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Harald Bugmann

Harald Bugmann

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
88
Citations
27749
World Ranking
528
National Ranking
16

Overview

Harald Bugmann is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and specializes in environmental science, with a prolific output particularly in the subfields of nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, insect science, and ecology. Their work focuses on forest ecology and management, ecology and vegetation dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest management and policy, tree-ring climate responses, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, and fire effects on ecosystems.

The scientist has published extensively in several journals. Their frequent publication venues include Forest Ecology and Management, Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen, Global Change Biology, European Journal of Forest Research, and Ecology and Evolution.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Harald Bugmann include:

  • Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • Assessing the response of forest productivity to climate extremes in Switzerland using model-data fusion (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Tackling unresolved questions in forest ecology: The past and future role of simulation models (2021, Ecology and Evolution)
  • The evolution, complexity and diversity of models of long-term forest dynamics (2022, Journal of Ecology)
  • How robust are future projections of forest landscape dynamics? Insights from a systematic comparison of four forest landscape models (2020, Environmental Modelling & Software)

Harald Bugmann frequently collaborates with several researchers including Christof Bigler, Martina L. Hobi, Maxime Cailleret, Jonas Stillhard, and Peter Brang.

Best Publications

  • Ecosystem Service Supply and Vulnerability to Global Change in Europe

    Dagmar Schröter;Wolfgang Cramer;Rik Leemans;I. Colin Prentice

  • Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities

    Gian Reto Walther;Alain Roques;Philip E. Hulme;Martin T. Sykes

  • A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

    Henry D. Adams;Melanie J.B. Zeppel;Melanie J.B. Zeppel;William R.L. Anderegg;Henrik Hartmann

  • A REVIEW OF FOREST GAP MODELS

    Harald Bugmann

  • Drought as an Inciting Mortality Factor in Scots Pine Stands of the Valais, Switzerland

    Christof Bigler;Christof Bigler;Otto Ulrich Bräker;Harald Bugmann;Matthias Dobbertin;Matthias Dobbertin

  • Tree species richness promotes productivity in temperate forests through strong complementarity between species

    Xavier Morin;Lorenz Fahse;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen;Harald Bugmann

  • A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

    Maxime Cailleret;Steven Jansen;Elisabeth M. R. Robert;Elisabeth M. R. Robert;Lucía Desoto

  • Modelling natural disturbances in forest ecosystems: a review

    Rupert Seidl;Rupert Seidl;Paulo M. Fernandes;Teresa F. Fonseca;François Gillet;François Gillet

  • A Simplified Forest Model to Study Species Composition Along Climate Gradients

    Harald K. M. Bugmann

  • Drought response of five conifer species under contrasting water availability suggests high vulnerability of Norway spruce and European larch

    Mathieu Lévesque;Mathieu Lévesque;Matthias Saurer;Rolf Siegwolf;Britta Eilmann

  • Comparing and evaluating process-based ecosystem model predictions of carbon and water fluxes in major European forest biomes

    Pablo Morales;Martin T. Sykes;I. Colin Prentice;Pete Smith

  • The relative importance of climatic effects, wildfires and management for future forest landscape dynamics in the Swiss Alps

    Sabine Schumacher;Harald Bugmann

  • The importance of spatial scale in habitat models: capercaillie in the Swiss Alps

    Roland F. Graf;Kurt Bollmann;Werner Suter;Harald Bugmann

  • Disentangling Biodiversity and Climatic Determinants of Wood Production

    Montserrat Vilà;Amparo Carrillo-Gavilán;Jordi Vayreda;Harald Bugmann

  • Expanding forests and changing growth forms of Siberian larch at the Polar Urals treeline during the 20th century

    Nadezhda Devi;Frank Hagedorn;Pavel Moiseev;Harald Bugmann

  • Warming, Photoperiods, and Tree Phenology

    Isabelle Chuine;Xavier Morin;Harald Bugmann

  • Future ecosystem services from European mountain forests under climate change

    Marco Mina;Marco Mina;Harald Bugmann;Thomas Cordonnier;Florian Irauschek

  • Temporal stability in forest productivity increases with tree diversity due to asynchrony in species dynamics

    Xavier Morin;Xavier Morin;Lorenz Fahse;Lorenz Fahse;Claire de Mazancourt;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

  • Models for supporting forest management in a changing environment

    L. Fontes;J.-D. Bontemps;H. Bugmann;M. Van Oijen

  • Growth-dependent tree mortality models based on tree rings

    Christof Bigler;Harald Bugmann

  • Global Change and Mountain Regions:: An Overview of Current Knowledge

    Uli. M Huber;Harald K. M Bugmann;Mel A Reasoner

  • Global Change and Mountain Regions

    Uli M. Huber;Harald K. M. Bugmann;Mel A. Reasoner

Frequent Co-Authors

Björn Reineking
Björn Reineking Grenoble Alpes University
Marco Conedera
Marco Conedera Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Heike Lischke
Heike Lischke Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Willy Tinner
Willy Tinner University of Bern
Robert Huber
Robert Huber Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf Paul Scherrer Institute
Alexandre Buttler
Alexandre Buttler École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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