Rita Bütler Sauvain


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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
E-Mail:
Address: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Case postale 96
1015 Lausanne 15

Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

Rita Bütler Sauvain

 
Arve im Aletschgebiet
 
Totholz
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

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