Working Group Quantitative Landscape Ecology

Dr. Jurg W. Spaak

Address

Building I, Room 2.02
Fortstr. 7
76829 Landau

Contact

Tel.: +49 6341 280 31553
E-Mail: j.spaak (at) rptu.de

Website: jwspaak.com

Function

  • Substitute professorship AG Quantitative Landscape Ecology

Additional Information

  • Modern coexistence theory
  • Understanding coexistence in multi-species and multi-trophic communities Theoretical Ecology Trait based competition models
  • Investigation of coexistence in plankton communities using neural networks
  • Environmental Modelling I - III
  • Exposure Modelling
  • Effect Modelling
since 04.2024Substitute professorship AG Quantitative Landscape Ecology
09.2022 - 03.2024Scientific researcher in the group of Quantitative Landscape Ecology at the University Koblenz Landau, Campus Landau
03.2021 - 09.2022SNF early PostDoc mobility, independent researcher at Cornell University, USA
12.2020 - 02.2021Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Namur, Belgium
10.2016 - 11.2020PhD in ecology at the University of Namur, Belgium
09.2013 - 02.2016Master in mathematics at ETH Zürich, Switzerland
09.2010 - 07.2015Bachelor in mathematics at ETH Zürich, Switzerland

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A list of my first author publications, for the full list see : https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=hOyLv_8AAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao

  • Trophic tug-of-war: Coexistence mechanisms within and across trophic levels. C. Song, J.W. Spaak, Ecology letters 2024
  • Building modern coexistence theory from the ground up: The role of community assembly, J.W. Spaak, SJ Schreiber, Ecology letters 2023
  • Continuous assembly required: Perpetual species turnover in two‐trophic‐level ecosystems J.W. Spaak, PB Adler, SP Ellner, 2023 Ecosphere
  • Mechanistic models of trophic interactions: opportunities for species richness and challenges for modern coexistence theory, J.W. Spaak, PB Adler, SP Ellner. The American Naturalist 2023
  • The effect of non-linear competitive interactions on quantifying niche and fitness differences, J.W. Spaak, R Millet, PJ Ke, AD Letten, F De Laender, Theoretical Ecology 2023
  • Different measures of niche and fitness differences tell different tales, JW Spaak, PJ Ke, AD Letten, F De Laender, Oikos 2023
  • Niche differences, not fitness differences, explain predicted coexistence across ecological groups, L Buche, JW Spaak, J Jarillo, F De Laender, Oikos 2022
  • Species richness increases fitness differences, but does not affect niche differences, JW Spaak, C Carpentier, F De Laender
  • Ecology Letters, 2021
  • Mapping species niche and fitness differences for communities with multiple interaction types, JW Spaak, O Godoy, F De Laender, Oikos 2021
  • Effects of pigment richness and size variation on coexistence, richness and function in light‐limited phytoplankton, JW Spaak, F De Laender, Journal of Ecology 2021
  • Intuitive and broadly applicable definitions of niche and fitness differences JW Spaak, F De Laender, Ecology Letters, 2020
  • Shifts of community composition and population density substantially affect ecosystem function despite invariant richness, Jurg W Spaak, Jan M Baert, Donald J Baird, Nico Eisenhauer, Lorraine Maltby, Francesco Pomati, Viktoriia Radchuk, Jason R Rohr, Paul J Van den Brink, Frederik De Laender Ecology Letters 2017