Dr. Jana Eichel

Vening Meineszgebouw A
Princetonlaan 8a
Kamer 4.12
3584 CB Utrecht

Publicaties

2026

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Duurkoop, L., Brakkee, E., van de Lisdonk, D., Haagmans, D., Immerzeel, W., Kraaijenbrink, P., & Eichel, J. (2026). Vegetation Transitions and Environmental Controls on Alpine Hydrology. Ecosystems, 29(3), Article 45. [DOI] [Repository]
Sharma, A., Trost, J., Lusk, D., Dollinger, J., Schrader, J., Rossi, C., Lopatin, J., Laliberté, E., Haberstroh, S., Eichel, J., Mederer, D., Cerda-Paredes, J. M., Phartyal, S. S., Schwarz, L. M., Linstädter, A., Caldeira, M. C., & Kattenborn, T. (2026). PlantTraitNet: An Uncertainty-Aware Multimodal Framework for Global-Scale Plant Trait Inference from Citizen Science Data. In S. Koenig, C. Jenkins, & M. E. Taylor (Eds.), Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (46 ed., pp. 39239-39248). (Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; Vol. 40, No. 46). Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. [DOI] [Repository]
Eichel, J., Zwarts, M., Kleinhans, M. G., Duurkoop, L., van der Horst, S., Kooij, F., van Maarseveen, M. C. G., Meirink, I., de Putter, A., & Smith, C. (2026). Alpine plant trait combinations shape soil erosion dynamics and patterns. Catena, 265, Article 109841. [DOI] [Repository]
van den Broek, A. J., Mennes, D. T., Kleinhans, M. G., Roelofs, L., Eichel, J., Draebing, D., & de Haas, T. (2026). Impacts of plant roots on debris-flow bed erosion in laboratory experiments. Engineering Geology, 362, Article 108513. [DOI] [Repository]
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., ... Kattenborn, T. (2026). deadtrees.earth — An open-access and interactive database for centimeter-scale aerial imagery to uncover global tree mortality dynamics. Remote Sensing of Environment, 332, Article 115027. [DOI] [Repository]

2025

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Eichel, J., Gewalt, P. D., & Fitzsimmons, K. E. (2025). Why sediments matter for mountain biogeomorphology. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 50(13), Article e70179. [DOI] [Repository]

2023

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Eichel, J., Stoffel, M., & Wipf, S. (2023). Go or grow? Feedbacks between moving slopes and shifting plants in high mountain environments. Progress in Physical Geography, 47(6), 967-985. [DOI] [Repository]
Harkema, M. R., Nijland, W., de Jong, S. M., Kattenborn, T., & Eichel, J. (2023). Monitoring solifluction movement in space and time: A semi-automated high-resolution approach. Geomorphology, 433, 1-13. Article 108727. [DOI] [Repository]
Eichel, J., Draebing, D., Winkler, S., & Meyer, N. (2023). Similar vegetation-geomorphic disturbance feedbacks shape unstable glacier forelands across mountain regions. Ecosphere, 14(2), 1-18. Article e4404. [DOI] [Repository]

2022

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Harkema, M., Eichel, J., Nijland, W., de Jong, S., Draebing, D., & Kattenborn, T. (2022). Using high-resolution topography to solve “periglacial puzzles”: A semi-automated approach to monitor solifluction movement. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2022 (Online), Vienna, Austria. [DOI]
Tröger, D., Christian Braun, A., Eichel, J., Schmidtlein, S., Sandoval Estrada, M., & Valdés Durán, A. (2022). Pinus plantations impact hillslope stability and decrease landscape resilience by changing biogeomorphic feedbacks in Chile. Catena, 216(Part A), 1-20. Article 106364. [DOI] [Repository]

2021

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Wojcik, R., Eichel, J., Bradley, J. A., & Benning, L. G. (2021). How allogenic factors affect succession in glacier forefields. Earth-Science Reviews, 218, 1-18. Article 103642. [DOI] [Repository]

2020

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Eichel, J., Draebing, D., Kattenborn, T., Senn, J. A., Klingbeil, L., Wieland, M., & Heinz, E. (2020). Unmanned aerial vehicle-based mapping of turf-banked solifluction lobe movement and its relation to material, geomorphometric, thermal and vegetation properties. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 31(1), 97-109. [DOI] [Repository]
Senn, J. A., Fassnacht, F. E., Eichel, J., Seitz, S., & Schmidtlein, S. (2020). A new concept for estimating the influence of vegetation on throughfall kinetic energy using aerial laser scanning. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 45(7), 1487–1498. [DOI] [Repository]
Kattenborn, T., Eichel, J., Wiser, S., Burrows, L., Fassnacht, F. E., & Schmidtlein, S. (2020). Convolutional Neural Networks accurately predict cover fractions of plant species and communities in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle imagery. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, n/a(n/a), 472-486. [DOI] [Repository]
Gastineau, R., Conway, S. J., Johnsson, A., Eichel, J., Mangold, N., Grindrod, P. M., & Izquierdo, T. (2020). Small-scale lobate hillslope features on Mars: A comparative 3D morphological study with terrestrial solifluction lobes and zebra stripe lobes. Icarus, 342, 1-15. Article 113606. [DOI]

2019

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Dikau, R., Eibisch, K., Eichel, J., Meßenzehl, K., & Schlummer-Held, M. (2019). Geomorphologie. Springer. [DOI]
Kattenborn, T., Eichel, J., & Fassnacht, F. E. (2019). Convolutional Neural Networks enable efficient, accurate and fine-grained segmentation of plant species and communities from high-resolution UAV imagery. Scientific Reports, 9, Article 17656. [DOI] [Repository]

2018

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Eichel, J. (2018). Vegetation Succession and Biogeomorphic Interactions in Glacier Forelands. In T. Heckmann, & D. Morche (Eds.), Geomorphology of Proglacial Systems: Landform and Sediment Dynamics in Recently Deglaciated Alpine Landscapes (1 ed., pp. 327-349). (Geography of the Physical Environment). Springer. [DOI]
Eichel, J. (2018). Links between life and landscapes. Nature Geoscience, 11(3), 154-154. [DOI]
Draebing, D., & Eichel, J. (2018). Divergence, convergence, and path dependency of paraglacial adjustment of alpine lateral moraine slopes. Land degradation & development, 29(6), 1979-1990. [DOI]
Eichel, J., Draebing, D., & Meyer, N. (2018). From active to stable: Paraglacial transition of Alpine lateral moraine slopes. Land degradation & development, 29(11), 4158-4172. [DOI]

2017

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Draebing, D., & Eichel, J. (2017). Spatial Controls of Turf-Banked Solifluction Lobes and Their Role for Paraglacial Adjustment in Glacier Forelands. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 28(2), 446-459. [DOI]
Eichel, J., Draebing, D., Klingbeil, L., Wieland, M., Eling, C., Schmidtlein, S., Kuhlmann, H., & Dikau, R. (2017). Solifluction meets vegetation: the role of biogeomorphic feedbacks for turf-banked solifluction lobe development. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 42(11), 1623-1635. [DOI]

2016

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Eichel, J., Corenblit, D., & Dikau, R. (2016). Conditions for feedbacks between geomorphic and vegetation dynamics on lateral moraine slopes: a biogeomorphic feedback window. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 41(3), 406-419. [DOI]

2013

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Eichel, J., Krautblatter, M., Schmidtlein, S., & Dikau, R. (2013). Biogeomorphic interactions in the Turtmann glacier forefield, Switzerland. Geomorphology, 201, 98-110. [DOI]