Harald Bugmann, Prof. Dr.

Education

1985-1989 Studies of systematic and ecological biology in the Department of Natural Sciences of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH)

1989 Master thesis in the context of an ecotoxicological research project in Lake Greifen (Modeling of the plankton biocoenosis)

1990-1994 Ph.D. student in the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH Zürich

1994 Ph.D. thesis "On the ecology of mountainous forests in a changing climate: A simulation study" (Advisor: Prof. Dr. H. Flühler, Co-Advisor: Dr. A. Fischlin)

Employment

1985-1988 Various jobs in the banking sector in the semester breaks

1988-1989 Junior Assistant at ETH Zürich

1990-1993 Teaching Assistant at ETH Zürich

1994-1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany

1998-1999 Research Fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), Boulder, Colorado (USA)

1999-2004 Assistant Professor of Mountain Forest Ecology in the Department of Forest Sciences of ETH Zürich (as of 1 January 2004, Department of Environmental Sciences)

2004-current Associate Professor of Forest Ecology in the Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH Zürich

Selected service activities

2001-2007 Chairperson, Scientific Advisory Board of the Mountain Research Initiative

2001-current Member, Steering Group of the project Human Impacts on Terrestrial Ecosystems (HITE)

Member of the Editorial Boards of Regional Environmental Change (Springer-Verlag), Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research (Allen Press) und European Journal of Forest Research (Springer-Verlag)

Publications

more than 85 publications in peer-reviewed international journals, 23 thereof as first author

Editor or co-editor of 6 books and Special Issues of journals

more than 25 other contributions

Ten selected publications

Bugmann, H., 1996. A simplified forest model to study species composition along climate gradients. Ecology 77: 2055-2074.

Bugmann, H. & Pfister, C., 2000. Impacts of interannual climate variability on past and future forest composition. Regional Environmental Change 1(3): 112-125.

Bugmann, H. & Solomon, A.M., 2000. Explaining forest composition and biomass across multiple biogeographical regions. Ecol. Applications 10: 95-114.

Bugmann, H., 2001. A review of forest gap models. Clim. Change 51: 259-305.

Bugmann, H., 2003. Predicting the ecosystem effects of climate change. In: Canham, C.D., Lauenroth, W.K. & Cole, J.S. (eds.), Models in ecosystem science. Princeton University Press, 385-409.

Zierl, B. & Bugmann, H., 2005. Global change impacts on hydrological processes in Alpine catchments. Water Resources Research 41(W02028): 1-13.

Huber, U., Reasoner, M. & Bugmann, H. (eds.), 2005. Global Change and Mountain Regions: A state of knowledge overview. Advances in Global Change Research, Springer-Verlag, 650 pp.

Schumacher, S. & Bugmann, H., 2006. The relative importance of climatic effects, wildfires and management for future forest landscape dynamics in the Swiss Alps. Global Change Biology 12: 1435-1451.

Heiri, C., Bugmann, H., Tinner, W., Heiri, O. & Lischke, H., 2006. A model-based reconstruction of Holocene treeline dynamics in the Central Swiss Alps. J. Ecol. 94: 206-216.

Anderson, N.J., Bugmann, H., Dearing, J.A. & Gaillard, M.-J., 2006. Linking models and palaeoenvironmental data to understand the past and to predict the future. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21: 696-704.

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