Department for Life Science Systems TUM School of Life Sciences Technische Universität München Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2 D-85350 Freising-Weihenstephan
Postdoctoral Researcher, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt (Germany)
2010-
2011
Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
2010
Graduation as PhD with the dissertation “Species distributions and climate change: current patterns and future scenarios for biodiversity”
2007-
2010
PhD, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and Biodiversity and Global Change Lab, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid (Spain)
1999-
2006
Studies of Biology (majors: Animal Ecology, Nature Conservation, Zoology), University of Marburg
Research interest
My scientific work focuses on three main questions:
How are species able to respond to the challenges of anthropogenic global change?
What are the impacts of climate change on biodiversity – now, in the past and in the future?
How is biological diversity in space and time, and what are the underlying causes?
To address these questions, I work with several groups of animals such as terrestrial vertebrates (birds, mammals, amphibians) as well as invertebrates (insects, spiders) and freshwater organisms (in particular dragon- and damselflies).
In my research I aim to combine different types of data and methodological approaches from a mainly macroecological perspective. In order to better understand species’ potential responses to climate change, my recent work has set an emphasis on the integration of biogeographical physiological, and ecological data.
Recently I summarized the findings of our recent research on the impacts of climate and land use change on biodiversity in a popular science article in one of Germany's major newspapers (in German): LINK.
Junior Research Group funded by the bayklif program of the Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and the Arts.
Central aim of this project is to improve our understanding the effects of how climate and land-use change on the Bavarian fauna and to build reliable future projections of biodiversity in Bavaria. We will combine data on species distributions of birds, butterflies, dragonflies and grasshoppers (and potentially other taxa) with information from physiology, ecology and biogeography as well as different modelling approaches and across different spatial scales. With this multi-dimensional integration across taxa, scales and disciplines we aim to develop realistic scenarios for biological diversity - in Bavaria and beyond.
BioScen1point5 - Biodiversity scenarios for a 1.5°C warmer world
Project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)
Aim of BioScen1point5 is an evaluation of the potential future impacts of climate and land-use change for the global biodiversity of terrestrial vertebrates under an average temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius, especially in comparison with other warming scenarios.
Climate change impacts on biodiversity in Pakistan
Project funded by the program „German-Pakistani Research Cooperations“ of the German ACademic Exchange Service (DAAD)
With this project, our main goal is to investigate the potential responses of species and ecological communities to the spatial and temporal variation of climatic conditions along elevational gradients in Pakistan. To do so, we will use a novel integrative methodological framework which combines observations on abundance variation, experimental measurements of thermal traits, and modelling approaches.
Publications
2024
Rubanschi, Sven; Hof, Christian; Weisser, Wolfgang W.; Meyer, Sebastian T.: Assessing the conservation and restoration potential of biotopes in a central European region. Biodiversity and Conservation 33 (8-9), 2024, 2305-2328 more…
2023
Biber, Matthias F.; Voskamp, Alke; Hof, Christian: Potential effects of future climate change on global reptile distributions and diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2023 more…
