Prof. Dr. Ana Stritih – Chair of Modelling of Social-Ecological Systems

Curriculum Vitae

Since 03/2025: Junior professor, Modelling of Social-Ecological Systems, University of Freiburg
10/2021 – 03/2025: Postdoc, Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest Management in Mountain Landscapes, Technical University of Munich and Berchtesgaden National Park
06/2021: Doctorate, ETH Zürich
12/2015 – 07/2021: Research and teaching assistant at ETH Zürich, Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems
2015: Master of Science in Environmental Science, ETH Zürich
2013: Bachelor of Science in Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, University of Ljubljana

Research

Teaching

Publications

Stritih, A., Lecina-Diaz, J., Mohr, J., Schattenberg, C., Ammer, C., Anselmetto, N., Bauhus, J., Bončina, A., Garbarino, M., Hlásny, T., Lindner, M., Lingua, E., Knific, E., Krüger, K., Marangon, D., Morresi, D., Mulec, K., Nagel, T.A., Potterf, M., Stritih, J., Thom, D., Welling, D., Seidl, R., 2026. Can “Closer-to-Nature” Forest Management Sustain Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in an Uncertain Future? Lessons from Central Europe. Curr. For. Rep. 12, 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40725-025-00264-6
Krüger, K., Fischer, F.J., Stritih, A., Klemmt, H.-J., Seidl, R., 2026. Managing the future: Post-disturbance forest recovery across management types in Central Europe. Forest Ecology and Management 608, 123616. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123616
Potterf, M., Schattenberg, C., Krüger, K., Hochholzer, K., Rammer, W., Grünig, M., Braziunas, K.H., Dollinger, C., Erhardt, A., Gégout, J.-C., Geres, L., Greiner, S., Hlásny, T., Huber, A., Kerber, J., Lecina-Diaz, J., Mandl, L., Modlinger, R., Mohr, J.S., Müller, J., Mazón, M.M., Pinto, P.E., Richter, T., Seibold, S., Senf, C., Serra-Diaz, J.M., Stritih, A., Thom, D., Viana-Soto, A., Zou, J., Seidl, R., 2026. Tree Regeneration After Unprecedented Forest Disturbances in Central Europe Is Robust but Maladapted to Future Climate Change. Global Change Biology 32, e70734. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70734
Mandl, L., Stritih, A., Seidl, R., Senf, C., 2026. The role of thermal constraints in post-disturbance forest recovery across the European Alps – a large-scale remote sensing study. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 378, 111016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2026.111016
Stritih, A., Brouillet, C., Habe, M., Salliou, N., Singer, G., Scaini, A., 2025. Can a Science Week empower scientists for conservation advocacy? Environmental Science & Policy 170, 104098. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104098
Matta, R., Stritih, A., Lecina-Diaz, J., 2025. Identifying wind and bark beetle disturbance predictors across German forests. Ecological Indicators 179, 114248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.114248
Stritih, A., Senf, C., Marsoner, T., & Seidl, R. (2024). Mapping the natural disturbance risk to protective forests across the European Alps. Journal of Environmental Management, 366(July), 121659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121659
Stritih, A.,Senf, C., Kuemmerle, T., Munteanu, C., Dzadzamia, L., Stritih, J., Matijašić, D., Cortner, O., & Seidl, R. (2024). Same, but different: similar states of forest structure in temperate mountain regions of Europe despite different social-ecological forest disturbance regimes. Landscape Ecology, 39(6), 114. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01908-x
Mandl, L., Viana-Soto, A., Seidl, R., Stritih, A., & Senf, C. (2024). Unmixing-based forest recovery indicators for predicting long-term recovery success. Remote Sensing of Environment, 308(May), 114194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114194
Felipe-Lucia, M. R., de Frutos, Á., Crouzat, E., Grescho, V., Heuschele, J. M., Marselle, M., Heurich, M., Pöpperl, F., Porst, F., Portela, A. P., Rossi, C., Carvalho-Santos, C., Stritih, A., Vaz, A. S., & Bonn, A. (2024). Differences in the experience of cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas by clusters of visitors. Ecosystem Services, 70, 101663. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101663
Schattenberg, C., Stritih, A., Thom, D. 2024. More water, less light: Conversion of Norway spruce monocultures to mixed stands by seeding silver fir in a semi-dry region of Germany. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research, cpad069, https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpad069
Stritih A., Seidl R., Senf C. 2023. Alternative states in the structure of mountain forests across the Alps and the role of disturbance and recovery. Landscape Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01597-y
Salliou, N.*, Stritih, A.* 2023. In complexity we trust: learning from the socialist calculation debate for ecosystem management. Environmental Research Letters 18 (2023) 051001 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/accc45 *shared first-authorship
Mandl, L., Stritih, A., Seidl, R., Ginzler, C., Senf, C., 2023. Spaceborne LiDAR for characterizing forest structure across scales in the European Alps. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.330
