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Dr. Stefan Kaufmann

 Stefan Kaufmann  

 

Research interests

1) Plant ecology

2) Diversity of vascular plants and cryptogams (bryophytes and lichens)

3) Factors influencing plant diversity in temperate forest ecosystems 

4) Effects of forest management on plant diversity

5) Natural forest dynamics

  

Curriculum vitae

Since 2018

Research Assistant (Akademischer Rat) at the Chair of Applied Vegetation Ecology, University Freiburg

 

2013 – 2018

PhD study at the Department of Plant Ecology, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen

Degree obtained: Dr. rer. nat.

 

2010 – 2012

Study of botany at the University of Graz (Austria)

Degree obtained: Mag. rer. nat.

 

2005 – 2010

Study of biodiversity and ecology at the University of Graz (Austria)

Degree obtained: Bakk. rer. nat.

 

Publications

  • Kaufmann, S., Delp, M., Heinze, D., Kreimeyer, L., Rosenbach, M., & Hauck, M. (2026). Tree species choice by forest management and biodiversity: Replacing Abies alba by Picea abies and Pseudotsuga menziesii drives epiphytes to higher elevations. Forest Ecology and Management, 605, 123501. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123501
  • Bärmann, L., Kaufmann, S., Klingenfuss, S., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., & Hauck, M. (2025). The Presence of alternative tree species in European beech forests drives change in functional diversity and composition of forest floor plant communities. Journal of Vegetation Science, 36(4), e70058. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.70058
  • Möller, T., Kaufmann, S., Hauck, M. (2025). Tree, stand, and landscape scale effects on epiphytic lichen and bryophyte diversity in temperate mountain forests. Forest Ecology and Management: 122967.
  • Emrich, D., Gustafsson, L., Kaufmann, S., Hauck, M. (2025). Tree species identity modifies the efficiency of habitat tree retention for conserving epiphytes in temperate mountain forests. Forest Ecology and Management 585: 122616. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122616
  • Emrich, D., Kaufmann, S., Hauck, M. (2025). Selecting dominant or rare tree species as habitat trees: consequences for epiphyte diversity in temperate mountain forests. Trees, Forests and People 20:100807, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2025.100807

  • Bärmann, L., Kaufmann, S., Hauck, M. (2025). Climate change adaption of European beech forests: silver fir admixtures drive understorey plant diversity. Forest Ecology and Management 579: 100807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2025.100807

  • Bärmann, L., Kaufmann, S., Weimann, S. & Hauck, M. (2023). Future forests and biodiversity: Effects of Douglas fir introduction into temperate beech foresst on plant diversity. Forest Ecology and Management, 545.
  • Kaufmann, S., Funck S.-K., Paintner F., Asbeck T., Hauck, M. (2021). The efficiency of retention measures in continuous-cover forestry for conserving epiphytic cryptogams: a case study on Abies alba. Forest Ecology and Management 502: 119698.
  • Kortmann, M., Müller, J. C., Baier, R., Bässler, C., Buse, J., Cholewińska, O., Förschler, M. I., Georgiev, K. B., Hilszczański, J., Jaroszewicz, B., Jaworski, T., Kaufmann, S., Kuijper, D., Lorz, J., Lotz, A., Łubek, A., Mayer, M., Mayerhofer, S., Meyer, S., … Thorn, S. (2021). Ecology versus society: Impacts of bark beetle infestations on biodiversity and restorativeness in protected areas of Central Europe. Biological Conservation, 254, 108931.
  • Kaufmann, S., Hauck, M. & Leuschner, C. (2019). Vertical variation in epiphytic cryptogam species richness and composition in a primeval Fagus sylvatica forest. Journal of Vegetation Science, 30: 881-892. 
  • Kaufmann, S., Hauck, M. & Leuschner, C. (2018). Effects of natural forest dynamics on vascular plant, bryophyte, and lichen diversity in primeval Fagus sylvatica forests and comparison with production forests. Journal of Ecology, 106: 2421-2434.
  • Kaufmann, S., Hauck, M. & Leuschner, C. (2017). Comparing the plant diversity of paired beech primeval and production forests: Management reduces cryptogam, but not vascular plant species richness. Forest Ecology and Management, 400: 58-67.
  • Kaufmann, S. & Berg, C. (2014). Bryophyte ecology and conservation in the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus. Herzogia, 27: 165-187.