Dr. Jens Oldeland

Assistant Professor
Biodiversity, Evolution, and Ecology
Address
Universität Hamburg
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences
Department Biology
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Office
Carl von Linné Haus
Room: 2.531
Contact
Tel: +49 40 42816- 407
Key aspects of activity
- Applied Biodiversity Research
- Ecological Remote Sensing
- Hyperspectral Data Analysis
- Spatial Pattern Analysis
- Vegetation databases
- Drylands and high mountain ecosystems
Publications
Submitted
- Abutaha, M., El-Khouly, A.A., Jürgens, N., Morsy, A.A., Oldeland, J., (submitted). A rare type of elevational-richness pattern for vascular plant found in the dry mountain Gebel Elba, Egypt. African Journal of Ecology.
- Estifanos, S., Oldeland, J., (submitted). Alpha and beta diversity of woody plants in differently managed coffee-based agroforestry systems in southwest Ethiopia. African Journal of Ecology.
- Geedicke, I., Manea, A., Oldeland, J., Leishman, M.R., (submitted). Freshwater input drives invasion success of exotic plants in saltmarsh communities. Journal of Applied Ecology.
- Heim, R.H.-J., Wright, I.J., Allen, A.P., Oldeland, J., (submitted). A disease-specific spectral vegetation index to detect myrtle rust on lemon myrtle. Plant Pathology.
- Schmiedel, U., Oldeland, J., (in revision). Vegetation responses to seasonal weather conditions and decrease of grazing pressure – results from 16 years of plot-based monitoring in the arid Succulent Karoo of South Africa. African Journal of Range and Forage Science.
- Zigelskli, P., Rudolph, B., Oldeland, J., Lages, F., Jürgens, Norbert, Finckh, M., (in revision). The Tough, the Wet and the Hidden: Evolutionary Strategies of a Tropical Tree in a Changing Environment. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics.
Accepted
- Hoppe, F., Schickhoff, U., Oldeland, J., (accepted). Plant species diversity of winter pastures in the Naryn Oblast (Kyrgyzstan) is threatened by overgrazing. Die Erde.
- Gholami-Baghi, N., Oldeland, J., (accepted). Do soil-adjusted or standard vegetation indices better predict above ground biomass of semi-arid, saline rangelands in North-East Iran? International Journal of Remote Sensing.
- Moradi, H., Oldeland, J., (accepted). Climatic stress and environmental heterogeneity drive plant functional diversity in the Alborz Mountains, Iran. Ecological Research.
2018
- Bobrowski, M., Bechtel, B., Böhner, J., Oldeland, J., Weidinger, J., Schickhoff, U., 2018. Application of Thermal and Phenological Land Surface Parameters for Improving Ecological Niche Models of Betula utilis in the Himalayan Region. Remote Sensing 10, 814. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10060814
- Geedicke, I., Oldeland, J., Leishman, M.R., 2018. Urban stormwater run-off promotes compression of saltmarshes by freshwater plants and mangrove forests. Science of The Total Environment 637–638, 137–144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.357
- Große‐Stoltenberg, A., Hellmann, C., Thiele, J., Oldeland, J., Werner, C., 2018. Invasive acacias differ from native dune species in the hyperspectral/biochemical trait space. Journal of Vegetation Science 29, 325–335. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12608
- Große-Stoltenberg, A., Hellmann, C., Thiele, J., Werner, C., Oldeland, J., 2018. Early detection of GPP-related regime shifts after plant invasion by integrating imaging spectroscopy with airborne LiDAR. Remote Sensing of Environment 209, 780–792. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.02.038
- Heim, R.H.J., Wright, I.J., Chang, H.-C., Carnegie, A.J., Pegg, G.S., Lancaster, E.K., Falster, D.S., Oldeland, J., 2018. Detecting myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii) on lemon myrtle trees using spectral signatures and machine learning. Plant Pathology 67, 1114–1121. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppa.12830
- Revermann, R., Oldeland, J., Gonçalves, F.M., Luther-Mosebach, J., Gomes, A.L., Jürgens, N., Finckh, M., 2018. Dry tropical forests and woodlands of the Cubango Basin in southern Africa – First classification and assessment of their woody species diversity. Phytocoenologia 23–50. https://doi.org/10.1127/phyto/2017/0154
