Institute of Botany
Sect. Plant Ecology
Dr. Christophe Randin
Address
Botanisches Institut der Universität Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 6, 4056 Basel (Schweiz)
Tel. ++41 (0)61 267 35 06, Fax ++41 (0)61 267 29 80
Christophe.Randin@unibas.ch
Tel. ++41 (0)61 267 35 06, Fax ++41 (0)61 267 29 80
Christophe.Randin@unibas.ch
Personal Information
| Gender: male | |
| Nationality: Swiss | |
| Date and place of birth: November 17th 1977, Lausanne, Switzerland |
Research Experience
| since 2009 | University of Basel, Institute of Botany, Basel, |
| 2009 | University of Colorado at Boulder, USA - INSTAAR. FNRS Postdoctoral fellowship |
| 2008 | University of Tromsø, Norway |
| 2007-2008 | University of Colorado at Boulder, USA - INSTAAR. FNRS Postdoctoral fellowship |
| 2007 | Département d’Ecologie et d’Evolution (DEE) Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland. Maître d’enseignement et de recherche (MER II) for the DEE |
| 2002-2007 | Département d’Ecologie et d’Evolution (DEE) Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland. Assistant for the DEE. |
| 2001-2002 | Département d’Ecologie et d’Evolution (DEE) Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland. Assistant for Prof. Antoine Guisan |
| since 1998 | Museum and Botanical Gardens of the Canton de Vaud, Switzerland. Scientific collaborator for the Alpine Garden “La Thomasia” (Pont-de-Nant) |
| 2002-2007 | PhD in Life Sciences at the Département d’Ecologie et d’Evolution (DEE) Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. Antoine Guisan “Providing more informative projections of climate change impact on plant distribution in a mountain environment” |
| 2001-2002 | Master diploma in Biology at the Département d’Ecologie et d’Evolution (DEE) Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. Master thesis in Biolology under the supervision of Prof. Pierre Hainard and Dr. Pascal Vittoz “Diachronical study of a subalpine floodplain in the Western Alps – phytosociological and modelling approaches” |
| 1999-2001 | Master in Ecology and Evolution, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. Population biology, Zoology, Ecology and Botany |
| 1996-1999 | Faculté de Biologie et Médecine (FBM), Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland. Undergraduate university levels in Biology |
| 1993-1996 | Gymnase cantonal du Bugnon, Lausanne, Switzerland. Sport academy |
Teaching experience
| 2006-2007 | R for ecologists, Practical for Prof. Jérôme Goudet, CUSO 3rd cycleUniversité de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2002-2007 | Spatial analysis in GIS, Practical for Prof. Antoine Guisan, Master BEC (semester 7), Université de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2002-2007 | Geographic predictive modelling with R and GIS, Practical for Prof. Antoine Guisan, Master BEC (semester 8) and 3rd cycle, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2001-2006 | Biogeography, Practical for Prof. Antoine Guisan, Bachelor in Biology (semester 5), Université de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2002-2007 | Systematical Botany, Practical for Prof. Pierre-André Loizeau, Bachelor in Biology (semester 6), Université de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2002-2007 | Field trips (botany), Dr. Pascal Vittoz, Végétation de la Suisse, Bachelor in Biology (semester 6), Université de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2002-2007 | Field trips (Alpine botany), Prof. Antoine and Dr. Pascal Vittoz, Bachelor in Biology (semester 6), Université de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2002-2003 | Introduction to systematical botany, Practical for Prof. Nicole Galland, Bachelor in Biology (semester 2), Université de Lausanne, Switzerland |
Projects
•TREELIM: Climatic limits of European broad-leaved tree taxa (Prof. Christian Körner, University of Basel, Switzerland
•EUROMONT: Climate threat to alpine plant diversity in mountains of Europe (Prof. Antoine Guisan and Robin Engler, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)
