Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schmidtlein
- Head of research group
- Group: Vegetation
- Office Hours: In der Vorlesungszeit: Dienstags 17:00 - 18:00 nach Anmeldung per Email
- Room: Geb. 10.50, Raum 810
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Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie
Kaiserstr. 12
76131 Karlsruhe
Germany
Sebastian Schmidtlein
Professor of Physical Geography and Geoecology
- Remote sensing of vegetation
- Ecoinformatics
- Vegetation ecology
2025
Wellenbeck, A.; Hein, N.; Tarkhnishvili, D.; Misof, B.; Schmidtlein, S.; Janiashvili, Z.; Dzadzamia, L.; Feilhauer, H. (2025). Predicting woody species assemblages using ecophylogenetics and Earth observation data. Forest Ecology and Management, 589, 122763. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122763
2024
Schäfer, J.; Winiwarter, L.; Weiser, H.; Höfle, B.; Schmidtlein, S.; Novotný, J.; Krok, G.; Stereńczak, K.; Hollaus, M.; Fassnacht, F. E. (2024). CNN-based transfer learning for forest aboveground biomass prediction from ALS point cloud tomography. European Journal of Remote Sensing, 57 (1), 1–18. doi:10.1080/22797254.2024.2396932
Schäfer, J.; Winiwarter, L.; Weiser, H.; Novotný, J.; Höfle, B.; Schmidtlein, S.; Henniger, H.; Krok, G.; Stereńczak, K.; Fassnacht, F. E. (2024). Assessing the potential of synthetic and ex situ airborne laser scanning and ground plot data to train forest biomass models. (T. Y. Lam, Ed.) Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research, 97 (4), 512–530. doi:10.1093/forestry/cpad061
Wellenbeck, A.; Fehrmann, L.; Feilhauer, H.; Schmidtlein, S.; Misof, B.; Hein, N. (2024). Discriminating woody species assemblages from National Forest Inventory data based on phylogeny in Georgia. Ecology and Evolution, 14 (7), Art.-Nr.: e11569. doi:10.1002/ece3.11569
Schiefer, F.; Schmidtlein, S.; Hartmann, H.; Schnabel, F.; Kattenborn, T. (2024). Large-scale remote sensing reveals that tree mortality in Germany appears to be greater than previously expected. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research. doi:10.1093/forestry/cpae062
Sperandii, M. G.; Bazzichetto, M.; Mendieta-Leiva, G.; Schmidtlein, S.; Bott, M.; Lima, R. A. F. de; Pillar, V. D.; Price, J. N.; Wagner, V.; Chytrý, M. (2024). Towards more reproducibility in vegetation research. Journal of Vegetation Science, 35 (1), Art.-Nr.: e13224. doi:10.1111/jvs.13224
Fröhlich, K.; Schmidtlein, S.; Saha, S. (2024). Moss abundance increased along a gradient of postfire interventions from high to low intensity after a forest fire in Brandenburg, Germany. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research. doi:10.1093/forestry/cpae025
2023
Schäfer, J.; Weiser, H.; Winiwarter, L.; Höfle, B.; Schmidtlein, S.; Fassnacht, F. E. (2023). Generating synthetic laser scanning data of forests by combining forest inventory information, a tree point cloud database and an open-source laser scanning simulator. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research, 96 (5), 653–671. doi:10.1093/forestry/cpad006
Labenski, P.; Ewald, M.; Schmidtlein, S.; Heinsch, F. A.; Fassnacht, F. E. (2023). Quantifying surface fuels for fire modelling in temperate forests using airborne lidar and Sentinel-2: potential and limitations. Remote Sensing of Environment, 295, 113711. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2023.113711
Gafna, D. J.; Obando, J. A.; Kalwij, J. M.; Dolos, K.; Schmidtlein, S. (2023). Climate change impacts on the availability of anti-malarial plants in Kenya. Climate Change Ecology, 5, Art.-Nr.: 100070. doi:10.1016/j.ecochg.2023.100070
