Sebastian Kepfer Rojas

Sebastian Kepfer Rojas

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1681-2877

  • Rolighedsvej 23

    1958 Frederiksberg C

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I am an ecologist and conservation scientist focusing on the interplay between environmental change, biodiversity dynamics, and ecosystem functioning. My research primarily explores temperate and tropical forests, using a wide range of methodologies—from traditional ecological approaches to innovative techniques like eDNA and bioacoustics—to uncover the processes that shape ecological communities and forest multifunctionality.

With a strong emphasis on the connections between ecology, biodiversity, and forest management, I also have a deep interest in how land-use legacies influence the development of naturally evolving ecosystems. My work spans spatial scales, from local ecosystems to global landscapes, providing valuable insights for the conservation and sustainable management of diverse ecosystems. My research operates across spatial scales, from local communities to the global landscape, aiming to contribute essential insights into the conservation and sustainable management of diverse ecosystems.

I am currently teaching at Masters level at two different courses. I am lecturing at the Ecology and Ecosystems Sience in relation to Environmental Economics (https://kurser.ku.dk/course/nigk13008u). I am responsible for the course Biodiversity in Managed Forests (https://kurser.ku.dk/course/nigk18000u/2018-2019). 

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  • A global assessment of BirdNET performance: Differences among continents, biomes, and species

    Funosas, D., Sebastián-González, E., Morant, J., Marín Gómez, O. H., Mendoza, I., Mohedano-Muñoz, M. A., Santamaría, E., Bastianelli, G., Márquez-Rodríguez, A., Budka, M., Bota, G., Alonso-Moya, C. D., de la Peña-Rubio, J. M., de la Morena, E. L. G., Santa-Cruz, M., de la Nava, P., Fernández-Tizón, M., Sánchez-Mateos, H., Barrero, A. & Traba, J. & 80 others, Osiejuk, T. S., Hart, P. J., Navine, A. K., Montoya Muñoz, A. F., de Araújo, C. B., Rosa, G. L. M., Torres, I. M. D., Catalano, A. L. C., Simões, C. R., Llusia, D., Morales, M. B., Acebes, P., Medina, J. A., Brown, N., Astaras, C., Karmiris, I., Navarrete, E., Cauchoix, M., Barbaro, L., Arend, D., Müeller, S., González-García, F., González-Romero, A., Mammides, C., Pontikis, M., Jacuzzi, G., Olden, J. D., Bombaci, S. P., Marcacci, G., Jacot, A., Zurano, J. P., Gangenova, E., Varela, D., Di Sallo, F., Zurita, G. A., Atemasov, A., Tremblay, J. A., Lamarre, V., Hutschenreiter, A., Monroy-Ojeda, A., Díaz-Vallejo, M., Chaparro-Herrera, S., Briers, R. A., Sousa-Lima, R., Pinheiro, T., Da Silva, W. C., Calvente, A., Paz, R. V., Salustio-Gomes, C., Oliveira-Júnior, D. D., lima-Santos, C. S., Pichorim, M., Molin, A. D., Antonelli, A., Gogoleva, S., Palko, I., Trong, H. V., Duarte, M. H. L., dos Santos Saturnino, N., Silva, S. R., Rainho, A., Lopes, P., Schuchmann, K. L., Marques, M. I., de Oliverira Tissiani, A. S., Littlewood, N. A., Tuanmu, M. N., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Aguilera, A. L., Brotons, L., Feldman, M. J., Imbeau, L., Panwar, P., Weed, A. S., Dehwal, A., Attisano, A., Theuerkauf, J., Goodale, E., Darras, K. F. A. & Pérez-Granados, C., 2026, In: Ecological Indicators. 182, 15 p., 114550.

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  • Automatiseret biodiversitetsovervågning i Danmarks naturnationalparker

    Gottlieb, L., Byriel, D. B., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Ro-Poulsen, H. C., Rosas, Y. M. & Justesen, M. J., 2026, Frederiksberg: Institut for Geovidenskab og Naturforvaltning, Københavns Universitet. 66 p. (IGN Rapport; No. Februar 2026).

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  • deadtrees.earth — An open-access and interactive database for centimeter-scale aerial imagery to uncover global tree mortality dynamics