- Schmiedel, U., Oldeland, J., 2018. Vegetation dynamics in the Namaqualand Hardeveld - observations from 17 years of annual monitoring. Biodiversity & Ecology 6, 450–457. https://doi.org/10.7809/b-e.00358
- Stirn, S., Oldeland, J., 2018. The challenge of including biodiversity in certification standards of food supply chains. Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 110–115. https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-869-8_15
2017
- Bürzle B, Schickhoff U, Schickhoff U, et al (2017) Phytosociology and ecology of treeline ecotone vegetation in Rolwaling Himal, Nepal. Phytocoenologia 47:197–220 . doi: 10.1127/phyto/2017/0130
- Bürzle B, Schickhoff U, Schwab N, et al (2017) Seedling recruitment and facilitation dependence on safe site characteristics in a Himalayan treeline ecotone. Plant Ecology. doi: 10.1007/s11258-017-0782-2
- Hellmann C, Große-Stoltenberg A, Thiele J, et al (2017) Heterogeneous environments shape invader impacts: integrating environmental, structural and functional effects by isoscapes and remote sensing. Sci Rep 7: . doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-04480-4
- Moradi H, Attar F, Oldeland J (2017) A plant functional type approach for identifying altitudinal vegetation zones in the central Alborz Mts., Iran. Journal of Mountain Science. doi: 10.1007/s11629-016-4285-8
- Oldeland J, Große-Stoltenberg A, Naftal L, Strohbach BJ (2017) The Potential of UAV Derived Image Features for Discriminating Savannah Tree Species. In: Díaz-Delgado R, Lucas R, Hurford C (eds) The Roles of Remote Sensing in Nature Conservation. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 183–201
- Revermann R, Wallenfang J, Oldeland J, Finckh M (2017) Species richness and evenness respond to diverging land-use patterns - a cross-border study of dry tropical woodlands in southern Africa. African Journal of Ecology 55:152–161 . doi: 10.1111/aje.12333
- Schwab N, Schickhoff U, Bürzle B, et al (2017) Implications of tree species – environment relationships for the responsiveness of Himalayan Krummholz treelines to climate change. Journal of Mountain Science 14: . doi: 10.1007/s11629-016-4257-z
2016
- Arruda W de S, Oldeland J, Paranhos Filho AC, et al (2016) Inundation and Fire Shape the Structure of Riparian Forests in the Pantanal, Brazil. PLOS ONE 11:e0156825 . doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156825
- Butzeck C, Schröder U, Oldeland J, et al (2016) Vegetation succession of low estuarine marshes is affected by distance to navigation channel and changes in water level. Journal of Coastal Conservation 20:221–236 . doi: 10.1007/s11852-016-0432-1
- Geedicke I, Schultz M, Rudolph B, Oldeland J (2016) Phylogenetic clustering found in lichen but not in plant communities in European heathlands. Community Ecology 17:216–224 . doi: 10.1556/168.2016.17.2.10
- Große-Stoltenberg A, Hellmann C, Werner C, et al (2016) Evaluation of Continuous VNIR-SWIR Spectra versus Narrowband Hyperspectral Indices to Discriminate the Invasive Acacia longifolia within a Mediterranean Dune Ecosystem. Remote Sensing 8:334 . doi: 10.3390/rs8040334
- Hellmann C, Rascher KG, Oldeland J, Werner C (2016a) Isoscapes resolve species-specific spatial patterns in plant–plant interactions in an invaded Mediterranean dune ecosystem. Tree Physiol 36:1460–1470 . doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpw075
- Hellmann C, Werner C, Oldeland J (2016b) A Spatially Explicit Dual-Isotope Approach to Map Regions of Plant-Plant Interaction after Exotic Plant Invasion. PLOS ONE 11:e0159403 . doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159403
- Oldeland J (2016) Eine kurze Übersicht zur Biodiversität afrikanischer Wüsten. In: Schickhoff U (ed) Biogeographie und Biodiversität. Geographisches Insititut, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, pp 59–71
- Revermann R, Finckh M, Stellmes M, et al (2016a) Linking Land Surface Phenology and Vegetation-Plot Databases to Model Terrestrial Plant α-Diversity of the Okavango Basin. Remote Sensing 8:370 . doi: 10.3390/rs8050370