Schiefer, F.; Schmidtlein, S.; Frick, A.; Frey, J.; Klinke, R.; Zielewska-Büttner, K.; Junttila, S.; Uhl, A.; Kattenborn, T. (2023). UAV-based reference data for the prediction of fractional cover of standing deadwood from Sentinel time series. ISPRS Open Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 8, Art.-Nr.: 100034. doi:10.1016/j.ophoto.2023.100034
2022
Rocchini, D.; Feilhauer, H.; Müllerová, J.; Schmidtlein, S. (2022). Remote sensing for vegetation science: A virtual special issue on its power and challenges. Applied Vegetation Science, 25 (3), Art.Nr. e12677. doi:10.1111/avsc.12677
Rocchini, D.; Santos, M. J.; Ustin, S. L.; Féret, J.-B.; Asner, G. P.; Beierkuhnlein, C.; Dalponte, M.; Feilhauer, H.; Foody, G. M.; Geller, G. N.; Gillespie, T. W.; He, K. S.; Kleijn, D.; Leitão, P. J.; Malavasi, M.; Moudrý, V.; Müllerová, J.; Nagendra, H.; Normand, S.; Ricotta, C.; Schaepman, M. E.; Schmidtlein, S.; Skidmore, A. K.; Šímová, P.; Torresani, M.; Townsend, P. A.; Turner, W.; Vihervaara, P.; Wegmann, M.; Lenoir, J. (2022). The Spectral Species Concept in Living Color. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127 (9), e2022JG007026. doi:10.1029/2022JG007026
Tröger, D.; Christian Braun, A.; Eichel, J.; Schmidtlein, S.; Sandoval Estrada, M.; Valdés Durán, A. (2022). Pinus plantations impact hillslope stability and decrease landscape resilience by changing biogeomorphic feedbacks in Chile. CATENA, 216, Art.-Nr.: 106364. doi:10.1016/j.catena.2022.106364
Labenski, P.; Ewald, M.; Schmidtlein, S.; Fassnacht, F. E. (2022). Classifying surface fuel types based on forest stand photographs and satellite time series using deep learning. International journal of applied earth observation and geoinformation, 109, Article no: 102799. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2022.102799
Fassnacht, F. E.; Müllerová, J.; Conti, L.; Malavasi, M.; Schmidtlein, S. (2022). About the link between biodiversity and spectral variation. Applied vegetation science, 25 (1), e12643. doi:10.1111/avsc.12643
2021
Feilhauer, H.; Zlinszky, A.; Kania, A.; Foody, G. M.; Doktor, D.; Lausch, A.; Schmidtlein, S. (2021). Let your maps be fuzzy!—Class probabilities and floristic gradients as alternatives to crisp mapping for remote sensing of vegetation. (K. He & M. Disney, Eds.) Remote sensing in ecology and conservation, 7 (2), 292–305. doi:10.1002/rse2.188
Schiefer, F.; Schmidtlein, S.; Kattenborn, T. (2021). The retrieval of plant functional traits from canopy spectra through RTM-inversions and statistical models are both critically affected by plant phenology. Ecological indicators, 121, Art.-Nr.: 107062. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107062
Gafna, D. J.; Obando, J. A.; Reichelt, M.; Schmidtlein, S.; Dolos, K. (2021). Medicinal service supply by wild plants in Samburu, Kenya: Comparisons among medicinal plant assemblages. Global Ecology and Conservation, 30, e01749. doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01749
Schiller, C.; Schmidtlein, S.; Boonman, C.; Moreno-Martínez, A.; Kattenborn Teja. (2021). Deep learning and citizen science enable automated plant trait predictions from photographs. Scientific Reports, 11 (1), Art.-Nr.: 16395. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-95616-0
Ferner, J.; Linstädter, A.; Rogass, C.; Südekum, K.-H.; Schmidtlein, S. (2021). Towards Forage Resource Monitoring in subtropical Savanna Grasslands: going multispectral or hyperspectral?. European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54 (1), 364–384. doi:10.1080/22797254.2021.1934556
