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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Classification of forest communities (co-)dominated by Taxus baccata in the Hyrcanian forests (northern Iran) and their comparison with southern Europe. / Karami-Kordalivand, P.; Esmailzadeh, O. (Corresponding author); Willner, W.; Noroozi, J.; Alavi, S. J.

In: European Journal of Forest Research, Vol. 140, No. 2, 04.2021, p. 463-476.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Phylogenetic structure of European forest vegetation. / Padullés Cubino, Josep; Lososová, Zdeňka; Bonari, Gianmaria; Agrillo, Emiliano; Attorre, Fabio; Bergmeier, Erwin; Biurrun, Idoia; Campos, Juan A.; Čarni, Andraž; Ćuk, Mirjana; De Sanctis, Michele; Indreica, Adrian; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Khanina, Larisa; Knollová, Ilona; Lenoir, Jonathan; Pielech, Remigiusz; Rašomavičius, Valerijus; Škvorc, Željko; Svenning, Jens Christian; Vassilev, Kiril; Willner, Wolfgang; Chytrý, Milan.

In: Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 48, No. 4, 04.2021, p. 903-916.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Correction to: “Ecology and vegetation types of oak-hornbeam and ravine forests of the Eastern Greater Caucasus, Georgia”. / Novák, P. (Corresponding author); Zukal, D.; Harásek, M.; Vlčková, P.; Abdaladze, O.; Willner, W.

In: Folia Geobotanica, Vol. 56, No. 1, 03.2021, p. 97-97.

Publication: Contribution to journalCorrectionpeer-review


Vegetation Classification and Survey: the first year. / Willner, Wolfgang; Biurrun, Idoia; Dengler, Jürgen; Jansen, Florian.

In: Vegetation Classification and Survey, Vol. 2, 17.02.2021, p. 1-4.

Publication: Contribution to journalEditorial


International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature. 4th edition. / Theurillat, Jean Paul; Willner, Wolfgang; Fernández-González, Federico; Bültmann, Helga; Čarni, Andraž; Gigante, Daniela; Mucina, Ladislav; Weber, Heinrich.

In: Applied Vegetation Science, Vol. 24, No. 1, e12491, 01.01.2021.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Plant taxonomic and phylogenetic turnover increases toward climatic extremes and depends on historical factors in European beech forests. / Padullés Cubino, Josep; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Sabatini, Francesco Maria; Willner, Wolfgang; Lososová, Zdeňka; Biurrun, Idoia; Brunet, Jörg; Campos, Juan Antonio; Indreica, Adrian; Jansen, Florian; Lenoir, Jonathan; Škvorc, Željko; Vassilev, Kiril; Chytrý, Milan.

In: Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 32, No. 1, e12977, 01.01.2021.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


First Report of the European Vegetation Classification Committee (EVCC). / Biurrun, Idoia; Willner, Wolfgang.

In: Vegetation Classification and Survey, Vol. 1, 17.12.2020, p. 145–147.

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Ecology and vegetation types of oak-hornbeam and ravine forests of the Eastern Greater Caucasus, Georgia. / Novák, Pavel; Zukal, Dominik; Harásek, Martin; Vlčková, Pavla; Abdaladze, Otar; Willner, Wolfgang.

In: Folia Geobotanica, Vol. 55, No. 4, 12.2020, p. 333-349.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


What is an alliance? / Willner, Wolfgang.

In: Vegetation Classification and Survey, Vol. 1, 16.11.2020, p. 139–144.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


EUNIS Habitat Classification : Expert system, characteristic species combinations and distribution maps of European habitats. / Chytrý, Milan (Corresponding author); Tichý, Lubomír; Hennekens, Stephan M.; Knollová, Ilona; Janssen, John A.M.; Rodwell, John S.; Peterka, Tomáš; Marcenò, Corrado; Landucci, Flavia; Danihelka, Jiří; Hájek, Michal; Dengler, Jürgen; Novák, Pavel; Zukal, Dominik; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Mucina, Ladislav; Abdulhak, Sylvain; Aćić, Svetlana; Agrillo, Emiliano; Attorre, Fabio; Bergmeier, Erwin; Biurrun, Idoia; Boch, Steffen; Bölöni, János; Bonari, Gianmaria; Braslavskaya, Tatiana; Bruelheide, Helge; Campos, Juan Antonio; Čarni, Andraž; Casella, Laura; Ćuk, Mirjana; Ćušterevska, Renata; De Bie, Els; Delbosc, Pauline; Demina, Olga; Didukh, Yakiv; Dítě, Daniel; Dziuba, Tetiana; Ewald, Jörg; Gavilán, Rosario G.; Gégout, Jean Claude; Giusso del Galdo, Gian Pietro; Golub, Valentin; Goncharova, Nadezhda; Goral, Friedemann; Graf, Ulrich; Indreica, Adrian; Isermann, Maike; Jandt, Ute; Jansen, Florian; Jansen, Jan; Jašková, Anni; Jiroušek, Martin; Kącki, Zygmunt; Kalníková, Veronika; Kavgacı, Ali; Khanina, Larisa; Yu. Korolyuk, Andrey; Kozhevnikova, Mariya; Kuzemko, Anna; Küzmič, Filip; Kuznetsov, Oleg L.; Laiviņš, Māris; Lavrinenko, Igor; Lavrinenko, Olga; Lebedeva, Maria; Lososová, Zdeňka; Lysenko, Tatiana; Maciejewski, Lise; Mardari, Constantin; Marinšek, Aleksander; Napreenko, Maxim G.; Onyshchenko, Viktor; Pérez-Haase, Aaron; Pielech, Remigiusz; Prokhorov, Vadim; Rašomavičius, Valerijus; Rodríguez Rojo, Maria Pilar; Rūsiņa, Solvita; Schrautzer, Joachim; Šibík, Jozef; Šilc, Urban; Škvorc, Željko; Smagin, Viktor A.; Stančić, Zvjezdana; Stanisci, Angela; Tikhonova, Elena; Tonteri, Tiina; Uogintas, Domas; Valachovič, Milan; Vassilev, Kiril; Vynokurov, Denys; Willner, Wolfgang; Yamalov, Sergey; Evans, Douglas; Palitzsch Lund, Mette; Spyropoulou, Rania; Tryfon, Eleni; Schaminée, Joop H.J.

