Markus; Sauberer, Norbert; Hegedüšová Vantarová, Katarína; Škodová, Iveta; Zuna-Kratky, Thomas; Schratt-Ehrendorfer, Luise.

In: Tuexenia, Vol. 42, 2022, p. 95-128.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Aus dem Vereinsleben: Berichtszeitraum März 2020 bis Februar 2021. / Christa, Staudinger; Pachschwöll, Clemens; Fischer, Manfred A.; Willner, Wolfgang; Lefnaer, Stefan.

In: Neilreichia, Vol. 12, 31.12.2021, p. 427-432.

Publication: Contribution to journalEditorial


Report 2 of the Committee for Change and Conservation of Names (CCCN). / Willner, Wolfgang; Čarni, Andraž; Fernández-González, Federico; Pallas, Jens; Theurillat, Jean Paul.

In: Vegetation Classification and Survey, Vol. 2, 30.12.2021, p. 305-309.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Braun-Blanquet meets EcoVeg: a formation and division level classification of European phytosociological units. / Willner, Wolfgang; Faber-Langendoen, Don.

In: Vegetation Classification and Survey, Vol. 2, 13.12.2021, p. 275-291.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Long-term continuity of steppe grasslands in eastern Central Europe : Evidence from species distribution patterns and chloroplast haplotypes. / Willner, Wolfgang; Moser, Dietmar; Plenk, Kristina; Aćić, Svetlana; Demina, Olga N.; Höhn, Maria; Kuzemko, Anna; Roleček, Jan; Vassilev, Kiril; Vynokurov, Denys; Kropf, Matthias.

In: Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 48, No. 12, 12.2021, p. 3104-3117.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Xeric grasslands of the inner-alpine dry valleys of Austria – new insights into syntaxonomy, diversity and ecology. / Magnes, Martin; Willner, Wolfgang; Janišová, Monika; Mayrhofer, Helmut; Khouri, Elías Afif; Berg, Christian; Kuzemko, Anna; Kirschner, Philipp; Guarino, Riccardo; Rötzer, Harald; Belonovskaya, Elena; Berastegi, Asun; Biurrun, Idoia; García-Mijangos, Itziar; Masic, Ermin; Dengler, Jürgen; Dembicz, Iwona.

In: Vegetation Classification and Survey, Vol. 2, 01.10.2021, p. 133-157.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots. / sPlot consortium.

In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 30, No. 9, 09.2021, p. 1740-1764.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


The leaf economic and plant size spectra of European forest understory vegetation. / Cubino, Josep Padullés (Corresponding author); Biurrun, Idoia; Bonari, Gianmaria; Braslavskaya, Tatiana; Font, Xavier; Jandt, Ute; Jansen, Florian; Rašomavičius, Valerijus; Škvorc, Željko; Willner, Wolfgang; Chytrý, Milan.

In: Ecography, Vol. 44, No. 9, 09.2021, p. 1311-1324.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant species richness. / Testolin, Riccardo; Attorre, Fabio; Borchardt, Peter; Brand, Robert F.; Bruelheide, Helge; Chytrý, Milan; De Sanctis, Michele; Dolezal, Jiri; Finckh, Manfred; Haider, Sylvia; Hemp, Andreas; Jandt, Ute; Kessler, Michael; Korolyuk, Andrey Yu; Lenoir, Jonathan; Makunina, Natalia; Malanson, George P.; Montesinos-Tubée, Daniel B.; Noroozi, Jalil; Nowak, Arkadiusz; Peet, Robert K.; Peyre, Gwendolyn; Sabatini, Francesco Maria; Šibík, Jozef; Sklenář, Petr; Sylvester, Steven P.; Vassilev, Kiril; Virtanen, Risto; Willner, Wolfgang; Wiser, Susan K.; Zibzeev, Evgeny G.; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja.

In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 30, No. 6, 06.2021, p. 1218-1231.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Evidence for Glacial Refugia of the Forest Understorey Species Helleborus niger (Ranunculaceae) in the Southern as Well as in the Northern Limestone Alps. / Záveská, Eliška; Kirschner, Philipp; Frajman, Božo; Wessely, Johannes; Willner, Wolfgang; Gattringer, Andreas; Hülber, Karl (Corresponding author); Lazić, Desanka; Dobeš, Christoph; Schönswetter, Peter.