2020
Schiefer, F.; Kattenborn, T.; Frick, A.; Frey, J.; Schall, P.; Koch, B.; Schmidtlein, S. (2020). Mapping forest tree species in high resolution UAV-based RGB-imagery by means of convolutional neural networks. ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 170, 205–215. doi:10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.10.015
Kattenborn, T.; Eichel, J.; Wiser, S.; Burrows, L.; Fassnacht, F. E.; Schmidtlein, S. (2020). Convolutional Neural Networks accurately predict cover fractions of plant species and communities in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle imagery. Remote sensing in ecology and conservation, 6 (4), 472–486. doi:10.1002/rse2.146
Senn, J. A.; Fassnacht, F. E.; Eichel, J.; Seitz, S.; Schmidtlein, S. (2020). A new concept for estimating the influence of vegetation on throughfall kinetic energy using aerial laser scanning. Earth surface processes and landforms, 45 (7), 1487–1498. doi:10.1002/esp.4820
Ewald, M.; Skowronek, S.; Aerts, R.; Lenoir, J.; Feilhauer, H.; Van De Kerchove, R.; Honnay, O.; Somers, B.; Garzón-López, C. X.; Rocchini, D.; Schmidtlein, S. (2020). Assessing the impact of an invasive bryophyte on plant species richness using high resolution imaging spectroscopy. Ecological indicators, 110, Art.-Nr.: 105882. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105882
2019
Kattenborn, T.; Schmidtlein, S. (2019). Radiative transfer modelling reveals why canopy reflectance follows function. Scientific reports, 9 (1), Article: 6541. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-43011-1
Lopatin, J.; Kattenborn, T.; Galleguillos, M.; Perez-Quezada, J. F.; Schmidtlein, S. (2019). Using aboveground vegetation attributes as proxies for mapping peatland belowground carbon stocks. Remote sensing of environment, 231, 111217. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2019.111217
Kattenborn, T.; Schiefer, F.; Zarco-Tejada, P.; Schmidtlein, S. (2019). Advantages of retrieving pigment content [μg/cm 2 ] versus concentration [%] from canopy reflectance. Remote sensing of environment, 230, Art. Nr.: 111195. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2019.05.014
Kattenborn, T.; Fassnacht, F. E.; Schmidtlein, S. (2019). Differentiating plant functional types using reflectance: which traits make the difference?. Remote sensing in ecology and conservation, 5 (1), 5–19. doi:10.1002/rse2.86
2018
Ewald, M.; Skowronek, S.; Aerts, R.; Dolos, K.; Lenoir, J.; Nicolas, M.; Warrie, J.; Hattab, T.; Feilhauer, H.; Honnay, O.; Garzón-López, C. X.; Decocq, G.; Van De Kerchove, R.; Somers, B.; Rocchini, D.; Schmidtlein, S. (2018). Analyzing remotely sensed structural and chemical canopy traits of a forest invaded by Prunus serotina over multiple spatial scales. Biological invasions, 20 (8), 2257–2271. doi:10.1007/s10530-018-1700-9
Rocchini, D.; Luque, S.; Pettorelli, N.; Bastin, L.; Doktor, D.; Faedi, N.; Feilhauer, H.; Féret, J.-B.; Foody, G. M.; Gavish, Y.; Godinho, S.; Kunin, W. E.; Lausch, A.; Leitão, P. J.; Marcantonio, M.; Neteler, M.; Ricotta, C.; Schmidtlein, S.; Vihervaara, P.; Wegmann, M.; Nagendra, H. (2018). Measuring β-diversity by remote sensing: A challenge for biodiversity monitoring. (F. Parrini, Ed.) Methods in ecology and evolution, 9 (8), 1787–1798. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12941
