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forest ecology, drought, protected areas, climate change, coniferous, deciduous forests
Germany, Romania, Switzerland, Greece

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Employment (4)

ETH Zurich: Zurich, CH

2024-06-01 to present | Established researcher (Department of Environmental System Sciences)
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Mirela Beloiu Schwenke

ETH Zurich: Zurich, CH

2022-06-01 to 2024-05-31 | Postdoctoral researcher (Department of Environmental System Sciences)
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Mirela Beloiu Schwenke

ETH Zurich: Zurich, CH

2021-09-01 to 2022-05-31 | Research assistant (Department of Environmental System Sciences)
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Mirela Beloiu Schwenke

University of Bayreuth: Bayreuth, Bayern, DE

2017-09-22 to 2021-08-31 | PHD Student (Biogeography)
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Mirela Beloiu Schwenke

Professional activities (1)

The 42nd Symposium of EARSeL (European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories): Bucharest, RO

2023-07-06 | The Young Scientist Award for the best oral presentation (1st prize)
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Funding (2)

Nowcasting, forecasting, upscaling - Novel avenues for forest vitality monitoring and anticipating forest dynamics (UPSCALE)

2024-02 to 2029-02 | Grant
Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern, CH)
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CRSII5_216562

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Mirela Beloiu Schwenke

Identifying tree species in RGB aerial images and terrestrial LiDAR using Deep Learning

2023-04 to 2027-04 | Grant
Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern, CH)
GRANT_NUMBER:

IZCOZ0_213355

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Mirela Beloiu Schwenke

Works (24)

deadtrees.earth: tree mortality monitoring from local to global scales with AI and remote sensing

2025-03-18 | Preprint
Contributors: Teja Kattenborn; Clemens Mosig; Janusch Vajna-Jehle; Yan Cheng; Henrik Hartmann; David Montero; Samuli Juntilla; Stéphanie Horion; Mirela Beloiu Schwenke; Miguel Mahecha
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Mapping Fractional Tree Mortality and Tree Cover at Global Scale Using Sentinel-1 and 2

2025-03-15 | Preprint
Contributors: Clemens Mosig; Miguel Mahecha; Yan Cheng; Janusch Jehle; Samuli Junttila; Henrik Hartmann; Stéphanie Horion; David Montero; Mirela Beloiu Schwenke; Teja Kattenborn
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High-resolution mapping of tree mortality in European forests

2025-01-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Yan Cheng; Stefan Oehmcke; Clemens Mosig; Beloiu Mirela; Teja Kattenborn; Christin Abel; Dimitri Gominski; Thomas Nord-Larsen; Rasmus Fensholt; Stephanie Horion
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A Review of Software Solutions to Process Ground-based Point Clouds in Forest Applications

Current Forestry Reports
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Murtiyoso, Arnadi; Cabo, Carlos; Singh, Arunima; Obaya, Dimas Pereira; Cherlet, Wout; Stoddart, Jaz; Fol, Cyprien Raymi; Schwenke, Mirela Beloiu; Rehush, Nataliia; Sterenczak, Krzysztof et al.
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Early-successional species show higher tolerance of drought than late-successional species across Europe

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Impact of Climate Warming and Disturbances on Forest Ecosystems

Impact of Climate Warming and Disturbances on Forest Ecosystems
2024 | Journal article
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Forest Functioning under Climate Warming and Future Perspectives on Forest Disturbances

Forests
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Petritan, Any Mary; Schwenke, Mirela Beloiu
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Leaf-level coordination principles propagate to the ecosystem scale

Research Square
2023 | Other
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2-s2.0-85167556318

Contributors: Gomarasca, U.; Migliavacca, M.; Kattge, J.; Nelson, J.A.; Niinemets, Ü.; Wirth, C.; Cescatti, A.; Bahn, M.; Nair, R.; Acosta, A.T.R. et al.
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Leaf-level coordination principles propagate to the ecosystem scale

