Dr. Carsten Meyer

Senior Scientist

Affiliationen

Universität Leipzig

Adresse

Puschstraße 4
04103 Leipzig

Raum: A.03.02

Kontakt

iDiv Publikationen

Publikationen 2024

Arlé, Eduardo, Knight, Tiffany Marie, Jiménez-Muñoz, Marina, Biancolini, Dino, Belmaker, Jonathan, Meyer, Carsten (2024): The cumulative niche approach: A framework to assess the performance of ecological niche model projections. Ecology and Evolution

Henry, Etienne G., Santini, Luca, Butchart, Stuart H. M., González-Suárez, Manuela, Lucas, Pablo M., Benítez-López, Ana, Mancini, Giordano, Jung, Martin, Cardoso, Pedro, Zizka, Alexander, Meyer, Carsten, Akçakaya, H. Reşit, Berryman, Alex J., Cazalis, Victor, Di Marco, Moreno (2024): Modelling the probability of meeting IUCN Red List criteria to support reassessments. Global Change Biology

Parente, Leandro, Sloat, Lindsey, Mesquita, Vinicius, Consoli, Davide, Stanimirova, Radost, Hengl, Tomislav, Bonannella, Carmelo, Teles, Nathália, Wheeler, Ichsani, Hunter, Maria, Ehrmann, Steffen, Ferreira, Laerte, Mattos, Ana Paula, Oliveira, Bernard, Meyer, Carsten, Şahin, Murat, Witjes, Martijn, Fritz, Steffen, Malek, Ziga, Stolle, Fred (2024): Annual 30-m maps of global grassland class and extent (2000–2022) based on spatiotemporal Machine Learning. Sci Data

Publikationen 2023

Fischer, Julia, Egli, Lukas, Groth, Juliane, Barrasso, Caterina, Ehrmann, Steffen, Figgemeier, Heiko, Henzen, Christin, Meyer, Carsten, Müller-Pfefferkorn, Ralph, Rümmler, Arne, Wagner, Michael, Bernard, Lars, Seppelt, Ralf (2023): Approaches and tools for user-driven provenance and data quality information in spatial data infrastructures. International Journal of Digital Earth

McGeoch, Melodie A., Buba, Yehezkel, Arlé, Eduardo, Belmaker, Jonathan, Clarke, David A., Jetz, Walter, Li, Richard, Seebens, Hanno, Essl, Franz, Groom, Quentin, García-Berthou, Emili, Lenzner, Bernd, Meyer, Carsten, Vicente, Joana R., Wilson, John R. U., Winter, Marten (2023): Invasion trends: An interpretable measure of change is needed to support policy targets. Conservation Letters

Publikationen 2022

Alexandridis, Nikolaos, Marion, Glenn, Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca, Dainese, Matteo, Ekroos, Johan, Grab, Heather, Jonsson, Mattias, Karp, Daniel S., Meyer, Carsten, O\’Rourke, Megan E., Pontarp, Mikael, Poveda, Katja, Seppelt, Ralf, Smith, Henrik G., Walters, Richard J., Clough, Yann, Martin, Emily A. (2022): Archetype models upscale understanding of natural pest control response to land-use change. Ecological Applications

Bach, Wilhelmine, Kreft, Holger, Craven, Dylan, König, Christian, Schrader, Julian, Taylor, Amanda, Dawson, Wayne, Essl, Franz, Lenzner, Bernd, Marx, Hannah E., Meyer, Carsten, Pergl, Jan, Pyšek, Petr, van Kleunen, Mark, Winter, Marten, Weigelt, Patrick (2022): Phylogenetic composition of native island floras influences naturalized alien species richness. Ecography

Cazalis, Victor, Di Marco, Moreno, Butchart, Stuart H. M., Akçakaya, H. Reşit, González-Suárez, Manuela, Meyer, Carsten, Clausnitzer, Viola, Böhm, Monika, Zizka, Alexander, Cardoso, Pedro, Schipper, Aafke M., Bachman, Steven P., Young, Bruce E., Hoffmann, Michael, Benítez-López, Ana, Lucas, Pablo M., Pettorelli, Nathalie, Patoine, Guillaume, Pacifici, Michela, Jörger-Hickfang, Theresa, Brooks, Thomas M., Rondinini, Carlo, Hill, Samantha L. L., Visconti, Piero, Santini, Luca (2022): Bridging the research-implementation gap in IUCN Red List assessments. Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Pacheco, Andrea, Meyer, Carsten (2022): Land tenure drives Brazil’s deforestation rates across socio-environmental contexts. Nature Communications