Skowronek, S.; Van De Kerchove, R.; Rombouts, B.; Aerts, R.; Ewald, M.; Warrie, J.; Schiefer, F.; Garzon-Lopez, C.; Hattab, T.; Honnay, O.; Lenoir, J.; Rocchini, D.; Schmidtlein, S.; Somers, B.; Feilhauer, H. (2018). Transferability of species distribution models for the detection of an invasive alien bryophyte using imaging spectroscopy data. International journal of applied earth observation and geoinformation, 68, 61–72. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2018.02.001
Rocchini, D.; Bacaro, G.; Chirici, G.; Da Re, D.; Feilhauer, H.; Foody, G. M.; Galluzzi, M.; Garzon-Lopez, C. X.; Gillespie, T. W.; He, K. S.; Lenoir, J.; Marcantonio, M.; Nagendra, H.; Ricotta, C.; Rommel, E.; Schmidtlein, S.; Skidmore, A. K.; Kerchove, R. V. D.; Wegmann, M.; Rugani, B. (2018). Remotely sensed spatial heterogeneity as an exploratory tool for taxonomic and functional diversity study. Ecological indicators, 85, 983–990. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.09.055
Ferner, J.; Schmidtlein, S.; Guuroh, R. T.; Lopatin, J.; Linstädter, A. (2018). Disentangling effects of climate and land-use change on West African drylands’ forage supply. Global environmental change, 53, 24–38. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.08.007
Ewald, M.; Aerts, R.; Lenoir, J.; Fassnacht, F. E.; Nicolas, M.; Skowronek, S.; Piat, J.; Honnay, O.; Garzón-López, C. X.; Feilhauer, H.; Van De Kerchove, R.; Somers, B.; Hattab, T.; Rocchini, D.; Schmidtlein, S. (2018). LiDAR derived forest structure data improves predictions of canopy N and P concentrations from imaging spectroscopy. Remote sensing of environment, 211, 13–25. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.038
Guuroh, R. T.; Ruppert, J. C.; Ferner, J.; Canak, K.; Schmidtlein, S.; Linstaedter, A. (2018). Drivers of forage provision and erosion control in West African savannas : A macroecological perspective. Agriculture, ecosystems & environment, 251, 257–267. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2017.09.017
2017
Baur, P. A.; Egger, G.; Lautsch, E.; Schmidtlein, S. (2017). Ecology and development of Typha minima illustrated by a re-introduced population at the Upper Drava River (Austria) [Ökologie und Entwicklung des Zwerg-Rohrkolbens (Typha minima) dargestellt am Beispiel der wieder eingebürgerten Population an der Oberen Drau (Österreich)]. Tuexenia, 37 (1), 163–177. doi:10.14471/2017.37.003
Lopatin, J.; Faßnacht, F. E.; Kattenborn, T.; Schmidtlein, S. (2017). Mapping plant species in mixed grassland communities using close range imaging spectroscopy. Remote sensing of environment, 201, 12–23. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.08.031
Stenzel, S.; Fassnacht, F. E.; Mack, B.; Schmidtlein, S. (2017). Identification of high nature value grassland with remote sensing and minimal field data. Ecological indicators, 74, 28–38. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.11.005
Schmidt, J.; Fassnacht, F. E.; Neff, C.; Lausch, A.; Kleinschmit, B.; Förster, M.; Schmidtlein, S. (2017). Adapting a Natura 2000 field guideline for a remote sensing-based assessment of heathland conservation status. International journal of applied earth observation and geoinformation, 60, 61–71. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2017.04.005
Hattab, T.; Garzón-López, C. X.; Ewald, M.; Skowronek, S.; Aerts, R.; Horen, H.; Brasseur, B.; Gallet-Moron, E.; Spicher, F.; Decocq, G.; Feilhauer, H.; Honnay, O.; Kempeneers, P.; Schmidtlein, S.; Somers, B.; Van De Kerchove, R.; Rocchini, D.; Lenoir, J. (2017). A unified framework to model the potential and realized distributions of invasive species within the invaded range. Diversity & distributions, 23 (7), 806–819. doi:10.1111/ddi.12566