- Revermann R, Wallenfang J, Oldeland J, Finckh M (2016b) Species richness and evenness respond to diverging land-use patterns – a cross-border study of dry tropical woodlands in southern Africa. Afr J Ecol n/a-n/a . doi: 10.1111/aje.12333
- Schmiedel U, Röwer IU, Luther-Mosebach J, et al (2016) Effect of grazing on vegetation and soil of the heuweltjieveld in the Succulent Karoo, South Africa. Acta Oecologica 77:27–36 . doi: 10.1016/j.actao.2016.08.012
2015
- Bortolotto IM, Amorozo MC de M, Neto GG, et al (2015) Knowledge and use of wild edible plants in rural communities along Paraguay River, Pantanal, Brazil. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 11: . doi: 10.1186/s13002-015-0026-2
- Heim R, Jürgens N, Große-Stoltenberg A, Oldeland J (2015) The Effect of Epidermal Structures on Leaf Spectral Signatures of Ice Plants (Aizoaceae). Remote Sensing 7:16901–16914 . doi: 10.3390/rs71215862
- Hellmann C, Große-Stoltenberg A, Lauströr V, et al (2015) Retrieving nitrogen isotopic signatures from fresh leaf reflectance spectra: disentangling δ15N from biochemical and structural leaf properties. Frontiers in Plant Science 6:307 . doi: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00307
- Isik-Gürsoy D, Uğurlu E, Oldeland J (2015) Plant communities, diversity and endemism of the Kula Volcano, Manisa, Turkey. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology 1–10 . doi: 10.1080/11263504.2014.1001000
- Jürgens N, Vlieghe KEP, Bohn C, et al (2015) Weaknesses in the plant competition hypothesis for fairy circle formation and evidence supporting the sand termite hypothesis: Response to recent plant competition hypothesis. Ecological Entomology 40:661–668 . doi: 10.1111/een.12266
- Lehmann J, Große-Stoltenberg A, Römer M, Oldeland J (2015) Field Spectroscopy in the VNIR-SWIR Region to Discriminate between Mediterranean Native Plants and Exotic-Invasive Shrubs Based on Leaf Tannin Content. Remote Sensing 7:1225–1241 . doi: 10.3390/rs70201225
- Martínez-Antúnez P, Wehenkel C, Hernández-Díaz JC, Corral-Rivas JJ (2015) Use of the Weibull function to model maximum probability of abundance of tree species in northwest Mexico. Annals of Forest Science 72:243–251 . doi: 10.1007/s13595-014-0420-2
- Pedashenko H, Apostolova I, Oldeland J (2015) The effects of livestock numbers and land cover transformation processes on rangelands in the Balkan Moun-tains between 1947 and 2012. Tuexenia 35:417–432 . doi: 10.14471/2015.35.010
- Schmiedel U, Kühne N, Twerski A, Oldeland J (2015) Small-scale soil patterns drive sharp boundaries between succulent “dwarf” biomes (or habitats) in the arid Succulent Karoo, South Africa. South African Journal of Botany 101:129–138 . doi: 10.1016/j.sajb.2015.05.001
- Wallenfang J, Finckh, Manfred M, Oldeland J, Revermann R (2015) Impact of shifting cultivation on dense tropical woodlands in southeast Angola. Tropical Conservation Science 8:863–892 . doi: 10.1177/194008291500800402
2013
- Akasbi Z, Oldeland J, Dengler J, Finckh M (2013) Analysis of GPS trajectories to assess goat grazing pattern and intensity in Southern Morocco. The Rangeland Journal 34:415–427
- Borchardt P, Oldeland J, Ponsens J, Schickhoff U (2013) Plant functional traits match grazing gradient and vegetation patterns on mountain pastures in SW Kyrgyzstan. Phytocoenologia 43:171–181 . doi: 10.1127/0340-269X/2013/0043-0542
- Juergens N, Oldeland J, Hachfeld B, et al (2013) Ecology and spatial patterns of large-scale vegetation units within the central Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 93:59–79 . doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2012.09.009
- Sauer J, Oldeland J, Hausdorf B (2013) Continuing Fragmentation of a Widespread Species by Geographical Barriers as Initial Step in a Land Snail Radiation on Crete. PloS one 8:e62569
- Sop TK, Oldeland J (2013) LOCAL PERCEPTIONS OF WOODY VEGETATION DYNAMICS IN THE CONTEXT OF A ‘GREENING SAHEL’: A CASE STUDY FROM BURKINA FASO: LOCAL PERCEPTIONS OF WOODY VEGETATION AND THE ‘GREENING OF THE SAHEL.’ Land Degradation & Development 24:511–527 . doi: 10.1002/ldr.1144
