Scientific publications related to SVD

Model development and applications are reported in top-level journals such as Science, Nature communications Earth & Environment, Global Change Biology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution:

Modeling papers

• Rammer W, Seidl R, 2019. A scalable model of vegetation transitions using deep neural networks. Methods Ecol. Evol., DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13171, download Supplementary information

Application papers

• Grünig, M., Rammer, W., Senf, C., Albrich, K., André, F., Augustynczik, A. L. D., Baumann, M., Bohn, F. J., Bouwman, M., Bugmann, H., Collalti, A., Cristal, I., Dalmonech, D., De Coligny, F., Dobor, L., Dollinger, C., Espelta, J. M., Forrester, D. I., Garcia-Gonzalo, J., … Seidl, R. (2026). Climate change will increase forest disturbances in Europe throughout the 21st century. Science, 391(6789), eadx6329. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adx6329, data repository: https://datadryad.org/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.tb2rbp0dv

• Rammer, W., Braziunas, K. H., Hansen, W. D., Ratajczak, Z., Westerling, A. L., Turner, M. G., & Seidl, R. (2021). Widespread regeneration failure in forests of Greater Yellowstone under scenarios of future climate and fire. Global Change Biology, 27(18), 4339–4351. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15726

Related papers

• Grünig, M., Rammer, W., Baumann, M., Albrich, K., André, F., Augustynczik, A. L. D., Bohn, F. J., Bouwman, M., Bugmann, H., Collalti, A., Cristal, I., Dalmonech, D., De Caceres, M., De Coligny, F., Dobor, L., Dollinger, C., Forrester, D. I., Garcia-Gonzalo, J., González-Olabarria, J. R., … Seidl, R. (2026). Loss of competitive strength in European conifer species under climate change. Communications Earth & Environment, 7(1), 401. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03582-0
• Perry, G. L. W., Seidl, R., Bellvé, A. M., & Rammer, W. (2022). An Outlook for Deep Learning in Ecosystem Science. Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-022-00789-y