Eco-evolutionary processes in ecological and economic systems https://www.wsl.ch/de/projekte/eco-evolutionary-processes-in-ecological-and-economic-systems/
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Analogous economic processes have been proposed to
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Analogous economic processes have been proposed to
important water resource for downstream populations and have
We use a long-term precipitation manipulation experiment in mature Pinus sylvestris forests and a natural precipitation gradient from 840 mm to 290 mm/year with Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica, to study the „Drought effects on reproductive phenology and the physiological mechanisms of pine trees“.
reproductive phenology (Mazer et al. 2015) of plants have
The aim of BugNet is to better understand the impact of invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens on plant communities and ecosystems. To do so we coordinate surveys on consumers and plant communities, and invertebrate herbivore and fungal exclusion experiments in many part of the world.
A wide range of organisms attack plants and they have
This project aims to further develop the Swiss plate geophone system, a passive seismic method to measure bedload transport in water courses, with a new set of controlled experiments and field calibration measurements.
more than 20 field sites, and direct bedload samples have
This is a working group with members from all over Europe carrying out research in primeval forest and forest reserves. The main goal of the group is to explore possibilities to join forces, enhance the visibility and exploit the potential of the existing long-term monitoring plots in primeval forests and forest reserves of Europe.
on them for multiple decades and often >50 years have
Long-term research on the interactions between changes in land use and climate and their consequences regarding forest health and dynamic in the pine forests at low elevation of Central Alps
alpine central valleys, such as the Valais, pines have
Gruppenleiterin, WSL Birmensdorf, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf
a number of fundamental questions in ecology that have
Detect a „defoliation fingerprint“ in stable isotopes in tree rings.
However, until recently only a few studies have studied
The destructive capacity of powder snow avalanche is caused by high-energy pulses within his complex layering. The goal of this project is to understand the origin and nature of the these pulses and quantify the danger they pose to infrastructure.
Field observations at the VdlS have shown two processes