Michael Rzanny
room: C3.005 (tower) phone: +49 3641 57 6222 email: mrzanny(at)bgc-jena.mpg.de
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Professional background | Actual Projects at BGI | Research interests | Publications
Professional background
since 2017 Postdoc at Department Biogeochemical Integration, MPI-BGC, Jena
Flora Incognita
2014 - 2017 Postdoc at Emeritus Group Carbon Balance and Ecosystem Research, MPI-BGC, Jena
Flora Incognita
2012 - 2014 Scientist at Department of Forest Sciences, TU Dresden, Tharandt
Impact of management strategies on naturaless and biodiversity of lowland beech forests
2008 - 2014 PhD student at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
Functional groups of grassland arthropods - a tool to scale up ecological communities
Actual Projects at BGI
Flora Incognita - Interactive Plant Species Identification with Mobile Devices
Research Interests:
- Automated species mapping
- Species distribution modeling
- Automated image classification
- Large scale plant - environment relationships
- Ecosystem models - from functional traits to functional groups
- Effects of forest management strategies on communities in lowland beech forests
Publications
- Schmid, B., Schmitz, M., Rzanny, M., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Mwangi, P.N., Weisser, W. W., Hector, A., Schmid, R. & Flynn, D.F.B. (2022). Removing subordinate species in a biodiversity experiment to mimic observational field studies. Grassland Research. 1:1 53:62. pdf
- Katal, N., Rzanny, M., Mäder, P. & Wäldchen, J. (2022). Deep Learning in Plant Phenological Research: A Systematic Literature Review. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13:805738. pdf
- Rzanny, M., Wittich, H.C., Mäder, P., Deggelmann, A., Boho, D. & Wäldchen, J. (2022). Image-based automated recognition of 31 Poaceae species: The most relevant perspectives. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12:804140. pdf
- Mahecha, M., Rzanny, M., Kraemer, G., Mäder, P., Seeland, M. & Wäldchen J. (2021). Crowd-sourced plant occurrence data provide a reliable description of macroecological gradients. Ecography, 44:1131-1142. pdf
- Mäder, P., Boho, D., Rzanny, M., Seeland, M., Wittich, H. C., Deggelmann, A. & Wäldchen, J. (2021). The Flora Incognita app – interactive plant species identification. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12:1335–1342. pdf
- Boho, D., Rzanny, M., Wäldchen, J., Nitsche, F., Deggelmann, A, Wittich, H.C., Seeland, M. & Mäder, P. (2020). Flora Capture: a citizen science application for collecting structured plant observations. BMC Bioinformatics.21: 576. pdf
- Rzanny, M., Mäder, P., Deggelmann A., Chen, M. & Wäldchen J. (2019). Flowers, leaves or both? How to obtain suitable images for automated plant identification. Plant Methods. 15:77. pdf
- Winter, S., Zaplata, M.C ., Rzanny, M., Schaaf, W., Fischer, A. & Ulrich, W. (2019). Increasing ecological multifunctionality during early plant succession. Plant Ecol. 220(4-5). link
- Giling, D., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Meyer, S., Roscher, C., Rzanny, M., Voigt, W., Weisser, W. & Hines, J. (2019). Plant diversity alters the representation of motifs in food webs. Nature Communications, 10(1226).pdf
- Hines J., Giling, D., Rzanny, M., Voigt, W., Meyer, S., Weisser, W., Eisenhauer, N. & Ebeling, A. (2019). A meta- food web for invertebrate species collected in a European grassland. Ecology. 100(6).link
- Seeland M., Rzanny M., Boho D., Wäldchen J., Mäder P. (2019) Image-based classification of plant genus and family for trained and untrained plant species. BMC Bioinformatics. 20(4). pdf
- Wittich, H. C., Seeland, M., Wäldchen, J., Rzanny, M., Mäder, P. (2018). Recommending plant taxa for supporting on-site species identification. BMC Bioinformatics. 19(190). pdf
- Wäldchen, J, Rzanny, M., Seeland, M., Mäder, P. (2018). Automated plant species identification—Trends and future directions. PLOS Computational Biology, 14(4). pdf
- Ebeling, A. Rzanny, M., Lange, M., Eisenhauer, N., Hertzog, L. R., Meyer, S. T. & Weisser, W.W. (2018). Plant diversity induces shifts in the functional structure and diversity across trophic levels. Oikos 127(2): 208-219. link
- Rzanny, M.., Seeland, M., Wäldchen, J., Mäder, P. (2017). Acquiring and preprocessing leaf images for automated plant identification: understanding the tradeoff between effort and information gain. Plant Methods 13:97. pdf
- Seeland, M., Rzanny, M., Alaqraa, N., Wäldchen, J. & Mäder, P. (2017): Plant species classification using flower images—A comparative study of local feature representations. PLOS ONE 12 (2). pdf
- Wäldchen, J., Thuille A., Seeland, M., Rzanny, M., Schulze E.-D., Boho, D., Alaqraa, N., Hofmann, M. & Mäder, P. (2016) Flora Incognita – Halbautomatische Bestimmung der Pflanzenarten Thüringens mit dem Smartphone. Landschaftspflege und Naturschutz in Thüringen 53 (3): 121–125. pdf
- Seeland, M., Rzanny, M., Alaqraa, N., Thuille, A., Boho, D., Wäldchen, J. & Mäder, P. (2016) Description of Flower Colors for Image based Plant Species Classification. in: Proc. 22nd German Color Workshop (FWS), Ilmenau, Germany, pp. 145-1154, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-00-053918-3, Eds. K.-H. Franke, R. Nestler. pdf
- Begehold, H., Rzanny, M., & Winter, S. (2016) Patch patterns of lowland beech forests in a gradient of management intensity. Forest Ecology and Management 360: 69-79. link
- Winter, S., Begehold H., Herrmann M., Lüderitz, M., Möller, G., Rzanny, M. & Flade, M. (2015) Praxishandbuch – Naturschutz im Buchenwald. Naturschutzziele und Bewirtschaftungsempfehlungen für reife Buchenwälder Nordostdeutschlands. Hrsg.: Ministerium für Ländliche Entwicklung, Umwelt und Landwirtschaft Brandenburg . ISBN 978-3-00-051827-0. link
- Beyer, A., Rzanny, M., M., Weist, A., Möller, S., Burow, K., Gutmann, F., Neumann, S., Lindner, J., Müsse, S., Brangsch, H., Stoiber-Lipp, J., Lonschinski, M., Merten, D., Büchel, G. & Kothe, E. (2015) Aquifer community structure in dependence of lithostratigraphy in groundwater reservoirs. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 22: 19342-19351. link
- Winter, S., Lüderitz, M. & Rzanny, M. (2015) Unterirdische Kontinuität und Pilzvielfalt alter Waldstandorte. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen 166: 83–90. link
- Begehold, H., Rzanny, M., & Flade, M. (2015) Forest development phases as an integrating tool to describe habitat preferences of breeding birds in lowland beech forests. Journal of Ornithology 156: 19-29. link
- Rzanny, M., Kuu, A. & Voigt W. (2013) Bottom-up and top-down forces structuring consumer communities in an experimental grassland. Oikos 122: 967-976. link
- Rzanny, M. and Voigt W. (2012) Complexity of multitrophic interactions in a grassland ecosystem depends on plant species diversity. Journal of Animal Ecology 81: 614-627. link
- Schmidt, A., Rzanny, M., Schmidt, A., Hagen, M. & Kothe, E. (2012) GC content-independent amino acid patterns in bacteria and archaea, Journal of Basic Microbiology 52: 195-205. link