Dr. Jana Eichel

Vening Meineszgebouw A
Princetonlaan 8a
Kamer 4.12
3584 CB Utrecht

Publicaties

2026

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

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. Advance online publication. [DOI] [Portal]
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] [Portal]
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] [Portal]

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] [Portal]

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]