Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jürg Schönenberger
Head of Division
4. floor, room 415
t: +43 (0)1 4277-540 80
m: juerg.schoenenberger@univie.ac.at
Research interests
Our primary research interests are in organismal evolution and phylogenetics of angiosperms. We have particular interests in the comparative analysis of floral structure and function, both of extant and of fossil angiosperms, the study of floral ontogeny, and the analysis of character evolution in a phylogenetic framework. We integrate results from comparative morphology, palaeobotany, and molecular phylogenetics in order to shed light onto the early evolution and diversification of the angiosperms and their flowers. Systematically, our current research focuses on the order Ericales. However, we am involved in a series of research projects in other phylogenetic lineages including Acanthaceae, Araceae, Malvaceae, Melastomataceae, and Orchidaceae). Three topics that we have become interested only more recently and that we hope to develop further in the coming years include pollination biology (particularly in the tropics), novel technical approaches to the study of floral structure (High Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography) and modern theoretical approaches (morphospace analysis) for the analysis of plant evolution and diversity.
Projects
- The Late Cretaceous Flora of South Bohemia (FWF-Projekt I 6402-B)
- The eFLOWER initiative: A framework for understanding the evolution and diversification of flowers
- Development of novel applications of x-ray computed tomography in plant science
- Floral evolution and diversification in the light of morphospace analyses (FWF-Projekt P 25077-B16)
- Floral diversity and evolutionary history of Ericales
- Pollinator shifts and floral Evolution in the Merianieae (Melastomataceae) (FWF-Projekt P 30669-B29)
Teaching
Curriculum Vitae
Current position
- 2009– Professor in Structural Botany
Education and scientific career
- 2007 Docent in Plant Systematics, Stockholm University, Sweden
- 2004–2009 Lecturer in Plant Systematics, Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Sweden
- 2002–2004 Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Funded through a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation - 2000–2002 Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 1998–2000 Department of Palaeobotany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1998 Dr. phil. (PhD) in Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 1994 Diplom (MSc) in Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Publications
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2016
Chomicki, G., Städler, Y., Schönenberger, J., & Renner, S. S. (2016). Partner choice through concealed floral sugar rewards evolved with the specialization of ant-plant mutualisms. New Phytologist, 211(4), 1358-1370. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13990
Etl, F., Berger, A., Weber, A., Schönenberger, J., & Dötterl, S. (2016). Nocturnal plant bugs use cis-jasmone to locate inflorescences of an Araceae as feeding and mating site. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 42(4), 300–304. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-016-0688-9
Loefstrand, S. D., von Balthazar-Schönenberger, A. M. L., & Schoenenberger, J. (2016). Early floral development and androecium organization in the sarracenioid clade (Actinidiaceae, Roridulaceae and Sarraceniaceae) of Ericales. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 180(3), 295-318. https://doi.org/10.1111/boj.12382
Chartier, M., Liagre, S., Weiss-Schneeweiss, H., Kolano, B., Bessière, J-M., Schönenberger, J., & Gibernau, M. (2016). Floral traits and pollination ecology of European Arum hybrids. Oecologia, 180(2), 439–451. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3498-9
Low, S. L., Wong, S. Y., Ooi, I. H., Hesse, M., Städler, Y., Schönenberger, J., & Boyce, P. C. (2016). Floral diversity and pollination strategies of three rheophytic Schismatoglottideae (Araceae). Plant Biology, 18(1), 84-97. https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.12320
Schönenberger, J., Chartier, M., & Städler, Y. (2016). Modern theoretical and technical approaches in plant morphology. Modern Phytomorphology, 9(Suppl.), 79. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.159706
Von Byern, J., Kerbl, A., Nödl, M-T., Bello, G., Städler, Y., Schönenberger, J., & Cyran, N. (2016). Spine Formation as a Hatching Tool in Euprymna scolopes (Mollusca, Cephalopoda, Sepiolidae). Malacologia, 59(2), 231-238. https://doi.org/10.4002/040.059.0204
2015
Loefstrand, S. D., & Schönenberger, J. (2015). Molecular phylogenetics and floral evolution in the sarracenioid clade (Actinidiaceae, Roridulaceae and Sarraceniaceae) of Ericales. Taxon, 64(6), 1209-1224. https://doi.org/10.12705/646.6
Loefstrand, S. D., & Schönenberger, J. (2015). Comparative floral structure and systematics in the sarracenioid clade (Actinidiaceae, Roridulaceae and Sarraceniaceae) of Ericales. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 178(1), 1-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/boj.12266
Cyran, N., Klepal, W., Städler, Y., Schönenberger, J., & von Byern, J. (2015). Alterations in the mantle epithelium during transition from hatching gland to adhesive organ of Idiosepius pygmaeus (Mollusca, Cephalopoda). Mechanisms of Development, 135, 43-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mod.2014.11.003
2014
Nepel, M., Voglmayr, H., Schönenberger, J., & Mayer, V. (2014). High diversity and low specificity of chaetothyrialean fungi in carton galleries in a Neotropical ant–plant association. PLoS ONE, 9(11), [e112756]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112756