Cabral, Juliano Sarmento; Mendoza‐Ponce, Alma; da Silva, André Pinto; Oberpriller, Johannes; Mimet, Anne; Kieslinger, Julia; Berger, Thomas; Blechschmidt, Jana; Brönner, Maximilian; Classen, Alice; Fallert, Stefan; Hartig, Florian; Hof, Christian; Hoffmann, Markus; Knoke, Thomas; Krause, Andreas; Lewerentz, Anne; Pohle, Perdita; Raeder, Uta; Rammig, Anja; Redlich, Sarah; Rubanschi, Sven; Stetter, Christian; Weisser, Wolfgang; Vedder, Daniel; Verburg, Peter H.; Zurell, Damaris: The road to integrate climate change projections with regional land‐use–biodiversity models. People and Nature, 2023 more…
Rubanschi, Sven; Meyer, Sebastian T.; Hof, Christian; Weisser, Wolfgang W.: Modelling potential biotope composition on a regional scale revealed that climate variables are stronger drivers than soil variables. Diversity and Distributions, 2023 more…
2022
Engelhardt, Eva Katharina; Biber, Matthias F.; Dolek, Matthias; Fartmann, Thomas; Hochkirch, Axel; Leidinger, Jan; Löffler, Franz; Pinkert, Stefan; Poniatowski, Dominik; Voith, Johannes; Winterholler, Michael; Zeuss, Dirk; Bowler, Diana E.; Hof, Christian: Consistent signals of a warming climate in occupancy changes of three insect taxa over 40 years in central Europe. Global Change Biology 28 (13), 2022, 3998-4012 more…
Harvey, Jeffrey A.; Tougeron, Kévin; Gols, Rieta; Heinen, Robin; Abarca, Mariana; Abram, Paul K.; Basset, Yves; Berg, Matty; Boggs, Carol; Brodeur, Jacques; Cardoso, Pedro; de Boer, Jetske G.; De Snoo, Geert R.; Deacon, Charl; Dell, Jane E.; Desneux, Nicolas; Dillon, Michael E.; Duffy, Grant A.; Dyer, Lee A.; Ellers, Jacintha; Espíndola, Anahí; Fordyce, James; Forister, Matthew L.; Fukushima, Caroline; Gage, Matthew J. G.; García‐Robledo, Carlos; Gely, Claire; Gobbi, Mauro; Hallmann, Caspar; Hance, Thierry; Harte, John; Hochkirch, Axel; Hof, Christian; Hoffmann, Ary A.; Kingsolver, Joel G.; Lamarre, Greg P. A.; Laurance, William F.; Lavandero, Blas; Leather, Simon R.; Lehmann, Philipp; Le Lann, Cécile; López‐Uribe, Margarita M.; Ma, Chun‐Sen; Ma, Gang; Moiroux, Joffrey; Monticelli, Lucie; Nice, Chris; Ode, Paul J.; Pincebourde, Sylvain; Ripple, William J. et al.: Scientists' warning on climate change and insects. Ecological Monographs 93 (1), 2022 more…
Stewart, Peter S.; Voskamp, Alke; Santini, Luca; Biber, Matthias F.; Devenish, Adam J. M.; Hof, Christian; Willis, Stephen G.; Tobias, Joseph A.: Global impacts of climate change on avian functional diversity. Ecology Letters 25 (3), 2022, 673-685 more…
Voskamp, Alke; Hof, Christian; Biber, Matthias F.; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Hickler, Thomas; Niamir, Aidin; Willis, Stephen G.; Fritz, Susanne A.: Projected climate change impacts on the phylogenetic diversity of the world's terrestrial birds: more than species numbers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289 (1979), 2022 more…
2021
Biber, Matthias F.; Voskamp, Alke; Hof, Christian: Representation of the world's biophysical conditions by the global protected area network. Conservation Biology, 2021 more…
Creutzig, Felix; Erb, Karl‐Heinz; Haberl, Helmut; Hof, Christian; Hunsberger, Carol; Roe, Stephanie: Considering sustainability thresholds for BECCS in IPCC and biodiversity assessments. GCB Bioenergy 13 (4), 2021, 510-515 more…
Hof, Christian: Towards more integration of physiology, dispersal and land-use change to understand the responses of species to climate change. The Journal of Experimental Biology 224 (Suppl 1), 2021, jeb238352 more…
2020
Schleuning, Matthias; Neuschulz, Eike Lena; Albrecht, Jörg; Bender, Irene M. A.; Bowler, Diana E.; Dehling, D. Matthias; Fritz, Susanne A.; Hof, Christian; Mueller, Thomas; Nowak, Larissa; Sorensen, Marjorie C.; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Kissling, W. Daniel: Trait-Based Assessments of Climate-Change Impacts on Interacting Species. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35 (4), 2020, 319-328 more…
