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Dr. Florian Wilken

Postdoc
Water and Soil Resource Research
Phone: +49 821 598 2753
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Room: 2025 (B)
Address: Alter Postweg 118, 86159 Augsburg

Curriculum Vitae

Florian is a post-doc working in the field of soil system dynamics. His specific interests are the role and drivers of soil degradation on ecosystem services. Florians research is mainly located in central Africa (DRC, Uganda, Rwanda), India and Europe. Florians expertise covers a wide range of methods including remote sensing and numerical modelling.
 

since 2021    Senior researcher and administrative coordinator of EU project SOPLAS

2019-2021    Split post-doc position at University Augsburg and ETH Zürich

2017-2019    Post-doc at University Augsburg 
2014-2017    PhD at University Augsburg in cooperation with GFZ Potsdam and Leibniz-ZALF 
2008-2013    BSc and MSc in Physical Geography at University of Cologne

Research foci

  • Soil system dynamics
  • Soil degradation
  • Biogeochemical cycling
  • Remote and proximal soil sensing
  • Hydrological and sedimentological modelling
  • Macro and micro plastic in soils

Courses / Teaching

No courses available.


For teaching activities see

 

SoSe 2023

Übung Boden- und Wasserressourcen

Übung zu GIS/Kartographie I 

Proseminar zur Vorlesung: Physische Geographie 2

 

WS 2022/23

Boden- und Wasserressoucen Literaturseminar

Übung: Dezentraler Hochwasserschutz - von der Geländemessung zur Modellabschätzung

Vorlesung Angewandte Bodenkunde

Vorlesung Spezielle Methoden der Physischen Geographie

 

SoSe 2022

Übung Boden- und Wasserressourcen - Practical course: soil and water resources

 

WS 2021/22

Boden- und Wasserressourcen (S) - soil and water resources (seminar)

Spezielle Methoden der Physischen Geographie

 

WS 2020/21

Boden- und Wasserressourcen (S) - soil and water resources (S)

GIS basierte Bodenerosionsmodellierung als Basis für das Boden- und Wasserressourcenmanagement

Spezielle Methoden der Physischen Geographie

 

SeSo 2020

Grundlagen der Einzugsgebietsanalyse mit GIS

 

WS 2019/20
Vom Punkt in die Fläche 
Vorlesung Spezielle Methoden der Physischen Geographie

 
SoSe 2019
Geländepraktikum - Seminar zur Feldbodenkunde 
GIS basierte Bodenerosionsmodellierung als Basis für das Boden- und Wasserressourcenmanagement - GIS based soil erosion modelling for soil and water resources management 


WS 2018/19
Angewandte Bodenkunde 
Boden- und Wasserressourcen (Begleitseminar) - Soil and water resources (course) 
Labormethoden 
Vom Punkt in die Fläche – GIS basierte Interpolationsverfahren 


SoSe 2018
Angepasstes landwirtschaftliches Management und Sturzflutrisiko - Feldmessungen, GIS-Analysen und Modellierung - Smart agricultural management to reduce local flood risk - field measurements, GIS analysis & modelling 

Proseminar zur Vorlesung: Physische Geographie 2
Proseminar zur Vorlesung: Physische Geographie 2

 

WS 2017/18
Einführung in die GIS basierte Modellierung 
Labormethoden (Wilken) 
Proseminar zur Vorlesung: Physische Geographie 1
Proseminar zur Vorlesung: Physische Geographie 1