Kattenborn, T.; Fassnacht, F. E.; Pierce, S.; Lopatin, J.; Grime, J. P.; Schmidtlein, S. (2017). Linking plant strategies and plant traits derived by radiative transfer modelling. Journal of vegetation science, 28 (4), 717–727. doi:10.1111/jvs.12525
Eichel, J.; Draebing, D.; Klingbeil, L.; Wieland, M.; Eling, C.; Schmidtlein, S.; Kuhlmann, H.; Dikau, R. (2017). Solifluction meets vegetation : The role of biogeomorphic feedbacks for turf-banked solifluction lobe development. Earth surface processes and landforms, 42 (11), 1623–1635. doi:10.1002/esp.4102
Aerts, R.; Ewald, M.; Nicolas, M.; Piat, J.; Skowronek, S.; Lenoir, J.; Hattab, T.; Garzón-López, C. X.; Feilhauer, H.; Schmidtlein, S.; Rocchini, D.; Decocq, G.; Somers, B.; Van De Kerchove, R.; Denef, K.; Honnay, O. (2017). Invasion by the Alien Tree Prunus serotina Alters Ecosystem Functions in a Temperate Deciduous Forest. Frontiers in plant science, 8, Art. Nr. 179. doi:10.3389/fpls.2017.00179
Schmidtlein, S.; Fassnacht, F. E. (2017). The spectral variability hypothesis does not hold across landscapes. Remote sensing of environment, 192, 114–125. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.01.036
Schmidt, J.; Fassnacht, F. E.; Lausch, A.; Schmidtlein, S. (2017). Assessing the functional signature of heathland landscapes via hyperspectral remote sensing. Ecological indicators, 73, 505–512. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.10.017
Skowronek, S.; Ewald, M.; Isermann, M.; Kerchove, R. van de; Lenoir, J.; Aerts, R.; Warrie, J.; Hattab, T.; Honnay, O.; Schmidtlein, S.; Rocchini, D.; Somers, B.; Feilhauer, H. (2017). Mapping an invasive bryophyte species using hyperspectral remote sensing data. Biological invasions, 19 (1), 239–254. doi:10.1007/s10530-016-1276-1
2016
Lausch, A.; Bannehr, L.; Beckmann, M.; Boehm, C.; Feilhauer, H.; Hacker, J. M.; Heurichr, M.; Jung, A.; Klenke, R.; Neumann, C.; Pause, M.; Rocchini, D.; Schaepman, M. E.; Schmidtlein, S.; Schulz, K.; Selsam, P.; Settele, J.; Skidmore, A. K.; Cord, A. F. (2016). Linking Earth Observation and taxonomic, structural and functional biodiversity: Local to ecosystem perspectives. Ecological indicators, 70 (SI), 317–339. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.06.022
Neumann, C.; Itzerott, S.; Weiss, G.; Kleinschmit, B.; Schmidtlein, S. (2016). Mapping multiple plant species abundance patterns : A multiobjective optimization procedure for combining reflectance spectroscopy and species ordination. Ecological informatics, 36, 61–76. doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2016.10.002
Mack, B.; Roscher, R.; Stenzel, S.; Feilhauer, H.; Schmidtlein, S.; Waske, B. (2016). Mapping raised bogs with an iterative one-class classification approach. ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 120, 53–64. doi:10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2016.07.008
Feilhauer, H.; Doktor, D.; Schmidtlein, S.; Skidmore, A. K. (2016). Mapping pollination types with remote sensing. Journal of vegetation science, 27 (5), 999–1011. doi:10.1111/jvs.12421
Maringer, J.; Ascoli, D.; Kueffer, N.; Schmidtlein, S.; Conedera, M. (2016). What drives European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) mortality after forest fires of varying severity?. Forest ecology and management, 368, 81–93. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2016.03.008
2015
Baur, P. A.; Egger, G.; Lautsch, E.; Schmidtlein, S. (2015). Artenschutzprojekt Zwerg-Rohrkolben (Typha minima Funck ex Hoppe): Die Wiederansiedlung im Europaschutzgebiet Obere Drau in Kärnten (Österreich). Carinthia / 2, 125 (205), 503–536.
