Dr. Joice Klipel

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C13.125
Fon +49.4131.677-2843, joice.klipel@leuphana.de
Research associate, Professorship of Vegetation Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation

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Vita

  • 2024- Present: Research Associate in Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
  • 2023-2024: Research fellow (Sustainable Development) in Technological Institute Vale, Brazil
  • 2019- 2023: PhD in Ecology at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • 2022- 2023: Sandwich PhD at Desertification Research Centre, CIDE-CSIC, Spain
  • 2017 – 2019: Master in Ecology at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • 2013 – 2016: Scientific Initiation Scholarship and field assistant in Atlantic Forest: vegetation survey, vegetation identification and sampling design at the Plant Ecology Laboratory (LEVEG- UFRGS)
  • 2012 – 2016: Undergraduate in Biology. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

Publications

Journal contributions

  1. Variation in wood density across South American tropical forests
    Joice Klipel (Author) , Martin J.P. Sullivan (Author) , Oliver L. Phillips (Author) , David Galbraith (Author) , Everton Almeida (Author) , Edmar Almeida de Oliveira (Author) , Jarcilene Almeida (Author) , Esteban Álvarez Dávila (Author) , Luciana F. Alves (Author) , Ana Andrade (Author) , Luiz Aragão (Author) , Alejandro Araujo-Murakami (Author) , Eric Arets (Author) , Luzmila Arroyo (Author) , Omar Aurelio Melo Cruz (Author) , Fabrício Baccaro (Author) , Timothy R. Baker (Author) , Olaf Banki (Author) , Christopher Baraloto (Author) , Jos Barlow (Author) , Jorcely Barroso (Author) , Erika Berenguer (Author) , Lilian Blanc (Author) , Cecilia Blundo (Author) , Damien Bonal (Author) , Frans Bongers (Author) , Kauane Maiara Bordin (Author) , Roel J.W. Brienen (Author) , Igor S. Broggio (Author) , Benoit Burban (Author) , George Cabral (Author) , José Luís Camargo (Author) , Domingos Cardoso (Author) , Maria Antonia Carniello (Author) , Wendeson Castro (Author) , Haroldo Cavalcante de Lima (Author) , Larissa Cavalheiro (Author) , Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro (Author) , Sonia Cesarina Palacios Ramos (Author) , Victor Chama Moscoso (Author) , Jerôme Chave (Author) , Fernanda Coelho (Author) , James A. Comiskey (Author) , Fernando Cornejo Valverde (Author) , Flávia Costa (Author) , Italo Antônio Cotta Coutinho (Author) , Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa (Author) , Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros (Author) , Jhon del Aguila Pasquel (Author) , Géraldine Derroire (Author) , 01.12.2025 , in: Nature Communications, 16, 1 , 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  2. Tall stature and small leaves: ecological strategies that enhance tree growth across the subtropical Brazilian Atlantic Forest
    Joice Klipel (Author) , Kauane Maiara Bordin (Author) , Marcus Vinicius Cianciaruso (Author) , Leandro da Silva Duarte (Author) , Rodrigo Scarton Bergamin (Author) , Rayana Caroline Picolotto (Author) , Davi da Cunha Morales (Author) , Pedro Higuchi (Author) , Ana Carolina da Silva (Author) , Elivane Salete Capellesso (Author) , Márcia C.M. Marques (Author) , Sandra Cristina Müller (Author) , 01.08.2025 , in: Oikos, 2025, 8 , 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  3. Temporal changes in taxonomic and functional alpha and beta diversity across tree communities in subtropical Atlantic forests
    Joice Klipel (Author) , Jean M. Freitag Kramer (Author) , Kauane Maiara Bordin (Author) , Rodrigo Scarton Bergamin (Author) , Rayana Caroline Picolotto (Author) , Katia Janaina Zanini (Author) , Victor P. Zwiener (Author) , Sandra C. Müller (Author) , 01.06.2025 , in: Oikos, 2025, 6 , 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  4. Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests
    Joice Klipel (Author) , Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez (Author) , Sami W. Rifai (Author) , Xiongjie Deng (Author) , Hans ter Steege (Author) , Eleanor Thomson (Author) , Jose Javier Corral-Rivas (Author) , Aretha Franklin Guimaraes (Author) , Sandra Muller (Author) , Sophie Fauset (Author) , Angelica F. Resende (Author) , Göran Wallin (Author) , Carlos A. Joly (Author) , Katharine Abernethy (Author) , Stephen Adu-Bredu (Author) , Celice Alexandre Silva (Author) , Edmar Almeida de Oliveira (Author) , Danilo R.A. Almeida (Author) , Esteban Alvarez-Davila (Author) , Gregory P. Asner (Author) , Timothy R. Baker (Author) , Maíra Benchimol (Author) , Lisa Patrick Bentley (Author) , Erika Berenguer (Author) , Lilian Blanc (Author) , Damien Bonal (Author) , Kauane Bordin (Author) , Robson Borges de Lima (Author) , Sabine Both (Author) , Jaime Cabezas Duarte (Author) , Domingos Cardoso (Author) , Haroldo C. de Lima (Author) , Larissa Cavalheiro (Author) , Lucas A. Cernusak (Author) , Nayane Cristina C. dos Santos Prestes (Author) , Antonio Carlos da Silva Zanzini (Author) , Ricardo José da Silva (Author) , Robson dos Santos Alves da Silva (Author) , Mariana de Andrade Iguatemy (Author) , Tony César De Sousa Oliveira (Author) , Benjamin Dechant (Author) , Géraldine Derroire (Author) , Kyle G. Dexter (Author) , Domingos J. Rodrigues (Author) , Mário Espírito-Santo (Author) , Letícia Fernandes Silva (Author) , Tomas Ferreira Domingues (Author) , Joice Ferreira (Author) , Marcelo Fragomeni Simon (Author) , Cécile A.J. Girardin (Author) , 01.05.2025 , in: Nature, 641, 8061 , p. 129-136 , 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  5. Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change
    Joice Klipel (Author) , Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez (Author) , Sandra Díaz (Author) , Sami W. Rifai (Author) , Jose Javier Corral-Rivas (Author) , Maria Guadalupe Nava-Miranda (Author) , Roy González-M (Author) , Ana Belén Hurtado-M (Author) , Norma Salinas Revilla (Author) , Emilio Vilanova (Author) , Everton Almeida (Author) , Edmar Almeida de Oliveira (Author) , Esteban Alvarez-Davila (Author) , Luciana F. Alves (Author) , Ana Cristina Segalin de Andrade (Author) , Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa (Author) , Simone Aparecida Vieira (Author) , Luiz Aragão (Author) , Eric Arets (Author) , Gerardo A. Aymard C (Author) , Fabrício Baccaro (Author) , Yvonne Vanessa Bakker (Author) , Timothy R. Baker (Author) , Olaf Bánki (Author) , Christopher Baraloto (Author) , Plínio Barbosa de Camargo (Author) , Erika Berenguer (Author) , Lilian Blanc (Author) , Damien Bonal (Author) , Frans Bongers (Author) , Kauane Maiara Bordin (Author) , Roel Brienen (Author) , Foster Brown (Author) , Nayane Cristina C.S. Prestes (Author) , Carolina V. Castilho (Author) , Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro (Author) , Fernanda Coelho de Souza (Author) , James A. Comiskey (Author) , Fernando Cornejo Valverde (Author) , Sandra Cristina Müller (Author) , Richarlly da Costa Silva (Author) , Julio Daniel do Vale (Author) , Vitor de Andrade Kamimura (Author) , Ricardo de Oliveira Perdiz (Author) , Jhon Del Aguila Pasquel (Author) , Géraldine Derroire (Author) , Anthony Di Fiore (Author) , Mathias Disney (Author) , William Farfan-Rios (Author) , Sophie Fauset (Author) , 07.03.2025 , in: Science (New York, N.Y.), 387, 6738