SoSe 2015
NF Bodenkunde: Themen der Bodengeographie 

Publications

2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2012

2025
Reichenbach, Mario, Dötterl, Sebastian, Van Oost, Kristof, Wilken, Florian, Muhindo, Daniel, Bamba, Fernando, Fiener, Peter (2025): Low but highly variable soil organic carbon stocks across deeply weathered eroding and depositional tropical landforms. CATENA, 254, 108971. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2025.108971
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Muhindo, Daniel, Lelei, Joyce J., Munyahali, Wivine, Cizungu, Landry, Doetterl, Sebastian, Wilken, Florian, Bagula, Espoir, Okole, Nathan, Rewald, Boris, Mwonga, Samuel (2025): Paddy rice traits estimation under varying management strategies using UAV technology. Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment, 8(1), e70047. https://doi.org/10.1002/agg2.70047
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Juřicová, Anna, Öttl, Lena Katharina, Wilken, Florian, Chuman, Tomáš, Žížala, Daniel, Minařík, Robert, Fiener, Peter (2025): Tillage erosion as an underestimated driver of carbon dynamics. Soil and Tillage Research, 245, 106287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2024.106287
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2024
Öttl, Lena Katharina, Wilken, Florian, Juřicová, Anna, Velloso Gomes Batista, Pedro, Fiener, Peter (2024): A millennium of arable land use – the long-term impact of tillage and water erosion on landscape-scale carbon dynamics. SOIL, 10(1), 281-305. https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-10-281-2024
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Maqbool, Ahsan, Guzmán, Gema, Fiener, Peter, Wilken, Florian, Soriano, María-Auxiliadora, Gómez, José A. (2024): Tracing macroplastics redistribution and fragmentation by tillage translocation. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 447, 135318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.135318
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2023
Batista, Pedro V. G., da S. Baptista, Victor B., Wilken, Florian, Seufferheld, Kay, Quinton, John N., Fiener, Peter (2023): First evidence of widespread, severe soil erosion underneath centre-pivot irrigation systems. Science of The Total Environment, 888, 164119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164119
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2022
Öttl, Lena K., Wilken, Florian, Hupfer, A., Sommer, M., Fiener, Peter (2022): Non-inversion conservation tillage as an underestimated driver of tillage erosion. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 20704. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24749-7
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2021
Wilken, Florian, Fiener, Peter, Ketterer, Michael, Meusburger, Katrin, Muhindo, Daniel Iragi, van Oost, Kristof, Doetterl, Sebastian (2021): Assessing soil erosion of forest and cropland sites in wet tropical Africa using 239+240Pu fallout radionuclides. SOIL, 7, 399-414. https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-399-2021
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Fiener, Peter, Wilken, Florian (2021): Bodenerosion in Mitteleuropa - Auswirkungen des Klima- und Landmanagementwandels. In J. L. Lozán, S.-W. Breckle, H. Graßl, D. Kasang (Eds.): Warnsignal Klima: Boden & Landnutzung (pp. 94-100). Wissenschaftliche Auswertung. https://doi.org/10.25592/warnsignal.klima.boden-landnutzung.13
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van Wesemael, Bas, Chabrillat, Sabine, Wilken, Florian (2021): High-spectral resolution remote sensing of soil organic carbon dynamics. Remote Sensing, 13(7), 1293. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13071293
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Bartlett, Jesamine C., Westergaard, Kristine Bakke, Paulsen, Ingrid M. G., Wedegärtner, Ronja E. M., Wilken, Florian, Ravolainen, Virve (2021): Moving out of town? The status of alien plants in high‐Arctic Svalbard, and a method for monitoring of alien flora in high‐risk, polar environments. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2(1), e12056. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12056
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Corrigendum published at https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2688-8319.12066
Doetterl, Sebastian, Asifiwe, Rodrigue K., Baert, Geert, Bamba, Fernando, Bauters, Marijn, Boeckx, Pascal, Bukombe, Benjamin, Cadisch, Georg, Cooper, Matthew, Cizungu, Landry N., Hoyt, Alison, Kabaseke, Clovis, Kalbitz, Karsten, Kidinda, Laurent, Maier, Annina, Mainka, Moritz, Mayrock, Julia, Muhindo, Daniel, Mujinya, Basile B., Mukotanyi, Serge M., Nabahungu, Leon, Reichenbach, Mario, Rewald, Boris, Six, Johan, Stegmann, Anna, Summerauer, Laura, Unseld, Robin, Vanlauwe, Bernard, Van Oost, Kristof, Verheyen, Kris, Vogel, Cordula, Wilken, Florian, Fiener, Peter (2021): Organic matter cycling along geochemical, geomorphic, and disturbance gradients in forest and cropland of the African Tropics – project TropSOC database version 1.0. Earth System Science Data, 13(8), 4133-4153. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4133-2021
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Öttl, Lena Katharina, Wilken, Florian, Auerswald, Karl, Sommer, Michael, Wehrhan, Marc, Fiener, Peter (2021): Tillage erosion as an important driver of in‐field biomass patterns in an intensively used hummocky landscape. Land Degradation & Development, 32(10), 3077-3091. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3968
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2020
Fiener, Peter, Dostál, Tomáš, Krása, Josef, Schmaltz, Elmar, Strauss, Peter, Wilken, Florian (2020): Operational USLE-based modelling of soil erosion in Czech Republic, Austria, and Bavaria - differences in model adaptation, parametrization, and data availability. Applied Sciences, 10(10), 3647. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10103647