2019
Berkhout, B. W.; Borregaard, M. K.; Brandl, R.; Brandle, M.; Dehling, D. M.; Hof, C.; Poulin, R.; Thieltges, D. W.: Host assemblage and environment shape beta-diversity of freshwater parasites across diverse taxa at a continental scale. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29 (1), 2019, 38-49 more…
Biber, M. F.; Voskamp, A.; Niamir, A.; Hickler, T.; Hof, C.: A comparison of macroecological and stacked species distribution models to predict future global terrestrial vertebrate richness. Journal of Biogeography 47 (1), 2019, 114-129 more…
Engelhardt, E. K.; Neuschulz, E. L.; Hof, C.: Ignoring biotic interactions overestimates climate change effects: The potential response of the spotted nutcracker to changes in climate and resource plants. Journal of Biogeography 47 (1), 2019, 143-154 more…
Leitao, P. J.; Andrew, C. J.; Engelhardt, E. K.; Graham, C. H.; Martinez-Almoyna, C.; Mimet, A.; Pinkert, S.; Schroder, B.; Voskamp, A.; Hof, C.; Fritz, S. A.: Macroecology as a hub between research disciplines: Opportunities, challenges and possible ways forward. Journal of Biogeography 47 (1), 2019, 13-15 more…
Wüest, Rafael O.; Zimmermann, Niklaus E.; Zurell, Damaris; Alexander, Jake M.; Fritz, Susanne A.; Hof, Christian; Kreft, Holger; Normand, Signe; Cabral, Juliano Sarmento; Szekely, Eniko; Thuiller, Wilfried; Wikelski, Martin; Karger, Dirk Nikolaus: Macroecology in the age of Big Data – Where to go from here? Journal of Biogeography 47 (1), 2019, 1-12 more…
2018
Buckley, Lauren B.; Khaliq, Imran; Swanson, David L.; Hof, Christian: Does metabolism constrain bird and mammal ranges and predict shifts in response to climate change? Ecology and evolution 8 (24), 2018, 12375-12385 more…
Hof, Christian; Voskamp, Alke; Biber, Matthias F.; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Engelhardt, Eva Katharina; Niamir, Aidin; Willis, Stephen G.; Hickler, Thomas: Bioenergy cropland expansion may offset positive effects of climate change mitigation for global vertebrate diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (52), 2018, 13294-13299 more…
Khaliq, Imran; Hof, Christian: Testing the heat dissipation limitation hypothesis: basal metabolic rates of endotherms decrease with increasing upper and lower critical temperatures. PeerJ 6, 2018, e5725 more…
Tucker, Marlee A.; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Fagan, William F.; Fryxell, John M.; Van Moorter, Bram; Alberts, Susan C.; Ali, Abdullahi H.; Allen, Andrew M.; Attias, Nina; Avgar, Tal; Bartlam-Brooks, Hattie; Bayarbaatar, Buuveibaatar; Belant, Jerrold L.; Bertassoni, Alessandra; Beyer, Dean; Bidner, Laura; van Beest, Floris M.; Blake, Stephen; Blaum, Niels; Bracis, Chloe; Brown, Danielle; de Bruyn, P. J. Nico; Cagnacci, Francesca; Calabrese, Justin M.; Camilo-Alves, Constança; Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon; Chiaradia, Andre; Davidson, Sarah C.; Dennis, Todd; DeStefano, Stephen; Diefenbach, Duane; Douglas-Hamilton, Iain; Fennessy, Julian; Fichtel, Claudia; Fiedler, Wolfgang; Fischer, Christina; Fischhoff, Ilya; Fleming, Christen H.; Ford, Adam T.; Fritz, Susanne A.; Gehr, Benedikt; Goheen, Jacob R.; Gurarie, Eliezer; Hebblewhite, Mark; Heurich, Marco; Hewison, A. J. Mark; Hof, Christian; Hurme, Edward; Isbell, Lynne A.; Janssen, René et al.: Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements. Science 359 (6374), 2018, 466-469 more…
2017
Bowler, Diana E.; Haase, Peter; Hof, Christian; Kröncke, Ingrid; Baert, Léon; Dekoninck, Wouter; Domisch, Sami; Hendrickx, Frederik; Hickler, Thomas; Neumann, Hermann; O'Hara, Robert B.; Sell, Anne F.; Sonnewald, Moritz; Stoll, Stefan; Türkay, Michael; van Klink, Roel; Schweiger, Oliver; Vermeulen, Rikjan; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin: Cross-taxa generalities in the relationship between population abundance and ambient temperatures. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1863), 2017, 20170870 more…