    Mosig, C., Vajna-Jehle, J., Mahecha, M. D., Cheng, Y., Hartmann, H., Montero, D., Junttila, S., Horion, S., Schwenke, M. B., Koontz, M. J., Maulud, K. N. A., Adu-Bredu, S., Al-Halbouni, D., Ali, M., Allen, M., Altman, J., Amorós, L., Angiolini, C., Astrup, R. & Awada, H. & 186 others, Barrasso, C., Bartholomeus, H., Beck, P. S. A., Bozzini, A., Braun-Wimmer, J., Brede, B., Breunig, F. M., Brugnaro, S., Buras, A., Burchard-Levine, V., Camarero, J. J., Candotti, A., Capuder, L., Carrieri, E., Centritto, M., Chirici, G., Cloutier, M., Conciani, D., Cushman, K., Dalling, J. W., Dao, P. D., Dempewolf, J., Denter, M., Dogotari, M., Díaz-Delgado, R., Ecke, S., Eichel, J., Eltner, A., Fabbri, A., Fabi, M., Fassnacht, F., Ferreira, M. P., Fischer, F. J., Frey, J., Frick, A., Fuentes, J., Ganz, S., Garbarino, M., García, M., Gassilloud, M., Gazol, A., Gea-Izquierdo, G., Gerberding, K., Ghasemi, M., Giannetti, F., Gillan, J., Gonzalez, R., Gosper, C., Greene, T., Greinwald, K., Grieve, S., Große-Stoltenberg, A., Gutierrez, J. A., Göritz, A., Hajek, P., Hedding, D., Hempel, J., Heremans, S., Hernández, M., Heurich, M., Honkavaara, E., Höfle, B., Jackisch, R., Jucker, T., Kalwij, J. M., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Khatri-Chhetri, P., Kleinebecker, T., Klemmt, H.-J., Klouček, T., Koivumäki, N., Kolagani, N., Komárek, J., Korznikov, K., Kraszewski, B., Kruse, S., Krüger, R., Kuechly, H., Kwong, I. H. Y., Laliberté, E., Langan, L., Latifi, H., Leal-Medina, C., Lehmann, J. R. K., Li, L., Lines, E., Lisiewicz, M., Lopatin, J., Lucieer, A., Ludwig, A., Ludwig, M., Lyytikäinen-Saarenmaa, P., Ma, Q., Mansuy, N., Peña, J. M., Marino, G., Maroschek, M., Martín, M. P., Martín-Benito, D., Matham, P., Mazzoni, S., Meloni, F., Menzel, A., Meyer, H., Miraki, M., Moreno, G., Moreno-Fernández, D., Muller-Landau, H. C., Mälicke, M., Möhring, J., Müllerova, J., Naidu, S. S., Nardi, D., Neumeier, P., Nita, M. D., Näsi, R., Oppgenoorth, L., Orunbaev, S., Palmer, M., Paul, T., Pfenning, M., Potts, A., Prasanna, G. L., Prober, S., Puliti, S., Pérez-Luque, A. J., Pérez-Priego, O., Reudenbach, C., Revuelto, J., Rivas-Torres, G., Roberge, P., Roggero, P. P., Rossi, C., Ruehr, N. K., Ruiz-Benito, P., Runge, C. M., Satta, G. G. A., Scanu, B., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schiefer, F., Schiller, C., Schladebach, J., Schmehl, M.-T., Schmid, J., Schmidt, T. A., Schwarz, S., Seidl, R., Seifert, T., Barba, A. S., Shafeian, E., Shapiro, A., de Simone, L., Sohrabi, H., Soltani, S., Sotomayor, L., Sparrow, B., Steer, B. S. C., Stenson, M., Stöckigt, B., Su, Y., Suomalainen, J., Tamudo, E., Barbieri, M. J. T., Tomelleri, E., Torresani, M., Trepekli, K., Ullah, S., Ullah, S., Umlauft, J., Vargas-Ramírez, N., Vatandaslar, C., Visacki, V., Volpi, M., Vásquez, V., Wallis, C., Weinstein, B., Weiser, H., Wich, S., Ximena, T. C., Zarco-Tejada, P. J., Zdunic, K., Zielewska-Büttner, K., de Oliveira, R. A., van Wagtendonk, L., von Dosky, V. & Kattenborn, T., 2026, In: Remote Sensing of Environment. 332, 15 p., 115027.

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  • Understory vegetation development along 60-year chronosequences of oak, beech, and Norway spruce

    Barsotti, D., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Rosas, Y. M., Riis-Nielsen, T., Vesterdal, L., Gundersen, P. & Schmidt, I. K., 2026, In: Forest Ecology and Management. 601, 11 p., 123352.

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  • Can triad forestry reconcile Europe’s biodiversity and forestry strategies? A critical evaluation of forest zoning

    Nagel, T. A., Rodríguez-Recio, M., Aakala, T., Angelstam, P., Avdagić, A., Borowski, Z., Bravo-Oviedo, A., Brazaitis, G., Campagnaro, T., Ciach, M., Curovic, M., Doerfler, I., Fotakis, D., Govedar, Z., Gregor, K., Gültekin, Y. S., Heilmann-Clausen, J., Hoffmann, J., Hofmeister, J. & Jansone, D. & 23 others, Jansons, Ā., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Lachat, T., Lapin, K., Lõhmus, A., Manton, M., Mikac, S., Mikoláš, M., Mohren, F., Nordén, B., Odor, P., Oettel, J., Paillet, Y., Panayotov, M., Roibu, C.-C., Sitzia, T., Svoboda, M., Tanács, E., Trentanovi, G., Vacchiano, G., van der Sluis, T., Zlatanov, T. & Burrascano, S., 2025, In: Ambio. 54, 4, p. 632-641 10 p.

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  • Development of ecosystem processes, functions and biodiversity in new forests on post-agricultural land

    Rosas, Y. M., Barsotti, D., Yu, M., Byriel, D. B., Zimmermann, A. K., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Vesterdal, L. & Schmidt, I. K., 2025, In: ARPHA Conference Abstracts. 8, 1 p., e151597.

