Content
Peer-Reviewed Publications
You can also find me on Google Scholar and ResearchGate.
My ORCID ID is 0000-0003-0465-2543.
Accepted
L. Marescot, M. Franz, S. Benhaiem, H. Hofer, C. Scherer, M. East & S. Kramer-Schadt (accepted) ‘Keeping the kids at home’ can limit the persistence of contagious pathogens in social animals. Journal of Animal Ecology.
V. Radchuk, U. Berger, C. Scherer, P. Backmann, V. Grimm & S. Kramer-Schadt (accepted) Individual-based models. Chapter for the upcoming book „Demographic Methods across the Tree of Life” by R. Salguero-Gómez & M. Gamelon.
Published
T. Kürschner, C. Scherer, V. Radchuk, N. Blaum & S. Kramer-Schadt (2021) Movement can mediate temporal mismatches between resource availability and biological events in host-pathogen interactions. Ecology and Evolution 11 (10):5728–5741.
C. Scherer, V. Radchuk, M. Franz, H.-H. Thulke, M. Lange, V. Grimm & S. Kramer-Schadt (2020) Moving infections: Individual movement decisions drive disease persistence in spatially structured landscapes. Oikos 129 (5):651–667.
U. Schlägel, V. Grimm, N. Blaum, P. Colangeli, M. Dammhahn, J. Eccard, S. Hausmann, A. Herde, H. Hofer, J. Joshi, S. Kramer-Schadt, M. Litwin, S. Lozada-Gobilard, M. Müller, T. Müller, R. Nathan, J. Petermann, K. Pirhofer-Walzl, V. Radchuk, M. Rillig, M. Roeleke, M. Schäfer, C. Scherer, G. Schiro, C. Scholz, L. Teckentrup, R. Tiedemann, W. Ullmann, C. Voigt, G. Weithoff & F. Jeltsch (2020) Movement-mediated community assembly and coexistence. Biological Reviews 95 (4):1073–1096.
B. Pietzsch, S. Fiedler, K.G. Mertens, M. Richter, C. Scherer, K. Widyastuti, M.-C. Wimmler, L. Zakharova & U. Berger (2020) Metamodels for evaluating, calibrating and applying agent-based models: A review. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 23 (2):9.
C. Pecoraro, I. Zudaire, G. Galiberti, M. Romeo, H. Murua, C. Fruciano, C. Scherer, F. Tinti, N.C. Diaha, N. Bodin & E. Chassot (2020) When size matters: large yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) females allocate more energetic resources for reproduction than smaller individuals in the central–eastern Atlantic Ocean. Fisheries Research 232:105726.
C. Scherer, V. Radchuk, C. Staubach, S. Müller, N. Blaum, H.-H. Thulke & S. Kramer-Schadt (2019) Seasonal host life-history processes fuel disease dynamics at different spatial scales. Journal of Animal Ecology 88 (11):1639–1824.
V. Radchuk, F. De Laender, J. Sarmento Cabral, I. Boulangeat, M. Crawford, F. Bohn, J. De Raedt, C. Scherer, J.-C. Svenning, K. Thonicke, F. Schurr, V. Grimm & S. Kramer-Schadt (2019) The dimensionality of stability depends on disturbance type. Ecology Letters 22 (4):647–684.
M. Sciaini, M. Fritsch, C. Scherer & C.E. Simpkins (2018)
NLMRandlandscapetools: An integrated environment for simulating and modifying neutral landscape models in R. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9 (11):2240–2248.C. Scherer, F. Jeltsch, V. Grimm & N. Blaum (2016) Merging trait-based and individual-based modelling: An animal functional type approach to explore the responses of birds to climatic and land use changes in semi-arid African savannas. Ecological Modelling 326:75–89.