•SnowBed: Snow cover modelling under Climate Change conditions (present and future) for alpine plants dynamics (Austria) (Dr. Stefan Dullinger, VINCA, Austria and Dr. Jean-Pierre Dedieu, CNRS, Grenoble, France)
•MIREN: Mountain Invasion Research Network (Dr. Christoph Kueffer, University of Hawaii, USA)
•MODIPLANT-BIOASSEMBLE: Providing more informative projections of climate change impact on plant distribution in a mountain environment (Prof. Antoine Guisan and Dr. Pascal Vittoz, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)
•EUROMONT: Climate threat to alpine plant diversity in mountains of Europe (Prof. Antoine Guisan and Robin Engler, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)
•SnowBed: Snow cover modelling under Climate Change conditions (present and future) for alpine plants dynamics (Austria) (Dr. Stefan Dullinger, VINCA, Austria and Dr. Jean-Pierre Dedieu, CNRS, Grenoble, France)
•MIREN: Mountain Invasion Research Network (Dr. Christoph Kueffer, University of Hawaii, USA)
•MODIPLANT-BIOASSEMBLE: Providing more informative projections of climate change impact on plant distribution in a mountain environment (Prof. Antoine Guisan and Dr. Pascal Vittoz, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Publications
| 2012 | Kollas C, Vitasse Y, Randin C, Hoch G, Körner Ch 2012: Unrestricted quality of seeds in European broad-leaved tree species growing at the cold boundary of their distribution. Annals of Botany doi: 10.1093/aob/mcr299 | |
| Petitpierre P, Kueffer K, Broennimann O, Randin CF, Daehler C, Guisan A 2012: Climatic niche shifts are rare among terrestrial plant invaders. Science | ||
| Quisthoudt K, Schmitz N, Randin CF, Dahdouh-Guebas F, Robert E, Koedam N 2012: Temperature variation among mangrove latitudinal range limits worldwide. Trees structure and functioning | ||
| Randin CF, Paulsen J, Vitasse Y, Kollas K, Wohlgemuth T, Zimmermann NE Körner Ch 2012: Do elevational limits of deciduous tree species match with their thermal latitudinal limits? Global Ecology and Biogeography | ||
| Vicente J, Pereira HM, Randin CF, Gonçalves J, Lomba A, Alves P, Metzger, M. Cezar J, Guisan A, Honrado J 2012: What drives plant invasions? Environmental dissimilarity explains alien species richness but geographic distance constrains alien species composition. Diversity and Distribution | ||
| Vitasse Y, Hoch G, Randin CF, Lenz A, Kollas C, Körner Ch (2012): Tree recruitment of European tree species at their current upper elevational limits in the Swiss Alps. Journal of Biogeography | ||
| 2011 | Broennimann O, Fitzpatrick MC, Pearman PB, Petitpierre B, Pellissier L, Yoccoz NG, Thuiller W, Fortin M-J, Randin CF, Zimmermann NE, Graham CH, Guisan A 2011: Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurence and spatial environmental data. Global Ecology and Biogeograph, in revision | |
| Engler R, Randin CF, Thuiller W, Dullinger S, Zimmermann NE, Araújo MB, Pearman PB, Le Lay G, Piédallu C, Albert CH, Choler P, Coldea G, de Lamo X, Dirnböck T, Gégout J-C, Gómez-García D, Grytnes J-A, Heegard E, Høistad F, Nogues-Bravo D, Puscas M, Sebasià M-T, Stanisci A, Theurillat J-P, Trivedi MR, Vittoz P, Guisan A 2011: 21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02393.x | ||
| Kollas C, Vitasse Y, Randin C, Hoch G, Körner Ch 2011: Unrestricted quality of seeds in European broad-leaved tree species growing at the cold boundary of their distribution. Annals of Botany 2011 doi: 10.1093/aob/mcr299 | ||
| Pottier J, Dubuis A, Pellissier L, Maiorano L, Rossier L, Randin CF, Vittoz P, Guisan A 2011: Prediction accuracy of stacked-species distribution models degrades toward more productive and disturbed habitats at low elevations in a mountain environment. Global Ecology and Biogeography, in revision | ||
| Vicente J, Randin CF, Gonçalves J, Metzger MJ, Lomba A, Honrado J, Guisan A 2011: Where will conflicts between alien and rare species occur after climate and land-use change? Biological Invasion | ||