Moos C., Stritih A., Teich M., Bottero A. 2023. Mountain protective forests under threat? an in-depth review of global change impacts on their protective effect against natural hazards. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1223934
Mayer, P., Grêt-Regamey, A., Ciucci, P., Salliou, N., Stritih, A. 2023. Mapping human- and bear-centered perspectives on coexistence using a participatory Bayesian framework. Journal of Nature Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2023.126387
Scaini, A., Stritih, A., Brouillet, C., Scaini, C. 2022. What locals want: Citizen preferences and priorities for the Tagliamento River. Environmental Research Letters, 17(2). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac4d50
Crouzat, E., De Frutos, A., Grescho, V., Carver, S., Büermann, A., Carvalho-Santos, C., Kraemer, R., Mayor, S., Pöpperl, F., Rossi, C., Schröter, M., Stritih, A., Sofia Vaz, A., Watzema, J., & Bonn, A. 2022. Potential supply and actual use of cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas and their surroundings. Ecosystem Services, 53 (November 2021), 101395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101395
Hummel, H., Kalle, V., Bienfait, L., Boyer, Y., Heurich, M., Svajda, J., Adamescu, M., Cazacu, C., Medina, F. M., Morkūnė, R., Razinkovas-Baziukas, A., Poursanidis, D., Tasevska, O., Al Malla, A., Stritih, A., Rossi, C., Arenas-Castro, S., Carvalho-Santos, C., Smit, I. P. J., … Hummel, C. 2022. A bottom-up practitioner-derived set of Essential Variables for Protected Area management. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 14(January). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indic.2022.100179
Stritih A., Bebi P., Rossi C., Grêt-Regamey A. 2021. Addressing disturbance risk to mountain forest ecosystem services. Journal of Environmental Management, 296, 113188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113188
Stritih, A., Senf, C., Seidl, R., Grêt-Regamey, A. and Bebi, P. (2021) The impact of land-use legacies and recent management on natural disturbance susceptibility in mountain forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 484, 118950. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.118950
Scaini, A., Stritih, A., Brouillet, C., Scaini, C. 2021. Flood risk and river conservation: mapping citizen perception to support sustainable river management. Frontiers in Earth Science. 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.675131
Stritih, A., Rabe, S. E., Robaina, O., Grêt-Regamey, A., & Celio, E. 2020. An online platform for spatial and iterative modelling with Bayesian Networks. Environmental Modelling and Software, 127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104658
Peters, R. L., Miranda, J. C., Schönbeck, L., Nievergelt, D., Fonti, M. V, Saurer, M., Stritih, A., Fonti, P., Wermelinger, B., von Arx, G., & Lehmann, M. M. 2020. Tree physiological monitoring of the 2018 larch budmoth outbreak: preference for leaf recovery and carbon storage over stem wood formation in Larix decidua. Tree Physiology, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpaa087
Stritih, A., Bebi, P., & Grêt-Regamey, A. 2019. Quantifying uncertainties in earth observation-based ecosystem service assessments. Environmental Modelling and Software, 111 (January), 300–310. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ENVSOFT.2018.09.005
Guerra, C. A., Pendleton, L., Drakou, E. G., Proença, V., Appeltans, W., Domingos, T., Geller, G., Giamberini, S., Gill, M., Hummel, H., Imperio, S., McGeoch, M., Provenzale, A., Serral, I., Stritih, A., Turak, E., Vihervaara, P., Ziemba, A., & Pereira, H. M. 2019. Finding the essential: Improving conservation monitoring across scales. Global Ecology and Conservation, 18, e00601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00601
Peters, R. L., Speich, M., Pappas, C., Kahmen, A., von Arx, G., Graf Pannatier, E., Steppe, K., Treydte, K., Stritih, A., & Fonti, P. 2019. Contrasting stomatal sensitivity to temperature and soil drought in mature alpine conifers. Plant Cell and Environment, 42(5), 1674–1689. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.13500
González-Muñoz, N., Sterck, F., Torres-Ruiz, J. M., Petit, G., Cochard, H., von Arx, G., Lintunen, A., Caldeira, M. C., Capdeville, G., Copini, P., Gebauer, R., Grönlund, L., Hölttä, T., Lobo-do-Vale, R., Peltoniemi, M., Stritih, A., Urban, J., & Delzon, S. 2018. Quantifying in situ phenotypic variability in the hydraulic properties of four tree species across their distribution range in Europe. PLoS ONE, 13(5), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196075
Hummel, C., Provenzale, A., Van Der Meer, J., Wijnhoven, S., Nolte, A., Poursanidis, D., Janss, G., Jurek, M., Andresen, M., Poulin, B., Kobler, J., Beierkuhnlein, C., Honrado, J., Razinkovas, A., Stritih, A., Bargmann, T., Ziemba, A., Bonet-García, F., Adamescu, M. C., Hummel, H. 2017. Ecosystem services in European protected areas: Ambiguity in the views of scientists and managers? PLoS ONE, 12(11), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187143