Neumann, C.; Weiss, G.; Schmidtlein, S.; Itzerott, S.; Lausch, A.; Doktor, D.; Brell, M. (2015). Gradient-based assessment of habitat quality for spectral ecosystem monitoring. Remote sensing, 7 (3), 2871–2898. doi:10.3390/rs70302871
De Caceres, M.; Chytry, M.; Agrillo, E.; Attorre, F.; Botta-Dukat, Z.; Capelo, J.; Czucz, B.; Dengler, J.; Ewald, J.; Faber-Langendoen, D.; Feoli, E.; Franklin, S. B.; Gavilan, R.; Gillet, F.; Jansen, F.; Jimenez-Alfaro, B.; Krestov, P.; Landucci, F.; Lengyel, A.; Loidi, J.; Mucina, L.; Peet, R. K.; Roberts, D. W.; Rolecek, J.; Schaminee, J. H. J.; Schmidtlein, S.; Theurillat, J.-P.; Tichy, L.; Walker, D. A.; Wildi, O.; Willner, W.; Wiser, S. K. (2015). A comparative framework for broad-scale plot-based vegetation classification. Applied vegetation science, 18 (4), 543–560. doi:10.1111/avsc.12179
2014
Feilhauer, H.; Dahlke, C.; Doktor, D.; Lausch, A.; Schmidtlein, S.; Schulz, G.; Stenzel, S. (2014). Mapping the local variability of Natura 2000 habitats with remote sensing. Applied Vegetation Science, 17 (4), 765–779. doi:10.1111/avsc.12115
Schmidtlein, S.; Faude, U.; Stenzel, S.; Feilhauer, H. (2014). Remote Sensing of Vegetation for Nature Conservation. Land Use and Land Cover Mapping in Europe - Practices & Trends. Ed.: I. Manakos, 203–215, Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7969-3_13
Stenzel, S.; Feilhauer, H.; Mack, B.; Metz, A.; Schmidtlein, S. (2014). Remote sensing of scattered natura 2000 habitats using a one-class classifier. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 33 (1), 211–217. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2014.05.012
Mockel, T.; Dalmayne, J.; Prentice, H. C.; Eklundh, L.; Purschke, O.; Schmidtlein, S.; Hall, K. (2014). Classification of Grassland Successional Stages Using Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery. Remote sensing, 6 (8), 7732–7761. doi:10.3390/rs6087732
Hein, N.; Feilhauer, H.; Finch, O.-D.; Schmidtlein, S.; Löffler, J. (2014). Snow cover determines the ecology and biogeography of spiders (araneae) in alpine tundra ecosystems. Erdkunde, 68 (3), 157–172. doi:10.3112/erdkunde.2014.03.01
Reu, B.; Zaehle, S.; Bohn, K.; Pavlick, R.; Schmidtlein, S.; Williams, J. W.; Kleidon, A. (2014). Future no-analogue vegetation produced by no-analogue combinations of temperature and insolation. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23 (2), 156–167. doi:10.1111/geb.12110
2013
Meyn, A.; Schmidtlein, S.; Taylor, S. W.; Girardin, M. P.; Thonicke, K.; Cramer, W. (2013). Precipitation-driven decrease in wildfires in British Columbia. Regional environmental change, 13 (1), 165–177. doi:10.1007/s10113-012-0319-0
Eichel, J.; Krautblatter, M.; Schmidtlein, S.; Dikau, R. (2013). Biogeomorphic interactions in the Turtmann glacier forefield, Switzerland. Geomorphology, 201, 98–110. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.06.012
Schmidtlein, S.; Faude, U.; Rössler, O.; Feilhauer, H.; Ewald, J.; Meyn, A.; Schmidt, J. (2013). Differences between recent and historical records of upper species limits in the northern European Alps. Erdkunde, 67 (4), 345–354. doi:10.3112/erdkunde.2013.04.04
Rocchini, D.; Delucchi, L.; Bacaro, G.; Cavallini, P.; Feilhauer, H.; Foody, G. M.; He, K. S.; Nagendra, H.; Porta, C.; Ricotta, C.; Schmidtlein, S.; Spano, L. D.; Wegmann, M.; Neteler, M. (2013). Calculating landscape diversity with information-theory based indices: A GRASS GIS solution. Ecological Informatics, 17, 82–93. doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2012.04.002
2012
Schmidtlein, S.; Feilhauer, H.; Bruelheide, H. (2012). Mapping plant strategy types using remote sensing. Journal of vegetation science, 23 (3), 395–405. doi:10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01370.x
Maaten, L. van der; Schmidtlein, S.; Mahecha, M. D. (2012). Analyzing floristic inventories with multiple maps. Ecological informatics, 9, 1–10. doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2012.01.005