Publikationen 2021

Alexandridis, Nikolaos, Marion, Glenn, Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca, Dainese, Matteo, Ekroos, Johan, Grab, Heather, Jonsson, Mattias, Karp, Daniel S., Meyer, Carsten, O\’Rourke, Megan E., Pontarp, Mikael, Poveda, Katja, Seppelt, Ralf, Smith, Henrik G., Martin, Emily A., Clough, Yann (2021): Models of natural pest control: Towards predictions across agricultural landscapes. Biological Control

Arlé, Eduardo, Zizka, Alexander, Keil, Petr, Winter, Marten, Essl, Franz, Knight, Tiffany Marie, Weigelt, Patrick, Jiménez-Muñoz, Marina, Meyer, Carsten (2021): bRacatus: A method to estimate the accuracy and biogeographical status of georeferenced biological data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Oliver, Ruth Y., Meyer, Carsten, Ranipeta, Ajay, Winner, Kevin, Jetz, Walter (2021): Global and national trends, gaps, and opportunities in documenting and monitoring species distributions. PLoS Biology

Perino, Andrea, Pereira, Henrique Miguel, Felipe-Lucia, Maria, Kim, HyeJin, Kühl, Hjalmar S., Marselle, Melissa R., Meya, Jasper N., Meyer, Carsten, Navarro, Laetitia M., van Klink, Roel, Albert, Georg, Barratt, Christopher D., Bruelheide, Helge, Cao, Yun, Chamoin, Ariane, Darbi, Marianne, Dornelas, Maria, Eisenhauer, Nico, Essl, Franz, Farwig, Nina, Förster, Johannes, Freyhof, Jörg, Geschke, Jonas, Gottschall, Felix, Guerra, Carlos A., Haase, Peter, Hickler, Thomas, Jacob, Ute, Kastner, Thomas, Korell, Lotte, Kühn, Ingolf, Lehmann, Gerlind U. C., Lenzner, Bernd, Marques, Alexandra, Motivans Švara, Elena, Quintero, Laura C., Pacheco, Andrea, Popp, Alexander, Rouet-Leduc, Julia, Schnabel, Florian, Siebert, Julia, Staude, Ingmar R., Trogisch, Stefan, Švara, Vid, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Pe’er, Guy, Raab, Kristina, Rakosy, Demetra, Vandewalle, Marie, Werner, Alexandra S., Wirth, Christian, Xu, Haigen, Yu, Dandan, Zinngrebe, Yves, Bonn, Aletta (2021): Biodiversity post-2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national-level implementation. Conservation Letters

Pouteau, Robin, Biurrun, Idoia, Brunel, Caroline, Chytrý, Milan, Dawson, Wayne, Essl, Franz, Fristoe, Trevor, Haveman, Rense, Hobohm, Carsten, Jansen, Florian, Kreft, Holger, Lenoir, Jonathan, Lenzner, Bernd, Meyer, Carsten, Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold, Pergl, Jan, Pyšek, Petr, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Thuiller, Wilfried, Weigelt, Patrick, Wohlgemuth, Thomas, Yang, Qiang, van Kleunen, Mark (2021): Potential alien ranges of European plants will shrink in the future, but less so for already naturalized than for not yet naturalized species. Diversity and Distributions

Pouteau, Robin, Brunel, Caroline, Dawson, Wayne, Essl, Franz, Kreft, Holger, Lenzner, Bernd, Meyer, Carsten, Pergl, Jan, Pyšek, Petr, Seebens, Hanno, Weigelt, Patrick, Winter, Marten, van Kleunen, Mark (2021): Environmental and socioeconomic correlates of extinction risk in endemic species. Diversity and Distributions

