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
61 - 80 out of 121

Evaluating the zonation of the Biosphere Reserve Wienerwald: How well does the conservation zone contribute to biodiversity conservation? / Willner, Wolfgang; Moser, Dietmar; Hülber, Karl; Sauberer, Norbert; Staudinger, Markus; Grass, Viktoria.

Evaluating the zonation fo the Biosphere Reserve Wienerwald: How well does the conversation zone contribute to biodiversity conservation?. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), 2017.

Publication: Contribution to bookContribution to proceedings


Vegetation of Europe : hierarchical floristic classification system of vascular plant, bryophyte, lichen, and algal communities. / Mucina, Ladislav (Corresponding author); Bueltmann, Helga; Dierssen, Klaus; Theurillat, Jean-Paul; Raus, Thomas; Carni, Andraz; Sumberova, Katerina; Willner, Wolfgang; Dengler, Juergen; Garcia, Rosario Gavilan; Chytry, Milan; Hajek, Michal; Di Pietro, Romeo; Iakushenko, Dmytro; Pallas, Jens; Daniels, Fred J. A.; Bergmeier, Erwin; Santos Guerra, Arnoldo; Ermakov, Nikolai; Valachovic, Milan; Schaminee, Joop H. J.; Lysenko, Tatiana; Didukh, Yakiv P.; Pignatti, Sandro; Rodwell, John S.; Capelo, Jorge; Weber, Heinrich E.; Solomeshch, Ayzik; Dimopoulos, Panayotis; Aguiar, Carlos; Hennekens, Stephan M.; Tichy, Lubomir.

In: Applied Vegetation Science: official organ of the international association for vegetation science, Vol. 19, No. S1, 11.2016, p. 3-264.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Uncertainty in predicting range dynamics of endemic alpine plants under climate warming. / Hülber, Karl (Corresponding author); Wessely, Johannes; Gattringer, Andreas; Moser, Dietmar; Kuttner, Michael; Essl, Franz; Leitner, Michael; Winkler, Manuela; Ertl, Siegrun; Willner, Wolfgang; Kleinbauer, Ingrid; Sauberer, Norbert; Mang, Thomas; Zimmermann, Niklaus E.; Dullinger, Stefan.

In: Global Change Biology, Vol. 22, No. 7, 07.2016, p. 2608-2619.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Description and validation of some European forest syntaxa - A supplement to the EuroVegChecklist. / Willner, Wolfgang; Solomeshch, Ayzik; Čarni, Andraž; Bergmeier, Erwin; Ermakov, Nikolai; Mucina, Ladislav.

In: Hacquetia, Vol. 15, No. 1, 01.06.2016, p. 15-25.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Vegetation classification : a task of our time. / Jansen, Florian; Bergmeier, Erwin; Dengler, Jurgen; Janisova, Monika; Krestov, Pavel; Willner, Wolfgang.

In: Phytocoenologia, Vol. 46, No. 1, 05.2016, p. 1-4.

Publication: Contribution to journalEditorialpeer-review


A matter of scale: apparent niche differentiation of diploid and tetraploid plants may depend on extent and grain of analysis : apparent niche differentiation of diploid and tetraploid plants may depend on extent and grain of analysis. / Kirchheimer, Bernhard (Corresponding author); Schinkel, Christoph C. F.; Dellinger, Agnes; Klatt, Simone; Moser, Dietmar; Winkler, Manuela; Lenoir, Jonathan; Caccianiga, Marco; Guisan, Antoine; Nieto-Lugilde, Diego; Svenning, Jens-Christian; Thuiller, Wilfried; Vittoz, Pascal; Willner, Wolfgang; Zimmermann, Niklaus E.; Hörandl, Elvira; Dullinger, Stefan.

In: Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 43, No. 4, 04.2016, p. 716-726.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Challenging the practice of biodiversity offsets : ecological restoration success evaluation of a large-scale railway project. / Pöll, Constantin (Corresponding author); Willner, Wolfgang; Wrbka, Thomas.

In: Landscape and Ecological Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 1, 01.2016, p. 85-97.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