2011
Feilhauer, H.; Faude, U.; Schmidtlein, S. (2011). Combining Isomap ordination and imaging spectroscopy to map continuous floristic gradients in a heterogeneous landscape. Remote sensing of environment, 115 (10), 2513–2524. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.05.011
Reu, B.; Proulx, R.; Bohn, K.; Dyke, J. G.; Kleidon, A.; Pavlick, R.; Schmidtlein, S. (2011). The role of climate and plant functional trade-offs in shaping global biome and biodiversity patterns. Global ecology and biogeography, 20, 570–581. doi:10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00621.x
Feilhauer, H.; Schmidtlein, S. (2011). On variable relations between vegetation patterns and canopy reflectance. Ecological informatics, 6, 83–92. doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2010.12.004
Heubes, J.; Retzer, V.; Schmidtlein, S.; Beierkuhnlein, C. (2011). Historical Land Use Explains Current Distribution of Calcareous Grassland Species. Folia geobotanica, 46, 1–16. doi:10.1007/s12224-010-9090-5
Reu, B.; Zaehle, S.; Proulx, R.; Bohn, K.; Kleidon, A.; Pavlick, R.; Schmidtlein, S. (2011). The role of plant functional trade-offs for biodiversity changes and biome shifts under scenarios of global climatic change. Biogeosciences, 8, 1255–1266. doi:10.5194/bg-8-1255-2011
2010
Schmidtlein, S.; Tichy, L.; Feilhauer, H.; Faude, U. (2010). A brute-force approach to vegetation classification. Journal of vegetation science, 21 (6), 1162–1171. doi:10.1111/j.1654-1103.2010.01221.x
Feilhauer, H.; Asner, G. P.; Martin, R. E.; Schmidtlein, S. (2010). Brightness-normalized Partial Least Squares Regression for hyperspectral data. Journal of quantitative spectroscopy & radiative transfer, 111 (11-12), 1947–1957. doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2010.03.007
Feilhauer, H.; Oerke, E.-C.; Schmidtlein, S. (2010). Quantifying empirical relations between planted species mixtures and canopy reflectance with PROTEST. Remote sensing of environment, 114 (7), 1513–1521. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2010.02.006
Meyn, A.; Schmidtlein, S.; Taylor, S. W.; Girardin, M. P.; Thonicke, K.; Cramer, W. (2010). Spatial variation of trends in wildfire and summer drought in British Columbia, Canada, 1920-2000. International journal of wildland fire, 19 (3), 272–283. doi:10.1071/wf09055
Faude, U.; Feilhauer, H.; Schmidtlein, S. (2010). Estimating the impact of forest use on biodiversity in protected areas of developing tropical regions. Erdkunde, 64 (1), 47–56. doi:10.3112/erdkunde.2010.01.04
2009
Rödder, D.; Schmidtlein, S.; Veith, M.; Lötters, S. (2009). Alien Invasive Slider Turtle in Unpredicted Habitat: A Matter of Niche Shift or of Predictors Studied?. PLOS ONE, 4 (11), Article no: e7843. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007843
Feilhauer, H.; Schmidtlein, S. (2009). Mapping continuous fields of forest alpha and beta diversity. Applied vegetation science, 12 (4), 429–439. doi:10.1111/j.1654-109x.2009.01037.x
Lötters, S.; Kielgast, J.; Bielby, J.; Schmidtlein, S.; Bosch, J.; Veith, M.; Walker, S. F.; Fisher, M. C.; Rödder, D. (2009). The Link Between Rapid Enigmatic Amphibian Decline and the Globally Emerging Chytrid Fungus. EcoHealth, 6, 358–372. doi:10.1007/s10393-010-0281-6
Rödder, D.; Kielgast, J.; Bielby, J.; Schmidtlein, S.; Bosch, J.; Garner, T. W. J.; Veith, M.; Walker, S. F.; Fisher, M. C.; Lötters, S. (2009). Global Amphibian Extinction Risk Assessment for the Panzootic Chytrid Fungus. Diversity, 1 (1), 52–66. doi:10.3390/d1010052
2008
Mahecha, M. D.; Schmidtlein, S. (2008). Revealing biogeographical patterns by nonlinear ordinations and derived anisotropic spatial filters. Global ecology and biogeography, 17 (2), 284–296. doi:10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00368.x
Schmidtlein, S.; Zimmermann, P. (2008). Klassenlose Kartierung von Vegetationsmustern. Natur und Landschaft, 11, 494–497.