Pouteau, Robin, Thuiller, Wilfried, Hobohm, Carsten, Brunel, Caroline, Conn, Barry J., Dawson, Wayne, de Sá Dechoum, Michele, Ebel, Aleksandr L., Essl, Franz, Fragman-Sapir, Ori, Fristoe, Trevor, Jogan, Nejc, Kreft, Holger, Lenzner, Bernd, Meyer, Carsten, Pergl, Jan, Pyšek, Petr, Verkhozina, Alla, Weigelt, Patrick, Yang, Qiang, Zykova, Elena, Aćić, Svetlana, Agrillo, Emiliano, Attorre, Fabio, Bergamini, Ariel, Berg, Christian, Bergmeier, Erwin, Biurrun, Idoia, Boch, Steffen, Bonari, Gianmaria, Botta-Dukát, Zoltán, Bruelheide, Helge, Campos, Juan Antonio, Čarni, Andraž, Casella, Laura, Carranza, Maria Laura, Chytrý, Milan, Ćušterevska, Renata, De Sanctis, Michele, Dengler, Jürgen, Dimopoulos, Panayotis, Ejrnæs, Rasmus, Ewald, Jörg, Fanelli, Giuliano, Fernández-González, Federico, Gavilán, Rosario G., Gegout, Jean-Claude, Haveman, Rense, Isermann, Maike, Jandt, Ute, Jansen, Florian, Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja, Kavgacı, Ali, Khanina, Larisa, Knollová, Ilona, Kuzemko, Anna, Lebedeva, Maria, Lenoir, Jonathan, Lysenko, Tatiana, Marcenò, Corrado, Martynenko, Vasiliy, Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold, Pätsch, Ricarda, Pielech, Remigiusz, Rašomavičius, Valerijus, de Ronde, Iris, Ruprecht, Eszter, Rūsiņa, Solvita, Shirokikh, Pavel, Šibík, Jozef, Šilc, Urban, Stanisci, Angela, Stančić, Zvjezdana, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Swacha, Grzegorz, Dan Turtureanu, Pavel, Valachovič, Milan, Vassilev, Kiril, Yamalov, Sergey, van Kleunen, Mark (2021): Climate and socio-economic factors explain differences between observed and expected naturalization patterns of European plants around the world. Global Ecology and Biogeography

Publikationen 2020

Craven, Dylan, van der Sande, M. T., Meyer, Carsten, Gerstner, Katharina, Bennett, Joanne M., Giling, D. P., Hines, Jes, Phillips, Helen R. P., May, Felix, Bannar-Martin, K. H., Chase, Jonathan M., Keil, Petr (2020): A cross-scale assessment of productivity-diversity relationships. Global Ecology and Biogeography

Ehrmann, Steffen, Seppelt, Ralf, Meyer, Carsten (2020): Harmonise and integrate heterogeneous areal data with the R package arealDB. Environmental Modelling & Software

Leclère, David, Obersteiner, Michael, Barrett, Mike, Butchart, Stuart H. M., Chaudhary, Abhishek, De Palma, Adriana, DeClerck, Fabrice A. J., Di Marco, Moreno, Doelman, Jonathan C., Dürauer, Martina, Freeman, Robin, Harfoot, Michael, Hasegawa, Tomoko, Hellweg, Stefanie, Hilbers, Jelle P., Hill, Samantha L. L., Humpenöder, Florian, Jennings, Nancy, Krisztin, Tamás, Mace, Georgina M., Ohashi, Haruka, Popp, Alexander, Purvis, Andy, Schipper, Aafke M., Tabeau, Andrzej, Valin, Hugo, van Meijl, Hans, van Zeist, Willem-Jan, Visconti, Piero, Alkemade, Rob, Almond, Rosamunde, Bunting, Gill, Burgess, Neil D., Cornell, Sarah E., Di Fulvio, Fulvio, Ferrier, Simon, Fritz, Steffen, Fujimori, Shinichiro, Grooten, Monique, Harwood, Thomas, Havlík, Petr, Herrero, Mario, Hoskins, Andrew J., Jung, Martin, Kram, Tom, Lotze-Campen, Hermann, Matsui, Tetsuya, Meyer, Carsten, Nel, Deon, Newbold, Tim, Schmidt-Traub, Guido, Stehfest, Elke, Strassburg, Bernardo B. N., van Vuuren, Detlef P., Ware, Chris, Watson, James E. M., Wu, Wenchao, Young, Lucy (2020): Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy. Nature

