Prof. Dr. Uta Berger

• Grimm, V., & Berger, U. (2016). Robustness analysis: Deconstructing computational models for ecological theory and applications. Ecological Modelling 326: 162–167.
• Lin, Y., Huth, F., Berger, U., Grimm, V. (2014) The role of belowground competition and plastic biomass allocation in altering plant mass–density relationships. Oikos 123: 248–256.
• Lin, Y., Berger, U., Grimm, V., Huth, F., Weiner, J. (2013) Plant Interactions Alter the Predictions of Metabolic Scaling Theory. PLoS ONE 8(2): e57612.
• Lin, Y., Berger, U., Grimm, V., Ji, Q.-R. (2012). Differences between symmetric and asymmetric facilitation matter: exploring the interplay between modes of positive and negative plant interactions. Journal of Ecology.
• Grimm, V., Berger, U., DeAngelis, D.L., Polhill, J.G., Giske, J., Railsback, S.F. (2010) The ODD protocol: A review and first update. Ecological Modelling. 221: 2760-2768
• Feller, I.C., Lovelock, C.E., Berger, U., McKee, K.L., Joye, S.B., Ball, M.C. (2010). Biocomplexity in Mangrove Ecosystems. Annu.Rev.Mar.Sci.
• Berger, U., Rivera-Monroy,V., Doyle, T.W., Dahdou-Guebas,F., Duke, N.C., Fontalvo-Herazo, M., Hildenbrandt, H., Koedam, N., Mehlig, U., Piou, C., Twilley, R.R. (2008) Advances and limitations of individual-based models to analyze and predict dynamics of mangrove forests. Aquatic Botany. 89: 260-274
• Berger, U., Piou, C., Schiffers, K., Grimm, V. (2008) Competition among plants: Concepts, individual-based modelling approaches, and a proposal for a future research strategy. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics.  9: 121-135
• Duke, N.C., Meynecke, J.-O., Dittmann, s., Ellison, A.M., Anger, K., Berger, U., Cannicci, S., Diele, K., Ewel, K.C., Field, C.D., Koedam, N., Lee, S.Y., Marchand, C., Nordhaus, I., Dahdouh-Guebas, F. (2007) A world without mangroves. Science. 317: 41-42 (Letters)
• Grimm, V., Revilla, E., Berger, U., Jeltsch, Fl., Mooij, W.M., Railsback, St.F., Thulke, H.-H., Weiner, J., Wiegand, Th., DeAngelis, D.L. (2005) Pattern-Oriented Modeling of Agent-Based Complex Systems: Lessons from Ecology. Science 310: 987-991

Peer-reviewed journals

• Pietzsch, B. W., Wudel, C., & Berger, U. (2022). Nonparametric upscaling of bark beetle infestations and management from plot to landscape level by combining individual-based with Markov chain models. European Journal of Forest Research.

• Krauss, K. W., Lovelock, C. E., Chen, L., Berger, U., Ball, M. C., Reef, R., Peters, R., Bowen, H., Vovides, A. G., Ward, E. J., Wimmler, M.-C., Carr, J., Bunting, P., & Duberstein, J. A. (2022). Mangroves provide blue carbon ecological value at a low freshwater cost. Scientific Reports 2022 12:1, 12(1), 1–12.

• Widyastuti, K., Reuillon, R., Chapron, P., Abdussalam, W., Nasir, D., Harrison, M.E., Morrogh-Bernard, H., Imron, M.A. and Berger, U. (2022) Assessing the impact of forest structure disturbances on the arboreal movement and energetics of orangutans—An agent-based modeling approach. Front. Ecol. Evol. 10:983337.

• Imron, M.A., Widyastuti, K., Al Bihad, D., Satria, R.A., Prayoga, W., Pradopo, S.T., Suryatmojo, H., Sopha, B.M., Harrison, M.E. and Berger, U. (2022): Beyond Climatic Variation: Human Disturbances Alter the Effectiveness of a Protected Area to Reduce Fires in a Tropical Peatland. Front. For. Glob. Change 5:788023.

