John Klironomos, PhD, FRSC

Professor

Department of Biology

University of British Columbia (Okanagan campus) Kelowna, BC, Canada

E-mail: john.klironomos@ubc.ca

Current Research Interests

The ecology of mycorrhizal symbioses; Mycorrhizas and plant invasions; The influence of soil biota on plant communities.

Education
1994	Ph.D. Biology	University of Waterloo
1990	B.Sc. Biology	Concordia University

Academic Positions held

2009-              Professor of Biology, UBC

2017-              Member, Board of Governors, UBC

2017-             Associate Head, Department of Biology, UBC

2013-2015     Associate Dean Research, Arts and Sciences, UBC 2006-2009                        Professor, University of Guelph

2001-2006     Associate Professor, University of Guelph 1996-2001                        Assistant Professor, University of Guelph

1994-1996     Postdoctoral Fellow, San Diego State University

Current Editorial Position

Editor              Ecology Letters

Selected Undergraduate Courses Taught

Advanced Field Ecology, Conservation Biology, Evolutionary Ecology Introductory Ecology, Mycology, Plant Ecology, Restoration Ecology, Microbial Ecology

Selected Graduate Courses Taught

Plant Ecology, Advances in Ecology and Behaviour

Awards and Distinctions

2014               Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Science 2013 Fellow of the AAAS

2013               Professional Achievement Award, Soil Ecology Society 2007          Humboldt Research Award, Humboldt Foundation, Germany 2006       E.W.R. Steacie Research Fellowship, NSERC, Canada 2003        Charles Bullard Fellowship, Harvard University, U.S.A.

2003               Canada Research Chair, Tier II, Canada

2001               President’s Distinguished Professor Award, University of Guelph 2000                        Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award

Current Research Society Positions and Memberships

Fellow, Royal Society of Canada

Member, Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Member, International Mycorrhiza Society

Member, Soil Ecology Society (President 2010-2011)

Selected Publications (158 total)

Van der Heijden, M.G.A., Klironomos, J.N., Ursic, M., Moutoglis, P., Streitwolf- Engel, R., Boller, T., Wiemken, A., Sanders, I.R. (1998) Mycorrhizal fungal diversity determines plant biodiversity, ecosystem variability and productivity. Nature 396, 69-72.

Klironomos, J.N. and Hart, M.M (2001) Animal nitrogen swap for plant carbon.

Nature 410, 651-652.

Klironomos, J.N. (2002) Feedback with soil biota contributes to plant rarity and invasiveness in communities. Nature 417, 67-70.

Klironomos, J.N. (2002) Another form of bias in conservation research. Science

298, 749.

Wardle, D., Bardgett, R., Klironomos, J. Setälä, H., Van der Putten, W., Wall, D. (2004). Ecological linkages between aboveground and belowground biota. Science 304, 1629-1633.

Klironomos, J.N., Allen, M.F., Rillig, M.C., Piotrowski, J., Makvandi-Nejad, S., Wolfe, B.E., and Powell, J.R. (2005) Abrupt rise in atmospheric CO2 overestimates community response in a model plant-soil system. Nature 433, 621-624.

Maherali H and Klironomos JN (2007) Influence of phylogeny on fungal community assembly and ecosystem functioning. Science 316, 1746-1748.

Pringle A, Bever JD, Gardes M, Parrent JL, Rillig MC, Klironomos JN (2009) Mycorrhizal symbioses and plant invasions. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 40, 699-715.

Chagnon P-L, Bradley RL, Maherali H, Klironomos JN (2013) A trait-based framework to understand life history of mycorrhizal fungi. Trends in Plant Science 18, 484-491.

Fraser LH, Pither J, Jentsch A, Sternberg M, Zobel M, et al. (2015) Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness. Science 349, 302-305.

Bennett JA, Maherali H, Reinhart KO, Lekberg Y, Hart MM, Klironomos J (2017) Plant-soil feedbacks and mycorrhizal type influence temperate forest population dynamics. Science 355, 181-184.