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Dr. Michael Nobis - Personal Homepage

Organisational unit:	Landscape Dynamics Dynamic Macroecology
Phone:	+41 44 7392 535
Fax:	+41 44 7392 215
Room:	Bi HL E 32
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Address:	Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf

What's new

BIKORA has started. BIKORA is part of the WSL-Program "Room for People and Nature"

Research interests

Macroecology - broad-scale analyzes of spatial patterns, ecology and dynamics of biodiversity in Switzerland (mainly vascular plants); including analyzes at the landscape scale

Biological invasions - distribution and dynamics of non-native vascular plants in Switzerland

Ecoinformatics - software development & ecological applications

Current and previous positions

since 2011	Research group «Dynamic Macroecology» (project leader & deputy head), research unit «Landscape Dynamics» (N. Zimmermann)
2006-2010	Head of the research group «Spatial ecology», research unit «Biodiversity and Conservation Biology» (C. Scheidegger)
2001-2006	Scientist at the Swiss Federal Research Institut WSL, research unit «Landscape Dynamics and Spatial Development» (F. Kienast)
since 2001	University teaching (Freiburg, Göttingen, Prague, Tübingen)
1999-2001	Scientific assistant, University of Darmstadt, Institute of Botany (A. Schwabe-Kratochwil)
1995-1999	PhD, University of Freiburg, Germany (O. Wilmanns)

Scientific commissions

Info Flora: Since 2012 member of the scientific commission. 2006-2011 member of the Swiss Commission of Wild Plant Conservation CPS/SKEW. Collaboration on the revision of the Black & Watch-List of non-native invasive plants.

Editorial board & reviews

Editorial board: Phytocoenologia - a Journal of the 'International Association of Vegetation Science' (IAVS)

Reviews (ISI-Journals): Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Arid Land Research and Management, Biological Conservation, Community Ecology, Diversity and Distributions, Ecography, Ecology, Folia Geobotanica, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Journal of Vegetation Science, Landscape Ecology, Nordic Journal of Botany, Oecologia, Phytocoenologia, Plant and Soil, Plant Ecology, PLoS ONE.

Teaching

Guest lectureships at the University of Freiburg, Germany (Institute of Biology II, Geobotany), University of Göttingen (Albrecht von Haller Institute of Plant Sciences), Chales University Prague/Pruhonice (Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), University of Tübingen (Institute of Geosciences, Geoecology).

Software

Flora indicativa - E. Landolt et al. - 2010 - Ecological Indicator Values and Biological Attributes of the Flora of Switzerland and the Alps

SideLook provides a software tool for the analysis of vertical vegetation structure based on digital images. It is mainly used for forestes stands (hemispherical canopy-phoographs) and grassland communities. SideLook has been registered so far by more than 200 scientists from 27 countries.

Awards

2000: Award of the «Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Freiburg i.Br.»