• Pimple, U., Leadprathom, K., Simonetti, D., Sitthi, A., Peters, R., Pungkul, S., Pravinvongvuthi, T., Dessard, H., Berger, U., Siri-on, K., Kemacheevakul, P., Gond, V. (2022). Assessing mangrove species diversity, intertidal zonation and functional indicators in response to natural, regenerated, and rehabilitated succession. Journal of Environmental Management 318: 115507.
• Wimmler, M.-C., Vovides, A.G., Peters, R., Walther, M., Nadezhdina, N., Berger, U. (2022) Root grafts matter for inter-tree water exchange – a quantification of water translocation between root grafted mangrove trees using field data and model based indication. Annals of Botany: mcac074.
• Wimmler, M.-C., Bathmann, J., Peters, R., Jiang, J., Walther, M., Lovelock, C. E., Berger, U. (2021): Plant-soil feedbacks in mangrove ecosystems: establishing links between empirical and modelling studies. Trees 35, 1423-1438.
• Chaves, C.J.N., Leal, B.S.S., Rossatto, D.R., Berger, U., Plama-Silva, C. (2021): Deforestation is the turning point for the spreading of a weedy epiphyte: an IBM approach. Scientific Reports 11, 20397.
• Bathmann, J., Peters, R., Reef, R., Berger, U., Walther, M., Lovelock, C. E. (2021): Modelling mangrove forest structure and species composition over tidal inundation gradients: The feedback between plant water use and porewater salinity in an arid mangrove ecosystem. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 308–309: 108547.
• Pietzsch, B. W., Peter, F. J., Berger, U. (2021). The Effect of Sanitation Felling on the Spread of the European Spruce Bark Beetle — An Individual-Based Modeling Approach. Front. For. Glob. Change 4:704930.
• Vovides, A.G., Wimmler, MC., Schrewe, F., Balke, T., Zwanzig, M., Piou, C., Delay, E., López-Portillo, J. & Berger, U. (2021): Cooperative root graft networks benefit mangrove trees under stress. Communications Biology 4, 513.
• Suliman, T., Berger, U., Van der Maaten-Theunissen, M., Van der Maaten, E., & Ali, W. (2021). Modeling dominant height growth using permanent plot data for Pinus brutia stands in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Forest Systems, 30(1), eSC03.
• Loubota Panzou, G. J., Fayolle, A., Jucker, T., Phillips, O. L., Bohlman, S., Banin, L. F., …, Berger, U., ..., Feldpausch, T. R. (2020). Pantropical variability in tree crown allometry. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 1–17.
• Bahlburg, D., Meyer, B., & Berger, U. (2021). The impact of seasonal regulation of metabolism on the life history of Antarctic krill. Ecological Modelling 442, 109427.
• Ayllón, D., Railsback, S. F., Gallagher, C., Augusiak, J., Baveco, H., Berger, U., … Grimm, V. (2020). Keeping modelling notebooks with TRACE: Good for you and good for environmental research and management support. Environmental Modelling & Software, 104932.
• Widyastuti, K., Imron, M. A., Pradopo, S. T., Suryatmojo, H., Sopha, B. M., Spessa, A., & Berger, U. (2020). PeatFire: an agent-based model to simulate fire ignition and spreading in a tropical peatland ecosystem. International Journal of Wildland Fire.
• Jenke, M., Pranchai, A., Peters, R., Berger, U. (2020): Silvicultural options for the transformation of even-aged Rhizophora apiculata stands to irregular and diverse mangroves – A simulation experiment. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 106886.
• Peters, R., Walther, M., Lovelock, C., Jiang, J., Berger, U. (2020). The interplay between vegetation and water in mangroves: new perspectives for mangrove stand modelling and ecological research. Wetlands Ecology and Management.
• Groeneveld, J., Berger, U., Henschke, N., Pakhomov, E. A., Reiss, C. S., & Meyer, B. (2020). Blooms of a key grazer in the Southern Ocean – An individual-based model of Salpa thompsoni. Progress in Oceanography 185, 102339.
• Peters, R., Lovelock, C., López-Portillo, J., Bathmann, J., Wimmler, M.-C., Jiang, J., Walther, M., Berger, U. (2020). Partial canopy loss of mangrove trees: Mitigating water scarcity by physical adaptation and feedback on porewater salinity. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science: 106797.
• Grimm, V., Railsback, S. F., Vincenot, C. E., Berger, U., Gallagher, C., DeAngelis, D. L., Edmonds, B., Ge, J., Giske, J., Groeneveld, J., Johnston, A. S.A., Milles, A., Nabe-Nielsen, J., Polhill, J. G., Radchuk, V., Rohwäder, M.-S., Stillman, R. A., Thiele, J. C. and Ayllón, D. (2020). The ODD Protocol for Describing Agent-Based and Other Simulation Models: A Second Update to Improve Clarity, Replication, and Structural Realism. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 23 (2) 7.
• Pietzsch, B., Fiedler, S., Mertens, K. G., Richter, M., Scherer, C., Widyastuti, K., Wimmler, M.C., Zakharova, L., Berger, U. (2020). Metamodels for Evaluating , Calibrating and Applying Agent-Based Models : A Review. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 23 (2), 9.
• Weise, H., Auge, H., Baessler, C., Bärlund, I., Bennett, E. M., Berger, U., … Grimm, V. (2020). Resilience trinity: safeguarding ecosystem functioning and services across three different time horizons and decision contexts. Oikos.

• Pimple, U., Simonetti, D., Hinks, I., Oszwald, J., Berger, U., Pungkul, S., Leadprathom, K., Pravinvongvuthi, T., Maprasoap, P., Gond, V. (2020): A history of the rehabilitation of mangroves and an assessment of their diversity and structure using Landsat annual composites (1987–2019) and transect plot inventories. Forest Ecology and Management, 462, 118007.

• Bathmann, J., Peters, R., Naumov, D., Fischer, T., Berger, U., & Walther, M. (2020). The MANgrove – GroundwAter feedback model ( MANGA ) – Describing belowground competition based on first principles. Ecological Modelling, 420, 108973.

• Weise, H., Auge, H., Baessler, C., Bärlund, I., Bennett, E. M., Berger, U., … Grimm, V. (2020). Resilience trinity: safeguarding ecosystem functioning and services across three different time horizons and decision contexts. Oikos.

• Railsback, S. F., Berger, U., Giske, J., Hagstrom, G. I., Harvey, B. C., Semeniuk, C., and Grimm, V. (2020). Bridging Levels from Individuals to Communities and Ecosystems: Including Adaptive Behavior and Feedbacks in Ecological Theory and Models. Bull Ecol Soc Am 00(0):e01648.

• Ligmann-Zielinska, A., Siebers, P., Maglioccia, N., Parker, D., Grimm, V., Du, E. J., Cenek, M., Arbab, N., Li, S., Berger, U., Robinson, D.T., Jankowski, P., An, L. (2020). ‘ One size does not fit all ’: a roadmap of purpose-driven mixed-method pathways for sensitivity analysis of agent-based models. JASSS 23(1) 6.

• Lorscheid, I., Berger, U., Grimm, V., & Meyer, M. (2019). From cases to general principles : A call for theory development through agent-based modeling. Ecological Modelling, 393, 153–156.

• Pranchai, A., Jenke M., Berger, U. (2019). Well-intentioned, but poorly implemented: Debris from coastal bamboo fences triggered mangrove decline in Thailand. Marine Pollution Bulletin 146, 900-907.

• Ahimbisibwe, V., Auch, E., Groeneveld, J., Tumwebaze, S.B., Berger, U. (2019). Drivers of Household Decision-Making on Land-Use Transformation: An Example of Woodlot Establishment in Masindi District, Uganda. Forests, 10, 619.

