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Jürg Schönenberger

Jürg Schönenberger

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
36
Citations
4516
World Ranking
4920
National Ranking
33

Ecology and Evolution

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35
Citations
3838
World Ranking
7457
National Ranking
60

Overview

Jürg Schönenberger is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria, focusing on research within agricultural and biological sciences. Their published work primarily addresses ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics, alongside significant contributions to plant science, molecular biology, nature and landscape conservation, and paleontology.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics including:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant diversity and evolution
  • Plant parasitism and resistance
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant and fungal species descriptions
  • Plant reproductive biology
  • Evolution and paleontology studies

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • Low bee visitation rates explain pollinator shifts to vertebrates in tropical mountains, 2021, New Phytologist
  • From the Soft to the Hard: Changes in Microchemistry During Cell Wall Maturation of Walnut Shells, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Trait-dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data, 2023, Ecology Letters
  • Global patterns and a latitudinal gradient of flower disparity: perspectives from the angiosperm order Ericales, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Comparative floral development reveals novel aspects of structure and diversity of flowers in Cannabaceae, 2020, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • New Phytologist
  • International Journal of Plant Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • American Journal of Botany
  • Frontiers in Plant Science

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their research activity, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Hervé Sauquet
  • Maria von Balthazar
  • Agnes S. Dellinger
  • Marion Chartier
  • Diana Fernández-Fernández

Best Publications

  • The ancestral flower of angiosperms and its early diversification

    Hervé Sauquet;Maria von Balthazar;Susana Magallón;James A. Doyle

  • EARLY TERTIARY OUT-OF-INDIA DISPERSAL OF CRYPTERONIACEAE: EVIDENCE FROM PHYLOGENY AND MOLECULAR DATING

    Elena Conti;Torsten Eriksson;Jürg Schönenberger;Kenneth J. Sytsma

  • Plant tissues in 3D via X-ray tomography: simple contrasting methods allow high resolution imaging.

    Yannick M. Staedler;David Masson;Jürg Schönenberger

  • AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora.

    Daniel Falster;Rachael Gallagher;Rachael Gallagher;Elizabeth H. Wenk;Ian J. Wright

  • Phylogeny, historical biogeography, and diversification of angiosperm order Ericales suggest ancient Neotropical and East Asian connections.

    Jeffrey P. Rose;Thomas J. Kleist;Stefan D. Löfstrand;Bryan T. Drew

  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Patterns of Floral Evolution in the Ericales

    Jürg Schönenberger;Arne A. Anderberg;Kenneth J. Sytsma

  • The floral morphospace – a modern comparative approach to study angiosperm evolution

    Marion Chartier;Florian Jabbour;Sylvain Gerber;Philipp Mitteroecker

  • DID CRYPTERONIACEAE REALLY DISPERSE OUT OF INDIA? MOLECULAR DATING EVIDENCE FROM rbcL, ndhF, AND rpl16 INTRON SEQUENCES

    Frank Rutschmann;Torsten Eriksson;Jürg Schönenberger;Elena Conti

  • Molecular phylogeny and floral evolution of Penaeaceae, Oliniaceae, Rhynchocalycaceae, and Alzateaceae (Myrtales)

    Jürg Schönenberger;Elena Conti

  • Genic rather than genome-wide differences between sexually deceptive Ophrys orchids with different pollinators.

    Khalid E. M. Sedeek;Giovanni Scopece;Yannick M. Staedler;Jürg Schönenberger

  • Beyond buzz-pollination - departures from an adaptive plateau lead to new pollination syndromes.

    Agnes S. Dellinger;Marion Chartier;Diana Fernández‐Fernández;Darin S. Penneys

  • Normapolles plants: a prominent component of the Cretaceous rosid diversification

    E. M. Friis;K. Raunsgaard Pedersen;J. Schönenberger

  • Emergence of a floral colour polymorphism by pollinator-mediated overdominance

    Roman T. Kellenberger;Roman T. Kellenberger;Kelsey J. R. P. Byers;Kelsey J. R. P. Byers;Rita M. De Brito Francisco;Yannick M. Staedler

  • Low bee visitation rates explain pollinator shifts to vertebrates in tropical mountains.

    Agnes S. Dellinger;Rocio Pérez-Barrales;Fabián A. Michelangeli;Darin S. Penneys

  • Cunoniaceae in the Cretaceous of Europe: Evidence from Fossil Flowers

    Jürg Schönenberger;Else Marie Friis;Merran L. Matthews;Peter K. Endress

  • Fossil flowers of ericalean affinity from the Late Cretaceous of Southern Sweden

    Jürg Schönenberger;Else Marie Friis

  • Endressianthus, a New Normapolles‐Producing Plant Genus of Fagalean Affinity from the Late Cretaceous of Portugal

    Else Marie Friis;Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen;Jürg Schönenberger

  • Modularity increases rate of floral evolution and adaptive success for functionally specialized pollination systems

    Agnes S. Dellinger;Silvia Artuso;Susanne Pamperl;Fabián A. Michelangeli

  • High Diversity and Low Specificity of Chaetothyrialean Fungi in Carton Galleries in a Neotropical Ant–Plant Association

    Maximilian Nepel;Hermann Voglmayr;Jürg Schönenberger;Veronika E. Mayer

  • A Comparison of Floral Structures of Anisophylleaceae and Cunoniaceae and the Problem of their Systematic Position

    Merran L. Matthews;Peter K. Endress;Jürg Schönenberger;Jürg Schönenberger;Else Marie Friis

  • Normapolles flowers of fagalean affinity from the Late Cretaceous of Portugal

    J. Schönenberger;K. Raunsgaard Pedersen;E. M. Friis

  • Bimodal Pollination Systems in Andean Melastomataceae Involving Birds, Bats, and Rodents.

    Agnes S. Dellinger;Lisa M. Scheer;Silvia Artuso;Diana Fernández-Fernández

  • Structure and Development of the Flowers in Mendoncia, Pseudocalyx, and Thunbergia (Acanthaceae) and Their Systematic Implications

    Jürg Schönenberger;Peter K. Endress

  • The role of wood anatomy in phylogeny reconstruction of Ericales

    F. Lens;J. Schönenberger;P. Baas;S. Jansen

  • EARLY TERTIARY OUT‐OF‐INDIA DISPERSAL OF CRYPTERONIACEAE: EVIDENCE FROM PHYLOGENY AND MOLECULAR DATING

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  • A Specialized Bird Pollination System with a Bellows Mechanism for Pollen Transfer and Staminal Food Body Rewards

    Agnes S. Dellinger;Darin S. Penneys;Yannick M. Staedler;Lena Fragner

  • How (much) do flowers vary? Unbalanced disparity among flower functional modules and a mosaic pattern of morphospace occupation in the order Ericales

    Marion Chartier;Stefan Löfstrand;Stefan Löfstrand;Maria von Balthazar;Sylvain Gerber

Frequent Co-Authors

Else Marie Friis
Else Marie Friis Aarhus University
Peter K. Endress
Peter K. Endress University of Zurich
Stefan Dötterl
Stefan Dötterl University of Salzburg
Elena Conti
Elena Conti University of Zurich
Susanne S. Renner
Susanne S. Renner Washington University in St. Louis
W. Scott Armbruster
W. Scott Armbruster University of Portsmouth
Kenneth J. Sytsma
Kenneth J. Sytsma University of Wisconsin–Madison
Peter R. Crane
Peter R. Crane Yale University
Hermann Voglmayr
Hermann Voglmayr University of Vienna
Steven Jansen
Steven Jansen University of Ulm

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