Biography and education
Born in Bremen, Germany. Immigrated to the USA in 1984. Employee of Texas State University since 2005.
Research Interests
Featured grants
- Mix, Kenneth D, Schwinning, Susan, Percent Contribution: %25, Benavides, Elizabeth Ashley, Percent Contribution: %25, Drewery, Merritt L, Percent Contribution: %25. Transdisciplinary Research, Educational and Extension Laboratory, USDA, Federal, $145616. (Submitted: October 2019, Funded: February 2020 - February 2023). Grant.
- Schwinning, Susan. Trees near springs: Do they take up spring water?, Texas Ecolab, State, $3699. (Funded: 2017). Grant.
- Schwinning, Susan. Texas Ecolab- Linking drought-related tree mortality to plant-available water, State, $16378. (Funded: 2016). Grant.
- Schwinning, Susan. CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences) President’s International Fellowship Initiative, International, $30000. (Funded: 2016). Grant.
- Schwinning, Susan. Texas Ecolab- Linking drought-related tree mortality to plant-available water, $13060. (Funded: 2015). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- West, S. S., Susan, & Denn, A. A. (2020). Beyond Experiments: Considering the Range of Investigative and Data-Collection Methods in Science. In Nature of Science in Science Instruction: Rationales and Strategies (p. 558). Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24556-6
- Schwinning, S., & DaSilva, S. (2022). KR bluestem (Bothriochloa ischaemum var. songarica) has no direct allelopathic effects on seedling growth in a native/non-native mixed community of warm season grasses in Texas, USA. Plant and Soil, 480, 637–649.
- Schwinning, S., & Custer, N. (2022). What common garden can tell us about climate responses in plants. Journal of Plant Ecology, 110, 986–996.
- Schwinning, S., & Custer, N. (2021). Local climate adaptations in two ubiquitous Mojave Desert shrub species, Ambrosia dumosa and Larrea tridentata. Journal of Ecology, 110, 1072–1089.
- Schwinning, S. (2020). A critical question for the critical zone: how do plants use rock water? Plant and Soil, 454, 49–56.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: John L. Harper Prize for a paper published in Journal of Ecology, British Ecological Society. 1996 - Present
- Award / Honor Recipient: R.W. Hoshaw Memorial Award of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona. 1994 - Present
Featured service activities
- Other
McCoy College of Business Administration
- Other
The Freeman Ranch Center
- Other
Institute for the study of Invasive Species (ISIS)
- Editorial Review Board Member
Oecologia
- Editorial Review Board Member
Journal of Ecology
- Editorial Review Board Member
Plant and Soil