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Wilken, Florian, Ketterer, Michael, Koszinski, Sylvia, Sommer, Michael, Fiener, Peter (2020): Understanding the role of water and tillage erosion from 239+240Pu tracer measurements using inverse modelling. SOIL, 6, 549-564. https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2020-22
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Baartman, Jantiene E. M., Nunes, João Pedro, Masselink, Rens, Darboux, Frédéric, Bielders, Charles, Degré, Aurore, Cantreul, Vincent, Cerdan, Olivier, Grangeon, Thomas, Fiener, Peter, Wilken, Florian, Schindewolf, Marcus, Wainwright, John (2020): What do models tell us about water and sediment connectivity?. Geomorphology, 367, 107300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107300
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2019
Zhang, He, Aldana-Jague, Emilien, Clapuyt, François, Wilken, Florian, Vanacker, Veerle, Van Oost, Kristof (2019): Evaluating the potential of post-processing kinematic (PPK) georeferencing for UAV-based structure- from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry and surface change detection. Earth Surface Dynamics, 7(3), 807-827. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-807-2019
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Fiener, Peter, Wilken, Florian, Auerswald, Karl (2019): Filling the gap between plot and landscape scale – eight years of soil erosion monitoring in 14 adjacent watersheds under soil conservation at Scheyern, Southern Germany. Advances in Geosciences, 48, 31-48. https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-48-31-2019
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2018
Heinrich, Ingo, Balanzategui, Daniel, Bens, Oliver, Blasch, Gerald, Blume, Theresa, Böttcher, Falk, Borg, Erik, Brademann, Brian, Brauer, Achim, Conrad, Christopher, Dietze, Elisabeth, Dräger, Nadine, Fiener, Peter, Gerke, Horst H., Güntner, Andreas, Heine, Iris, Helle, Gerhard, Herbrich, Marcus, Harfenmeister, Katharina, Heußner, Karl-Uwe, Hohmann, Christian, Itzerott, Sibylle, Jurasinski, Gerald, Kaiser, Knut, Kappler, Christoph, Koebsch, Franziska, Liebner, Susanne, Lischeid, Gunnar, Merz, Bruno, Missling, Klaus Dieter, Morgner, Markus, Pinkerneil, Sylvia, Plessen, Birgit, Raab, Thomas, Ruhtz, Thomas, Sachs, Torsten, Sommer, Michael, Spengler, Daniel, Stender, Vivien, Stüve, Peter, Wilken, Florian (2018): Interdisciplinary geo-ecological research across time scales in the northeast German lowland observatory (TERENO-NE). Vadose Zone Journal, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.2136/vzj2018.06.0116
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Fiener, Peter, Wilken, Florian, Aldana-Jague, E., Deumlich, D., Gómez, J. A., Guzmán, G., Hardy, R. A., Quinton, J. N., Sommer, M., Van Oost, K., Wexler, R. (2018): Uncertainties in assessing tillage erosion – how appropriate are our measuring techniques?. Geomorphology, 304, 214-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.12.031
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Wilken, Florian, Baur, Martin, Sommer, Michael, Deumlich, Detlef, Bens, Oliver, Fiener, Peter (2018): Uncertainties in rainfall kinetic energy-intensity relations for soil erosion modelling. CATENA, 171, 234-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2018.07.002
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2017
Wilken, Florian, Fiener, Peter, Van Oost, Kristof (2017): Modelling a century of soil redistribution processes and carbon delivery from small watersheds using a multi-class sediment transport model. Earth Surface Dynamics, 5(1), 113-124. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-5-113-2017
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Wilken, Florian, Sommer, Michael, Van Oost, Kristof, Bens, Oliver, Fiener, Peter (2017): Process-oriented modelling to identify main drivers of erosion-induced carbon fluxes. SOIL, 3(2), 83-94. https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-3-83-2017
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Wilken, Florian, Wagner, P. D., Narasimhan, B., Fiener, Peter (2017): Spatio-temporal patterns of land use and cropping frequency in a tropical catchment of South India. Applied Geography, 89, 124-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.10.011
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Wilken, Florian (2017): Uncertainties in measuring and modelling erosion-induced soil organic carbon dynamics in arable landscapes. Dissertation, Universität Augsburg.
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2016
Attermeyer, K., Flury, S., Jayakumar, R., Fiener, Peter, Steger, K., Arya, V., Wilken, Florian, van Geldern, R., Premke, K. (2016): Invasive floating macrophytes reduce greenhouse gas emissions from a small tropical lake. Scientific Reports, 6, e20424. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep20424
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Reichenau, Tim G., Korres, Wolfgang, Montzka, Carsten, Fiener, Peter, Wilken, Florian, Stadler, Anja, Waldhoff, Guido, Schneider, Karl (2016): Spatial heterogeneity of Leaf Area Index (LAI) and its temporal course on arable land: combining field measurements, remote sensing and simulation in a Comprehensive Data Analysis Approach (CDAA). PLoS ONE, 11(7), e0158451. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158451
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2012
Wagner, Paul D., Fiener, Peter, Wilken, Florian, Kumar, Shamita, Schneider, Karl (2012): Comparison and evaluation of spatial interpolation schemes for daily rainfall in data scarce regions. Journal of Hydrology, 464-465, 388-400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.07.026
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