• Zwanzig, M., Harrison, E., Brockhurst, M.A., Hall, J.P.J., Berendonk, T.U., Berger, U. (2019): Mobile Compensatory Mutations Promote Plasmid Survival. mSystems 4:e00186-18.

• Peters, R., Olagoke, A., & Berger, U. (2018). A new mechanistic theory of self-thinning: Adaptive behaviour of plants explains the shape and slope of self-thinning trajectories. Ecological Modelling 390, 1–9.

• Ammer, C., Fichtner, A., Fischer, A., Gossner, M. M., Meyer, P., Seidl, R., … Wagner, S. (2018). Key ecological research questions for Central European forests, Basic and Applied Ecology 32, 3–25.

• Engel, M., Körner, M., & Berger, U. (2018). Plastic tree crowns contribute to small-scale heterogeneity in virgin beech forests—An individual-based modeling approach. Ecological Modelling, 376.

• Vidal Merino, M., Sietz, D., Jost, F., & Berger, U. (2018). Archetypes of Climate Vulnerability: a Mixed-method Approach Applied in the Peruvian Andes. Climate and Development.

• Wilkens, J. F., Huth, F., Berger, U., Devlin, D., Popow, F., & Wagner, S. (2018). Spatial explicit distribution of individual fine root biomass of Rhizophora mangle L. (Red Mangrove) in South Florida. Wetlands Ecology and Management.
• Vovides, A. G., Berger, U., Grueters, U., Guevara, R., Pommerening, A., Lara-Domínguez, A. L., & López-Portillo, J. (2018). Change in drivers of mangrove crown displacement along a salinity stress gradient. Functional Ecology, (September), 1–13.
• Dkhili, J., Berger, U., Hassani, L.M.I., Ghaout, S., Peters, R., Piou, C. (2017). Self-organized spatial structures of locust groups emerging from local interaction. Ecological Modelling 361, 26-40.
• Pranchai, A., Jenke, M., Vogt, J., Grueters, U., Lin, Y., Mehlig, U., de Menezes, M.M., Wagner S., Berger, U. (2017). Density-dependent shift from facilitation to competition in a dwarf Avicennia germinans forest. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 12 p.

• Ploton, P., Barbier, N., Couteron, P., Antin, C.M., Ayyappan, N., Balachandran, N., Barathan, N., Bastin, J.-F., Chuyong, G., Dauby, G., Droissart, V., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Kamdem, N.G., Kenfack, D., Libalah, M., Mofack, G., Momo, S.T., Pargal, S., Petronelli, P., Proisy, C., Réjou-Méchain, M., Sonké, B., Texier, N., Thomas, D., Verley, P., Zebaze Dongmo, D., Berger, U., Pélissier, R. (2017). Toward a general tropical forest biomass prediction model from very high resolution optical satellite images. Remote Sensing of Environment 200, 140-153.

• Werisch, M., Berger, U., Berendonk, T.U. (2017). Conjugative plasmids enable the maintenance of low cost non-transmissible plasmids. Plasmid 91, 96-104.

• Railsback, S.F., Ayllón, D., Berger, U., Lytinen, S.L., Sheppard, C.J.R. & Jan, C. (2017) Improving Execution Speed of Models Implemented in NetLogo. JASSS Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 20 (1) 3, 1–23.

• Vogt, J., Gillner, S., Hofmann, M., Tharang, A., Dettmann, S., Gerstenberg, T., Schmidt, C., Gebauer, H., Van de Rieth, K., Berger, U., Roloff, A. (2017). Citree: A database supporting tree selection for urban areas in temperate climate. Landscape and Urban Planning 157, 14-25.

• De Laender, F., Rohr, J.R., Ashauer, R., Baird, D.J., Berger, U., Eisenhauer, N., Grimm, V., Hommen, U., Maltby, L., Meliàn, C.J.  (2016). Reintroducing Environmental Change Drivers in Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning Research. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 31(12).

• Khan, M. N. I., Hijbeek, R., Berger, U., Koedam, N., Grueters, U., Islam, S. M. Z., Dahdouh-Guebas, F. (2016). An evaluation of the plant density estimator the point-centred quarter method (PCQM) using monte carlo simulation. PLoS ONE, 11(6).