In: Frontiers in Plant Science, Vol. 12, 683043, 10.05.2021.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Fine-grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation. / Grassplot Consortium.

In: Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 32, No. 3, e13045, 01.05.2021.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Post-glacial determinants of regional species pools in alpine grasslands. / Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja (Corresponding author); Abdulhak, Sylvain; Attorre, Fabio; Bergamini, Ariel; Carranza, Maria Laura; Chiarucci, Alessandro; Ćušterevska, Renata; Dullinger, Stefan; Gavilán, Rosario G.; Giusso del Galdo, Gianpietro; Kuzmanović, Nevena; Laiolo, Paola; Loidi, Javier; Malanson, George P.; Marcenó, Corrado; Milanović, Đorđije; Pansing, Elizabeth R.; Roces-Díaz, José V.; Ruprecht, Eszter; Šibik, Jozef; Stanisci, Angela; Testolin, Riccardo; Theurillat, Jean Paul; Vassilev, Kiril; Willner, Wolfgang; Winkler, Manuela.

In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 30, No. 5, 05.2021, p. 1101-1115.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide. / Cai, Qiong; Welk, Erik; Ji, Chengjun; Fang, Wenjing; Sabatini, Francesco M.; Zhu, Jianxiao; Zhu, Jiangling; Tang, Zhiyao; Attorre, Fabio; Campos, Juan A.; Čarni, Andraž; Chytrý, Milan; Çoban, Süleyman; Dengler, Jürgen; Dolezal, Jiri; Field, Richard; Frink, József P.; Gholizadeh, Hamid; Indreica, Adrian; Jandt, Ute; Karger, Dirk N.; Lenoir, Jonathan; Peet, Robert K.; Pielech, Remigiusz; De Sanctis, Michele; Schrodt, Franziska; Svenning, Jens Christian; Tang, Cindy Q.; Tsiripidis, Ioannis; Willner, Wolfgang; Yasuhiro, Kubota; Fang, Jingyun; Bruelheide, Helge.

In: Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 48, No. 5, 05.2021, p. 1240-1253.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


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A tale of two rivers: phytosociological revision of the grasslands in the Danube and March-Thaya floodplain

Wolfgang Willner (Speaker)

7 Sep 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Historical biogeography of the steppe grasslands in eastern Central Europe

Wolfgang Willner (Speaker)

27 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Beyond the floristic horizon: a formation level classification of European phytosociological classes

Wolfgang Willner (Speaker)

11 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Aktuelle Entwicklungen in der Pflanzensoziologie – ein Überblick

Wolfgang Willner (Speaker)

23 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What is an alliance?

Wolfgang Willner (Speaker)

6 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Semi-dry grasslands of Central and Eastern Europe – syntaxonomic and biogeographical aspects

Wolfgang Willner (Speaker)

1 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Formal definition of associations using diagnostic species: A case study of European meadow steppes

Wolfgang Willner (Speaker)

27 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Syntaxonomic revision of the semi-dry grasslands of Central and Eastern Europe

Wolfgang Willner (Speaker)

24 May 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


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


Broad-scale syntaxonomic revisions using large plot datasets: experiences, lessons and recommendations

Wolfgang Willner (Speaker)

15 Sep 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How to classify forests? Bridging the gap between floristic and physiognomic units

Wolfgang Willner (Speaker)

21 Jun 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Climate-driven range dynamics and potential current disequilibrium in Alpine vegetation

Sabine Bettina Rumpf (Speaker), Karl Hülber (Contributor), Niklaus E. Zimmermann (Contributor), Wolfgang Willner (Contributor) & Stefan Dullinger (Contributor)

23 May 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


Überlegungen zu einem evolutionären System der Angiospermen

Wolfgang Willner (Speaker)

22 Sep 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Interpretating the Interpretation Manual of EU Habitats - a story of confusion

Wolfgang Willner (Speaker)

8 Apr 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



Analysis of dispersal limitation in the Austrian Alps using phytosociological data

Wolfgang Willner (Contributor)

1 May 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Biogeographie der pannonischen

Willner, W.

11/05/1511/05/18

Project: Research funding


Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research

Rennweg 14
1030 Wien

wolfgang.willner@univie.ac.at