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Andreas Tribsch is affiliated with the University of Salzburg in Austria. Their research spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with particular focus on several subfields including Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics of their work are diverse and include:

  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
  • Genetic diversity and population structure

Tribsch has published in multiple scientific journals, with frequent appearances in The Holocene, Molecular Ecology, Nature Communications, BMC Plant Biology, and Ecology and Evolution.

Their recent research papers include the following:

  • "Primary hybrid zone formation in Tephroseris helenitis (Asteraceae), following postglacial range expansion along the central Northern Alps" (2021, Molecular Ecology)
  • "Occurrence of apomictic conspecifics and ecological preferences rather than colonization history govern the geographic distribution of sexual Potentilla puberula" (2020, Ecology and Evolution)
  • "Genome-wide nuclear data confirm two species in the Alpine endemic land snail Noricella oreinos s.l. (Gastropoda, Hygromiidae)" (2020, Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research)
  • "SedaDNA shows that transhumance of domestic herbivores has enhanced plant diversity over the Holocene in the Eastern European Alps" (2024, The Holocene)
  • "Wild and domesticated animal abundance is associated with greater late-Holocene alpine plant diversity" (2025, Nature Communications)

Throughout their career, Tribsch has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Matthias Affenzeller, Scarlett Zetter, Sandra Garcés-Pastor, Youri Lammers, and Antony G. Brown.

Best Publications

  • Molecular evidence for glacial refugia of mountain plants in the European Alps.

    P Schönswetter;I Stehlik;R Holderegger;Andreas Tribsch

  • Patterns of endemism and comparative phylogeography confirm palaeo- environmental evidence for Pleistocene refugia in the Eastern Alps

    Andreas Tribsch;Peter Schönswetter

  • Vicariance and dispersal in the alpine perennial Bupleurum stellatum L. (Apiaceae)

    Peter Schönswetter;Peter Schönswetter;Andreas Tribsch;Andreas Tribsch

  • Genetic consequences of climate change for northern plants

    Inger Greve Alsos;Dorothee Ehrich;Dorothee Ehrich;Wilfried Thuiller;Pernille Bronken Eidesen;Pernille Bronken Eidesen

  • History or ecology? Substrate type as a major driver of spatial genetic structure in Alpine plants

    Nadir Alvarez;Conny Thiel-Egenter;Andreas Tribsch;Rolf Holderegger

  • Genetic diversity in widespread species is not congruent with species richness in alpine plant communities.

    Pierre Taberlet;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Thorsten Englisch;Andreas Tribsch

  • Several Pleistocene refugia detected in the high alpine plant Phyteuma globulariifolium Sternb. & Hoppe (Campanulaceae) in the European Alps

    P. Schönswetter;A. Tribsch;M. Barfuss;H. Niklfeld

  • Out of the Alps: colonization of Northern Europe by East Alpine populations of the Glacier Buttercup Ranunculus glacialis L. (Ranunculaceae).

    P. Schönswetter;O. Paun;A. Tribsch;H. Niklfeld

  • Areas of endemism of vascular plants in the Eastern Alps in relation to Pleistocene glaciation

    Andreas Tribsch

  • Complex distribution patterns of di-, tetra-, and hexaploid cytotypes in the European high mountain plant Senecio carniolicus (Asteraceae)

    Jan Suda;Hanna Weiss-Schneeweiss;Andreas Tribsch;Gerald M. Schneeweiss

  • Historical divergence vs. contemporary gene flow: evolutionary history of the calcicole Ranunculus alpestris group (Ranunculaceae) in the European Alps and the Carpathians

    O. Paun;P. Schönswetter;M. Winkler

  • Glacial history of high alpine Ranunculus glacialis (Ranunculaceae) in the European Alps in a comparative phylogeographical context

    Peter Schönswetter;Andreas Tribsch;Ivana Stehlik;Harald Niklfeld

  • Saponaria Pumila (Caryophyllaceae) and the Ice Age in the European Alps

    Andreas Tribsch;Peter Schönswetter;Tod F. Stuessy

  • Genetic introgression as a potential to widen a species' niche: Insights from alpine Carex curvula

    P. Choler;B. Erschbamer;A. Tribsch;L. Gielly

  • Relationships among levels of biodiversity and the relevance of intraspecific diversity in conservation - a project synopsis

    F. Gugerli;T. Englisch;H. Niklfeld;A. Tribsch

  • Plant speciation in continental island floras as exemplified by Nigella in the Aegean Archipelago

    Hans Peter Comes;Andreas Tribsch;Christiane Bittkau

  • Break zones in the distributions of alleles and species in alpine plants

    C Thiel-Egenter;N Alvarez;N Alvarez;R Holderegger;A Tribsch;A Tribsch

  • Comparative phylogeography of the Veronica alpina complex in Europe and North America

    Dirk C. Albach;Dirk C. Albach;Peter Schönswetter;Peter Schönswetter;Andreas Tribsch;Andreas Tribsch;Andreas Tribsch

  • Long-distance plant dispersal to North Atlantic islands: colonization routes and founder effect

    Inger Greve Alsos;Dorothee Ehrich;Pernille Bronken Eidesen;Heidi Merethe Solstad

  • Effects of species traits on the genetic diversity of high‐mountain plants: a multi‐species study across the Alps and the Carpathians

    Conny Thiel-Egenter;Felix Gugerli;Nadir Alvarez;Sabine Brodbeck

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Schönswetter
Peter Schönswetter University of Innsbruck
Gerald M. Schneeweiss
Gerald M. Schneeweiss University of Vienna
Manuela Winkler
Manuela Winkler BOKU University
Felix Gugerli
Felix Gugerli Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Karol Marhold
Karol Marhold Slovak Academy of Sciences
Pierre Taberlet
Pierre Taberlet Grenoble Alpes University
Inger Greve Alsos
Inger Greve Alsos University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Ludovic Gielly
Ludovic Gielly Grenoble Alpes University
Harald G. Zechmeister
Harald G. Zechmeister University of Vienna
Nadir Alvarez
Nadir Alvarez University of Geneva

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