• Cherrington, E. A., Barbier, N., Ploton, P., Vincent, G., Sabatier, D., Berger, U., & Pelissier, R. (2016). Equatorial Forests Display Distinct Trends in Phenological Variation: A Time-Series Analysis of Vegetation Index Data from Three Continents. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, (June), 1–7.
• Santos, M., Ferreira, D., Bastos, R., Vicente, J., Honrado, J., Kueffer, C., … Alexandre, J. (2016). Linking landscape futures with biodiversity conservation strategies in northwest Iberia — A simulation study combining surrogates with a spatio-temporal modelling approach. Ecological Informatics, 33, 85–100.
• Grimm, V., & Berger, U. (2016). Structural realism, emergence, and predictions in next-generation ecological modelling: Synthesis from a special issue. Ecological Modelling 326, 177–187.
• Grimm, V., & Berger, U. (2016). Robustness analysis: Deconstructing computational models for ecological theory and applications. Ecological Modelling 326: 162–167.
• Peters, R., Lin, Y. & Berger, U. (2016) Machine learning meets individual-based modelling: self-organising feature maps for the analysis of below-ground competition among plants. Ecological Modelling 326: 142–151.
• Proisy, C., Degenne, P., Anthony, E. J., Berger, U., Blanchard, E., Gardel, A., Olagoke, A. S., Valdenira W., Romain S., Seen, D. Lo. (2016). A Multiscale Simulation Approach for Linking Mangrove Dynamics to Coastal Processes using Remote Sensing Observations. Journal of Coastal Research, 75.
• Ploton, P., Barbier, N., Momo, S. T., Réjou-Méchain, M., Boyemba Bosela, F., Chuyong, G., … Pélissier, R. (2016). Closing a gap in tropical forest biomass estimation: taking crown mass variation into account in pantropical allometries. Biogeosciences, 13, 1571–1585.
• Lin, Y., Berger, U., Yue, M., Grimm, V. (2015). Asymmetric facilitation can reduce size inequality in plant populations resulting in delayed density-dependent mortality. Oikos.
• Worku, M., Lindner, A., & Berger, U. (2015). Management Effects on Woody Species Diversity and Vegetation Structure of Coffee-based Agroforestry Systems in Ethiopia. Small-Scale Forestry 14: 1–21.
• Micheletti, T., Jost, F., & Berger, U. (2015). Partitioning Stakeholders for the Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services: Examples of a Mangrove System. Natural Resources Research 25: 331-345.
• Ozkan, K., & Berger, U. (2014). Predicting the potential distribution of plant diversity in the Yukarigökdere forest district of the Mediterranean region. Polish Journal of Ecology, 62, 441–454.
• Vogt, J., Lin, Y., Pranchai, A., Frohberg, P., Mehlig, U., Berger, U. (2014) The importance of conspecific facilitation during recruitment and regeneration: A case study in degraded mangroves. Basic and Applied Ecology 15(8): 651-660
• Vogt, J., Piou, C., Berger, U. (2014). Comparing the influence of large- and small-scale disturbances on forest heterogeneity: a simulation study for mangroves. Ecological Complexity 20: 107-115
• Stillmann, R.A., Railsback, St.F., Giske, J., Berger, U., Grimm, V. (2014) Making predictions in a changing world: the benefits of individual-based ecology. BioScience 65: 140-150.
• Vovides AG, Vogt J, Kollert K, Berger U, Grueters U, Peters R, Lara-Domí­nguez AL, López-Portillo JA (2014) Morphological plasticity in mangrove trees: salinity-related changes in the allometry of Avicennia germinans. Trees 28: 1413-1425.
• Grueters, U., Seltmann, T., Schmidt, H., Horn, H., Pranchai, A., Vovides, A.G., Peters, R., Vogt, J., Dahdouh-Guebas, F., Berger, U. (2014) The mangrove forest dynamics model mesoFON. Ecological Modelling 291: 28–41.
• Mukherjee, N., Sutherland, W.J., Khan, N.I., Berger, U., Schmitz, N., Dahdouh-Guebas, F., Koedam, N. (2014) Using expert knowledge and modeling to define mangrove composition, functioning, and threats and estimate time frame for recovery. Ecology and Evolution. 2045-7758.
• Peters, R., Vovides, A.G., Luna, S., Grüters, U., Berger, U. Changes in allometric relations of mangrove trees due to resource availability – A new mechanistic modelling approach, Ecological Modelling 283: 53-61, ISSN 0304-3800
• Lin, Y., Huth, F., Berger, U., Grimm, V. (2014) The role of belowground competition and plastic biomass allocation in altering plant mass–density relationships. Oikos 123: 248–256.
• Capote-Fuentes, R.T., Denich, M., Berger, U., Vlek, P.L.G. (2013). Testing a theoretical framework on the linear segment of  the biomass-density trajectory of forests with data from a  mangrove forest. Revista Jard. Bot. Nac. Univ. Habana. 32-33: 173-179.
• Bosire, J. O. , Kaino, J. J. , Olagoke, A. O., Mwihaki, L. M. , Ogendi, G. M., Kairo, J. G., Berger, U., Macharia, D. (2013) Mangroves in peril: unprecedented degradation rates of peri-urban mangroves in Kenya. Biogeosciences Discuss., 10: 16371–16404
• Gillner, S., Rüger, N., Roloff, A., Berger, U. (2013) Low relative growth rates predict future mortality of common beech (Fagus sylvatica L.). Forest Ecology And Management 302: 372-378.
• Olagoke, A.O, Bosire, J.O. Berger, U. (2013) Regeneration of Rhizophora mucronata (Lamk.) in degraded mangrove forest: Lessons from point pattern analyses of local tree interactions. Acta Oecologica. 50: 1-9.
• Khan, M. N. I., Sharma, S., Berger, U., Koedam, N., Dahdouh-Guebas, F., Hagihara, A. (2013) How do tree competition and stand dynamics lead to spatial patterns in monospecific mangroves?  Biogeosciences. 10: 2803–2814
• Lin, Y., Berger, U., Grimm, V., Huth, F., Weiner, J. (2013) Plant Interactions Alter the Predictions of Metabolic Scaling Theory. PLoS ONE 8(2): e57612.
• Lin, Y., Berger, U., Grimm, V., Ji, Q.-R. (2012). Differences between symmetric and asymmetric facilitation matter: exploring the interplay between modes of positive and negative plant interactions. Journal of Ecology. In press.
• Vogt, J., Skóra, A., Feller, I.C., Piou, C., Coldren, G., Berger, U. (2012). Investigating the role of impoundment and forest structure on the resistance and resilience of mangrove forests to hurricanes. Aquatic Botany 97: 24-29.
• Rüger, N., Berger, U., Hubbell, St.P., Vieilledent, G., Condit, R. (2011). Growth Strategies of Tropical Tree Species: Disentangling Light and Size Effects. PLoS ONE 6(9): e25330.
• Kautz, M., Berger, U., Stoyan, D., Vogt, J., Khan, N.I., Diele, K., Saint-Paul, U., Triet, T., Nam, V.N. (2011) Desynchronizing effects of lightning strike disturbances on cyclic forest dynamics in mangrove plantations. Aquatic Botany 95 (2011) 173–181
• Vogt, J., Kautz, M., Fontalvo Herazo, M.L., Triet, T., Walther, D., Saint-Paul, U. Diele, K., Berger, U. (2011). Do canopy disturbances drive forest plantations into more natural conditions? — A case study from Can Gio Biosphere Reserve, Viet Nam, Glob. Planet. Change, ISSN 0921-8181
• Fontalvo-Herazo, M.L., Piou, C., Vogt, J., Saint-Paul, U., Berger, U. (2011) Simulating harvesting scenarios towards the sustainable use of mangrove forest plantations. Wetlands Ecology And Management 19:397–407
• Imron, M.A., Gergs, A., Berger, U. (2011). Structure and sensitivity analysis of individual-based predator-prey models. Reliability Engineering and System Safety.
• Grimm, V., Berger, U., DeAngelis, D.L., Polhill, J.G., Giske, J., Railsback, S.F. (2010) The ODD protocol: A review and first update. Ecological Modelling. 221: 2760-2768
