History of wetlands in Switzerland since 1700

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Energy infrastructures are important for understanding land use dynamics. Most frequently they are not considered in quantitative approaches. Quantification rationales for power networks are deduced from two conceptualizations: contextualism and technological determinism.

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With data of the Swiss dry grassland inventory I investigate how the quality of the reserve network can be maintained under global change, how connectivity between biotopes can be optimised and how threatened species can be protected better.

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Spatially explicit data about the everyday landscape: small landscape object

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ENNIS is a project that seeks to understand how the evolutionary history of the ecological niche can influence whether species become invasive in regions to which they are introduced.

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This project is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. It belongs to the group of projects aiming to improve the TreeMig forest landscape model for climate change impact assessments on regional to continental scales.

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AlpFUTUR aims at identifying prospects regarding the use of the Swiss alpine pasturing area in the short and medium term (10 to 40 years).

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Tree species migration can considerably slow down biome boundary shifts. We develop methods to simulate migration reliably and efficiently with coarse resolution.

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A landscape scale forest population dynamics model is extended with ecophysiology, and particularly the mechanisms of drought effects on trees.

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A forest ecosystem model, extended with an avalanche module, is used to study the feedback between climate change driven ecosystem and land use dynamics.

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