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  • Development of forest ecosystems and biodiversity through natural colonization and planting in former agricultural land – the first 50 years after abandonment

    Schmidt, I. K., Byriel, D. B., Barsotti, D., Rosas, Y. M., Justesen, M. J., Wang, B. & Kepfer-Rojas, S., 2025, In: ARPHA Conference Abstracts. 8, 1 p., e155518.

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  • Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests

    Hordijk, I., Poorter, L., Liang, J., Reich, P. B., de-Miguel, S., Nabuurs, G.-J., Gamarra, J. G. P., Chen, H. Y. H., Zhou, M., Wiser, S. K., Pretzsch, H., Paquette, A., Picard, N., Hérault, B., Bastin, J.-F., Alberti, G., Abegg, M., Adou Yao, Y. C., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M. & Alvarado, B. V. & 200 others, Alvarez-Davila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Alves, L. F., Amaral, I., Ammer, C., Antón-Fernández, C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arroyo, L., Avitabile, V., Aymard C, G. A., Baker, T., Banki, O., Barroso, J., Bastian, M. L., Birigazzi, L., Birnbaum, P., Bitariho, R., Boeckx, P., Bongers, F., Bouriaud, O., Brancalion, P. H. S., Brandl, S., Brearley, F. Q., Brienen, R., Broadbent, E. N., Bruelheide, H., Cazzolla Gatti, R., Cesar, R. G., Cesljar, G., Chazdon, R. L., Chisholm, C., Cienciala, E., Clark, C. J., Clark, D. B., Colletta, G., Coomes, D., Cornejo Valverde, F., Corral-Rivas, J. J., Crim, P., Cumming, J., Dayanandan, S., de Gasper, A. L., Decuyper, M., Derroire, G., DeVries, B., Djordjevic, I., Dourdain, A., Dolezal, J., Engone Obiang, N. L., Enquist, B., Eyre, T., Fandohan, A. B., Fayle, T. M., Ferreira, L. V., Feldpausch, T. R., Finér, L., Fischer, M., Fletcher, C., Frizzera, L., Gianelle, D., Glick, H. B., Harris, D., Hector, A., Hemp, A., Herbohn, J., Hillers, A., Honorio Coronado, E. N., Hui, C., Cho, H., Ibanez, T., Jung, I., Imai, N., Jagodzinski, A. M., Jaroszewicz, B., Johannsen, V., Joly, C. A., Jucker, T., Karminov, V., Kartawinata, K., Kearsley, E., Kenfack, D., Kennard, D., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Keppel, G., Khan, M. L., Killeen, T., Kim, H. S., Kitayama, K., Köhl, M., Korjus, H., Kraxner, F., Laarmann, D., Lang, M., Lewis, S., Lu, H., Lukina, N., Maitner, B., Malhi, Y., Marcon, E., Marimon, B. S., Marimon-Junior, B. H., Marshall, A. R., Martin, E., Martynenko, O., Meave, J. A., Melo-Cruz, O., Mendoza, C., Merow, C., Miscicki, S., Monteagudo Mendoza, A., Moreno, V., Mukul, S. A., Mundhenk, P., Nava-Miranda, M. G., Neill, D., Neldner, V., Nevenic, R., Ngugi, M., Niklaus, P. A., Oleksyn, J., Ontikov, P., Ortiz-Malavasi, E., Pan, Y., Parada-Gutierrez, A., Parfenova, E., Park, M., Parren, M., Parthasarathy, N., Peri, P. L., Pfautsch, S., Phillips, O. L., Piedade, M. T., Piotto, D., Pitman, N. C. A., Pollastrini, M., Polo, I., Poulsen, A. D., Poulsen, J. R., Arevalo, F. R., Restrepo-Correa, Z., Rodeghiero, M., Rolim, S., Roopsind, A., Rovero, F., Rutishauser, E., Saikia, P., Salas-Eljatib, C., Schall, P., Schepaschenko, D., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmid, B., Schöngart, J., Searle, E. B., Seben, V., Selvi, F., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Sheil, D., Shvidenko, A., Silva-Espejo, J., Silveira, M., Singh, J., Sist, P., Slik, F., Sonké, B., Souza, A. F., ter Steege, H., Stereńczak, K., Svenning, J. C., Svoboda, M., Swanepoel, B., Targhetta, N., Tchebakova, N., Thomas, R., Tikhonova, E., Umunay, P., Usoltsev, V., Valencia, R., Valladares, F., van der Plas, F., Van Do, T., Van Nuland, M. E., Vasquez Martinez, R., Verbeeck, H., Viana, H., Vibrans, A. C., Vieira, S., von Gadow, K., Wang, H. F., Watson, J., Werner, G. D. A., Wittmann, F., Wortel, V., Zagt, R., Zawila-Niedzwiecki, T., Zhang, C., Zhao, X., Zhu, Z. X., Zo-Bi, I. C., Maynard, D. S. & Crowther, T. W., 2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, 15 p., 4773.

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