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Academic and management positions

2025–pres.Forest Diversity and Biodemography Group Leader, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Land Change Science Unit
2023–pres.Lecturer, ETH Zürich, Department of Environmental Systems Science
2020–2025Oberassistentin and Fundamental Ecology Group Leader, ETH Zürich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, Global Ecosystem Ecology Group 
2020–2025Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 
2018–2020Research Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & National Institute of Mathematical and Biological Synthesis                               
2017–2018Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 
2009–2014                                Vegetation Monitoring Program Manager, Oahu Army Natural Resources Program

Select Publications:

A full publication list can be found at: Google Scholar & ResearchGate

† Graduate student adviser. § Equal contribution and co-authorship.

Tu, W.†, Crowther, T.W., Du, Y., Mo, L., Zou, Y., Yang, X.†, Runge, K.†, Yi, J., Wang, N., Qian, J., Xing, Z.F.A., Bialic-Murphy, L. (2025). The effectiveness of protected areas diminishes as human activities intensify. Conservation Letters.

Jimenez, Y.G.†, Paz, A., Bialic-Murphy, L., Crowther, T.W., Maynard, D.S. (2025). The functional regionalization of the global forest system. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Runge, K.†, Tucker, M., Crowther, T.W., Fournier de Laurière, C., Guirado, E., Bialic-Murphy, L.§, Berdugo, M.§ (2025). Monitoring terrestrial ecosystem resilience using Earth observation data: Identifying consensus and limitations across metrics. Global Change Biology.

Zou, Y., Crowther, T.W., Smith, G., Ma, G., Mo, L., Bialic-Murphy, L., Potapov, P., Gawecka, K., Xu, C., Wu, Z, Rebindaine, D., Zohner, C. (2025). Forest fragmentation increased in half of global forests during the last twenty years. Science.

Bialic-Murphy, L., McElderry, R. M., Esquivel-Muelbert, A., van den Hoogen, J., Zuidema, P. A., ..., Crowther, T.W. (2024). The pace of life for forest trees. Science.

Mo, L., Crowther, T.W., Maynard, D. S., Van den Hoogen, J., Ma, H., Bialic-Murphy, L., ... & Ontikov, P. (2024). The global distribution and drivers of wood density and their impact on forest carbon stocks. Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Maschler, J.†, Bialic-Murphy, L., Wan, J.†, Rutting, L., Zohner, C., Reich, P., …, Crowther, T.W. (2022). Links across ecological scales: Plant biomass responses to elevated CO2. Global Change Biology.

Maynard, D., Bialic-Murphy, L., Zohner, C., Averill, C., van den Hoogen. J., Ma, H., …Crowther, T.W. (2022). Global relationships in tree functional traits. Nature Communications. 

Bialic-Murphy, L., Smith, N., Voothuluru, P., McElderry, R., Roche, M.†, Cassady, S.†, Kivlin, S., and Kalisz, S. (2021). Invasion-induced root-fungal disruptions alter plant water and nitrogen economies. Ecology Letters.

Kalisz, S., Kivlin, S., and Bialic-Murphy, L. (2020). Allelopathy is pervasive in invasive plants. Biological Invasions.

Bialic-Murphy, L., Heckel, C., McElderry, R., and Kalisz, S. (2020). Deer indirectly alter the reproductive strategy and operational sex ratio of an unpalatable forest perennial. American Naturalist.                                                                                                                                      Recommended by Faculty of 1000 as being of special significance in its field.