European Vegetation Archive (EVA) : an integrated database of European vegetation plots. / Chytry, Milan; Hennekens, Stephan M.; Jimenez-Alfaro, Borja; Knollova, Ilona; Dengler, Juergen; Jansen, Florian; Landucci, Flavia; Schaminee, Joop H. J.; Acic, Svetlana; Agrillo, Emiliano; Ambarli, Didem; Angelini, Pierangela; Apostolova, Iva; Attorre, Fabio; Berg, Christian; Bergmeier, Erwin; Biurrun, Idoia; Botta-Dukat, Zoltan; Brisse, Henry; Antonio Campos, Juan; Carlon, Luis; Carni, Andraz; Casella, Laura; Csiky, Janos; Custerevska, Renata; Stevanovic, Zora Dajic; Danihelka, Jiri; De Bie, Els; de Ruffray, Patrice; De Sanctis, Michele; Dickore, W. Bernhard; Dimopoulos, Panayotis; Dubyna, Dmytro; Dziuba, Tetiana; Ejrnaes, Rasmus; Ermakov, Nikolai; Ewald, Joerg; Fanelli, Giuliano; Fernandez-Gonzalez, Federico; FitzPatrick, Una; Font, Xavier; Garcia-Mijangos, Itziar; Gavilan, Rosario G.; Golub, Valentin; Guarino, Riccardo; Haveman, Rense; Indreica, Adrian; Gursoy, Deniz Isik; Jandt, Ute; Janssen, John A. M.; Jirousek, Martin; Kacki, Zygmunt; Kavgaci, Ali; Kleikamp, Martin; Kolomiychuk, Vitaliy; Cuk, Mirjana Krstivojevic; Krstonosic, Daniel; Kuzemko, Anna; Lenoir, Jonathan; Lysenko, Tatiana; Marceno, Corrado; Martynenko, Vassiliy; Michalcova, Dana; Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold; Onyshchenko, Viktor; Pedashenko, Hristo; Perez-Haase, Aaron; Peterka, Tomas; Prokhorov, Vadim; Rasomavicius, Valerijus; Pilar Rodriguez-Rojo, Maria; Rodwell, John S.; Rogova, Tatiana; Ruprecht, Eszter; Rusina, Solvita; Seidler, Gunnar; Sibik, Jozef; Silc, Urban; Skvorc, Zeljko; Sopotlieva, Desislava; Stancic, Zvjezdana; Svenning, Jens-Christian; Swacha, Grzegorz; Tsiripidis, Ioannis; Turtureanu, Pavel Dan; Ugurlu, Emin; Uogintas, Domas; Valachovic, Milan; Vashenyak, Yulia; Vassilev, Kiril; Venanzoni, Roberto; Virtanen, Risto; Weekes, Lynda; Willner, Wolfgang; Wohlgemuth, Thomas; Yamalov, Sergey.

In: Applied Vegetation Science: official organ of the international association for vegetation science, Vol. 19, No. 1, 01.2016, p. 173-180.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Diversity of beech forest vegetation in the Eastern Alps, Bohemian Massif and the Western Carpathians. / Ujházyová, Mariana; Ujházy, Karol; Chytrý, Milan; Willner, Wolfgang; Ĉiliak, Marek; Máliš, František; Slezák, Michal.

In: Preslia, Vol. 88, No. 4, 2016, p. 435-457.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Disjunct populations of European vascular plant species keep the same climatic niches. / Wasof, Safaa; Lenoir, Jonathan; Aarrestad, Per Arild; Alsos, Inger Greve; Armbruster, W. Scott; Austrheim, Gunnar; Bakkestuen, Vegar; Birks, H. John B; Bråthen, Kari Anne; Broennimann, Olivier; Brunet, Jörg; Bruun, Hans Henrik; Dahlberg, Carl Johan; Diekmann, Martin; Dullinger, Stefan; Dynesius, Mats; Ejrnæs, Rasmus; Gégout, Jean Claude; Graae, Bente Jessen; Grytnes, John Arvid; Guisan, Antoine; Hylander, Kristoffer; Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S.; Kapfer, Jutta; Klanderud, Kari; Luoto, Miska; Milbau, Ann; Moora, Mari; Nygaard, Bettina; Odland, Arvid; Pauli, Harald; Ravolainen, Virve; Reinhardt, Stefanie; Sandvik, Sylvi Marlen; Schei, Fride Høistad; Speed, James D M; Svenning, Jens Christian; Thuiller, Wilfried; Tveraabak, Liv Unn; Vandvik, Vigdis; Velle, Liv Guri; Virtanen, Risto; Vittoz, Pascal; Willner, Wolfgang; Wohlgemuth, Thomas; Zimmermann, Niklaus E.; Zobel, Martin; Decocq, Guillaume.

In: Global Ecology and Biogeography: a Journal of Macroecology, Vol. 24, No. 12, 01.12.2015, p. 1401-1412.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Modelling the effect of habitat fragmentation on climate-driven migration of European forest understorey plants. / Dullinger, Stefan (Corresponding author); Dendoncker, Nicolas; Gattringer, Andreas; Leitner, Michael; Mang, Thomas; Moser, Dietmar; Mücher, Caspar A.; Plutzar, Christoph; Rounsevell, Mark; Willner, Wolfgang; Zimmermann, Niklaus E.; Hülber, Karl.

