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Dr. Barbara Moser - Personal Homepage

Barbara Moser
Organisational unit: Forest Dynamics
Phone: +41 44 7392 658
Fax: +41 44 7392 215
Room: Bi HL D 28
E-Mail:
Address: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

 

Curriculum

Since 2005   Research scientist, Disturbance Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland
2008-2009   PostDoc, Buxton Climate Change Impacts Laboratory, Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
2003-2005   Master in Statistics, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2001-2005
  PhD, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland
1999
  Master in Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
     

Research activities

  • Drought adaptation of Pinus sylvestris, Picea abies, Abies alba, Fagus sylvatica, and Quercus pubescens along a climate gradient from Switzerland to Romania
 

Publications

Moser B, Fridley JD, Askew AP, Grime JP (2011) Simulated migration in a long-term climate change experiment: invasions impeded by dispersal limitation, not biotic resistance. Journal of Ecology 99: 1229–1236 PDF

Kipfer T, Moser B, Egli S, Wohlgemuth T, Ghazoul J (2011) Ectomycorrhiza succession patterns in Pinus sylvestris forests after stand-replacing fire in the Central Alps. Oecologia 167: 219-228 PDF

Fridley JD, Grime JP, Askew AP, Moser B, Stevens CJ (2011) Soil heterogeneity buffers community response to climate change in species-rich grassland. Global Change Biology 17: 2002-2011 PDF

Thimonier A, Kull P, Keller W, Moser B, Wohlgemuth T (2011) Ground vegetation monitoring in Swiss forests: comparison of survey methods and implications for trend assessments. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 174: 47-63 PDF

Moser B, Temperli C, Schneiter G, Wohlgemuth T (2010) Potential shift in tree species composition after interaction of fire and drought in the central Alps. European Journal of Forest Research 129: 625-633 PDF

Kipfer T, Egli S, Ghazoul J, Moser B, Wohlgemuth T (2010) Susceptibility of ectomycorrhizal fungi to soil heating. Fungal Biology 114: 467-472 PDF

Moser B, Schütz M, Hindenlang KE (2008) Resource selection by roe deer: Are windthrow gaps attractive feeding places? Forest Ecology and Management 255: 1179-1185 PDF

Wohlgemuth T, Moser B, Brändli UB, Kull P, Schütz M (2008) Diversity of forest plant species at the community and landscape scales in Switzerland. Plant Biosystems 142: 604-613 PDF

Moser B, Gimmi U, Wohlgemuth T (2006) Spread of Strawberry blite Blitum virgatum after the forest fire near Leuk, Valais (Switzerland). Botanica Helvetica 116: 179-183 PDF

Moser B, Schütz M (2006) Tolerance of understory plants to herbivory in temperate forests. Oikos 114: 311-321  PDF

Moser B, Schütz M, Hindenlang KE (2006) Importance of alternative food resources for browsing by roe deer on deciduous trees: the role of food availability and species quality. Forest Ecology and Management 226: 248-255  PDF

Krüsi BO, Moser B (2000) Impacts of snow and ungulates on the successional development of a mountain pine stand in the Swiss National Park (Munt La Schera). In: Schütz M, Krüsi BO, Edwards PJ (eds) Succession research in the Swiss National Park. Nationalpark-Forschung in der Schweiz 89: 176-197