Maître de Conférences, HDR
Département Sciences Biologiques
AGROCAMPUS OUEST Centre d'Angers
2 rue André Le Nôtre
49045 Angers cedex 01 France
tel : +33 241225484
fax :+33 (0)2 41 22 54 78
Research team : UMR BiO3P
armin.bischoff@agrocampus-ouest.fr

Holding a lecturer position (Maître de Conférences) in Ecology and Botany I am teaching general and plant ecology for bachelor and master students. My research covers different fields of plant ecology including population biology, community ecology and plant-herbivore interactions. After finishing my PhD in 1996 at the University of Halle (Germany), Institute of Geobotany I was working at the Centre of Environmental Research (UFZ) Leipzig-Halle and at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), Unit of Ecology and Evolution, before starting my position at AGROCAMPUS OUEST in 2008. In 2011, I successfully defended my HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) which is equivalent to the Austrian, German and Swiss habilitation. The subject of my HDR thesis was "the restoration of plant biodiversity - importance of dispersal, seed origin and trophic interactions".

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Teaching

L1 et L3a : General ecology
L2 : Plant ecology
M1 Paysage: Ecology of plant communities
M1 Horticulture et M2 Paysage : Ecological restoration

Research topics

Local adaptation in plant populations and interactions with herbivores (current projects)
-    Interactions between plants and organisms of higher trophic levels and their importance for local adaptation of plants
-    Adaptation of herbivores to local plant genotypes
-    Scales of genetic differentiation and local adaptation of plants
-    The consequences of introgression of foreign genes into local populations (outbreeding depression ?)

Succession and restoration of plant communities (former projects)
-    Spatial scales of plant dispersal in floodplains
-    Importance of plant dispersal for succession and re-colonisation
-    Effect of land use intensity on plant populations and communities
-    The importance of soil disturbance for seedling recruitment
-    The effect of management on endangered floodplain grassland species
-    Control of the effectiveness of agri-environment schemes

Publication list

- Accepted in peer-review journals (with Impact Factor)

Bischoff, A. & Müller-Schärer, H. (2010) Testing population differentiation in plant species – how important are environmental maternal effects. Oikos 119, 445-454.

Bischoff, A., Steinger, T. & Müller-Schärer, H. (2010) The effect of plant provenance and intraspecific diversity on the fitness of four plant species used in ecological restoration. Restoration Ecology 18, 338-348.

Crémieux, L., Bischoff, A., Steinger, T. & Müller-Schärer, H. (2010) Consequences of genetic introgression from foreign provenances into local plant populations. American Journal of Botany 97, 94-100.

Van der Mijnsbrugge, K., Bischoff, A. & Smith, B. (2010) A question of origin: where and how to collect seed for ecological restoration? Basic and Applied Ecology 11, 300-311.

Bischoff, A. & Warthemann, G. & Klotz, S. (2009) Re-colonisation of floodplain grasslands – the importance of abiotic conditions and source populations. Journal of Applied Ecology 46, 241-249.

Cremieux, L., Bischoff, A., Smilauerova, M., Lawson, C., Mortimer, S., Dolezal, J., Lanta, V., Edwards, A., Brooks, A., Tscheulin, T., Macel, M., Leps, J., Steinger, T. & Müller-Schärer, H. (2008). Potential contribution of natural enemies to patterns of local adaptation in plants. New Phytologist 180, 524-533.

Macel, M., Lawson, C., Mortimer, S., Smilauerova, M., Bischoff, A., Crémieux, L., Dolezal, J., Lanta, V., Edwards, A., van der Putten, W.H., Rodriguez-Barrueco, C., Leps, J., Steinger, T. & Müller-Schärer, H. (2007) Aboveground versus below-ground factors in local adaptation of two common plant species. Ecology 88, 424-433.

Bischoff, A., Crémieux, L., Smilauerova, M., Lawson, C., Mortimer, S., Dolezal, J., Lanta, V., Edwards, A., Brooks, A., Macel, M., Leps, J., Steinger, T. & Müller-Schärer, H. (2006) Detecting local adaptation in widespread grassland species – the importance of scale and local plant community. Journal of Ecology 94, 1130-1142.

