Beat Wermelinger

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Dr. Beat Wermelinger Organisationseinheit: Walddynamik Waldentomologie Tel: +41 44 7392 258 Fax: +41 44 7392 215 Raum: Bi HL D 39 E-Mail: Adresse: Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf

Beat Wermelinger

Background

Function at WSL

• Head of the research group Forest Entomology
  

Interests

• Development and succession of insect communities after windthrow and wildfire
• Population dynamics of potential pests and their natural enemies
• Biodiversity of saproxylic (=wood inhabiting) insects
• Dead wood ecology
• Insect fotography
  

Teaching

• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich: Lecturer in "Ecology and Management of Forest Insects"
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich: Lecturer in "Disturbance Ecology"
  
• University of Applied Sciences Zollikofen: Lecturer in "Insects as components of the forest ecosystem"
• Swiss Tree Surgery Association: Course in "Insects and Tree surgery"

Memberships

• National:
  

• Swiss Entomological Society
• Swiss Society for Phytiatry
  Saproxylic Insects Association
  

• International:

• IUFRO-working group "Ecology and management of bark and wood boring insects"
• IUFRO-working group "Integrated management of forest defoliating insects"
  
• IUFRO-working group "Population dynamics of forest insects"