Curriculum Vitae Christian Temperli - ETH Zürich

Curriculum Vitae Zurich, 30 January 2013
Christian Temperli
Forest Ecology
Departement of environmental systems science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
ETH-Zentrum CHN G78
CH-8092 Zurich
Switzerland
Tel: +41 44 632 56 29
Email: christian.temperli@env.ethz.ch
Education
2009-2012 Ph.D. Thesis on "Climate change, large-scale disturbances and adaptive forest
management” at the Professorship Forest Ecology, ETH Zurich under the
supervision of Prof. H. Bugmann (ETH Zurich) and Dr. C. Elkin (ETH Zurich).
2009-2011 Postgraduate studies in landscape ecology, ecosystem management, energy
engineering and analysis of climate and weather data.
2007 Diploma thesis (M.Sc.) on "Vegetation dynamics after forest fire in comparison to
the pre-fire state" under the supervision of Prof H. Bugmann (Forest Ecology, ETH
Zurich) and Dr. T. Wohlgemuth (Disturbance Ecology, WSL Birmensdorf).
2002-2007 Studies in environmental sciences at the Department of Environmental Systems
Science at ETH Zurich with focus on terrestrial systems and biology.
Employment
2012 PostDoc at the Professorship Forest Ecology, ETH Zurich (1 month).
2009-2012 Scientific assistant at the Professorship Forest Ecology, ETH Zurich with focus on
dynamic modeling of forest ecosystem services under management and climate
scenarios, developing a spatially explicit, dynamic and climate sensitive bark
beetle model and maintaining the group website.
2008-2009 Research intern at the Professorship Forest Ecology, ETH Zurich (3 months) on
"Tree species interactions and the driving forces behind the distribution of species
in the Valais" (internal report).
2008 Research intern at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape
Research WSL, Birmensdorf (7 months) on collecting and analyzing inventory data
in Swiss forest reserves and collaborating on a publication on climate effects on
tree regeneration after forest fire.
2005-2006 Park ranger and research intern at Parks Victoria, Dandenong Ranges National
Park, Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia (5 months) with focus on "Forest
Wiregrass, animal activity and environmental weeds in Sherbrooke Forest
(Dandenong Ranges National Park, Victoria, Australia)" (Internal report).

Research skills
• Application, development and evaluation of dynamic ecosystem models (LandClim)
• Forest inventory and vegetation sampling, basic experience in dendroecological methods
• Data processing and analysis: R
• Programming language: C++ (certified)
• GIS: ArcGIS
Languages
• German
• English
• French
Teaching
Collaboration on practitioner course on „Climate change and Silviculture“. 2011. Forest education
center, Maienfeld, Switzerland.
Publications
ISI-Papers
Temperli, C., Zell, J., Bugmann, H., and C. Elkin. Sensitivity of ecosystem goods and services
projections of a forest landscape model to initialization data. Landscape Ecology. Submitted.
Temperli, C., Bugmann, H., and C. Elkin. Cross-scale interactions between bark beetles, climate
change and wind disturbances: a landscape modeling approach. Ecological Monographs. In
review.
Yousefpour, R., Temperli, C., Bugmann, H., Elkin, C., Hanewinkel, M., Meilby, H., Bredahl Jacobsen, J.,
and B. Jellesmark Thorsen. Updating beliefs and combining evidence in adaptive forest
management under climate change: A case study of Norway Spruce (Picea abies L. Karst) in the
Black Forest, Germany. Journal of Environmental Management. In review.
Elkin, C., Gutiérrez, A., Leuzinger, S., Manusch, C., Temperli, C., Rasche, L., and H. Bugmann. 2013. A
2°C warmer world is not safe for ecosystem services in the European Alps. Global Change Biology.
Accepted.
Temperli, C., Bugmann, H., and C. Elkin. 2012. Adaptive management for competing forest goods and
services under climate change. Ecological Applications 22:2065-2077
Moser, B., Temperli, C., Schneiter, G., and T. Wohlgemuth. 2010. Potential shift in tree species
composition after interaction of fire and drought in the Central Alps. European Journal of Forest
Research 129:625–633.
Reports:
Temperli, C., Elkin C., and H. Bugmann. 2009. Tree species interactions and the driving forces behind
the distribution of species in the Valais. Forest Ecology, ETH Zürich.