• Imron, M.A., Herzog,S., Berger, U. (2010). The Influence of Agroforestry and Other Land-Use Types on the Persistence of a Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) Population: An Individual-Based Model Approach. Environmental Management
• Zurell, D., Berger, U., Cabral, J.S., Jeltsch, F., Meynard, C.N., Münkemüller, T., Nehrbass, N.,  Pagel, J., Reineking, B., Schröder, B., Grimm, V. (2010). The virtual ecologist approach: simulating data and observers. Oikos 119: 622-635
• Feller, I.C., Lovelock, C.E., Berger, U., McKee, K.L., Joye, S.B., Ball, M.C. (2010). Biocomplexity in Mangrove Ecosystems. Annu.Rev.Mar.Sci.
• Piou, C., Berger, U., Grimm, V. (2009) Proposing an information criterion for individual-based models developed in a pattern-oriented modelling framework. Ecological Modelling.
• Obade, P., Koedam, N.; Soetart, K.; Neukermans, G.; Bogaert, J.; Nyssen, E.; Van Nedervelde, F.; Berger, U.; Dahdouh-Guebas, F. (2009). Impact of anthropogenic disturbance on a mangrove forest assessed by a 1D cellular automaton model using lotka-volterra-type competition. Int.J. of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics. Vol. 3, No. 4: 1-25
• Menezes, M.P., Berger, U., Mehlig, U. (2008) Mangrove vegetation in Amazonia: a review of studies from the coast of Pará and Maranhao States, north Brazil. Acta Amazonica. 38: 403-420
• Berger, U., Rivera-Monroy,V., Doyle, T.W., Dahdou-Guebas,F., Duke, N.C., Fontalvo-Herazo, M., Hildenbrandt, H., Koedam, N., Mehlig, U., Piou, C., Twilley, R.R. (2008) Advances and limitations of individual-based models to analyze and predict dynamics of mangrove forests. Aquatic Botany. 89: 260-274
• Piou, C., Berger, U., Feller, I.C. (2008) Spatial structure of a leaf-removing crab population in a mangrove of North-Brazil. Wetlands Ecology and Managment.
• Piou, C., Berger, U., Hildenbrandt, H., Feller, I.C. (2008) Testing the intermediate disturbance hypothesis in species-poor systems: a simulation experiment for mangrove forests. Journal of Vegetation Science. 19: 417 - 424
• Berger, U., Piou, C., Schiffers, K., Grimm, V. (2008) Competition among plants: Concepts, individual-based modelling approaches, and a proposal for a future research strategy. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics.  9: 121-135
• Duke, N.C., Meynecke, J.-O., Dittmann, s., Ellison, A.M., Anger, K., Berger, U., Cannicci, S., Diele, K., Ewel, K.C., Field, C.D., Koedam, N., Lee, S.Y., Marchand, C., Nordhaus, I., Dahdouh-Guebas, F. (2007) A world without mangroves. Science. 317: 41-42 (Letters)
• Piou, C., Berger, U., Hildenbrandt, H., Grimm, V., Diele, K., D’Lima, C. (2007) Simulating cryptic movements of a mangrove crab: recovery phenomena after small scale fishery. Ecological Modelling. 205: 110-122
• Grimm, V.,  Berger, U., Bastiansen, F., Eliassen, S., Ginot, V.,, Giske, J., Goss-Custard, J., Grand, T., K. Heinz, S., Huse, G., Huth, A., Jepsen, J.U., Jørgensen, Chr., Mooijh, W.M. Müller, B. Peer, G., Piou, C., Railsback, S.F., Robbins, A.M., Robbins, M.M., Rossmanith, E., Ruger, N., Strand, E., Souissi, S., Stillman, R.A., Vabøg, R., Visser, U., DeAngelis, D.L. (2006). A standard protocol for describing individual-based and agent-based models. Ecological Modelling. 198: 115-126
• Piou, C., Feller C. I., Berger, U. & Chi F. (2006) Zonation patterns of Belizean offshore mangrove forests 41 years after a catastrophic hurricane. Biotropica. 38:365-374.
• Berger, U., Adams, M., Grimm, V. & Hildenbrandt, H. (2006) Modeling secondary succession of neotropical mangroves: causes and consequences of growth reduction in pioneer species. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 7 (4): 243-252
• Grimm, V., Revilla, E., Berger, U., Jeltsch, Fl., Mooij, W.M., Railsback, St.F., Thulke, H.-H., Weiner, J., Wiegand, Th., DeAngelis, D.L. (2005) Pattern-Oriented Modeling of Agent-Based Complex Systems: Lessons from Ecology. Science 310: 987-991
• Wagner, G.,  Köhler, G., Berger, U. & A. J. Davis. (2005) An experiment to re-establish the red-winged grasshopper, Oedipoda germanica (Latr.) (Caelifera: Acrididae), threatened with extinction in Germany. Journal for Nature Conservation 13:257-266
• Bauer, S., Samietz, J. & Berger, U. (2005) Sexual harassment in heterogeneous landscapes can mediate population regulation in a grasshopper. Behavioral Ecology. 16, 239 -246
• Bauer, S., Wyszomirski,T., Berger, U., Hildenbrandt, H. & Grimm,V. (2004) Asymmetric competition as natural outcome of neighbour interactions among plants: results from the field-of-neighbourhood modelling approach. Plant Ecology, 170, 135 - 145.
• Berger, U., Hildenbrandt. H. & Grimm V. (2004) Age-related decline in forest productivity: modelling the role of neighbourhood competition. Journal of Ecology, 92, 846 - 853.
• Berger, U. & Hildenbrandt, H. (2003) The strength of competition among individual trees and the biomass-density trajectories of the cohort. Plant Ecology, 167, 89-96.
• Lara, R., Szlafstein, C.F., Cohen, M.C.L., Berger, U. & Glaser, M. (2003) Implications of mangrove dynamics for private land use in Bragança, North Brazil: a case study. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 8, 97-102.
• Menezes, M., Berger, U. & Worbes, M. (2003) Annual growth rings and long-term growth patterns of mangrove trees from the Bragança peninsula, North Brazil. Wetlands and Saltmarshes, 11, 233-242.
• Glaser, M., Berger, U. & Macedo, R. (2003) Local vulnerability as an advantage: Mangrove forest management in Pará state, North Brazil under conditions of illegality. Regional Environmental Change, 3, 162 - 172.
• Berger, U., Hildenbrandt, H. & Grimm, V. (2002) Towards a standard for the individual-based modeling of plant populations: self-thinning and the field-of-neighborhood approach. Natural Resource Modeling, 15, 39-54.
• Bauer, S., Berger, U., Hildenbrandt, H. & Grimm, V. (2002) Cyclic dynamics in simulated plant populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B, 269, 2443-2450.
• Saint-Paul, U., Zuanon, J., Villacorta Correa, M.A., García, M., Fabré, N.N., Berger, U. & Junk, W.J. (2000) Fish communities in central Amazonian white- and blackwater floodplains. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 57 , 235-250.
• Thüllen, N. & Berger, U. (2000) A comparative examination of environmental factors at patchy mangrove seedling stands on the peninsula of Bragança, Northern Brazil. Ecotropica, 6, 1-12.
• Berger, U. & Hildenbrandt, H. (2000) A new approach to spatially explicit modelling of forest dynamics: spacing, ageing and neighbourhood competition of mangrove trees. Ecological Modelling, 132, 287-302.
• Berger, U., Glaser, M., Koch, B., Krause, G., Lara, R., Saint-Paul, U., Schories, D. & Wolff,M. (1999) MADAM – An integrated approach to mangrove dynamics and management. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 5, 125-134.
• Berger, U., Wagner, G. & Wolff, W.F. (1999) Virtual biologists observe virtual grasshoppers: an assessment of different mobility parameters for the analysis of movement patterns. Ecological Modelling, 115, 119-128.
• Samietz, J. & Berger, U. (1997) Evaluation of movement parameters in insects - bias and robustness with regard to resight numbers. Oecologia, 110, 40-49.

