Dr. Sylvia Haider
Restoration Ecology
Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management
Technische Universität München
D-85350 Freising-Weihenstephan
Phone: +49 8161 71 4142
E-mail: sylvia.haider@wzw.tum.de
Curriculum vitae
since 01/2012 since 09/2011 | Scientific coordinator of TUMbiodivers Research and teaching associate, Restoration Ecology |
2011 | Research and teaching associate, Terrestrial Ecology |
2010 – 2011 | Research and teaching associate, Landscape Ecology |
2006 – 2011 | PhD, TUM „Altitudinal distribution of non-native plants: Cooperation and supervision: · ETH Zurich (Prof. Dr. P.J. Edwards) · Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife · Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) |
2006 | Contract work (2 month) for the UFZ Leipzig (Prof. Dr. K. Jax) |
2005 2002
| Research associate, Landscape Ecology (Prof. Dr. L. Trepl), TUM Consultancy work for a landscape planning agency, Studies of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning, TUM
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Scholarships and grants
2010 | Graduate scholarship (HWP-Program, TUM) |
2007 – 2010 | Graduate scholarship (Universität Bayern e.V.) |
2008 | Graduate scholarship for a research stay on Tenerife; dissertation (Universität Bayern e.V.) |
2006 and 2008 | Graduate scholarships for two research stays in Switzerland; dissertation (DAAD) |
2003 | Undergraduate scholarship for a research stay in Chile; |
since 2006 | Annual grants for conference participation (DAAD, DFG, Leonhard-Lorenz-Foundation) |
Award
2008 | „Student’s European Ecology Prize“ |
Teaching experience
SS 2011 | Lecture „Community Ecology“ (TUM) |
SS 2011 | Tutorial „Ecology“ (TUM) |
since WS 2005 | Organization and realization of student projects (TUM) Topics: landscape planning, nature conservation, plant ecology, restoration ecology |
2007 – 2009 | Supervision of diploma and bachelor’s theses about biological invasions (TUM and ETH Zurich) |
Research interests and selected publications
Link to complete publication list
- Plant invasions in mountains
Haider, S. Kueffer, C., Edwards P. J.& Alexander, J. M. (2012):Genetically-based differantiation in growth of multiple non-native plant species along a steep environmental gradient. Oecologia. Doi: 10.1007/s00442-012-2291-2.
Haider, S., Alexander, J. & Kueffer, C. (2012): Elevational distribution limits of non-native species: combining observational and experimental evidence. Plant Ecology and Diversity. Online First. Doi: 10.1080/17550874.2011.637973.
McDougall, K.L., Alexander J.M., Haider, S., Pauchard, A., Walsh, N.G. & Kueffer, C. (2011): Alien flora of mountains: global comparisons for the development of local preventative measures against plant invasions. Diversity & Distributions 17: 103-111.
Haider, S. & Kueffer, C. (2011): Pflanzeninvasionen in Gebirgen: Modellsystem für die Forschung, Handlungsbedarf für den Naturschutz. [Plant invasions in mountains. A model system for research, a priority for conservation action]. Geographische Rundschau 3/2011: 22-27.
Haider, S. & Küffer, C. (2011): Pflanzeninvasionen in Gebirgen – (noch) keine Gefahr? [Plant invasions in mountains – not yet a threat?]. In: Landschaftsökologie. Grundlagen, Methoden, Anwendungen. Laufener Spezialbeiträge 1/2011.
Haider, S., Alexander, J., Dietz, H., Trepl, L., Edwards, P.J. & Kueffer, C. (2010): The role of bioclimatic origin, residence time and habitat context in shaping non-native plant distributions along an altitudinal gradient. Biological Invasions 12: 4003-4018.
Pauchard, A., Kueffer, C., Dietz, H., Daehler, C.C., Alexander, J., Edwards, P.J., Arévalo, J.R., Cavieres, L., Guisan, A., Haider, S., Jakobs, G., McDougall, K., Millar, C.I., Naylor, B.J., Parks, C.G., Rew, L.J. & Seipel, T. (2009): Ain’t no mountain high enough: Plant invasions reaching new elevations. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7: 479-486.
McDougall, K., Haider, S., Seipel, T., Kueffer, C. & MIREN Consortium (2009): Spread of non-native plant species into mountains: now is the time to act. Mountain Forum Bulletin July 2009: 23-25.
- Theory in ecology
Kirchhoff, T. & Haider, S. (2009): Globale Vielzahl oder lokale Vielfalt: zur kulturellen Ambivalenz von „Biodiversität“. [Global plurality or local diversity: on the cultural ambiguity of ‚biodiversity’]. In: Kirchhoff, T. & Trepl, L. (Eds.): Vieldeutige Natur. Landschaft, Wildnis und Ökosystem als kulturgeschichtliche Phänomene. Transcript, Bielefeld: 315-330.
Haider, S. & Kirchhoff, T. (2008): Biologische Invasionen: liberal und konservativ betrachtet. [Biological invasions from a liberal and a conservative point of view]. In: Technische Universität München, Lehrstühle für Landschaftsarchitektur und Landschaftsplanung (Eds.): Ambiguous landscapes – vieldeutige Landschaften. Bode, Freising: 96-97.
- Environmental ethics and nature conservation
Haider, S. & Jax, K. (2007): The application of environmental ethics in biological conservation: a case study from the southernmost tip of the Americas. Biodiversity & Conservation 16: 2559–2573.
Membership in scientific societies
- Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Specialist groups Plant Population Biology and Ecological Theory)
Other professional activities
- Manuscript review for Biological Conservation, Biological Invasions, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Mammal Review, Science and Engineering Ethics, Tourism Management
