Nina Buchmann

portrait Prof. Nina Buchmann

Graslandwissenschaften
Institut für Agrarwissenschaften (IAS)
ETH Zürich
ETH Zentrum, LFW C 56
Universitätsstr. 2
CH-8092 Zürich
Switzerland


Phone: +41 (0) 44 632 39 59
Phone2: +41 (0) 44 632 30 83
Fax: +41 (0) 44 632 10 37
E-mail: nina.buchmann(at)usys.ethz.ch
URL Institution: www.ias.ethz.ch/
Personal URL: link

with involvement of Nina Buchmann

Additional functions:
Member of the Transition Steering Committee for the ''Global Land Project'' of IGBP (2003-2005)

Member of the Steering Committee of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center (since 2004)

Subject Editor of the journal Global Change Biology (2003 - 2005)

Associate Editor of the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles (2004 - 2008)

Handling Editor of the Journal Oecologia (since 2001)

Member of the Deutsche Akademie für Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften (German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina – National Academy of Sciences) (since 2007)

Elected member of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) in division 4 (2008-2015)

Member of the Landwirtschaftlicher Forschungsrat (Agricultural Research Council) of Switzerland (since 2008)

Member of the Zentrenkomitee (Steering Committee) of the Minerva Foundation (2009-2012)

Member of the Board of Trustees (Kuratorium) of the Öko-Institut e.V. (since 2009)

Member of the Steering Committee of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center (2004-2012)

Ad personam member of the Tenure Track Commission of the ETH Zurich (since 2006)

Ad personam member of the Strategic Commission of ETH Zurich (2008-2014)

Founding Chair of the World Food System Center at ETH Zurich (since 2011)

Ad personam member of the Agroscope Scientific Board (since 2014)

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the French Infrastructure Project “Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems, AnaEE-S” (since 2014)

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the German LOEWE Excellence Program „FACE2FACE, Folgen des Klimawandels, Anpassung an den Klimawandel und Verminderung der Treibhausgas-Emissionen bis 2050” (since 2014)

Member of the Senate Competition Committee (Senatsausschuss Wettbewerb SAW), Environmental Sciences of the Leibniz Association (Leibniz-Gemeinschaft), Germany (since 2015)

Member of the Committee on Scientific Planning and Review (CSPR) of the International Council for Science (ICSU) (since 2015)

Member of the External Advisory Board of the Food Security Center at University Hohenheim, Germany (since 2016)

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany (since 2016)





Key Publications of Nina Buchmann (up to ten) :
Högberg P, Nordgren A, Buchmann N, Taylor AFS, Ekblad A, Högberg MN, Nyberg G, Ottosson-Löfvenius M, Read DJ (2001). Large-scale forest girdling shows that current photosynthesis drives soil respiration. Nature 411: 789-792

Ciais P, Reichstein M, Viovy N, Granier A, Ogée J, Allard V, Buchmann N, Aubinet M, Bernhofer C, Carrara A, Chevallier F, De Noblet N, Friend A, Friedlingstein P, Grünwald T, Heinesch B, Keronen P, Knohl A, Krinner G, Loustau D, Manca G, Matteucci G, Miglietta F, Ourcival JM, Pilegaard K, Rambal S, Seufert G, Soussana JF, Sanz MJ, Schulze ED, Vesala T, Valentini R (2005). Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003. Nature 437: 529-533

Balvanera P, Pfisterer AB, Buchmann N, He JS, Nakashizuka T, Raffaelli D, Schmid B (2006) Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: a meta-analysis of experimental results. Ecology Letters 9: 1146–1156

Rühr NK, Offermann CA, Gessler A, Winkler BJ, Ferrio JP, Buchmann N, Barnard RL (2009) Drought effects on allocation of recent carbon: From beech leaves to soil CO2 efflux. New Phytologist 184: 950-961.

Wolf S, Eugster W, Ammann C, Häni M, Zielis S, Hiller R, Stieger J, Imer D, Merbold L, Buchmann N (2013) Contrasting response of grassland versus forest carbon and water fluxes to spring drought in Switzerland. Environmental Research Letters 8: 035007. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035007

Reichstein M, Bahn M, Ciais P, Frank D, Mahecha MD, Seneviratne SI, Zscheischler J, Beer C, Buchmann N, Frank D, Papale D, Rammig A, Smith P, Thonicke K, van der Velde M, Vicca S, Walz A, Wattenbach M (2013) Climate extremes and the carbon cycle. Nature 500: 287-295

Merbold L, Eugster W, Stieger J, Zahniser M, Nelson D, Buchmann N (2014) Greenhouse gas budget (CO2, CH4 and N2O) of intensively managed grassland following restoration. Global Change Biology 20: 1913–1928

Finger R, Buchmann N (2015) An ecological economic assessment of risk-reducing effects of species diversity in managed grasslands. Ecological Economics 110: 89–97

Adams MA, Turnbull TL, Sprent JI, Buchmann N (2016) Legumes are different: leaf nitrogen reflects fitness not photosynthesis. PNAS 113:4098–4103



Expertise of Nina Buchmann:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeScientific / Fundamental Research
Topic AtmosphereAtmosphere
Meteorology
Topic BiosphereBiosphere
Plants
Biodiversity
Topic Integrated SystemsIntegrated Systems and Ecology
Carbon Cycle
Biogeochemical Cycles except Carbon
Nutrient Cycle / Food Chain
Topic EcosystemsEcosystems
Terrestrial Ecosystems
Topic Economy/ResourceUseEconomy / Resource Use
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery
Land Cover / Land Use / Landscape
Topic Politics/LawMitigation / Prevention / Emission Reductions
Topic SustainabilitySustainability
Ecological Sustainability
Spatial ZonesMountain / Highland
Lowland
Spatial ScaleRegional
Local / Community
Time FrameRecent / Today
Statistical FocusMean Change / Trends
Variability
Time ScaleSeasonal / Annual
Decadal / Centennial
MethodsData Collection - Measurement
Data Analysis
Literature Study
Program Coordination / Management

Specialties of Nina Buchmann:
Ecology, Plant and Ecosystem Ecophysiology, Biogeochemistry, Trace Gas Fluxes, Stable Isotope Ecology, Functional Biodiversity

Effects of Drought, Climate Impacts, Management Impacts on Grasslands, Forests, Arable Land

Last update: 8/30/23
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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