2007
Schmidtlein, S.; Weiß, C.; Zimmermann, P.; Schüpferling, R. (2007). Mapping the floristic continuum: Ordination space position estimated from imaging spectroscopy. Journal of vegetation science, 18 (1), 131–140. doi:10.1111/j.1654-1103.2007.tb02523.x
2005
Schmidtlein, S. (2005). Imaging spectroscopy as a tool for mapping Ellenberg indicator values. Journal of applied ecology, 42 (5), 966–974. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01064.x
2004
Schmidtlein, S.; Sassin, J. (2004). Mapping of continuous floristic gradients in grasslands using hyperspectral imagery. Remote sensing of environment, 92 (1), 126–138. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2004.05.004
Schmidtlein, S. (2004). Coarse-scale substrate mapping using plant functional response types. Erdkunde, 58 (2), 137–156. doi:10.3112/erdkunde.2004.02.03
2003
Schmidtlein, S. (2003). Raster-based detection of vegetation patterns at landscape scale levels. Phytocoenologia, 33, 603–621. doi:10.1127/0340-269x/2003/0033-0603
Schmidtlein, S.; Ewald, J. (2003). Landscape patterns of indicator plants for soil acidity in the Bavarian Alps. Journal of biogeography, 30 (10), 1493–1503. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.00879.x
1986
Schmidtlein, S. (1986). Neufund von Hierochloe odorata (L.)P.B. in der Wahner Heide und weitere bemerkenswerte Pflanzennachweise. Decheniana, 139, 204.
Curriculum Vitae
Professional experience
| 2013 - | Full Professor of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
| 2006 - 2013 | Professor of Vegetation Geography, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn |
| 2002 - 2006 | Research Associate; Universität Bayreuth, Chair of Biogeography |
| 2001 - 2002 | Research Associate; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Chair of Geographical Remote Sensing |
| 1986 - 2000 | Freelancer in landscape planning and habitat mapping |
Education
| 2006 | Habilitation in Geography, Universität Hamburg |
| 2000 | PhD, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, topic: "On the assessment of vegetation patterns at the landscape level" |
| 1994 | Diploma in Physical Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
Community Service
Associate editor: Applied Vegetation Science, Journal of Vegetation Science, advisory board Erdkunde, steering committee of the Ecoinformatics Working Group (International Association of Vegetation Science), referee for Biology Letters, Botanica Helvetica, Ecological Informatics, Ecological Modelling, Geoarchaeology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Journal of Biogeography, Mountain Research and Development, Remote Sensing of Environment, Folia Geobotanica and others
2014
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Stenzel, S.; Schmidtlein, S. (2014). Multisaisonale Datenreihen in der FFH-Kartierung - Ergebnisse des Verbundprojekts MSAVE. BfN-Skripten, 388, 36–45.
2010
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Schmidtlein, S.; Franz, H.; Huber, D. (2010). Klimawandelszenarien für Schutzgebiete - Veränderungen potentieller Wuchsgebiete von Gefäßpflanzen im Nationalpark Berchtesgaden. Biologische Vielfalt und Klimawandel. Hrsg.: C. Epple, 70–71, Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN).
2009
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Schmidtlein, S.; Weiß, C. (2009). Integration von kontinuierlichen und diskreten FFH - Lebensraumkartierungen per Fernerkundung. BfN-Skripten, 249, 105–106.
2003
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Rödl, T.; Schmidtlein, S. (2003). Biogeographie der deutschen Alpen. Nationalatlas Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Tl. 3. Klima, Pflanzen- und Tierwelt Hrsg.: M. Kappas, 118–119, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.
1989
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Schmidtlein, S. (1989). Die Flora und Vegetation der Wahner Heide. Die Wahner Heide. Hrsg.: Interkommunaler Arbeitskreis Wahner Heide, 123–155, Rheinland-Verlag.
1985
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Schmidtlein, S.; Gorissen, I.; Pechau, M. (1985). Bemerkungen zur Flora der Wahner Heide. Göttinger Floristische Rundbriefe, 19 (1), 54–57.