Bugmann, Harald
Professor
Department of Environmental Systems Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Harald Bugmann was Assistant Professor of Mountain Forest Ecology from 1999 to 2004. Since October 2004, he is Associate Professor of Forest Ecology at ETH Zurich. Born in Solothurn (Switzerland), he studied systematics and ecological biology at ETH in Zurich. After a M.Sc. in limnology, he obtained his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Hannes Flühler and Dr. Andreas Fischlin at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology of ETH, dealing with the impacts of climatic change on mountain forests in the Alps. His dissertation was awarded with the medal of ETH in 1994. From 1994 to 1998, he worked on the regional impacts of climatic change at the Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research in Potsdam, Germany. In 1998/99, he did research on the ecology of Rocky Mountain forests at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research in Boulder (Colorado, USA).
Research Interest
His main research interests are in the long-term dynamics of forest ecosystems under environmental change, particularly successional dynamics in mountain forests and changes in the disturbance regimes.
Publications
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Does one model fit all? Patterns of beech mortality in natural forests of three European regions. Hülsmann L, Bugmann HK, Commarmot B, Meyer P, Zimmermann S, Brang P. Ecol Appl. 2016 Dec;26(8):2463-2477. doi: 10.1002/eap.1388. Epub 2016 Oct 27. PMID: 27787924
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Long-term effects of drought on tree-ring growth and carbon isotope variability in Scots pine in a dry environment. Timofeeva G, Treydte K, Bugmann H, Rigling A, Schaub M, Siegwolf R, Saurer M. Tree Physiol. 2017 Aug 1;37(8):1028-1041. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpx041. PMID: 28444356
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Are forest disturbances amplifying or canceling out climate change-induced productivity changes in European forests? Reyer CPO, Bathgate S, Blennow K, Borges JG, Bugmann H, Delzon S, Faias SP, Garcia-Gonzalo J, Gardiner B, Gonzalez-Olabarria JR, Gracia C, Hernández JG, Kellomäki S, Kramer K, Lexer MJ, Lindner M, van der Maaten E, Maroschek M, Muys B, Nicoll B, Palahi M, Palma JH, Paulo JA, Peltola H, Pukkala T, Rammer W, Ray D, Sabaté S, Schelhaas MJ, Seidl R, Temperli C, Tomé M, Yousefpour R, Zimmermann NE, Hanewinkel M. Environ Res Lett. 2017 Mar 16;12(3):034027. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa5ef1
