Desalegn Chala

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

12h-index562citations50works2.72yr avg
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Research Topics

Species Distribution and Climate Change(17), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(14), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(8), African Botany and Ecology Studies(7), Genetic diversity and population structure(5)

Publications50 total

Modeling and predicting land use / land cover dynamics in Borana National Park, southern Ethiopia
Environmental and Sustainability Indicators·2026Open Access
Vascular plant extinctions outpace colonizations under climate change
2025Open Access
FAIRification and AI-Readiness for Biodiversity Digital Twins
Biodiversity Information Science and Standards·2025Open Access
The Overlooked Link Between Different Resource Partitioning Strategies and Plant Species Richness in Tropical Alpine Ecosystems
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2025
TwinEco: A unified framework for dynamic data-driven digital twins in ecology
Ecological Informatics·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
From Pleistocene Corridors to Isolated Peaks and Back: Biogeography of <i>Afrocarduus</i> (Compositae) in the Afromontane Archipelago
Journal of Biogeography·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Alien plants and novel ecosystems in the Greater Tropics
Nature Reviews Biodiversity·2025· 3 cited
Genetic Diversity Is Not Correlated With Species Diversity: A Multispecies Study in a Continental Habitat Island System
Journal of Biogeography·2025Open Access
Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles
Scientific Data·2025· 19 citedOpen Access
Mapping suitable habitat and Anthropocene refugia for Ethiopian Guerezas: Insights for their conservation
Global Ecology and Conservation·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Implementing FAIR Agrobiodiversity Workflows for the Destination Earth Data Lake
2025Open Access
Ecological speciation with gene flow followed initial large‐scale geographic speciation in the enigmatic afroalpine giant senecios ( <i>Dendrosenecio</i> )
New Phytologist·2025· 8 citedOpen Access
Avifaunal Salience Correlates with Conservation Interest in the Indigenous Nuer Community, Western Ethiopia
Human Ecology·2025
Naturally formed canopy gaps increase tree species diversity in the tropical Moist Afromontane Forest of Gerba Dima, southwest Ethiopia
Forest Ecology and Management·2024· 2 cited
A blind beetle named Hitler? The case for changing offensive names of animals and plants, and how it can be done
2024Open Access
Stop using racist, unethical, and inappropriate names in taxonomy
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Nuer people have a sacred connection to birds – it can guide conservation in Ethiopia and South Sudan
2024
Birds as sacred ‘children of god’, beholders of spirit and symbols of twinhood: Human–bird interaction among the Nuer in western Ethiopia
People and Nature·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Dataspace Integration for Agrobiodiversity Digital Twins with RO-Crate
Biodiversity Information Science and Standards·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
TwinEco: A Unified Framework for Dynamic Data-Driven Digital Twins in Ecology
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Christian Brochmann(14), Abel Gizaw(10), Nils Chr. Stenseth(10), Dag Endresen(10), Jens‐Christian Svenning(8), Abebayehu Aticho(8), Afework Bekele(7), Dietmar Zinner(7), Sebsebe Demissew(7), Abebe Beyene(7), Shimelis Aynalem Zelelew(7), Vegar Bakkestuen(6), Erik Kusch(6), Gerald Eilu(5), Anagaw Atickem(5), Claus Weiland(5), Jonas Grieb(5), Tariku Mekonnen Gutema(5), Martha Kandziora(4), A. Lovisa S. Gustafsson(4)