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. The use of functional traits in assessing productivity in natural ecosystems
    Joice Klipel (Author) , Kauane Maiara Bordin (Author) , Davi da Cunha Morales (Author) , Rodrigo Scarton Bergamin (Author) , Jean M. Freitag Kramer (Author) , Sandra Cristina Müller (Author) , Pedro Augusto Thomas (Author) , Milena Fermina Rosenfield (Author) , 01.01.2025 Amsterdam , p. 111-133 , 23 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research › peer-review

  2. Forests in the South Brazilian Grassland Region
    Joice Klipel (Author) , Rodrigo Scarton Bergamin (Author) , Martin Molz (Author) , Milena Fermina Rosenfield (Author) , Larissa Donida Biasotto (Author) , Joao André Jarenkow (Author) , 15.12.2023 1 ed. Cham , p. 385-415 , 31 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research › peer-review

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Courses

Field Exercise 2 - Introduction to Ecology (for GESS)
Joice Klipel
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Please note that the field exercises do not only differ in dates, but also in their topics and the study locations. For some exercises you will have to stay overnight, and for some exercises you need a bicycle.

You will learn basic field methods of vegetation ecology at different forest sites (setting up study plots, creating a vegetation survey, collecting leaf samples and measuring functional leaf characteristics).
With the help of this data, you will gain insights into different scales of biodiversity and the topic of functional ecology as a basis for understanding ecosystem functions and services.
Data analysis is carried out using the statistical program R.



Next appointment:
Friday, 2026-05-08 at 08:15
Room: C 12.009 Seminarraum
Laboratory exercise 1 - Introduction to Ecology (GESS)
Luzie Emilia Glock, Joice Klipel, N. N., Michael Staab, Sophia Carmel Turner, David Walmsley
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Please note that all lab groups will have the same four exercises (soil ecology, molecular ecology, animal ecology, vegetation ecology), but the dates of the four exercises are different for each group. You cannot switch between groups during the semester.

