Peter Schönswetter

• Role of genome duplication in changing mountain landscapes, FWF, 2021–2025

• Range formation of beech forest understory herbs, FWF, 2017–2021

• Origin of steppe flora and fauna in inner-Alpine dry valleys, FWF, 2014–2017

• Survey of the genetic diversity of endemics of the north-eastern Limestone Alps as a monitoring basis, Austrian Biodiversity Fond, 2024-2025

• Kirschner, P., Perez, M., Záveská, E., Sanmartín, I., Marquer, L., Schlick-Steiner, B. C., Alvarez, N., STEPPE Consortium, Steiner, F. M., Schönswetter, P. (2022) Congruent evolutionary responses of European steppe biota to late Quaternary climate change: insights from convolutional neural network-based demographic modeling. Nature Communications 13, 1921. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-29267-8
• Záveská, Z., Kirschner, P., Frajman, B., Wessely, J., Willner, W., Gattringer, A., Hülber, K., Lazić, D., Dobeš, C., & Schönswetter, P. (2021) Evidence for glacial refugia of the forest understorey species Helleborus niger (Ranunculaceae) in the Southern as well as in the Northern Limestone Alps. Frontiers in Plant Science 12:683043. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.683043.
• Kirschner, P., Záveská, E., Gamisch, A., Hilpold, A., Trucchi, E., Paun, O., Sanmartín, I., Schlick-Steiner, B. C., Frajman, B., Arthofer, W., The STEPPE Consortium, Steiner, F. M., Schönswetter, P. (2020) Long-term isolation of European steppe outposts boosts the biome’s conservation value. Nature Communications 11, 1968. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15620-2.
• Sonnleitner, M., Hülber, K., Flatscher, R., Escobar García, P., Winkler, M., Suda, J., Schönswetter, P., & Schneeweiss, G. M. (2016) Ecological differentiation of diploid and polyploid cytotypes of Senecio carniolicus sensu lato (Asteraceae) is stronger in areas of sympatry. Annals of Botany, 117: 269–276.
• Schönswetter, P., Stehlik, I., Holderegger, R., & Tribsch, A. (2005). Molecular evidence for glacial refugia of mountain plants in the European Alps. Molecular Ecology, 14, 3547–3555.

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Community services

• Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

• Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Protection of Nature of the Federal Government of the Tyrol

• Editorial board/Reviewer for various journals and funding agencies

• Head of the Curriculum Commission of the Faculty of Biology of the University of Innsbruck

All Research achievements

• Plant biodiversity
• Plant identification
• Botanical excursions to the Eastern Alps and other areas
• Flora and vegetation of the Alps and Middle Europe
• Population biology

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