Publikationen 2019

Jetz, W., McGeoch, M. A., Guralnick, R., Ferrier, S., Beck, J., Costello, M. J., Fernandez, M., Geller, G. N., Keil, Petr, Merow, C., Meyer, Carsten, Muller-Karger, F. E., Pereira, Henrique Miguel, Regan, E. C., Schmeller, D. S., Turak, E. (2019): Essential biodiversity variables for mapping and monitoring species populations. Nature Ecology & Evolution

Publikationen 2018

Egli, Lukas, Meyer, Carsten, Scherber, Christoph, Kreft, Holger, Tscharntke, Teja (2018): Winners and losers of national and global efforts to reconcile agricultural intensification and biodiversity conservation. Global Change Biology

Heck, Vera, Hoff, Holger, Wirsenius, Stefan, Meyer, Carsten, Kreft, Holger (2018): Land use options for staying within the Planetary Boundaries – Synergies and trade-offs between global and local sustainability goals. Global Environmental Change

Keil, Petr, MacDonald, A. Andrew M., Ramirez, Kelly S., Bennett, Joanne M., García-Peña, Gabriel E., Yguel, Benjamin, Bourgeois, Bérenger, Meyer, Carsten (2018): Macroecological and macroevolutionary patterns emerge in the universe of GNU/Linux operating systems. Ecography

Leclère, David, Obersteiner, Michael, Alkemade, Rob, Almond, Rosamunde, Barrett, Mike, Bunting, Gill, Burgess, Neil, H. M. Butchart, Stuart, Chaudhary, Abhishek, Cornell, Sarah, De Palma, Adriana, A. J. DeClerck, Fabrice, Di Fulvio, Fulvio, Di Marco, Moreno, Doelman, Jonathan, Dürauer, Martina, Ferrier, Simon, Freeman, Robin, Fritz, Steffen, Fujimori, S., Grooten, M., Harfoot, M., Harwood, T., Hasegawa, T., Havlik, P., Hellweg, S., Herrero, M., Hilbers, J., Hill, S., Hoskins, A., Humpenöder, F., Kram, T., Krisztin, T., Lotze-Campen, H., Mace, G., Matsui, T., Meyer, Carsten, Nel, D., Newbold, T., Ohashi, H., Popp, A., Purvis, A., Schipper, A., Schmidt-Traub, G., Stehfest, E., Strassburg, B., Tabeau, A., Valin, H., van Meijl, H., van Vuuren, D., van Zeist, W., Visconti, P., Ware, C., Watson, J., Wu, W., Young, Lucy (2018): Towards pathways bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity trends within the 21st century. IIASA

Newbold, T., Hudson, L. N., Contu, S., Hill, S. L. L., Beck, J., Liu, Y. H., Meyer, Carsten, Phillips, Helen R. P., Scharlemann, J. P. W., Purvis, A. (2018): Widespread winners and narrow-ranged losers: Land use homogenizes biodiversity in local assemblages worldwide. PLoS Biology

Publikationen 2017

Dawson, Wayne, Moser, Dietmar, van Kleunen, Mark, Kreft, Holger, Pergl, Jan, Pyšek, Petr, Weigelt, Patrick, Winter, Marten, Lenzner, Bernd, Blackburn, Tim M., Dyer, Ellie E., Cassey, Phillip, Scrivens, Sally L., Economo, Evan P., Guénard, Benoit, Capinha, César, Seebens, Hanno, García-Díaz, Pablo, Nentwig, Wolfgang, García-Berthou, Emili, Casal, Christine, Mandrak, Nicholas E., Fuller, Pam, Meyer, Carsten, Essl, Franz (2017): Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups. Nature Ecology & Evolution

Kehoe, Laura, Senf, Cornelius, Meyer, Carsten, Gerstner, Katharina, Kreft, Holger, Kuemmerle, Tobias (2017): Agriculture rivals biomes in predicting global species richness. Ecography