- Wesuls D, Pellowski M, Suchrow S, et al (2013) The grazing fingerprint: Modelling species responses and trait patterns along grazing gradients in semi-arid Namibian rangelands. Ecological Indicators 27:61–70
- Sop TK, Oldeland J (2013) Local perceptions of woody vegetation dynamics in the context of a “Greening Sahel”: a case study from Burkina Faso. Land Degradation & Development 24:511–527 . doi: 10.1002/ldr.1144
2012
- Akasbi Z, Oldeland J, Dengler J, Finckh M (2012a) Volume–biomass functions reveal the effect of browsing on three Moroccan dwarf shrubs. African Journal of Range & Forage Science 29:31–36
- Akasbi Z, Oldeland J, Dengler J, Finckh M (2012b) Social and ecological constraints on decision making by transhumant pastoralists: a case study from the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. Journal of Mountain Science 9:307–321
- De Cáceres M, Legendre P, Wiser SK, Brotons L (2012) Using species combinations in indicator value analyses. Methods Ecol Evol 3:973–982 . doi: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00246.x
- Dengler J, Chytrỳ M, Ewald J, et al (2012a) Vegetation databases for the 21st century. Biozentrum
- Dengler J, Oldeland J, Jansen F, et al (2012b) Facilitating access to vegetation data–Introduction to the Special Volume. Biodiversity & Ecology 4:9–13
- Glöckler F, Dengler J, Jansen F, et al (2012) Guide to GIVD’s Fact Sheets. Vegetation databases for the 21st century–Biodiversity & Ecology 4:83–88
- Jansen F, Glöckler F, Chytrỳ M, et al (2012) News from the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD): the metadata platform, available data, and their properties. Vegetation databases for the 21st century–Biodiversity & Ecology 4:77–82
- Jürgens N, Schmiedel U, Haarmeyer DH, et al (2012) The BIOTA Biodiversity Observatories in Africa—a standardized framework for large-scale environmental monitoring. Environmental monitoring and assessment 184:655–678
- Muche G, Schmiedel U, Jürgens N (2012) BIOTA Southern Africa Biodiversity Observatories Vegetation Database. Biodiversity & Ecology 4:111–123 . doi: 10.7809/b-e.00066
- Oldeland J, Wesuls D, Jürgens N (2012) RLQ and fourth-corner analysis of plant species traits and spectral indices derived from HyMap and CHRIS-PROBA imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing 33:6459–6479 . doi: 10.1080/01431161.2012.690082
- Sop TK, Oldeland J, Bognounou F, et al (2012) Ethnobotanical knowledge and valuation of woody plants species: a comparative analysis of three ethnic groups from the sub-Sahel of Burkina Faso. Environment, Development and Sustainability 14:627–649
- Ugurlu E, Oldeland J (2012) Species response curves of oak species along climatic gradients in Turkey. International journal of biometeorology 56:85–93
- Wesuls D, Oldeland J, Dray S (2012) Disentangling plant trait responses to livestock grazing from spatio-temporal variation: the partial RLQ approach. Journal of Vegetation Science 23:98–113
2011
- Dengler J, Jansen F, Glöckler F, et al (2011a) Recent publications of our members. of the European Dry Grassland Group 25
- Dengler J, Jansen F, Glöckler F, et al (2011b) Others (2011). The Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD): a new resource for vegetation science. Journal of Vegetation Science 22:582–597
- Dengler J, Jansen F, Glöckler F, et al (2011c) The Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD): a new resource for vegetation science. Journal of Vegetation Science 22:582–597
- Dreber N, Oldeland J, van Rooyen GM (2011) Species, functional groups and community structure in seed banks of the arid Nama Karoo: Grazing impacts and implications for rangeland restoration. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
- Jansen F, Dengler J, Glöckner F, et al (2011) Die mitteleuropäischen Datenbanken im Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD). Tuexenia 31:351–367
- Krefis AC, Schwarz NG, Nkrumah B, et al (2011) Spatial analysis of land cover determinants of malaria incidence in the Ashanti Region, Ghana. PloS one 6:e17905