Buckley, Lauren; Khaliq, Imran; Swanson, David; Hof, Christian: Metabolism constrains bird and mammal ranges and predicts shifts in response to climate change. bioRxiv, 2017, 167973 more…
Frieler, Katja; Lange, Stefan; Piontek, Franziska; Reyer, Christopher P. O.; Schewe, Jacob; Warszawski, Lila; Zhao, Fang; Chini, Louise; Denvil, Sebastien; Emanuel, Kerry; Geiger, Tobias; Halladay, Kate; Hurtt, George; Mengel, Matthias; Murakami, Daisuke; Ostberg, Sebastian; Popp, Alexander; Riva, Riccardo; Stevanovic, Miodrag; Suzuki, Tatsuo; Volkholz, Jan; Burke, Eleanor; Ciais, Philippe; Ebi, Kristie; Eddy, Tyler D.; Elliott, Joshua; Galbraith, Eric; Gosling, Simon N.; Hattermann, Fred; Hickler, Thomas; Hinkel, Jochen; Hof, Christian; Huber, Veronika; Jägermeyr, Jonas; Krysanova, Valentina; Marcé, Rafael; Müller Schmied, Hannes; Mouratiadou, Ioanna; Pierson, Don; Tittensor, Derek P.; Vautard, Robert; van Vliet, Michelle; Biber, Matthias F.; Betts, Richard A.; Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon; Deryng, Delphine; Frolking, Steve; Jones, Chris D.; Lotze, Heike K.; Lotze-Campen, Hermann et al.: Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming – simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b). Geoscientific Model Development 10 (12), 2017, 4321-4345 more…
Hof, Christian; Fritz, Susanne A.; Prinzinger, Roland; Pfenninger, Markus; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Khaliq, Imran: Phylogenetic signals in thermal traits remain stronger in the tropics if we can believe published physiological data. A reply to McKechnie et al., “Data quality problems undermine analyses of endotherm upper critical temperatures”. Journal of Biogeography 44 (10), 2017, 2427-2431 more…
Hof, Christian; Khaliq, Imran; Prinzinger, Roland; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Pfenninger, Markus: Global patterns of thermal tolerances and vulnerability of endotherms to climate change remain robust irrespective of varying data suitability criteria. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1855), 2017, 20170232 more…
Hof, Christian; Winter, Marten; Hotes, Stefan; Opgenoorth, Lars: It’s not (all) about the money — supporting IPBES through challenging times. Frontiers of Biogeography 9 (1), 2017 more…
Khaliq, Imran; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Prinzinger, Roland; Pfenninger, Markus; Hof, Christian: The influence of thermal tolerances on geographical ranges of endotherms. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26 (6), 2017, 650-668 more…
Methorst, Joel; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Khaliq, Imran; Hof, Christian: A framework integrating physiology, dispersal and land-use to project species ranges under climate change. Journal of Avian Biology 48 (12), 2017, 1532-1548 more…
Pinkert, Stefan; Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B.; Zeuss, Dirk; Reudenbach, Christoph; Brandl, Roland; Hof, Christian: Evolutionary processes, dispersal limitation and climatic history shape current diversity patterns of European dragonflies. Ecography 41 (5), 2017, 795-804 more…
2016
Fritz, Susanne A.; Eronen, Jussi T.; Schnitzler, Jan; Hof, Christian; Janis, Christine M.; Mulch, Andreas; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Graham, Catherine H.: Twenty-million-year relationship between mammalian diversity and primary productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (39), 2016, 10908-10913 more…
Hof, Christian; Dehling, D. Matthias; Bonn, Aletta; Burgess, Neil D.; Eigenbrod, Felix; Harfoot, Michael B. J.; Hickler, Thomas; Jetz, Walter; Marquard, Elisabeth; Pereira, Henrique M.; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin: Macroecology meets IPBES. Frontiers of Biogeography 7 (4), 2016 more…
