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Rita Bütler Sauvain

Dr. Rita Bütler Sauvain

Organisational unit:	Forest Dynamics Mycorrhiza
Phone:	+41 21 69 36336
Fax:	+41 21 6933 913
Room:	La GR B2 402; Bi LG B 23
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Address:	Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Case postale 96 1015 Lausanne 15 Swiss Federal Institute WSL Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf

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Functions
Since 2009:	Head of Forest Biodiversity, Canton of Vaud, SFFN Service des forêts, de la faune et de la nature, VD
Since 2005:	Scientific collaborator, WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest , Snow and Landscape Research
1997–2005:	Scientific collaborator, EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Laboratory of Ecosystem Management
1996:	Biologist, SFFN Service des forêts, de la faune et de la nature du canton de Vaud, Lausanne
1991-1992:	Lecturer and project leader, VŜST Technical University, Liberec, Czechia
1989-1991:	Teacher for natural sciences, KKSS Kath. Kantonssekundarschule, KSBG Kantonsschule am Burggraben, St. Gallen and NTB Interstaatliche Hochschule für Technik, Buchs


Education
2003:	Ph.D. degree EPFL, Title: Dead wood in managed forests: how much and how much is enough? Development of a snag-quantification method by remote sensing and GIS and snag targets based on Three-toed woodpeckers' habitat requirements. Hintermann&Weber research award
1995:	Master degree in Environmental Sciences, EPFL
1989:	Diploma for teaching of natural sciences - mathematics, PHSG Pädagogische Hochschule, St. Gallen
1984:	Baccalaureate Latin, St. Gallen. Award for best matura.

Research Focus

Dead wood ecology - roles of dead wood for forest biodiversity
Decay processes of dead trees
Comparison between natural and managed forest ecosystems
Dead tree quantification by remote-sensing techniques

Keywords

Dead wood, veteran trees, coarse woody debris, quantification methods, forest dynamics, biodiversity management, sustainable forest management, forest ecology, old-growth forests