Daniel R. Schlaepfer

Department of Botany
University of Wyoming
Aven Nelson, lab #133
Laramie, WY 82070
307-766-2484
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Education

2008 Ph.D., Plant Ecology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Advisor: Peter J. Edwards. Dissertation: „Ecological significance of ploidy level of native and invasive populations of Solidago gigantea“.
Available online http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/view/eth:30868 (doi: 10.3929/ethz-a-005691046)
2003 Diploma of Environmental Sciences (equivalent to M.S. and B.A.), ETH Zurich, Switzerland

 

Professional experience

2009 - Post-Doc research associate, Department of Botany, University of Wyoming
2008 - 2009 Post-Doc researcher, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland
2004 - 2008 Scientific assistant, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2003 Scientific assistant, Department of Limnology, EAWAG, Dübendorf, Switzerland
2001 Trainee, Centre for Swiss Plant Databases (ZDSF/CRSF), Geneva, Switzerland
2000 Intern, Forest Ecosystems and Ecological Risks, WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

 

 

 

 

 

Publications

  1. Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK & Bradford, JB (2011) Process-based ecohydrological niche informs sagebrush distribution models under climate change. Ecography, doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.06928.x
  2. Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK & Bradford, JB (2011) Ecohydrological niche of sagebrush ecosystems. Ecohydrology, doi: 10.1002/eco.238
  3. van Kleunen, M, Schlaepfer, DR, Glättli, M & Fischer, M (2011) Preadapted for invasiveness: do species traits or their plastic response to shading differ between invasive and non-invasive plant species in their native range? Journal of Biogeography, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02495.x
  4. Schlaepfer, DR, Edwards, PJ & Billeter, R (2010) Why only tetraploid Solidago gigantea (Asteraceae) became invasive: a common garden comparison of ploidy levels. Oecologia, 163, 661-673
  5. Schlaepfer, DR, Glättli, M, Fischer, M & van Kleunen, M (2010) A multi-species experiment in their native range indicates pre-adaptation of invasive alien plant species. New Phytologist, 185, 1087-1099
  6. van Kleunen, M, Dawson, W, Schlaepfer, DR & Fischer, M (2010) Are invaders different? A conceptual framework of comparative approaches for assessing determinants of invasiveness. Ecology Letters, 13, 947–958.
  7. Schlaepfer, DR, Edwards, PJ, Widmer, A & Billeter, R (2008) Phylogeography of native ploidy levels and invasive tetraploids of Solidago gigantea (Asteraceae). Molecular Ecology, 17, 5245-5256
  8. Schlaepfer, DR, Edwards, PJ, Semple, JC & Billeter, R (2008) Cytogeography of Solidago gigantea (Asteraceae) and its invasive ploidy level. Journal of Biogeography, 35, 2119-2127
  9. Doering, M, Uehlinger, U, Rotach, A, Schlaepfer, DR & Tockner, K (2007) Ecosystem expansion and contraction dynamics along a large Alpine alluvial corridor (Tagliamento River, Northeast Italy). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 32, 1693-1704

Manuscripts in review or in preparation

  • Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK & Bradford, JB (in review) Consequences of declining snow accumulation for water balance of mid-latitude dry regions.
  • Lauenroth, WK, Schlaepfer, DR & Bradford, JB (in review) Storage versus pulse soil water dynamics: sagebrush steppe compared to shortgrass steppe.

Conference & seminar contributions

  1. Bradford, JB, Schlaepfer, DR & Lauenroth, WK: Soil water availability patterns across a sagebrush-lodgepole ecotone: The role of disturbance and climate. Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, Northern Arizona University. Flagstaff, AZ (October 2011, oral)
  2. Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK & Bradford, JB: Consequences of declining snow accumulation for semiarid intermountain ecosystem water balance. Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). Austin,TX  (August 2011, oral)
  3. Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK & Bradford, JB: How does process-based soil water modeling of sagebrush steppe inform climate envelopes? Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). Pittsburgh, PA (August 2010, oral)
  4. Schlaepfer, DR, Glättli, M, Fischer, M & van Kleunen, M: Experimental comparison of invasive and non-invasive species in their native range. Annual Conference of the Plant Population Biology Section of the Ecological Society of Germany, Switzerland and Austria (GfÖ). Bern, Switzerland (May 2009, oral)
  5. Schlaepfer, DR: Influence of polyploidy on Solidago gigantea. „Seminars on community ecology“. University of Bern, Switzerland. Invited by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nentwig (Oct 2007)
  6. Schlaepfer, DR & Billeter, R: Solidago gigantea: Plant performance in a ploidy-level precise common garden. Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ). Marburg, Germany (Sept 2007, oral)
  7. Schlaepfer, DR: Solidago gigantea: A ploidy-level precise alien - native range comparison. Workshop: Colonization versus invasion. Monte Verità, Switzerland (Feb 2007, oral)
  8. Schlaepfer, DR & Billeter, R: Not all ploidy levels of Solidago gigantea Ait. are invasive! NEOBIOTA. Vienna, Austria (Sept 2006, poster)
  9. Schlaepfer, DR & Billeter, R: The role of polyploidy in invasive plants – A case study on Solidago gigantea Ait. NEOBIOTA. Bern, Switzerland. (Sept 2004, poster)

Teaching

  • Seminar class "Biological Invasions"
  • Lab seminar (Lauenroth/Burke-Lab of soil, ecohydrology, and biogeochemistry)
  • One-on-one student supervision at graduate and undergraduate level

Manuscript refereeing

Molecular Ecology, Biological Invasion, Plant Biology, PLoSONE, Genetica, Ecography, Folia Geobotanica, Journal of Vegetation Science, New Phytologist, Journal of Plant Ecology, Ecology, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Miscellaneous private interests

 

 

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