In: Applied Vegetation Science, Vol. 23, No. 4, 10.2020, p. 648-675.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Perspectives on Terrestrial Biomes: The International Vegetation Classification. / Faber-Langendoen, Don; Navarro, Gonzalo; Willner, Wolfgang; Keith, David; Liu, Changcheng; Meidinger, Del.

Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes. ed. / Michael Goldstein; Dominick DellaSala. Vol. 1 1. ed. Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2020. p. 1-15.

Publication: Contribution to bookChapter


Vegetation classification goes open access. / Jansen, Florian; Biurrun, Idoia; Dengler, Jürgen; Willner, Wolfgang.

In: Vegetation Classification and Survey, Vol. 1, 04.05.2020, p. 1-6.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticle


A socio-ecological model for predicting impacts of land-use and climate change on regional plant diversity in the Austrian Alps. / Dullinger, Iwona (Corresponding author); Gattringer, Andreas; Wessely, Johannes; Moser, Dietmar; Plutzar, Christoph; Willner, Wolfgang; Egger, Claudine; Gaube, Veronika; Haberl, Helmut; Mayer, Andreas; Bohner, Andreas; Gilli, Christian; Pascher, Kathrin; Essl, Franz; Dullinger, Stefan.

In: Global Change Biology, Vol. 26, No. 4, 01.04.2020, p. 2336-2352.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Holocene matters: Landscape history accounts for current species richness of vascular plants in forests and grasslands of eastern Central Europe. / Divíšek, Jan; Hájek, Michal (Corresponding author); Jamrichová, Eva; Petr, Libor; Večeřa, Martin; Tichý, Lubomír; Willner, Wolfgang; Horsák, Michal.

In: Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 47, No. 3, 23.03.2020, p. 721–735.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Phylogeographic evidence for long-term persistence of the Eurasian steppe plant Astragalus onobrychis in the Pannonian region (eastern Central Europe). / Plenk, K.; Willner, W.; Demina, O. N.; Höhn, M.; Kuzemko, A.; Vassilev, K.; Kropf, M.

In: Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants, Vol. 264, 151555, 03.2020.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review



Oak-hornbeam forests of central Europe : a formalized classification and syntaxonomic revision. / Novák, Pavel; Willner, Wolfgang; Zukal, Dominik; Kollár, Jozef; Roleček, Jan; Świerkosz, Krzysztof; Ewald, Jörg; Wohlgemuth, Thomas; Csiky, János; Onyshchenko, Viktor; Chytrý, Milan.

In: Preslia, Vol. 92, No. 1, 01.01.2020, p. 1-34.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Broad-scale plant diversity patterns of Central European Carex humilis steppes. / Janišová, Monika (Corresponding author); Bauer, Norbert; Csiky, János; Dengler, Juergen; Hlásny, Tomáš; Hobohm, Carsten; Škodová, Iveta; Willner, Wolfgang.

In: Tuexenia, Vol. 40, No. 40, 2020, p. 499–526.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Extinction debts and colonization credits of non-forest plants in the European Alps. / Rumpf, Sabine B. (Corresponding author); Hülber, Karl; Wessely, Johannes; Willner, Wolfgang; Moser, Dietmar; Gattringer, Andreas; Klonner, Günther; Zimmermann, Niklaus E.; Dullinger, Stefan.

In: Nature Communications, Vol. 10, No. 1, 4293, 20.09.2019.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Alpha diversity of vascular plants in European forests. / Večeřa, Martin (Corresponding author); Divíšek, Jan; Lenoir, Jonathan; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Biurrun, Idoia; Knollová, Ilona; Agrillo, Emiliano; Campos, Juan Antonio; Čarni, Andraž; Crespo Jiménez, Guillermo; Ćuk, Mirjana; Dimopoulos, Panayotis; Ewald, Jörg; Fernández-González, Federico; Gégout, Jean Claude; Indreica, Adrian; Jandt, Ute; Jansen, Florian; Kącki, Zygmunt; Rašomavičius, Valerijus; Řezníčková, Marcela; Rodwell, John S.; Schaminée, Joop H.J.; Šilc, Urban; Svenning, Jens Christian; Swacha, Grzegorz; Vassilev, Kiril; Venanzoni, Roberto; Willner, Wolfgang; Wohlgemuth, Thomas; Chytrý, Milan.

In: Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 46, No. 9, 01.09.2019, p. 1919-1935.

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