Recent papers
• Barry, K.E., ..., Schmid, B., ... (2020). Limited evidence for spatial resource partitioning across temperate grassland biodiversity experiments. Ecology in press.
• Buzhdygan, O.Y., ..., Schmid, B., ... (2020). Biodiversity increases multitrophic energy use efficiency, flow, and storage in grasslands. Nature Ecology and Evolution in press.
• Clark, A.T., ..., Schmid, B. (2020). Predicting species abundances in a grassland biodiversity experiment: trade-offs between model complexity and generality. Journal of Ecology in press.
• Chen, Y., Huang, Y., Niklaus, P.A., Castro-Izaguirre, N., Clark, A.T., Bruelheide, H., Ma, K., Schmid, B. (2020). Impacts of directed species loss on community productivity in a subtropical forest-biodiversity experiment. Nature Ecology and Evolution in press.
• Dietrich, P., Roeder, A., Cesarz, S., Eisenhauer, N., Ebeling, A., Schmid, B., Schulze, E.-D., Wagg, C., Weigelt A., Roscher, C. (2020). Nematode community, nutrient economy, and life-cycle characteristics jointly determine plant monoculture performance over 12 years. Oikos in press.
• Feng, Y., ..., Schmid, B., ... (2020). Inferring competitive outcomes, ranks and intransitivity from empirical data: a comparison of different methods. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2020: 117-128.
• Hahl, T., van Moorsel, S.J., Schmid, M.W., Zuppinger-Dingley, D., Schmid, B., Wagg, C. (2020). Plant responses to diversity-driven selection and associated rhizosphere microbial communities. Functional Ecology in press.
• Kattge, J., …, Schmid, B., … (2020). Twelve years of TRY – towards a third generation of plant trait data assimilation and sharing. Global Change Biology 26:119-188.
• Li, Y., …, Schmid, B., … (2020). Leaf size of woody dicots predicts ecosystem primary productivity. Ecology Letters in press.
• Liu, Y., Cheng, J., Schmid, B., Tang, L., Sheng, J. (2020). Woody plant encroachment may decrease plant carbon storage in grassland under future drier conditions. Journal of Plant Ecology in press.
• Luo, S., Wagg, C., Schmid, B., Chen, Y., Liu, X., Liang, M., Jiang, B., Yu, S. (2020). Trait-mediated competitive dominance overwhelms niche complementarity in young tree communities. Oikos in press.
• Oehri, J., Schmid, B., Schaepman-Strub, G., Niklaus, P.A. (2020). Landscape diversity promotes landscape-level functioning. Nature Communications 11: 154 (10 pages).
• Randin, C.F., …, Schmid, B., ... (2020). Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models. Remote Sensing of Environment 239: 111626 (18 pages).
• Wang, Y., Lyu, T., Shrestha, N., Lyu, L., Li, Y., Schmid, B., Freckleton, R.P., Dimitrov, D., Hao, Z., Wang, Z. (2020). Drivers of large-scale geographical variation in sexual systems of woody plants. Global Ecology and Biogeography in press.
Research interests
Global change and biodiversity; Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships; Scaling-up BEF relationships; Design and analysis of experiments
Mechanisms of plant competition and coexistence; Plant–animal interactions; Plant–soil feedback; Community assembly; Community genetics and evolution; Evolutionary plant genetics and epigenetics
Plant decision making; Invasion biology; Ecology and genetics of small populations; Life-history evolution of clonal organisms
UZH News
Date |
Title |
Link |
09.01.2020 |
Improved Functioning of Diverse Landscape Mosaics |
https://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2020/Landscape-Richness.html |
09.01.2020 |
Vielfältige Landschaften funktionieren besser |
https://www.media.uzh.ch/de/medienmitteilungen/2020/Landschaftsdiversitaet.html |
23.09.2019 |
Rapid evolutionary change in a grassland biodiversity experiment |
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23.09.2019 |
Nachweis für rasche evolutive Anpassungen bei Pflanzen in einem Biodiversitätsexperiment |
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08.11.2018 |
Exploiting Epigenetic Variation for Plant Breeding |
https://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2018/epigenetic-variation.html |
08.11.2018 |
Epigenetische Veränderungen für die Pflanzenzucht nutzen |
https://www.media.uzh.ch/de/medienmitteilungen/2018/Epigenetische-Variation.html |
05.10.2018 |
Species-Rich Forests Store Twice as much Carbon as Monocultures |
https://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2018/Species-Rich-Forests1.html |
05.10.2018 |
Artenreiche Wälder speichern doppelt so viel Kohlenstoff wie Monokulturen |
https://www.media.uzh.ch/de/medienmitteilungen/2018/Artenreiche-Waelder.html |
22.08.2018 |
Species-Rich Forests Better Compensate Environmental Impacts |
https://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2018/Species-Rich-Forests.html |
22.08.2018 |
Artenreiche Wälder kompensieren die Klimabelastungen besser |