Rosa, Isabel M. D., Pereira, Henrique Miguel, Ferrier, S., Alkemade, R., Acosta, L. A., Akcakaya, H. R., den Belder, E., Fazel, A. M., Fujimori, S., Harfoot, M., Harhash, K. A., Harrison, P. A., Hauck, J., Hendriks, R. J. J., Hernandez, G., Jetz, W., Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, S. I., Kim, H., King, N., Kok, M. T. J., Kolomytsev, G. O., Lazarova, T., Leadley, P., Lundquist, C. J., Marquez, J. G., Meyer, Carsten, Navarro, Laetitia M., Nesshöver, Carsten, Ngo, H. T., Ninan, K. N., Palomo, M. G., Pereira, L. M., Peterson, G. D., Pichs, R., Popp, A., Purvis, A., Ravera, F., Rondinini, C., Sathyapalan, J., Schipper, A. M., Seppelt, R., Settele, Josef, Sitas, N., van Vuuren, D. (2017): Multiscale scenarios for nature futures. Nature Ecology & Evolution

Publikationen 2016

Meyer, Carsten, Jetz, Walter, Guralnick, Robert P., Fritz, Susanne A., Kreft, Holger (2016): Range geometry and socio-economics dominate species-level biases in occurrence information. Global Ecology and Biogeography

Meyer, Carsten, Weigelt, Patrick, Kreft, Holger (2016): Multidimensional biases, gaps and uncertainties in global plant occurrence information. Ecology Letters

Research Interests

I am an interdisciplinary researcher working at the interface of geography, ecology, and informatics to study global human-environment dynamics. My main focus is on global land-use changes, their environmental consequences, and their socioeconomic drivers. I embrace modern digital technology as a way of addressing theoretical, data, and modelling challenges in interdisciplinary science. My work typically uses statistical and computational approaches to analyze large datasets (incl. qualitative data) and often transcends multiple spatial scales or levels of organization (e.g., spatial, temporal, political). As of November 2016, I am leading the Macroecology & Society lab at (iDiv), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation as a Freigeist-Fellow.

 

Short CV

  • Since 11/2016: Head of the Freigeist Group “Macroecology and Society” at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Resarch (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
  • 2016: Postdoc at the Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, USA
  • 2015: Postdoc at the Synthesis Center sDiv, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Resarch (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
  • 2011–2015: PhD-Thesis in the “Biodiversity, Macroecology, and Biogeography” Group, University of Göttingen, Germany
  • 2004–2010: Study of Biology at the University of Göttingen, Germany. During 2007, Study of Biology at the University of Lund, Sweden

 

Non-iDiv Publications

Despot-Belmonte, K., Neßhöver, C., Saarenmaa, H., Regan, E., Meyer, C., Martins, E., Groom, Q., Hoffmann, A., Caine, A., Bowles-Newark, N., Bae, H., Lange Canhos, D.A., Stenzel, S., Bowler, D., Schneider, A., Weatherdon, L.V., Martin, C.S. (2017): Biodiversity data provision and decision-making – addressing the challenges. Research Ideas and Outcomes 3:1-11e12165. | 10.3897/rio.3.e12165

Meyer, C. (2016): Limitations in global information on species occurrences. Frontiers of Biogeography 8:e28195. | 10.21425/F58228195

Meyer, C., Kreft, H., Guralnick, R. P., Jetz, W. (2015): Global priorities for an effective information basis of biodiversity distributions. Nature Communications6:8221. | 10.1038/ncomms9221

Kehoe, L., Kuemmerle, T., Meyer, C., Levers, C., Václavík, T., Kreft, H. (2015): Global patterns of agricultural land-use intensity and vertebrate diversity. Diversity and Distributions 21:1308–1318. | 10.1111/ddi.12359

Stein, A., Beck, J., Meyer, C., Waldmann, E., Weigelt, P., Kreft, H. (2015): Differential effects of environmental heterogeneity on global mammal species richness. Global Ecology and Biogeography24:1072–1083. | 10.1111/geb.12337