In: Diversity and Distributions: a journal of conservation biogeography, Vol. 21, No. 12, 01.12.2015, p. 1375-1387.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


A comparative framework for broad-scale plot-based vegetation classification. / De Caceres, Miquel; Chytry, Milan; Agrillo, Emiliano; Attorre, Fabio; Botta-Dukat, Zoltan; Capelo, Jorge; Czucz, Balint; Dengler, Juergen; Ewald, Joerg; Faber-Langendoen, Don; Feoli, Enrico; Franklin, Scott B.; Gavilan, Rosario; Gillet, Francois; Jansen, Florian; Jimenez-Alfaro, Borja; Krestov, Pavel; Landucci, Flavia; Lengyel, Attila; Loidi, Javier; Mucina, Ladislav; Peet, Robert K.; Roberts, David W.; Rolecek, Jan; Schaminee, Joop H. J.; Schmidtlein, Sebastian; Theurillat, Jean-Paul; Tichy, Lubomir; Walker, Donald A.; Wildi, Otto; Willner, Wolfgang; Wiser, Susan K.

In: Applied Vegetation Science: official organ of the international association for vegetation science, Vol. 18, No. 4, 10.2015, p. 543-560.

Publication: Contribution to journalReviewpeer-review


WetVegEurope : A database of aquatic and wetland vegetation of Europe. / Landucci, Flavia; Řezníčková, Marcela; Šumberová, Kateřina; Chytrý, Milan; Aunina, Liene; Biţă-Nicolae, Claudia; Bobrov, Alexander; Borsukevych, Lyubov; Brisse, Henry; Čarni, Andraž; Csiky, János; Cvijanović, Dušanka; De Bie, Els; De Ruffray, Patrice; Dubyna, Dmytro; Dimopoulos, Panayotis; Dziuba, Tetiana; FitzPatrick, Úna; Font, Xavier; Gigante, Daniela; Golub, Valentin; Hennekens, Stephan M.; Hrivnák, Richard; Iemelianova, Svitlana; Jandt, Ute; Jenačković, Dragana; Jansen, Florian; Kacki, Zygmunt; Lájer, Konrád; Matulevičiute, Dalyte; Mesterházy, Attila; Michalcová, Dana; Paal, Jaanus; Papastergiadou, Eva; Properzi, Alessandro; Radulović, Snežana; Rodwell, John S.; Schaminée, Joop H.J.; Šilc, Urban; Sinkevičiene, Zofija; Stančić, Zvjezdana; Stepanovich, Jazep; Teteryuk, Boris; Tzonev, Rossen; Venanzoni, Roberto; Weekes, Lynda; Willner, Wolfgang.

In: Phytocoenologia, Vol. 45, No. 1-2, 01.07.2015, p. 187-194.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


On the nomenclature of some high-rank syntaxa of European forest vegetation. / Willner, Wolfgang; Theurillat, Jean-Paul; Pallas, Jens; Mucina, Ladislav.

In: Phytocoenologia, Vol. 45, No. 1-2, 07.2015, p. 175-181.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review


Re-launch of Phytocoenologia : new profile for the classic vegetation ecology journal. / Bergmeier, Erwin; Dengler, Juergen; Janisova, Monika; Jansen, Florian; Krestov, Pavel; Rolecek, Jan; Walker, Donald A.; Willner, Wolfgang.

In: Phytocoenologia, Vol. 45, No. 1-2, 07.2015, p. 1-10.

Publication: Contribution to journalEditorialpeer-review


Tree cover at fine and coarse spatial grains interacts with shade tolerance to shape plant species distributions across the Alps. / Nieto-Lugilde, Diego; Lenoir, Jonathan; Abdulhak, Sylvain; Aeschimann, David; Dullinger, Stefan; Gegout, Jean-Claude; Guisan, Antoine; Pauli, Harald; Renaud, Julien; Theurillat, Jean-Paul; Thuiller, Wilfried; Van Es, Jeremie; Vittoz, Pascal; Willner, Wolfgang; Wohlgemuth, Thomas; Zimmermann, Niklaus E.; Svenning, Jens-Christian.

In: Ecography: pattern and diversity in ecology, Vol. 38, No. 6, 06.2015, p. 578-589.

Publication: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review



Eichenwald oder nicht Eichenwald? Probleme der potentiellen natürlichen Vegetation (PNV) als Natura 2000-Leitbild. / Willner, Wolfgang.

Handbuch und Fachbeiträge zur Umsetzung des europäischen Schutzgebietsnetzwerkes Natura 2000 in Österreichs Wäldern. Wien : Kuratorium Wald, 2015. p. 52-53.

Publication: Contribution to bookChapter


Guidelines for proposals to conserve or reject names of sytaxa. / Willner, Wolfgang; Theurillat, Jean-Paul; Carni, A.; Pallas, J.; Weber, H.E.

In: Phytocoenologia: journal of the International Association for Vegetation Science, Vol. 45, No. 1-2, 2015, p. 183-184.

Publication: Contribution to journalShort communicationpeer-review



61 - 80 out of 121

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