Alois Simon
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Alois Simon M.Sc.
Institute of Forest Ecology
Location Peter-Jordan-Straße 82, 1190 Wien
Email alois.simon@boku.ac.at
ORCID: 0000-0002-6718-7354
https://github.com/simonalois: persönliche Webseite
Research Focus
Since the beginning of my scientific career, my work has focussed on forest site ecology in mountain forests.
My scientific work covers various current topics and methods in forest site ecology. This includes bioclimatic and elevation zonation studies, site analysis for tree regeneration, and spatial and temporal modelling of soil properties and species distributions for forest site information systems. Thereby, I work at different spatial scales of field recording and modelling, from microsites to stand level. I am familiar with most of the forest site classification systems used in the German-speaking and alpine regions and have extensive practical mapping experience.
In the Department o Forest Planning of the Tyrolean Forestry Service at the Office of the Tyrolean Government, I´m leading the team for forest site classification and site ecology. One of the main achievements of my work is the production of the Tyrolean Forest Site Classification Map, which has been running for more than 10 years. I am particularly interested in the continuous development of basic data, planning and management tools as well as in the education and training of forestry professionals in the field of site-specific silviculture and tree species selection.
List of projects as scientific project manager (PI) 2024 - 2026 Austrian Acadamy of Sciences. PI of the Office of the Tyrolean Government, forest division 2023 - 2025 INTERREG IVA Project: WINALP21. PI of the Office of the Tyrolean Government, forest division 2019 - 2022 European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development Project: Preparation of fundamental data to assess potential natural habitats. PI of the Office of the Tyrolean Government, forest division 2017 - 2020 INTERREG IVA Project: BASCH. PI of the Office of the Tyrolean Government, forest division 2016 - 2020 INTERREG Alpine Space Project: LINKS4SOILS. PI of the Office of the Tyrolean Government, forest division 2012 - 2015 European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development Project: Innovative classification of forest sites. PI of the Office of the Tyrolean Government, forest division
Career
- 2024 Institut of Ecology, Lecturer (University of Innsbruck)
- 2023 Institute of Forest Ecology, Guest researcher and Lecturer (BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
- 2022 cooperation in the KLIMNEM-Project for post-doctorate references and extension of research portfolio in Patagonia, Argentina (HAWK - Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst Göttingen)
- 2011 permanent employee as expert for forest site ecology and close to nature management of mountain forests, head of the team for forest site classification (Provincial Government Tyrol Forest)
- 2010 - 2023 Master program, „Applied Geoinformatics“, degree: MSc., Master thesis: Integration of hierarchical levels of extent and scale for tree species distribution models (Universität Salzburg, Interfakultärer Fachbereich für Geoinformatik - Z_GIS)
- 2016 - 2021 PhD program, degree: Dr.nat.techn., cumulative Doctoral thesis: Spatial Modelling Methods for Forest Site Classification in Mountain Areas: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
- 2007 - 2011 Master program, „Forest Sciences“, degree: Dipl.-Ing., Master thesis: The influence of windthrow microsites on tree regeneration in a Mountain old growth forest (BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
Awards
- Year: 2022 Awards: Walter Kubiena Preis der Österreichischen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft
Projects
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Publications
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Lectures
Year: 2024 - The integration of levels of extent and scale in tree species distribution models of Abies alba (Mill.) and Fagus sylvatica (L.) in mountain forests
Autoren: Simon, Alois; Katzensteiner, Klaus; Wallentin Gudrun
Event: IUFRO World Congress 2024 Session: Forest biodiversity indicators: challenges for science and policy
Year: 2024 - Climatic gradients and Microclimatic variations of temperate forests in northern Patagonia, Argentina
Autoren: Simon, Alois; Reiter, Ernesto; Fierke Jonas; Walentowski, Helge
Event: IUFRO World Congress 2024 Session: Forest biodiversity indicators: challenges for science and policy
Year: 2023 - Advancing Forest Ecosystem Modelling: Compilation of reference soil profiles for Tyrolean Forests based on Subsolum Geological Substrates
Autoren: Bischofer, L; van Galen, E; Katzensteiner, K; Simon, A
Event: Annual Meeting of the Austrian Soil Science Society 2023
Year: 2021 - On the role of parent material for predictive mapping of soil properties in mountain forests
Autoren: Simon, A; Wilhelmy, M; Klosterhuber, R; Cocuzza, E; Geitner, C; Katzensteiner, K
Event: Bridging between Earth Science disciplines: Participatory Citizen Science and Open Science as a way to go – European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2021
Year: 2021 - Modelling climate-sensitive forest succession to assess impacts of climate change and support decision making
Autoren: Simon, Alois
Event: Geoinformatic Forum Symposium 2021
Year: 2019 - A framework for predictive mapping of forest soil properties in mountain areas
Autoren: Simon, A; Geitner, C; Katzensteiner, K
Event: The International Society for Ecological Modeling Global Conference 2019
Year: 2018 - Potential & Entwicklung von Naturverjüngung unter ungünstigen Standortsbedingungen.
Autoren: Simon, A
Event: Bundesschutzwaldplattform 2018
Year: 2017 - Soils characterisation along ecological forest zones in the Eastern Himalayas
Autoren: Simon, A; Dhendup, K; Rai, P.B.; Gratzer, G
Event: EGU 2017
Year: 2016 - Forstliche Rahmenplanung und Standortsinformation in Schutzwaldprojekten - ein Lösungsansatz für zukünftige Herausforderungen.
Autoren: Simon, A; Kreiner, M
Event: Sektionsökologentagung. Wildbach- und Lawinenverbauung Österreich (WLV). BMLFUW
Year: 2015 - Schutzwaldausweisung - Hinweise aus der Standortskunde
Autoren: Simon, A
Event: Bundesschutzwaldplattform 2015