Bowler, D.E.; Haase, P.; Kröncke, I.; Tackenberg, O.; Bauer, H.G.; Brendel, C.; Brooker, R.W.; Gerisch, M.; Henle, K.; Hickler, T.; Hof, C.; Klotz, S.; Kühn, I.; Matesanz, S.; O‘Hara, R.; Russell, D.; Schweiger, O.; Valladares, F.; Welk, E.; Wiemers, M.; Böhning-Gaese, K.: A cross-taxon analysis of the impact of climate change on abundance trends in central Europe. Biological Conservation 187, 2015, 41-50 more…
Dulle, Hamadi I.; Ferger, Stefan W.; Cordeiro, Norbert J.; Howell, Kim M.; Schleuning, Matthias; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Hof, Christian: Changes in abundances of forest understorey birds on Africa's highest mountain suggest subtle effects of climate change. Diversity and Distributions 22 (3), 2015, 288-299 more…
Fristoe, Trevor S.; Burger, Joseph R.; Balk, Meghan A.; Khaliq, Imran; Hof, Christian; Brown, James H.: Metabolic heat production and thermal conductance are mass-independent adaptations to thermal environment in birds and mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (52), 2015, 15934-15939 more…
Khaliq, Imran; Fritz, Susanne A.; Prinzinger, Roland; Pfenninger, Markus; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Hof, Christian: Global variation in thermal physiology of birds and mammals: evidence for phylogenetic niche conservatism only in the tropics. Journal of Biogeography 42 (11), 2015, 2187-2196 more…
Khaliq, Imran; Hof, Christian; Prinzinger, Roland; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Pfenninger, Markus: Global variation in thermal tolerances and vulnerability of endotherms to climate change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1789), 2014, 20141097 more…
Platts, Philip J.; Garcia, Raquel A.; Hof, Christian; Foden, Wendy; Hansen, Louis A.; Rahbek, Carsten; Burgess, Neil D.: Conservation implications of omitting narrow-ranging taxa from species distribution models, now and in the future. Diversity and Distributions 20 (11), 2014, 1307-1320 more…
Stevens, Virginie M.; Whitmee, Sarah; Le Galliard, Jean-François; Clobert, Jean; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Bonte, Dries; Brändle, Martin; Matthias Dehling, D.; Hof, Christian; Trochet, Audrey; Baguette, Michel: A comparative analysis of dispersal syndromes in terrestrial and semi-terrestrial animals. Ecology Letters 17 (8), 2014, 1039-1052 more…
2013
Fritz, Susanne A.; Schnitzler, Jan; Eronen, Jussi T.; Hof, Christian; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Graham, Catherine H.: Diversity in time and space: wanted dead and alive. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 28 (9), 2013, 509-516 more…
Grewe, Yannic; Hof, Christian; Dehling, D. Matthias; Brandl, Roland; Brändle, Martin: Recent range shifts of European dragonflies provide support for an inverse relationship between habitat predictability and dispersal. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22 (4), 2012, 403-409 more…
Hof, Christian; Brändle, Martin; Dehling, D. Matthias; Munguía, Mariana; Brandl, Roland; Araújo, Miguel B.; Rahbek, Carsten: Habitat stability affects dispersal and the ability to track climate change. Biology Letters 8 (4), 2012, 639-643 more…
2011
HOF, CHRISTIAN; LEVINSKY, IRINA; ARAÚJO, MIGUEL B.; RAHBEK, CARSTEN: Rethinking species' ability to cope with rapid climate change. Global Change Biology 17 (9), 2011, 2987-2990 more…
Hof, Christian; Araújo, Miguel B.; Jetz, Walter; Rahbek, Carsten: Additive threats from pathogens, climate and land-use change for global amphibian diversity. Nature 480 (7378), 2011, 516-519 more…
Thieltges, David W.; Hof, Christian; Borregaard, Michael K.; Matthias Dehling, D.; Brändle, Martin; Brandl, Roland; Poulin, Robert: Range size patterns in European freshwater trematodes. Ecography 34 (6), 2011, 982-989 more…
Thieltges, David W.; Hof, Christian; Dehling, D. Matthias; Brändle, Martin; Brandl, Roland; Poulin, Robert: Host diversity and latitude drive trematode diversity patterns in the European freshwater fauna. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (5), 2011, 675-682 more…