- Rupprecht F, Oldeland J, Finckh M (2011) Modelling potential distribution of the threatened tree species Juniperus oxycedrus: how to evaluate the predictions of different modelling approaches?: Modelling potential distribution of Juniperus oxycedrus. Journal of Vegetation Science 22:647–659 . doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01269.x
- Sop T, Oldeland J, Schmiedel U, et al (2011) Population structure of three woody species in four ethnic domains of the sub-sahel of Burkina Faso. Land Degradation & Development 22:519–529
- Thiede J, Hargreaves BJ, Mwanyambo ML, Oldeland J (2011) Filling the Gap: Fockea multiflora K. Schum.(Apocynaceae) in Malaŵi. Haseltonia 16:79–82
2010
- Dengler J, Oldeland J (2010) Effects of sampling protocol on the shapes of species richness curves. Journal of Biogeography 37:1698–1705
- Grohmann C, Oldeland J, Stoyan D, Linsenmair K (2010) Multi-scale pattern analysis of a mound-building termite species. Insectes sociaux 57:477–486
- Oldeland J, Dorigo W, Lieckfeld L, et al (2010a) Combining vegetation indices, constrained ordination and fuzzy classification for mapping semi-natural vegetation units from hyperspectral imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 114:1155–1166
- Oldeland J, Dorigo W, Wesuls D, Jürgens N (2010b) Mapping bush encroaching species by seasonal differences in hyperspectral imagery. Remote Sensing 2:1416–1438
- Oldeland J, Dreber N, Wesuls D (2010c) Diversity measures in comparative rangeland studies: application and advantages of Species Abundance Distributions and diversity profiles. Dinteria 31:50–66
- Oldeland J, Wesuls D, Rocchini D, et al (2010d) Does using species abundance data improve estimates of species diversity from remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity? Ecological Indicators 10:390–396
- Rocchini D, Balkenhol N, Carter GA, et al (2010a) Remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity as a proxy of species diversity: recent advances and open challenges. Ecological informatics 5:318–329
- Rocchini D, He KS, Oldeland J, et al (2010b) Spectral variation versus species β-diversity at different spatial scales: a test in African highland savannas. J Environ Monit 12:825–831
- Tietjen B, Jeltsch F, Zehe E, et al (2010) Effects of climate change on the coupled dynamics of water and vegetation in drylands. Ecohydrology 3:226–237
2008
- Oldeland J, Finckh M, Born K (2008) A Bioclimatic Map for Southern Morocco 9. In: Schulz O, Judex M (eds) IMPETUS Atlas Morocco: Research results 2000 - 2007. Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, pp 21–22
Thesis
- Oldeland J (2010) Modelling Spatial Patterns of Vascular Plant Diversity in Central Namibian Savannah Ecosystems Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data
- Oldeland J (2005) Vegetationsmodellierung am Südrand des Hohen Atlas, Marokko-Habitatmodelle und ihre Anwendung in Trockengebieten. Diplomarbeit, University of Hamburg
CV
Education | |
08/2005-11/2010 | Ph.D. in Biology, Thesis title: "Modelling spatial patterns of vascular plant diversity in central Namibian savannah ecosystems using hyperspectral remote sensing data". Department Biology, University Hamburg |
04/1999-01/2005 | Studies in Biology, Thesis title: "Vegetationsmodellierung am Südrand des Hohen Atlas, Marokko - Habitatmodelle und ihre Anwendung in Trockengebieten", Department Biology, University Hamburg |
10/1998-04/1999 | Studies in Business Informatics, Department of Economics, University Hamburg |
05/1997 | High school diploma at Commercial High School in Winsen / Luhe |
Employment | |
06/2016-10/2018 | Assistant Professor (Habilitation), Department Biology, University Hamburg |
10/2012-05/2016 | Research associate (Habilitation), Department Biology, University Hamburg |
12/2011-10/2012 | Research fellow, SASSCAL, Department Biology, University Hamburg |
05/2010-11/2011 | Freelancing biostatistician |
08/2008-04/2010 | Research fellow, BIOTA Africa, Department Biology, University Hamburg |
08/2005-07/2008 | Research fellow (Dissertation), Helmholtz-Graduate School, Department Biology, University Hamburg & German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen |