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Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

Plant Community Ecology

The research interests of Andy Hector’s group focus on how biodiversity is maintained, how it is lost, and the consequences for the functioning of ecosystems and the provision of ecological services.

Ongoing Projects:

  • Aboveground resource competition and partitioning in grasslands

  • The functional ecology of Bornean Dipterocarps: ecological trade-offs related to light, growth and dispersal.

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem services: Carbon sequestration in enrichment planted forests in Malaysian Borneo

  • Belowground resource competition and partitioning in grasslands

  • Ecosystem multifunctionality

  • Mechanisms of biodiversity loss

Research topics

  • Community ecology

  • Life-history trade-offs

  • Ecosystem processes

  • Ecological stability

Interdisciplinary

  • Population biology

  • Ecological services

  • Systems biology

  • Ecological statistics and graphics

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Contact Person

Prof. Dr. Andy Hector

University of Zurich
Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
Website
andrew.hector-at-uzh.ch
+41 (0)44 635 48 04

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Recent publications

  • Title: Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning change along environmental stress gradients (vol 15, pg 1397, 2012)
    Author(s): Steudel, Bastian; Hector, Andy; Friedl, Thomas; et al.
    Source: ECOLOGY LETTERS, 16 (4): 568-569 APR 2013
    Document Type: Correction (Details)
  • Title: Do grassland plant communities profit from N partitioning by soil depth?
    Author(s): von Felten, Stefanie; Niklaus, Pascal A.; Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael; et al.
    Source: ECOLOGY, 93 (11): 2386-2396 NOV 2012
    Document Type: Article (Details)
  • Title: Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning change along environmental stress gradients
    Author(s): Steudel, Bastian; Hector, Andy; Friedl, Thomas; et al.
    Source: ECOLOGY LETTERS, 15 (12): 1397-1405 DEC 2012
    Document Type: Letter (Details)
  • Title: Ingestion by an endemic frugivore enhances seed germination of endemic plant species but decreases seedling survival of exotics
    Author(s): Zuel, Nicolas; Griffiths, Christine J.; Hector, Andy; et al.
    Source: JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY, 39 (11): 2021-2030 NOV 2012
    Document Type: Article (Details)
  • Title: Effects of Dominance and Diversity on Productivity along Ellenberg's Experimental Water Table Gradients
    Author(s): Hector, Andy; von Felten, Stefanie; Hautier, Yann; et al.
    Source: PLOS ONE, 7 (9): SEP 12 2012
    Document Type: Article (Details)