Prof Dr. Jürg Stöcklin

Prof. Dr. Jürg Stöcklin, Botanisches Institut der Universität Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 6, 4056 Basel (Schweiz)
Tel. ++41 (0)61 267 35 01, Fax ++41 (0)61 267 35 04
Juerg.Stoecklin@unibas.ch

	Born 5.9. 1951 in Hazaribak, India
1971-77	Master of Science in Biology, University of Basel
1977-81	Coworker in the Pharmaceutical Insustry and in the Media
1982-86	PhD, University of Basel with Prof. Zoller «Litter production and decomposition in calcareous grassland»
since 1988	Lecturer in Botany at the University of Basel
1987-91	Research grant for «Population biology of pioneer species»
1991	Research project on Epilobium species in Georgien (former UdSSR
1991-93	Research Grant of the Treubel Fonds
1998	Habilitation in Botany at the University of Basel
2007	Professor of Botany, University of Basel
	Married, 2 children.

Topics in Population and evolutionary biology:
•The demographic and functional consequences of clonal growth in plants
•The impact of man-made local and global change in calcareous grasslands
•Patchy habitats, meta-populations and genetic diversity in alpine plant life

•Long-term Vegetation Change in Calcareous Grasslands
•Reproduction in Alpine Plants: Persistence, Dispersal and the Landscape Level
•How patchy habitats and isolation affect alpine plant life
•Ecology and function of clonal growth in plant communities
•Global Change and the Genetic Structure of Grassland Species
•How cultural traditions and land use affect grassland biodiversity in the Swiss Alps

•Basler Botanische Gesellschaft - Präsident und Redaktionsmitglied der Bauhinia
•Botanical Society of America (BSA)
•British Ecological Society (BES)
•Gesellschaft für Ökologie GfOe
•International Association of Vegetation Science (IAVS)
•Schweizer Botanische Gesellschaft