Bischoff, A., Vonlanthen, B., Steinger, T. & Müller-Schärer, H. (2006) Seed provenance matters – effects on germination of four plant species used for ecological restoration on arable land. Basic and Applied Ecology 7, 347-359.

Bischoff, A. (2005) The importance of seed dispersal in restoring weed communities. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 106, 377-387.

Bischoff, A., Auge, H. & Mahn, E.-G. 2005: Changes of the relationship between species richness and productivity in early succession. Basic and Applied Ecology 6, 385-394.

Bischoff, A. (2002) Dispersal and establishment of floodplain grassland species as limiting factors of restoration. Biological Conservation 104, 25-33.

Bischoff, A. (2000) Dispersal and re-establishment of Silaum silaus in floodplain grasslands. Basic and Applied Ecology 1, 129-131.

Bischoff, A. & Mahn, E.-G. (2000) The effects of nitrogen and diaspore availability on the regeneration of weed communities following extensification. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 77, 237-246.

Bischoff, A. (1999) Temporal and spatial dynamics of Lithospermum arvense L. populations on arable fields and the effect of different crop management. Flora 194, 127-136.

- Accepted in other journals  (without Impact Factor)

Warthemann G., Winter N., Bischoff A. (2009) Testing hay transfer as a method to restore Cnidium dubium meadows of the Elbe river valley near Dessau (Germany). [Renaturierung von Brenndolden-Auenwiesen durch Mahdgutübertragung in der Elbeaue bei Dessau.] Naturschutz im Land Sachsen-Anhalt 46, Sonderheft 1 (Forschung und Management im Biosphärenreservat Mittelelbe), 49-56.

Bischoff, A., Müller-Schärer, H. (2005) Surfaces de compensation écologique – Importance de l’origine des semences. Hotspot 11, 17.

Bischoff, A. (2001) The dispersal of plant species in agricultural landscapes and the importance for restoration. Aktuelle Reihe der BTU Cottbus 7, 66-78 (in German).

Bischoff, A. (2000) Re-colonisation processes in agro-ecosystems following extensification: floodplain grassland. Schriftenreihe Agrarspectrum 31, 108-120 (in German, with English abstract).

Bischoff, A. (1999) The effect of long-term and rotational set-aside on the vegetation dynamics of N-loaded fields. Mitteilungen der Biologischen Bundesanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft Berlin-Dahlem 368, 103-116 (in German, with English abstract).

Bischoff, A. (1998) Which factors determine the re-colonisation of rare weed species in arable fields following reduction in land use intensity. Schriftenreihe der Landesanstalt für Pflanzenbau und Pflanzenschutz Mainz 6, 171-185 (in German).

Bischoff, A. (1996) Population and vegetation dynamics in agro-ecosystems with high N-load after change to extensive management. Dissertationes Botanicae 268, 1-184 (PhD thesis, in German, with English abstract).

Bischoff, A. (1996) The regeneration of plant and animal communities in arable fields with high fertiliser residues – results from the STRAS project. NNA-Berichte 9(2), 12-23 (in German).

Bischoff, A. & Mahn, E.-G. (1995) The regeneration of highly N-polluted fields under extensified agricultural practice – Studies on the population biology of weeds. Proceedings of the Society of Ecology (GfÖ) 24, 99-104 (in German, with English abstract).

Bischoff, A. & Mahn, E.-G. (1994) Structural changes of weed communities on highly-N-polluted fields under extensified agricultural practice. Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection, Special Issue XIV, 65-74 (in German, with English abstract).

- Book chapter

Bischoff, A. (2001) The importance of dispersal in restoring plant communities of agro-ecosystems following reduction of land use intensity. In H. Mühle & al.: Impact of land use on landscape household and biodiversity in landscapes dominated by agriculture. UFZ-Berichte 16/2001, 57-71 (in German, with English abstract).

Mahn, E.-G. & Bischoff, A. (1995) Community structure and population dynamics of weed species. In M. Körschens & E.-G. Mahn: Regeneration of agro-ecosystems in the central German chernozem region. B.G. Teubner, Stuttgart-Leipzig, 313-348 (in German, with English abstract).