Department of Geography

• Barry, K.E., Mommer, L., van Ruijven, J., Wirth, C., Wright, A.J. … Schmid, B., Weigelt, A. (2018). The future of complementarity: disentangling causes from consequences. Trends in Ecology and Evolution in press.
• Huang, Y., Chen, Y. … Bruelheide, H., Ma, K., Niklaus, P.A., Schmid, B. (2018). Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment. Science 362: 80-83.
• Isbell, F., Cowles, J., Dee, L.E., Loreau, M., Reich, P.B., Gonzalez, A., Hector, A., Schmid, B. (2018). Quantifying effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning across times and places. Ecology Letters 21: 763-778.
• Schmid, M.W., Hahl, T., van Moorsel, S.J., Wagg, C., de Deyn, G.B., Schmid, B. (2018). Feedbacks of plant identity and diversity on the diversity and community composition of rhizosphere microbiomes. Molecular Ecology in press.
• Schmid, M.W., Heichinger, C., Coman Schmid, D., Guthörl, D., Bruggmann, R., Aluri, S., Aquino, C., Schmid, B., Turnbull, L.A., Grossniklaus, U. (2018). Epigenetic variation contributes to adaptation in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications 9: 4446 (12 pages).
• Schuldt, A. … Schmid, B. … Bruelheide, H. (2018). Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests. Nature Communications 9: 2989 (10 pages).
• Tian, D., Yan, Z., Niklas, K.J., Han, W., Kattge, J., Reich, P.B., Luo, Y., Chen, Y., Tang, Z., Hu, H., Wright, I.J., Schmid, B., Fang, J. (2018). Global leaf nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry and their scaling exponent. National Science Review 5: 728-739.
• Oehri, J., Schmid, B., Schaepman-Strub, G., Niklaus, P.A. (2017). Biodiversity promotes primary productivity and growing season lengthening at the landscape scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 114: 10160-10165.
• Schmid, B., Baruffol, M., Wang, Z.H., Niklaus, P.A. (2017). A guide to analyzing biodiversity experiments. Journal of Plant Ecology 10: 91-110.
• Schneider, F.D., Morsdorf, F., Schmid, B., Petchey, O.L., Hueni, A., Schimel, D.S., Schaepman, M.E. (2017). Mapping functional diversity from remotely sensed morphological and physiological forest traits. Nature Communications 8: 1441 (12 pages).
• Van Moorsel, S.J., Hahl, T., Wagg, C., Gerlinde de Deyn, Flynn, D.F.B., Zuppinger-Dingley, D., Schmid, B. (2017). Community evolution increases plant productivity at low diversity. Ecology Letters 21: 128-137.

Publications on Google Scolar

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

Date	Title	Link
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
13.11.2017	Mapping Functional Diversity of Forests with Remote Sensing	https://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2017/biodiversity-remote-sensing.html
13.11.2017	Pflanzenvielfalt von Wäldern aus der Luft abbilden	https://www.media.uzh.ch/de/medienmitteilungen/2017/Biodiversitaets-Fernerkundung.html
16.10.2017	Neue Seele des Campus Irchel	http://www.news.uzh.ch/de/articles/2017/Irchelbar.html
26.09.2017	Biodiversity Protects against Drought	http://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/2017/biodiversit%C3%A4t_trockenstress.html
26.09.2017	Vielfalt schützt vor Trockenheit	https://www.news.uzh.ch/de/articles/2017/biodiversit%C3%A4t_trockenstress.html
04.09.2017	Diverse Landscapes Are More Productive and Adapt better to Climate Change	http://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2017/biodiversity-landscapes.html
04.09.2017	Vielfältige Landschaften sind produktiver und anpassungsfähiger	https://www.media.uzh.ch/de/medienmitteilungen/2017/Biodiversitaet-Landschaften.html
14.04.2016	Plants force fungal partners to behave fairly	http://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2016/Pflanzen-Pilzpartner.html
14.04.2016	Pflanzen zwingen Pilzpartner zu fairem Verhalten	https://www.media.uzh.ch/de/medienmitteilungen/2016/Pflanzen-Pilzpartner.html
11.04.2016	«Unsere Fakultät wächst am schnellsten»	www.news.uzh.ch/de/articles/2016/bernhard-schmid-interview.html
21.04.2016	UZH Growing in the Fields of Medicine and the Natural Sciences	http://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2016/UZH-w%C3%A4chst-in-Medizin-und-Naturwissenschaften.html
20.12.2016	University of Zurich to become global center for biodiversity research	http://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2016/bioDISCOVERY-at-UZH.html

 

 

Date	Title	Link
Oct. 2018	Experiences in a Long-Term International Research Project	https://www.swissnexchina.org/en/media/latest-news/interview-with-prof-dr-bernhard-schmid-experiences-in-a-long-term-international-research-project/

2018 -	Professor of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Geography, University of Zurich
2014 - 2016	Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Zurich
2013 -	Co-director of University Research Priority Program “Global Change and Biodiversity”
2009 -	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 Institute 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 Teacher in Biology, High school Baden
1976 - 1977	Teacher in Biology and Chemistry, High school Sargans