Peer-reviewed journals (in German)

• Wagner, G., Köhler, G. & Berger, U. (1999) Ein Versuch zur Wiedereinbürgerung der Rotflügeligen Ödlandschrecke, Oedipoda germanica (Latr.) (Caelifera: Acrididae). Landschaftspflege und Naturschutz in Thüringen 36, 78-83
• Berger, U., Glaser, M., Koch, B., Krause, G., Lara, R., Saint-Paul, U., Schories, D. & Wolff, M. (1998) MADAM - Forschungskonzept eines deutsch / brasiliansichen Verbundprojektes im Mangrovengebiet Nordbrasiliens. DGM - Mitteilungen, 2, 20-25.
• Wagner, G., Köhler, G. & Berger, U. (1997) Gefährdungsgradanalyse am Beispiel der Rotflügligen Ödlandschrecke (Oedipoda germanica) in Thüringen. Landschaftspflege und Naturschutz in Thüringen, 34, 7-14.
• Frank, K. & Berger, U. (1996) Metapopulation und Biotopverbund - eine kritische Betrachtung aus der Sicht der Modellierung. Zeitschrift für Ökologie und Naturschutz, 5, 151-160.
• Berger, U., Fröbe, H., Hohmann, R. & Jetschke, G. (1995) Können island-Habitate Populationen auf bedrohten mainlands retten? - Ein Modell zu einem Fallbeispiel. Verhandlungen der GfOe, 25, 21-27.
• Berger, U., Herlitze, L. & Tiller, J. (1991) Einfluß der Oxidschicht auf feuchtebelastete Cu-Epoxid-Verklebungen. Adhäsion, 35,17-24.

