Dr. Mihai Pușcaș

Pușcaș Mihai

Associate Professor

Republicii 42, Cluj-Napoca 400015, Romania

Systematic botany, Biogeography, Phylogeography, Alpine flora

+40 264 592 152

mihai.puscas@ubbcluj.ro

Education:

Habilitation: Babes-Bolyai University, Biology (Botany), 2016

PhD: Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble-France), Babes-Bolyai University, Biology (Botany), 2008

M.S.: Babeș-Bolyai University, Biology, 1998

B.S.: Babeș-Bolyai University, Biology, 1997

 

Research:

Dr. Pușcaș has an active research activity in the field of alpine biogeography and ecology (functioning and dynamics of high mountains herbaceous ecosystems). His research attempts to address questions related to the post-glacial history of alpine species and ecosystems, patterns of species distributions, and continent-wide patterns of phylogenetic community structure and botanical richness and endemicity. His primary research areas are the Carpathians and the temperate European mountains. He is the director of A. Borza Botanic Garden and the curator of the Babeș-Bolyai University herbarium.

Selected Publications:

  1. Turtureanu PD, Barros C, Bec S, Hurdu BI, Saillard A, Šibík J, Balázs ZR, Novikov A, Renaud J, Podar D, Thuiller W, Pușcaș M, Choler P, 2020. Biogeography of intraspecific trait variability in matgrass (Nardus stricta): high phenotypic variation at the local scale exceeds large scale variability patterns. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 46, doi: 10.1016/j.ppees.2020.125555.
  2. Geremia RA, Pușcaș M, Zinger L, Bonneville J-M, Choler P, 2016, Contrasting microbial biogeographical patterns between anthropogenic subalpine grasslands and natural alpine grasslands. The New Phytologist, 209 (3), 1196-207, 10.1111/nph.13690.
  3. Pauli H, Gottfried M, Dullinger S, Abdaladze O, Akhalkatsi M, Alonso, JLB, Coldea G, Dick J, Erschbamer B, Calzado RF, Ghosn D, Holten JI, Kanka R, Kazakis G, Kollar J, Larsson P, Moiseev P, Moiseev D, Molau U, Mesa JM, Nagy L, Pelino G, Puşcaş M, Rossi G, Stanisci A, Syverhuset AO, Theurillat JP, Tomaselli M, Unterluggauer P, Villar L, Vittoz P, Grabherr G (2012) Recent plant diversity changes on Europe’s mountain summits, Science, 336, 353-355.
  1. Gottfried M, Pauli H, Futschik A, Akhalkatsi M, Barancok P, Alonso JLB, Coldea G, Dick J, Erschbamer B, Calzado MRF, Kazakis G, Krajci J, Larsson P, Mallaun M, Michelsen O, Moiseev D, Moiseev P, Molau U, Merzouki A, Nagy L, Nakhutsrishvili G, Pedersen B, Pelino G, Puşcaş M, Rossi G, Stanisci A, Theurillat JP, Tomaselli M, Villar L, Vittoz P, Vogiatzakis I, Grabherr G (2012) Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change, Nature Climate Change, 2, 111-115.
  2. Puşcaş M, Choler P, Tribsch A, Gielly L, Rioux D, Gaudeul M, Taberlet P (2008) Post-glacial history of the dominant alpine sedge Carex curvula in the European Alpine System inferred from nuclear and chloroplast markers. Molecular Ecology 17 (10), 2417–2429.

 

Full Publication List

 Courses:

  1. Systematic Botany (Cormophyta) – Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Biology and Geology
  2. Phylogeography- Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Biology and Geology