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Christian Hof

Christian Hof

Member since 2015
born 1979
subject: Biology

Contact
Technische Universität München
Lehrstuhl für Terrestrische Ökologie
Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2
85354 Freising

Tel.: (08161) 712489
christian.hof@tum.de

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Research Areas

  • Ecologie

  • Biogeography

  • Zoology

  • Nature Conservation

  • Climate change impacts on species and biodiversity

 

Curriculum Vitae

  • since 2018

    Research group leader "Multidimensional Integration for better biodiversity prognosis", TU Munich

  • since 2011

    Postdoctoral Researcher, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt

  • 2010-2011

    Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate of the University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

  • 2007-2010

    Promotion, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate of the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and National Museum for Natural Sciences Madrid (Spain)

  • 2003

    Research and studies at the Department of Geography of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA, USA)

  • 2001-2006

    Stipend by the Cusanuswerk – the German Catholic Scholarship Foundation

  • 1999-2006

    Studies of Biology with majors in Ecology, Nature Conservation and Zoology at the University of Marburg

Activities

Publications

  • Evolutionary processes, dispersal limitation and climatic history shape current diversity patterns of European dragonflies

    Pinkert, S., K. D. B. Dijkstra, D. Zeuss, C. Reudenbach, R. Brandl and C. Hof. 2018. Evolutionary processes, dispersal limitation and climatic history shape current diversity patterns of European dragonflies. Ecography 41:795-804.

  • Cross-realm assessment of climate change impacts on species' abundance trends

    Bowler, D. E., C. Hof, P. Haase, I. Kroncke, O. Schweiger, R. Adrian, L. Baert, H. G. Bauer, T. Blick, R. W. Brooker, W. Dekoninck, S. Domisch, R. Eckmann, F. Hendrickx, T. Hickler, S. Klotz, A. Kraberg, I. Kuhn, S. Matesanz, A. Meschede, H. Neumann, R. O'hara, D. J. Russell, A. F. Sell, M. Sonnewald, S. Stoll, A. Sundermann, O. Tackenberg, M. Turkay, F. Valladares, K. Van Herk, R. Van Klink, R. Vermeulen, K. Voigtlander, R. Wagner, E. Welk, M. Wiemers, K. H. Wiltshire and K. Böhning-Gaese. 2017. Cross-realm assessment of climate change impacts on species' abundance trends. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1:67.

  • It's not (all) about the money - supporting IPBES through challenging times

    Hof, C., M. Winter, S. Hotes and L. Opgenoorth. 2017. It's not (all) about the money - supporting IPBES through challenging times. Frontiers of Biogeography 9:1-3.

  • Ecological networks are more sensitive to plant than to animal extinction under climate change

    Schleuning, M., J. Fründ, O. Schweiger, E. Welk, J. Albrecht, M. Albrecht, M. Beil, G. Benadi, N. Blüthgen, H. Bruelheide, K. Böhning-Gaese, D. M. Dehling, C. F. Dormann, N. Exeler, N. Farwig, A. Harpke, T. Hickler, A. Kratochwil, M. Kuhlmann, I. Kuhn, D. Michez, S. Mudri-Stojnic, M. Plein, P. Rasmont, A. Schwabe, J. Settele, A. Vujic, C. N. Weiner, M. Wiemers and C. Hof. 2016. Ecological networks are more sensitive to plant than to animal extinction under climate change. Nat Commun 7:13965.

  • Global variation in thermal tolerances and vulnerability of endotherms to climate change

    Khaliq, I.*, Hof, C.*, Prinzinger, R., Böhning-Gaese, K. & Pfenninger, M. (2014). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281, 20141097. (*contributed equally)

  • Additive threats from pathogens, climate and land-use change for global amphibian diversity

    Hof, C., Araújo, M.B., Jetz, W. & Rahbek, C. (2011). Nature 480, 516-519

  • Rethinking species’ ability to cope with rapid climate change

    Hof, C., Levinsky, I., Araújo, M. & Rahbek, C. (2011). Global Change Biology 17, 2987-2990

  • Phylogenetic signals in the climatic niches of the world’s amphibians

    Hof, C., Rahbek, C. & Araújo, M.B. (2010). Ecography 33, 242-250

  • Lentic odonates have larger and more northern ranges than lotic species

    Hof, C., Brändle, M. & Brandl, R. (2006). Journal of Biogeography 33, 63-70

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