https://www.media.uzh.ch/de/medienmitteilungen/2018/Artenreiche-W%C3%A4lder.html |
Interview
Date |
Title |
Link |
Oct. 2018 |
Experiences in a Long-Term International Research Project |
Education and professional positions
2019 - |
Adjunct Professor, Institute of Ecology, Peking University, Beijing |
2018 - |
Professor of Environmental Sciences, Department of Geography, University of Zurich |
2014 - 2016 |
Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Zurich |
2013 - 2019 |
Co-director of University Research Priority Program “Global Change and Biodiversity” |
2009 - 2018 |
Guest Professor, Peking University, Beijing |
2009 - 2013 |
Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Zurich |
2007 - |
Editor Journal of Plant Ecology |
2004 - 2012 |
Member of the Research Council, Division III, Swiss National Science Foundation |
1997 - |
Visiting professor at several foreign Universities |
2010 - 2018 |
Professor of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich |
1994 - 2009 |
Professor of Environmental Sciences, Head of the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Zurich |
1992 - 1994 |
Professor of Conservation Biology, NLU, University of Basel |
1987 - 1992 |
START-fellow (career development award of the Swiss NSF), University of Basel |
1984 - 1987 |
Postdoc, Harvard University, Cambridge (with F.A. Bazzaz) |
1983 - 1984 |
Research Associate, University of Zurich |
1981 - 1983 |
Postdoc, University College of North Wales, Bangor (with J.L. Harper) |
1977 - 1981 |
PhD-studies at Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich |
1976 - 1977 |
Teacher in Biology and Chemistry, High school Sargans |
Former members of research group
Function until |
Current Function |
Link |
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Bossdorf Oliver |
PhD 2004 |
Professor |
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Chen Yuxin |
Postdoc 2018 |
Professor |
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Dimitrakopoulos Panos G. |
Postdoc 2003 |
Professor |
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Fakheran Sima |
PhD 2009 |
Professor |
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Fischer Markus |
PhD 1996 |
Professor |
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Joshi Jasmin |
PhD 1999 |
Professor |
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Kéry Marc |
PhD 2000 |
Statistics Advisor |
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Knop Eva |
PhD 2006 |
Researcher |
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Koricheva Julia |
Postdoc 1996 |
Professor |
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Lavigne Claire |
Postdoc 1995 |
Professor |
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Lindemann-Matthies Petra |
PhD 1999 |
Professor |
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Liu Xiaojuan |
Postdoc 2016 |
Professor |
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Matthies Diethart |
Postdoc 2000 |
Professor |
https://www.uni-marburg.de/fb17/forschung/fobericht/Foberichtneu/matthies |
Moradi Hossein |
PhD 2009 |
Professor |
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Mwangi Peter N. |
PhD 2006 |
Professor |
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O’Brien Michael |
Postdoc 2015 |
Researcher |
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Petermann Jana S. |
PhD 2009 |
Professor |
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Schläpfer Felix |
PhD 1999 |
Professor |
https://www.kalaidos-fh.ch/en-GB/Common/Personen/Mitarbeitende/Common/Schlaepfer-Felix |
Schöb Christian |
Ambizione 2017 |
Professor |
http://www.ias.ethz.ch/people/person-detail.html?persid=239475 |
Seidl Irmi |
Postdoc 2002 |
Professor |
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Stoll Peter |
PhD 1995 |
Researcher |
http://www.ips.unibe.ch/aboutus/personen/vegetation_ecology/pd_dr_stoll_peter/index_eng.html |
Turnbull Lindsay A. |
Postdoc 2013 |
Professor |
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Van Kleunen Mark |
PhD 2001 |
Professor |
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Van Moorsel Sofia |
PhD 2017 |
Researcher |
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Wagg Cameron |
Postdoc 2018 |
Researcher |
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Wang Zhiheng |
Postdoc 2010 |
Professor |
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Weber Ewald |
PhD 1994 |
Researcher |
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Willi Yvonne |
PhD 2004 |
Professor |
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Wüst Samuel |
Ambizione 2017 |
Researcher |
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Züst Tobias |
PhD 2012 |
Researcher |
http://www.ips.unibe.ch/aboutus/personen/plant_ecology/dr_zuest_tobias/index_eng.html |