Research grants

2006    EU-BioStrat

2006    CH-BAFU/EAWAG: Auswirkungen lateraler und longitudinaler Vernetzung von Flussläufen auf den Genfluss naturschutzrelevanter, flussbegleitender Arten.

2005    Can-INCO: Population dynamics of the boreal felt lichen Erioderma pedicellatum in Lockyer’s Waters Area (Central Avalon, Newfoundland) WP3:Develop and test a molecular probe to detect the free living photobiont of Erioderma pedicellatum, Scytonema sp.

2005        CH-BUWAL/Weleda: Conservation by Management: Sustainable harvest of the vulnerable epiphytic lichen Lobaria pulmonaria

2004        CH-SNF: Phylogeography of the lichen Lobaria pulmonaria and its gene flow and clonality in    
        different European land-use types.
2002        CH-BUWAL: Monitoring Flankierende Massnahmen: Biodiversitätserhebungen.

2002        CH-SNF: Genetic diversity, Population biology and Conservation status of an endangered primeval-forest lichen, Lobaria pulmonaria, in an East-West transect through Eurasia;

2001        EU/BBW: LACOPE Landscape Development, Biodiversity and Co-operative Livestock Systems in Europe.

2001        CH-BUWAL: Arten-und Habitatschutz:Flechten.

2001        CH-EU/BBW: European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategies.

2000    CH-SNF (NCCR-Plant Survival, HIP of PS6): Pattern and long-term changes in pasture-woodlands: Complex plant-herbivore interactions in a traditional type of agro-forestry:

2000        CH-SNF: Genetic diversity, population biology and conservation status of an endangered     primeval-forest lichen, Lobaria pulmonaria, in an East-West transect through Eurasia:

1999    CH-SNF: Genetic diversity, ecotype differentiation and mating types of a primeval-forest lichen, Lobaria pulmonaria, in fragmented and extended habitats:

1998        EU/BBW, Biodiversity Assessment Tools

1994    EU/INTAS, bioindication in Sverdlovsk region

1994        CH-BUWAL, red list of epiphytic lichens

1991    CH-SNF: Diversity, pattern and dynamics in lichen dominated epiphytic communities,