Keynote Presentations
from the
AVEC
International
Summer School, Peyresq, 14-27 September 2003
Speaker: Harald Bugmann
Bugmann<at>env.ethz.ch
Mountain Forest Ecology, Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH-Zentrum HG G 21.3 Rämistr. 101, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Title of the talk: Mountain ecosystem goods and services (pdf: 3,5 Mb)
Biosketch
Harald Bugmann was born on 11 April 1965 in Solothurn (Switzerland). Education: From 1985-1989, he studied Systematic and Ecological Biology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. M.Sc. in Limnology and Ecological Modelling in 1989, with a thesis on the ecotoxicological effects of a herbicide on population dynamics and trophic interactions within a plankton community. PhD Thesis in forest ecology entitled "On the ecology of mountain forests in a changing climate: A simulation study" from 1990-1994. Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Germany) from 1994-1998, working on the regional impacts of global change on forests. Visiting scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research in Boulder (USA) in 1998/1999, working on dendroecology and a comparative study of vegetation patterns in the Rocky Mountains vs. the European Alps. Since September 1999, he is Professor of Mountain Forest Ecology at ETH in Zürich. Research interests: Long-term dynamics of forest stands and forested landscapes under global change (land use, climate); mountain forest ecology; tree population dynamics; systems ecology; ecological modeling.