| 2010 | Lomba A, Pellissier L, Randin CF, Vicente J, Moreira F, Honrado J, Guisan A 2010: Overcoming the rare species modelling paradox: A novel hierarchical framework applied to an Iberian endemic plant. Biological Conservation 143:2647-2657 | |
| Pellissier L, Brathen KA, Pottier J, Randin CF, Vittoz P, Dubuis A, Yoccoz NG, Alm T, Zimmerman NE, Guisan A 2010: Species distribution models reveal apparent competitive and facilitative effects of a dominant species on the distribution of tundra plants. Ecography 33:1004-1014 | ||
| Randin CF, Engler R, Vittoz P, Guisan A 2010: Using georeferenced databases to assess the effect of climate change on alpine plant species and diversity. pp.149-163 in: Spehn EM, Körner Ch (ed.) E-mining for global trends in mountain biodiversity, CRC/Taylor and Francis | ||
| Randin CF, Pearman PB, Broennimann O, Hautier Y, Lecomte N 2010: La compétition interspécifique. In: Biologie Evolutive, De Boeck, F. Thomas, T. Lefevre and M. Raymond | website link | |
| Thuiller W, Albert CH, Dubuis A, Randin CF, Guisan A 2010: Variation in habitat suitability does not always relate to variation in species' plant functional traits. Biology Letters 6:120-123 | ||
| Vicente J, Alves P, Randin CF, Guisan A, Honrado J 2010: What drives invasibility? A multi-model inference test of alien plant species richness patterns in Northern Portugal. Ecography 33:1081–1092 | ||
| 2009 | Engler R, Randin, CF, Vittoz, P, Czáka, T, Beniston M, Zimmermann NE & Guisan A 2009: Predicting future distributions of mountain plants under climate change: does dispersal capacity matter? Ecography 32:34-45 | |
| Hautier Y, Randin CF, Stöcklin J, Guisan A 2009: Changes in reproductive investment with altitude in an alpine plant. Journal of Plant Ecology 2:125-134 | abstract | |
| Normand S, Treier UA, Randin CF, Vittoz P, Guisan A and Svenning JC 2009: Importance of abiotic stress as a range limit determinant for European plants: insights from species responses to climatic gradients. Global Ecology and Biogeography 18(4):437-449 | ||
| Randin CF, Engler R, Normand S, Zappa M, Zimmermann, NE, Pearman, PB, Vittoz P Thuiller W. and Guisan A. 2009: Climate change and plant distribution: local models predict high-elevation persistence. Change Biology 15:1557-1569 | ||
| Randin CF, Jaccard H, Vittoz P, Yoccoz NG, Guisan A 2009: Land use improves spatial predictions of mountain plant abundance but not presence-absence. Journal of Veg Science 20(6):996-1008 | ||
| Randin, CF, Vuissoz G, Liston G, Vittoz P and Guisan A 2009: Introduction of snow and geomorphic disturbance variables into predictive models of alpine plant distribution in the Western Alps. Journal of Ecology 97:57-66 | ||
| Vittoz P, Randin CF, Dutoit A, Bonnet F and Hegg O. 2009: Low impact of climate change on subalpine grasslands in the Swiss Northern Alps. Global Change Biology 15:209-220 | ||
| 2008 | Molnar P, Favre V, Perona P, Burlando P, Randin CF, Ruf W 2008: Floodplain forest dynamics in a hydrologically altered mountain river. Peckiana 5:17-24 | |
| Pearman PB, Guisan A, Broennimann O and Randin CF. 2008: Niche dynamics in space and time. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23:149-158 | ||
| Pearman PB, Randin, CF, Van der Knaap P, Le Lay G, Engler R, Vittoz P, Broennimann O, and Guisan A. 2008: Prediction of plant species distributions across six millennia. Ecology Letters 11:1-12 | ||
| 2006 | Drake J, Randin CF and Guisan A. 2006: Modelling ecological niches with support vector machines. Journal of Applied Ecology 43:424-432 | |
| Hirzel A, Le Lay G, Helfer V, Randin CF and Guisan A. 2006: Evaluating the ability of habitat suitability models to predict species presences. Ecological Modelling 199:142-152 | ||
| Lassueur T, Joost S and Randin, CF. 2006: Very high resolution digital elevation models: do they improve models of plant species distribution? Ecological Modelling 198:139-153 | ||
| Randin, CF, Dirnböck T, Düllinger S, Zimmermann NE, Zappa M and Guisan A. 2006: Are species distribution models transferable in space? Journal of Biogeography 33:1689-1703 |