2010
Dehling, D. Matthias; Hof, Christian; Brändle, Martin; Brandl, Roland: Habitat availability does not explain the species richness patterns of European lentic and lotic freshwater animals. Journal of Biogeography, 2010, no-no more…
Hof, Christian; Rahbek, Carsten; Araújo, Miguel B.: Phylogenetic signals in the climatic niches of the world's amphibians. Ecography, 2010, no-no more…
Hof, Christian; Brändle, Martin; Brandl, Roland: Latitudinal variation of diversity in European freshwater animals is not concordant across habitat types. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17 (4), 2008, 539-546 more…
2006
Hof, Christian; Brandle, Martin; Brandl, Roland: Lentic odonates have larger and more northern ranges than lotic species. Journal of Biogeography 33 (1), 2006, 63-70 more…
Invited Talks (Selection)
Biodiversität am Abgrund – Herausforderung für Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft in Zeiten globalen Wandels. Haus am Dom, Katholische Akademie Rabanus Maurus des Bistums Limburg, Frankfurt, 17 May 2018.
Klima, Mensch, Ökosysteme. Wie beeinflussen Mensch und Klima die Vielfalt des Lebens auf der Erde? Gymnasium Nord, Frankfurt, 16 January 2018.
Understanding and predicting responses of biodiversity to global change: integration at the macro-scale. Technische Universität München, Freising, 6 November 2017.
Biologische Vielfalt im Wandel - Forschung zwischen Orakel und Wissenschaft. Cusanuswerk-Regionalgruppe Rhein-Main, Mainz, 30 June 2017
Wärmer = ärmer? – Artenvielfalt im Klimawandel. Symposium “Worauf wartest Du” der Jungen Akademie in Berlin, 4 November 2016.
Understanding responses of biodiversity to global change: integration at the macro-scale. Invited “next generation scientist”-talk, 9th annual meeting of the Macroecology Specialist Group of the GfÖ in Trier, 15-17 March 2016.
Climate change impacts on biodiversity: are ecological models relevant for conservation? Melbourne Zoo, Melbourne (Australien), 28 January 2016.
Climate change impacts on biodiversity: macroecological perspectives. Greifswald University, 26 November 2015.
Modelling the responses of biodiversity to global change: visions, challenges, and opportunities. University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada), 19 May 2015.
Globaler Wandel und Biodiversität: Makroökologische Perspektiven. Symposium keynote, 147. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Ornithologen-Gesellschaft, Bielefeld, 1-6 October 2014.
Orakel oder Wissenschaft? Zu den Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf Arten und Biodiversität. University of Marburg, 8 July 2014.
Szenarien für die Biosphäre – Prognosen oder Orakel? Von den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen ökologischer Forschung. Tagung “Die Zukunft des Lebens – Szenarien für die Biosphäre” der Fachschaft Chemie/Biologie des Cusanuswerks, Ellwangen, 12 May 2013.
Klimawandel - und sonst? Auswirkungen globaler Bedrohungen auf Artverbreitungen und Biodiversität. Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, 5 February 2013.
Ist das Klima das Problem? Auswirkungen des globalen Wandels auf Tierverbreitungen und Artenvielfalt. Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald, Grafenau, 22 November 2012.
Frying frogs, dispersing dragons. Does climate change really matter for biodiversity? Imperial College London, Silwood Park (United Kingdom), 20 October 2011.
The geography of future threats for global amphibian diversity - a macroecological perspective on niches, distributions, and climate change. Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, 3 February 2011.
Habitats, dispersal, and climate change: Macroecological insights into the freshwater world. Fachgebiet Angewandte Zoologie/Hydrobiologie, University of Duisburg/Essen, 29 March 2010.
Es wird heiß! - Artenvielfalt und Klimawandel. Realschule Altenkirchen/Westerwald, August 2008.