Invited Talks
C. Scherer (2021) The first #30DayChartChallenge: A summary of inspiring contributions, our learnings, and about the value of challenges in general. (Slides | Recording)
DataVis Lisboa – 05|2021 – Online MeetingC. Scherer (2021) ggplot Wizardry: My favorite tricks and secrets for beautiful plots in R (Extended Version). (Slides | Recording)
useR Oslo – 03|2021 – Online MeetingC. Scherer (2020) Building a modularized Shiny app with
{golem}and html widgets. (Slides | Recording)
CorrelCon: A Weekend of Data4Good – 11|2020 – Online ConferenceC. Scherer (2020) Effective Data Visualization: How to design impactful and aesthetically pleasing charts. (Slides | Recording)
Heureka Labs & Duke+DataScience – 10|2020 – Duke University, Durham, USA (Webinar)
Conference Presentations
C. Scherer (2021) ggplot Wizardry: My favorite tricks and secrets for beautiful plots in R. (Slides | Recording | Hands-On Tutorial)
Outlier 2021 – 02|2021 – Online Conference hosted by the Data Visualization Society (Talk + Seminar)C. Scherer, V. Radchuk, M. Franz, C. Staubach, S. Müller, H.-H. Thulke, N. Blaum, V. Grimm & S. Kramer-Schadt (2019): Effects of movement behaviour on disease persistence.
Poster – Gordon Research Conference on Movement Ecology of Animals – 03|2019 – Lucca, ItalyC. Scherer, V. Radchuk, M. Franz, C. Staubach, S. Müller, H.-H. Thulke, N. Blaum, V. Grimm & S. Kramer-Schadt (2018) Effects of movement behaviour on disease persistence: The case of classical swine fever in wild boar.
Talk – 1st International BioMove Symposium – 09|2018 – Potsdam, GermanyC. Scherer, V. Radchuk, N. Blaum, V. Grimm, F. Jeltsch & S. Kramer-Schadt (2016): Individual movement decisions shape disease dynamics: Combining movement ecology and epidemiological models.
Talk – Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria & Switzerland (GfOe) – 09|2016 – Marburg, GermanyC. Scherer, F. Jeltsch, V. Grimm & N. Blaum (2014): Can we use functional types to predict responses of birds to changes in African savannas? An individual-based modelling approach.
Talk – Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria & Switzerland (GfOe) – 09|2014 – Hildesheim, GermanyC. Scherer, N. Blaum, V. Grimm, & S. Kramer-Schadt (2017): Infection on the move: Combining movement ecology and epidemiological models.
Poster – Gordon Research Conference on Movement Ecology of Animals – 03|2017 – Ventura, CA, USAC. Scherer, V. Radchuk, N. Blaum, V. Grimm, F. Jeltsch & S. Kramer-Schadt (2016): Combined effects of land-use and individual movement decisions shape disease dynamics.
Poster – CAnMove Animal Movement International Symposium – 02|2016 – Lund, SwedenC. Scherer, I. Sonnenmann, S. Wurst & F. Jeltsch (2015): Modelling the vertical and horizontal migration of wireworms: how does timing and intensity of root herbivore pressure impact grassland communities?
Poster – Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria & Switzerland (GfOe) – 09|2015 – Goettingen, Germany
Contributions to R Packages
S. Garnier, N. Ross, B. Rudis, M. Sciaini & C. Scherer 2018:
viridis: Default color maps from ‘matplotlib’. R package version 0.5.1, available on GitHub and CRAN.M. Sciaini, C. Simpkins, M. Fritsch & C. Scherer 2017:
NLMR: Simulating neutral landscape models with R. R package version 0.4.2, available on GitHub and CRAN.
Media Appearances
YouTube Videos
- “One Chart At A Time – Episode 32: Beeswarm Charts” as part of the “One Chart At A Time” Series by Jon Schwabisch
Interviews
“Data visualization shows countries with highest-rated coffees” by BeanPoet (Erik Rolfsen) (August 2020)
“Vignette: Interviews of the Beautiful People that Use R” (February 2020)
Blog Mentions
“Best of The Visualization Web September 2020” by Andy Kirk highlighting the “Not My Cup of Coffee” visualization
“Best of the Tableau Web” by Tableau/Andy Cotgreave mentioning “Evolution of a ggplot (Ep. 1)”
“Mapping Movements – The Art and the Science: we have the winners!” by BES Movement Ecology SIG awarding my cheetah map
“Winners of the 2020 RStudio Table Contest” awarding my IMDb Top 250 Table
“Our first CorrelAidX challenge” by CorrelAid awarding our Shiny app about Berlin bike accidents
“Are beeswarm charts possible in two dimensions?” by Neil Richards mentioning my “One Chart at A Time” video on beeswarm plots
“Creating Lollipop-Jitter Plots in Tableau” by Klaus Schulte replicating my “Evolution of a ggplot (Ep. 1)” with Tableau
Miscellaneous
- Jon Schwabisch’s “R Sprint” following my step-by-step ggplot2 tutorial