Chartier, M., Jabbour, F., Gerber, S., Mitteroecker, P., Sauquet, H., von Balthazar, M., Städler, Y., Crane, P. R., & Schönenberger, J. (2014). The floral morphospace - a modern comparative approach to study angiosperm evolution. New Phytologist, 204, 841-853. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.12969
Dellinger, A. S., Penneys, D. S., Städler, Y., Fragner, L., Weckwerth, W., & Schönenberger, J. (2014). A Specialized Bird Pollination System with a Bellows Mechanism for Pollen Transfer and Staminal Food Body Rewards. Current Biology, 24(14), 1615-1619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.05.056
Zhang, R-J., & Schönenberger, J. (2014). Early floral development of Pentaphylacaceae (Ericales) and its systematic implications. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 300(6), 1547-1560. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-014-0981-4
Bellaire, A., Ischebeck, T., Städler, Y., Weinhaeuser, I., Mair, A., Parameswaran, S., Ito, T., Schönenberger, J., & Weckwerth, W. (2014). Metabolism and development - integration of micro computed tomography data and metabolite profiling reveals metabolic reprogramming from floral initiation to silique development. New Phytologist, 202(1), 322-335. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.12631
Nikolov, L. A., Städler, Y., Manickam, S., Schönenberger, J., Endress, P. K., Kramer, E. M., & Davis, C. C. (2014). Floral structure and development in Rafflesiaceae with emphasis on their exceptional gynoecia. American Journal of Botany: the journal for all plant biologists, 101(2), 225-243. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1400009
Sedeek, K. E. M., Scopece, G., Städler, Y., Schönenberger, J., Cozzolino, S., Schiestl, F. P., & Schlüter, P. M. (2014). Genic rather than genome-wide differences between sexually deceptive Ophrys orchids with different pollinators. Molecular Ecology, 23(24), 6192-6205. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12992
2013
von Balthazar, M., & Schönenberger, J. (2013). Comparative floral structure and systematics in the balsaminoid clade including Balsaminaceae, Marcgraviaceae and Tetrameristaceae (Ericales). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 173(3), 325-386. https://doi.org/10.1111/boj.12097
Städler, Y., Masson, D., & Schönenberger, J. (2013). Plant Tissues in 3D via X-Ray Tomography: Simple Contrasting Methods Allow High Resolution Imaging. PLoS ONE, 8(9), [75295]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075295
Gamisch, A., Städler, Y., Schönenberger, J., Fischer, G. A., & Comes, H. P. (2013). Histological and Micro-CT Evidence of Stigmatic Rostellum Receptivity Promoting Auto-Pollination in the Madagascan Orchid Bulbophyllum bicoloratum. PLoS ONE, 8(8), [72688]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072688
Gamisch, A., Städler, Y., Schönenberger, J., Fischer, G. A., & Comes, H. P. (2013). Correction: Histological and Micro-CT Evidence of Stigmatic Rostellum Receptivity Promoting Auto-Pollination in the Madagascan Orchid Bulbophyllum bicoloratum. PLoS ONE, 8(11). https://doi.org/10.1371/annotation/447c32a9-0723-4fe9-bceb-3e24e0ef1cfc
Fiedler, K., Schönenberger, J., Weber, A., & Albert, R. (2013). Forschung und Lehre an der Tropenstation La Gamba - ein Überblick. In R. Albert, W. Huber, S. Pamperl, W. Wanek, A. Weber, & A. Weissenhofer (Eds.), 20 Jahre Tropenstation La Gamba, Costa Rica (pp. 60-65). Verein zur Förderung der Tropenstation La Gamba, Costa Rica..
Cyran, N., Städler, Y., Schönenberger, J., Klepal, W., & Von Byern, J. (2013). Hatching glands in cephalopods – a comparative study. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 253(1), 66-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2013.04.001
Oh, I-C., Schönenberger, J., Motley, T. J., Myrenås, M., & Anderberg, A. A. (2013). Phylogenetic relationships among endemic Hawaiian Lysimachia (Ericales: Primulaceae): Insights from nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequence data. Pacific Science: a quarterly devoted to the biological and physical sciences of the Pacific Region, 67(2), 237-251. https://doi.org/10.2984/67.2.7
2012
Schönenberger, J., von Balthazar, M., Takahashi, M., Xiao, X., Crane, P., & Herendeen, P. S. (2012). Glandulocalyx upatoiensis, a fossil flower of Ericales (Actinidiaceae/Clethraceae) from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) of Georgia, USA. Annals of Botany, 109(5), 921-936. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcs009
2011
Borg, A. J., & Schönenberger, J. (2011). Comparative floral development and structure of the black mangrove genus Avicennia L. and related taxa in the Acanthaceae. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 172, 330-344.
2010
Schönenberger, J., von Balthazar, M., & Sytsma, K. (2010). Diversity and evolution of floral structure among early diverging lineages in the Ericales. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 365(1539), 437-448. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0247
Schindler, S., Ehrendorfer-Schratt, L., Hermann, A., Schönenberger, J., Greimler, J., Fiedler, K., & Grabherr, G. (2010). Fakultätszentrum für Biodiversität: Forschung, Lehre und Naturschutz. Natur und Land: Zeitschrift des Österreichischen Naturschutzbundes, 96(4), 6-9.
2009
Schönenberger, J. (2009). Comparative floral structure and systematics of Fouquieriaceae and Polemoniaceae (Ericales). International Journal of Plant Sciences, 170, 1132-1167.
von Balthazar-Schönenberger, A. M. L., & Schönenberger, J. (2009). Floral Structure and Organization in Platanaceae. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 170(2), 210-225. https://doi.org/10.1086/595288
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