Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald
Department of Environmental Engineering and Natural Resource Management
Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
San Luis Potosí, S.L.P. 78216, Mexico
Tel: +52 (444) 834 2000
Education
1996
Ph.D.
Range Ecology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah,
1990
M.S. Biological Sciences, Innsbruck University, Innsbruck, Austria
Employment History
2001- present
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering and Natural Resource Management, IPICYT, San Luis Potosí, México
1998-2001
Research Assistant, Department of Grassland Science, Center of Life Sciences, Technical University Munich, Weihenstephan, Germany
1997-1998
Scientific Officer, Focus 4 of international GCTE core project of IGBP,
Institute of Ecology, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1996-1997
Research Assistant, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA
1991-1996
Research Graduate Assistant, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA
1991-1992
Research Assistant, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA
1986-1991
Research Assistant, Coordination of Environmental Assessment and Inventory of endangered ecosystems, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Professional Service/Activities
2002
Sistema Nacional de Investigadores Nivel 1, Mexico
2001
Cátedra Patrimonial Nivel II, Mexico
1997
Don Dwyer, Award for Scientific Excellence as Graduate Student (PhD), Rangeland Resources Department, Utah State University
1991
Fulbright Scholarship, Austria
1987-1989
Endowment Scholarship of University of Innsbruck, Austria
Publications and Presentations
Huber-Sannwald, E. and D.A. Pyke. (2005) In press. Establishing native grasses in a big sagebrush dominated site: An intermediate restoration step. Restoration Ecology.
Herben, T. and E. Huber-Sannwald. 2002. Effect of management on species richness of grasslands: sward-scale processes lead to large-scale patterns. Grassland Science in Europe, Vol. 7: 625-643.
Chapin, III. F.S., O.E. Sala, E. Huber-Sannwald (eds). 2001. Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment. Springer-Verlag, New York, p. 376.
Chapin, III, F.S., O.E. Sala, E. Huber-Sannwald, and Rik Leemans (2001). The future of biodiversity in a changing world. In: F.S. Chapin, III., O.E. Sala, E. Huber-Sannwald (eds). Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment. Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 1-4.
Sala, O.E., E. Huber-Sannwald, and F.S. Chapin, III (2001). Conclusions. In: F.S. Chapin, III., O.E. Sala, E. Huber-Sannwald (eds). Future Scenarios of Global Biodiversity. Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 351-367.
Huber-Sannwald, E. and R.B. Jackson. (2001). Heterogenous soil resource distribution and plant responses - from individual-plant growth to ecosystem functioning. In: K. Esser, U. Lüttge, J.W. Kadereit, W. Beyschlag (eds) Progress in Botany 62: 450-475.
Sala, O.E., F. S. Chapin III, J.J. Armesto, E. Berlow, J. Bloomfield, R. Dirzo, E. Huber-Sannwald, L.F. Huenneke, R. B. Jackson, A. Kinzig, R. Leemans, D. M. Lodge, H. A. Mooney, M. Oesterheld, N. LeRoy Poff, M. T. Sykes, B. H. Walker, M.Walker, D. H. Wall. (2000). Global Biodiversity Scenarios for the year 2100, Science 287: 1770-1774.
Huber-Sannwald, E., D. A. Pyke, M.M. Caldwell and S. Durham (1999). Interactions between clonal grasses under heterogeneous environmental conditions in a semiarid desert of the Great Basin, USA. Bielefelder Ökologische Beiträge, 14, pp. 41-51.
Huber-Sannwald, E., D. A. Pyke, and M. M. Caldwell. 1998. Clonal plasticity of a rhizomatous grass in heterogeneous environments: influence of nutrient patches and neighboring plant root systems. Ecology 79 (7): 2267-2280.
Huber-Sannwald, E., D. A. Pyke, and M. M. Caldwell. (1997). Perception of neighbouring root systems by rhizomes and roots: morphological manifestations of interacting clonal plants. Canadian Journal of Botany 75: 2146-2157.
II. Bi-national Ecological Meeting, Mendoza, Argentina, “A new paradigm of desertification combining the biophysical and socioeconomic dimension: Biophysical aspects at different spatial scales; 2004.
I. ARIDnet Workshop in Latinamerica: Land degradation in semiarid regions of the Americas. The Amapola, Mexico Case Study. IPICYT, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Titulo: Desertification: When, why and how does it occur? 2004
1st National Week of Supercomputers, San Luis Potosí, Mexico; “The Inter-American Atmosphere/Biosphere (IANABIS) Project”, 2004.
XIV Annual Symposium Jornada; University of New Mexico, NM, Las Cruces, July, 2004; “GRACILIS” - The needs and objectives of a research network for semiarid grasslands in Mexico.
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