Nature Communications
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85163976571

Part of ISSN: 20411723
Contributors: Gomarasca, U.; Migliavacca, M.; Kattge, J.; Nelson, J.A.; Niinemets, Ü.; Wirth, C.; Cescatti, A.; Bahn, M.; Nair, R.; Acosta, A.T.R. et al.
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Tree sapling vitality and recovery following the unprecedented 2018 drought in central Europe

Forest Ecosystems
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Mirela Beloiu Schwenke; Valeska Schönlau; Carl Beierkuhnlein
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Networking the forest infrastructure towards near real-time monitoring – A white paper

Science of The Total Environment
2023-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Roman Zweifel; Christoforos Pappas; Richard L. Peters; Flurin Babst; Daniel Balanzategui; David Basler; Ana Bastos; Mirela Beloiu; Nina Buchmann; Arun K. Bose et al.
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Individual Tree-Crown Detection and Species Identification in Heterogeneous Forests Using Aerial RGB Imagery and Deep Learning

Remote Sensing
2023-03-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Mirela Beloiu; Lucca Heinzmann; Nataliia Rehush; Arthur Gessler; Verena C. Griess
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Mapping tree species composition in a Caspian temperate mixed forest based on spectral-temporal metrics and machine learning

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
2023-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1569-8432
Contributors: Vahid Nasiri; Mirela Beloiu; Ali Asghar Darvishsefat; Verena C. Griess; Carmen Maftei; Lars T. Waser‬
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No treeline shift despite climate change over the last 70 years

Forest Ecosystems
2022-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2197-5620
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Mirela Beloiu Schwenke
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Drought impacts in forest canopy and deciduous tree saplings in Central European forests

Forest Ecology and Management
2022-04-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0378-1127
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Ericaceous vegetation of the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia will prevail in the face of climate change

Scientific Reports
2022-02-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2045-2322
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Mirela Beloiu Schwenke
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High species turnover and low intraspecific trait variation in endemic and non‐endemic plant species assemblages on an oceanic island

Journal of Vegetation Science
2022-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Dagmar Martina Hanz; Mirela Beloiu; Raja Wipfler; Carl Beierkuhnlein; Richard Field; Anke Jentsch; Ole Reidar Vetaas; Severin David Howard Irl; Francesco de Bello
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Ericaceous Vegetation of the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia Will Prevail in the Face of Climate Change.

Research Square
2021 | Other
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2-s2.0-85168170900

Contributors: Kidane, Y.O.; Hoffmann, S.; Jaeschke, A.; Beloiu, M.; Beierkuhnlein, C.
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Corrigendum

Global Change Biology
2021-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1354-1013
Part of ISSN: 1365-2486
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Mirela Beloiu Schwenke

TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

Global Change Biology
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85075196338

Part of ISSN: 13652486 13541013
Contributors: Kattge, J.; Bönisch, G.; Díaz, S.; Lavorel, S.; Prentice, I.C.; Leadley, P.; Tautenhahn, S.; Werner, G.D.A.; Aakala, T.; Abedi, M. et al.
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High Recovery of Saplings after Severe Drought in Temperate Deciduous Forests

Forests
2020-05-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Mirela Beloiu; Reinhold Stahlmann; Carl Beierkuhnlein
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TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

Global Change Biology
2019-12-31 | Journal article
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Mirela Beloiu Schwenke

Differences in the Spatial Structure of Two Pinus cembra L. Populations in the Carpathian Mountains

Forests
2019-04 | Journal article
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Mirela Beloiu Schwenke
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A review of European studies on pollination networks and pollen limitation, and a case study designed to fill in a gap

AoB PLANTS
2018-11-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2041-2851
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Mirela Beloiu Schwenke
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Peer review (10 reviews for 5 publications/grants)

Review activity for Environmental data science. (1)
Review activity for Forests. (5)
Review activity for Global change biology. (1)
Review activity for Land. (1)
Review activity for Sustainability. (2)