Temperli, C., Streit, K., Robin V., and P. Brang. 2008. Standardauswertung der Stichprobeninventur in
Naturwaldreservaten. Das Beispiel Josenwald. Available from World Wide Web
Birmensdorf, Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für
Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL. 46 S.
Brang P., Rohrer L., Temperli C., Stalder A., Streit K., and H. Bugmann. 2008. Selektion von
Kernflächen in Naturwaldreservaten für das Schweitzer Monitoringprogramm. Available from
World Wide Web Birmensdorf,
Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL. 46 S.
Theses:
Temperli, C. 2012. Climate change, large-scale disturbances and adaptive forest management. Ph.D.
Thesis No. 20899, ETH Zurich, Zurich. 143 pp. Supervision: Prof. Hugmann (ETH), Dr. C. Elkin
(ETH).
Temperli, C. 2007. Vegetation dynamics after forest fire in comparison to the pre-fire state. Diploma
thesis. ETH Zürich, WSL Birmensdorf. Supervision: Prof. H. Bugmann (ETH), Dr. T. Wohlgemuth
(WSL).
Geilinger E., and C. Temperli. 2007. Wie kann das Internet die Neuauflage des Buches „Kontaktpunkt
Umwelt“ ergänzen? Semester thesis in social sciences. ETH Zurich. Supervision: Dr. U. Nagel
(Pädagogische Hochschule des Kantons Zürich), Prof. G. Hirsch Hadorn (ETH).
Temperli, C. 2006. Forest Wiregrass, animal activity and environmental weeds in Sherbrooke Forest
(Dandenong Ranges National Park, Victoria, Australia). Semester thesis in natural sciences. ETH
Zürich, Dandenong Ranges Nationalpark, Upper Fern tree gully, Australia. Supervision: Dr. B.O.
Krüsi (ZHAW Wädenswil).
Presentations at conferences and meetings:
Temperli, C., C. Elkin, and H. Bugmann. 2012. Sensitivity of forest ecosystem projections to data on
current forest state. International conference: Tackling climate change: the contribution of
forest scientific knowledge, 21-24 May 2012, Tours, France. Poster.
Temperli, C., C. Elkin, and H. Bugmann. 2012. Bark beetle disturbance under climate change. Swiss
Global Change Day, 4 April 2012, Bern, Switzerland. Poster.
Temperli, C. 2012. Adaptive Waldbewirtschaftung im Klimawandel: Die MOTIVE-Fallstudie
Schwarzwald. Montagskolloquium für die Praxis. 30 January 2012, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Talk.
Temperli, C., C. Elkin, A. Trasobares, and H. Bugmann. 2011. Landscape scale modeling of adaptive
forest management for multiple ecosystem goods and services under climate change. 12th EEF
Congress, 25-19 September 2011, Avila, Spain. Invited talk.
Temperli, C., H. Bugmann, and N. Zimmermann. 2011. Klimaveränderung und Waldentwicklung.
Kurs: Waldbau unter dem Einfluss des Klimawandels. BZWM, 7. September 2011, Maienfeld,
Switzerland. Lecture.
Temperli, C., C. Elkin, and H. Bugmann. 2011. Dynamische Modellierung mit dem Wald-
Landschaftsmodell LandClim. MOTIVE-Stakeholder meeting, 30 May 2012, Rastatt, Germany.
Talk.

Temperli, C. 2011. Progress in the landscape scale simulation and assessment of adaptive forest
management strategies in the Black Forest case study region. MOTIVE general meeting 12-13
April 2011, Wageningen, Netherlands. Talk.
Temperli, C., C. Elkin, and H. Bugmann. 2011. Modeling adaptive forest management under climate
change. Swiss Global Change Day, 19 April 2012, Bern, Switzerland. Poster.
Temperli, C. 2010. Progress in the landscape scale simulation and assessment of adaptive forest
management strategies in the Black Forest case study region. MOTIVE workshop 22-23
November 2010, Vienna, Austria. Talk.
Temperli, C., C. Elkin, A. Trasobares, and H. Bugmann. 2010. Assessing trade-offs in adaptive forest
management for multiple ecosystem goods and services under climate change using landscape
scale modeling. UIFRO Landscape ecology conference, 21-27 September, Braganca, Portugal.
Talk.
Temperli, C., C. Elkin, A. Trasobares, and H. Bugmann. 2010. Modeling adaptive management under
climate change with LandClim. MOTIVE general meeting, 26-27 April 2010, Copenhagen,
Denmark. Talk.