Dr. Michael Nobis
Function
scientific staff member
Contact
+41 44 739 25 35
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf
Site
Birmensdorf Bi HL E 32
Main research interests
- Macroecology - large-scale analyzes of spatial patterns, ecology and dynamics of biodiversity (focus on Switzerland and vascular plants but also including analyzes from global to landscape scales)
- Trait analyses - relationships between biological traits and the environment
- Biological invasions - distribution and dynamics of non-native vascular plants in Switzerland
- Ecoinformatics - software development for applications in ecology
Current and previous positions
| since 2011 | Research group «Dynamic Macroecology» (project leader & deputy head), research unit «Landscape Dynamics» (M. Bürgi, until 2013 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) |
| 1999-2001 | Scientific assistant, University of Darmstadt, Institute of Botany (A. Schwabe-Kratochwil) |
| 1995-1999 | PhD, University of Freiburg, Germany (O. Wilmanns) |
Scientific commissions & Editorial boards
- Info Flora: Since 2012 member of the scientific commission. Prior to this member of the Swiss Commission of Wild Plant Conservation CPS/SKEW (2006-2011). Collaboration on the revision of the Black & Watch-List of non-native invasive plants.
- FloZ:Commission of the citizen-science project for the floristic mapping of the canton of Zurich.
- Phytocoenologia: Editorial board; Phytocoenologia is published in collaboration with the 'International Association of Vegetation Science' (IAVS).
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
- KISSMig. A simple model to simulate species migration and range dynamics for the free software environment R.
- Flora indicativa - E. Landolt et al. - 2010 - Ecological Indicator Values and Biological Attributes of the Flora of Switzerland and the Alps.
- SideLook - a software tool for the analysis of vertical vegetation structure based on digital images. It is mainly used for grassland communities but also in forest stands (hemispherical canopy-photographs). SideLook has been registered so far by more than 250 scientists from 28 countries.
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