Book chapters

• Vidal Merino M., Sietz D., Jost F., Berger U. (2020): The Andean Farmers of Peru: Farm-Household System Vulnerability to Climate-Related Hazards. In: Leal Filho W., Nagy G., Borga M., Chávez Muñoz P., Magnuszewski A. (eds) Climate Change, Hazards and Adaptation Options. Climate Change Management. Springer, Cham.
• Zwanzig M., Schlicht R., Frischbier N., Berger U. (2020): Primary Steps in Analyzing Data: Tasks and Tools for a Systematic Data Exploration. In: Levia D., Carlyle-Moses D., Iida S., Michalzik B., Nanko K., Tischer A. (eds) Forest-Water Interactions. Ecological Studies (Analysis and Synthesis), vol 240. Springer, Cham.
• Berger, U. Breckling, B. & Wolff, M. (2009) Modelling in Ecology. In: Tropical Waters and their Living Resources: Ecology, Assessment and Management, edited by M. Wolff, Verlag Hauschild GmbH, Bremen, Germany, pp. 119-152.
• Glaser, M., Berger, U. & Macedo, R. (2005) A sustenabilidade na gestão de florestas de manguezal sob condições de ilegalidade. In: Gente, ambiente e pesquisa: manejo transdisciplinar no manguezal, edited by M. Glaser, N. Cabral, and A. L. Ribeiro, Belém:UFPA/ NUMA Programa MADAM, p. 69-86.
• Grimm, V. & Berger, U. (2003) Seeing the wood for the trees and vice versa: pattern-oriented ecological modelling. Scales in aquatic systems: measurement, analysis, simulation (Seuront, L. and Strutton, P. G.), CRC Press.
• Lara, R.J., Berger, U. & Cohen, M. (1999) Mangrove degradation by sand deposition in Bragança, North Brazil. Tidal action, tidal processes and tidal effects on coastal evolution (Dominguez, J. M. L., Martin, L., Testa, V., and Koutsoukos, E.), Porto Seguro, Brazil.
• Glaser, M. & Berger, U. (1999) Including the social: a conceptual approach to the comprehensive modelling of natural resource management options. Sustainable Landuse Management pp. 49-62. Ecology Center, University of Kiel.
• Samietz, J., Berger, U. & Köhler, G. (1996) A population vulnerability analysis of the stripe-winged grasshopper: Stenobothrus lineatus (PANZER) (Caelifera: Gomphocerinae). Species survival in fragmented landscapes (Settele, J.), pp. 299-311. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The GeoJournal Library.
• Wagner, G., Berger, U. & Köhler, G. (1996) A population vulnerability analysis of the red-winged grasshopper: Oedipoda Germanica. Species survival in fragmented landscapes (Settele, J.), pp. 312-319. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The GeoJournal Library.

Book chapters (in German)

• Berger, U., Röhle, H. (2011) Waldwachstum und Forstliche Biometrie/ Systemanalyse - Status-Quo, Herausforderungen und Trends. In:Tharandt 2011 - 200 Jahre Ideen für die Zukunft. Forstwissenschaftliche Beiträge Tharandt Beiheft 12, Juni 2011, Hrsg. Bonn, St., Erler, J., Herzog, S.
• Bauer, S., Berger, U., Hildenbrandt, H., Eisinger, D. & Grimm, V. (2001) Modellierung von Nachbarschaftskonkurrenz in Pflanzenpopulationen: Test eines neuen individuenbasierten Ansatzes. Rolle und Bedeutung von Modellen für den ökologischen Erkenntnisprozeß (Jopp, F. and Weigmann, G.), pp. 31-42. Peter Lang Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften.
• Berger, U. & Hildenbrandt, H. (2001) Nachbarschaftsfelder zur Untersuchung ökologischer Interferenzen – vom Anfang und Ende der Selbstausdünnung. Rolle und Bedeutung von Modellen für den Erkenntnisprozeß in der Ökologie (Jopp, F. and Weigmann, G.), pp. 19-30. Peter Lang Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften.
• Berger, U. & Glaser, M. (2000) Unwissenheit und Risiko beim Management von Mangrovengebieten am Beispiel der Halbinsel von Bragança an der Küste von Nord-Ost Pará, Brasilien . Der ökologische Risikobegriff (Breckling, B. and Müller, F.), pp. 25-36. Peter Lang Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt/M.

Posters

• M. Fontalvo, U. Berger & C. Piou  (2006) The application of a spatially-explicit model for the sustainable use of mangrove forest plantations. 36th Annual Conference Gesellschaft für Ökologie, Bremen, 11-15 September 2006
• M. Protazio & U. Berger (2006) Applying Wavelet Transform to Point Pattern Analysis: An application to plant ecology. 36th Annual Conference Gesellschaft für Ökologie, Bremen, 11-15 September 2006
• C. Piou & U.Berger (2006) Spatial organization and local resilience of a mangrove crab population analyzed with an individual based model. 91st Annual ESA meeting. 6-11-8.2006 Memphis (USA)
• Protazio, M.  & Berger, U. (2004) Spatial Pattern Analysis Applied to Mangrove Forest Ecology. III Encontro Regional de Matemática Aplicada e Computacional. Belém - PA, 13 a 15 de Dezembro de 2004
• Hempel, G., Saint-Paul, U. & Berger, U. (1998) Zentrum für Marine Tropenökologie - Partner der Forschung an tropischen Küsten. Leipzig, 91.Jahresvollversammlung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft.
• Berger, U., Saint-Paul, U. & Hempel, G. (1998) Das Mangrovenprojekt MADAM.  Leipzig, 91.Jahresversammlung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft.
• Schories, D., Berger, U., Lara, R. & Mehlig, U. (1997) The role of  microphytobenthos organisms as participants of phytoplankton primary production in tidal creeks of mangroves (Bragança, Northern Brazil). 32nd European Marine Biology Symposium, EMBS, Lysekil.
• Berger, U. & Larsen, M. (1994) Ecological characterization of the Ilm valley catchment. poster. Workshop "Ecosystem Modelling - Delineating the possible from the impossible", Bischoffsgrün.

Reports

• 2008  German – Brazilian cooperation project „Mangrove Dynamics And Management (MADAM)“ at the ZMT. BMBF ( 03F0154A  and 03F0253A5)
• 2007- „Effects of buffer mechanisms on the regeneration of disturbed mangrove crab populations“. DFG (BE 1960 / 2-1).
• Berger, U. (1997) Ökonomische und ökologische Modellkonzeption: Integrationswerkzeug im MADAM-Vorhaben.  Zwischenbericht, ZMT.
• Berger, U. (1997) Simulationsmodelle zur Raum- Und Zeitdynamik des Mangrovenbestandes.  Zwischenbericht, ZMT.
• Köhler, G., Samietz, J., Wagner, G. & Berger, U. (1997). Trockenstandorte in der Muschelkalklandschaft um Jena/Thüringen.  Schlussbericht, Institut f. Ökologie Jena.
• Berger, U. (1996) Konzept eines Simulationsmodells (Waldmodell). Zwischenbericht MADAM, ZMT.