Experiments on autecology, population ecology and synecology. The students will carry out the experiments under supervision.
Ziel
Next appointment:
Monday, 2026-04-27 at 08:15
Room: C 13.109 Labor
Laboratory exercise 2 - Introduction to Ecology (GESS)
Luzie Emilia Glock, Joice Klipel, N. N., Michael Staab, Sophia Carmel Turner, David Walmsley
⌄
Please note that all lab groups will have the same four exercises (soil ecology, molecular ecology, animal ecology, vegetation ecology), but the dates of the four exercises are different for each group. You cannot switch between groups during the semester.

Experiments on autecology, population ecology and synecology. The students will carry out the experiments under supervision.
Ziel
Next appointment:
Monday, 2026-05-04 at 08:15
Room: C 13.109 Labor
Laboratory exercise 3 - Introduction to Ecology (GESS)
Luzie Emilia Glock, Joice Klipel, N. N., Michael Staab, Sophia Carmel Turner, David Walmsley
⌄
Please note that all lab groups will have the same four exercises (soil ecology, molecular ecology, animal ecology, vegetation ecology), but the dates of the four exercises are different for each group. You cannot switch between groups during the semester.

Experiments on autecology, population ecology and synecology. The students will carry out the experiments under supervision.
Ziel
Next appointment:
Monday, 2026-04-27 at 08:15
Room: C 13.120 Labor
Laboratory exercise 4 - Introduction to Ecology (GESS)
Luzie Emilia Glock, Joice Klipel, N. N., Michael Staab, Sophia Carmel Turner, David Walmsley
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Please note that all lab groups will have the same four exercises (soil ecology, molecular ecology, animal ecology, vegetation ecology), but the dates of the four exercises are different for each group. You cannot switch between groups during the semester.

Experiments on autecology, population ecology and synecology. The students will carry out the experiments under supervision.
Ziel
Next appointment:
Monday, 2026-05-04 at 08:15
Room: C 13.120 Labor
Laboratory exercise 5 - Introduction to Ecology
Luzie Emilia Glock, Joice Klipel, N. N., Michael Staab, Sophia Carmel Turner, David Walmsley
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Bitte beachten Sie, dass in allen Laborgruppen die gleichen vier Übungen (Bodenökologie, Molekulare Ökologie, Tierökologie, Vegetationsökologie) stattfinden, die Termine der vier Übungen jedoch bei jeder Gruppe unterschiedlich sind. Ein Wechsel zwischen den Gruppen während des Semesters ist nicht möglich.

Tierökologische Versuche zur Biodiversität. Die Versuche sind von den Studierenden unter Anleitung durchzuführen.
Next appointment:
Monday, 2026-04-27 at 08:15
Room: C 11.319 Seminarraum
Laboratory exercise 6 - Introduction to Ecology
Luzie Emilia Glock, Joice Klipel, N. N., Michael Staab, Sophia Carmel Turner, David Walmsley
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Bitte beachten Sie, dass in allen Laborgruppen die gleichen vier Übungen (Bodenökologie, Molekulare Ökologie, Tierökologie, Vegetationsökologie) stattfinden, die Termine der vier Übungen jedoch bei jeder Gruppe unterschiedlich sind. Ein Wechsel zwischen den Gruppen während des Semesters ist nicht möglich.

Tierökologische Versuche zur Biodiversität. Die Versuche sind von den Studierenden unter Anleitung durchzuführen.
Next appointment:
Monday, 2026-05-04 at 08:15
Room: C 11.319 Seminarraum
Laboratory exercise 7 - Introduction to Ecology
Luzie Emilia Glock, Joice Klipel, N. N., Michael Staab, Sophia Carmel Turner, David Walmsley
⌄
Bitte beachten Sie, dass in allen Laborgruppen die gleichen vier Übungen (Bodenökologie, Molekulare Ökologie, Tierökologie, Vegetationsökologie) stattfinden, die Termine der vier Übungen jedoch bei jeder Gruppe unterschiedlich sind. Ein Wechsel zwischen den Gruppen während des Semesters ist nicht möglich.

Tierökologische Versuche zur Biodiversität. Die Versuche sind von den Studierenden unter Anleitung durchzuführen.
Next appointment:
Monday, 2026-04-27 at 08:15
Room: C 13.107 Labor
Laboratory exercise 8 - Introduction to Ecology
Luzie Emilia Glock, Joice Klipel, N. N., Michael Staab, Sophia Carmel Turner, David Walmsley
⌄
Bitte beachten Sie, dass in allen Laborgruppen die gleichen vier Übungen (Bodenökologie, Molekulare Ökologie, Tierökologie, Vegetationsökologie) stattfinden, die Termine der vier Übungen jedoch bei jeder Gruppe unterschiedlich sind. Ein Wechsel zwischen den Gruppen während des Semesters ist nicht möglich.

Tierökologische Versuche zur Biodiversität. Die Versuche sind von den Studierenden unter Anleitung durchzuführen.
Next appointment:
Monday, 2026-05-04 at 08:15
Room: C 13.107 Labor