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Dr. Michael Nobis

 

Function

scientific staff member

  

Land Change Science

Dynamic macroecology

Contact

michael.nobis(at)wslto make life hard for spam bots.ch

  

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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