Conference papers

• Della Chiesa, S., Pelorosso, R. & Berger, U. (2009) Landscape dynamics in an abandoned rural area of the central Apennine mountains (Italy). Proceedings of the XXXIII CIOSTA CIGR V Conference.
• U. Berger (2008) Succession in neotropical mangrove forests: about the need of multiple pattern analyses for understanding causes of changes in species dominance. Leopoldina  Symposium on "Recent Challenges for Statistics in the Biosciences" 9.-11. Januar. Freiberg - Germany
• U. Berger & C.Piou (2007). How can we evaluate the importance of males? an adaptation of the keystone concept to a fished mangrove crab population of Ucides cordatus. The 6th European Conference on Ecological Modelling, ECEM’07 November 27-30. Trieste –Italy
• C. Piou & U. Berger (2006). Adapting the Akaike’s Information Criterion for Individual Based Model selection. 36th Annual Conference Gesellschaft für Ökologie, Bremen, 11-15 September
• U. Berger & C.Piou (2006). About the emergence of alternative succession trajectories in (neotropic) mangrove forests. 36th Annual Conference Gesellschaft für Ökologie, Bremen, 11-15 September
• U. Berger & C.Piou (2006). Stability and forest dynamics: about the robustness of mangrove succession. 91st Annual ESA meeting. 6-11-8. Memphis (USA)
• U. Berger & C.Piou. From the behaviour of individuals to the spatial organization of a population: a case study of Ucides cordatus. Mangrove Macrobenthos Meeting 25.-30.6. 2006 Brisbane (Australien)
• Berger, U. (2004). From the trees to the forest: self-thinning as pattern forming process. ERF Meeting. 1.-6.8. Portland. USA.
• C. Piou, I.C. Feller, U. Berger, T. Chi (2004). Studying the effects of hurricane disturbances on simulated mangrove forests. INTECOL 2004. 25.-30.7. Utrecht, Niederlande.
• H. Hildenbrandt, U. Berger. (2004) Reineke’s rule and the 'Field-Of-Neighbourhood' to describe competition strength of mangrove trees. INTECOL 2004. 25.-30.7. Utrecht, Niederlande.
• Berger, U. (2003). About the age-related decline in net aboveground primary production of mangrove forests. Mangrove 2003 Conference. Salvador, Brasilien. 20.-24.5.
• Berger, U., Adams, M. (2003). Regeneração e Sucessão em Área de Manguezal Após Cultivo de Arroz -Bragança, PA. Mangrove 2003 Conference. Salvador, Brasilien. 20.-24.5.
• Berger, U., Hildenbrandt, H. (2003). About the age-related decline in net aboveground primary production of mangrove forests.  Jahrestagung der GfÖ. Halle. Sep. 2003
• Berger, U., Hildenbrandt, H. (2002). Towards the sustainable use and development of the Gulf of Batabanó. Havanna, Cuba. Cuban-German Workshop on the sustainable use of Batabanó. Sept.
• Berger, U. (2001). Forest population dynamics - analysis by means of simulation models. Bragança, Brasilien. Evaluierungsworkshop MADAM: 5.-7.9. 2001
• Berger, U. (2001). Forest Botany, Dendrochronology, Theoretical Ecology. Bragança, Brasilien. Evaluierungsworkshop MADAM: 5-7.9.2001
• Berger, U. (2000). Between gap and grid-based models: how many space requires a mangrove tree?.Jahrestagung Gesellschaft für Ökologie: Leipzig 29.02.-03.03.
• Berger, U. (2000). KiWi modelliert die Konkurrenz in Mangrovenwäldern . Meeresökologisches Symposium „Meer und Strand heute – Zur Ökologie von Flachgewässern“. Bremen.  29.-30.03.
• Berger, U. (2000). MADAM: The development of an integrated system for evaluating the ecological consequences of mangrove land-use. German-Brazilian Workshop on Neotropical Ecosystems. Achievements and Prospects of Cooperative Research: Hamburg 03.-08.09.
• Berger, U. (1999). Between ‘Gap’ and ‘Grid-Based’ models: how much space requires a mangrove tree?. New Orleans, U.S.A. 15th Biennial International  Conference ERF: 25.-30. June
• Berger, U. & Krause, G. (1998) Ökonomische und ökologische Modellkonzeption: Integrationswerkzeug im MADAM (Mangroven Dynamic and Management) Projekt, Nordbrasilien. Baltic Sea Science Conference, 23.-27.11.98.  Strahlsund.
• Saint-Paul, U & Berger, U. (1997). MADAM - the Approach of an Integrated Project on Mangrove Dynamics and Management. European Conference on Coastal Management Research of the European Science Foundation.
• Berger, U. (1997) Modular Modelling  what can we learn from the smallest parts? 3° Workshop Internacional Resumos, pp. 99-100.
• Berger, U. (1996) The metapopulation concept  an old story seen with new eyes. oral session. INTECOL`s V International Wetlands Conference, Perth, Australia. Abstract.
• Berger, U. (1995) A comparison of mobility values in grasshoppers. EURECO 95, 7th European Ecological Congress Budapest, Hungary. Abstract.

Others

• Berger, U. (2004) Musterorientiertes Modellieren zur Analyse von Nachbar-schaftsprozessen in Mangrovenwäldern. Habilitationsschrift. Vorgelegt beim Fachbereich Biologie / Chemie an der Universität Bremen
• Berger, U. & Jetschke, G. (1995) Modellansätze zur Mobilität und Ausbreitung kleiner Populationen in räumlich und zeitlich variabler Umwelt. Festschrift des Institutes für Ökologie der FSU Jena.
• Berger, U. (1992) Oberflächenmodifizierung ausgewählter Metalle zur Erzeugung festhaftender Verbundsysteme und deren Charakterisierung. Dissertation. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.