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Patrick Weigelt is an Associate Professor in Environmental Science at Radboud University, specializing in plant macroecology. His research focuses on the distribution of plant life on Earth, particularly at large spatial scales such as oceanic islands. He develops workflows for large databases of plant distributions and functional traits to study the past and present drivers of today’s plant diversity and its redistribution in the Anthropocene. Weigelt’s work examines how environmental factors, biotic interactions, and human activities impact the taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic composition of plant assemblages. A key research question is how floras change at regional and global scales in response to climate change and land use alterations, as well as the introduction of non-native species.
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