Interests

By applying modern technologies I want to contribute to the base of biological knowledge relevant to nature conservation. .... This should happen under socially and economically adequate conditions ;-)

• Design and work with data bases for the research group "Fauna"
• Analyse and publish (incl. Biodiversity-WWW!) the results
• Develop methods for analysis and modelling of metapopulation dynamics
• Develop material and methods for the computerized acoustic identification of bats
• computer related assistance, web publishing, etc.

• Fauna exchange between natural and cultivated habitat
• Faunistic inventory methods for invertebrates
• Red data books on threatened animals in Switzerland (terminated)
• Succession of invertebrate fauna in windthrow areas
• The influence of sporadic and regular fires on invertebrate biodiversity in deciduous forests of the southern slope of the Alps (data base management)
• The contribution of forest edges to the regional biodiversity (data base management)
• Acoustic bat species recognition by synergetic pattern recognition
• Assessing the distribution and habitat requirements of bat species assemblages by means of bioacoustic, synergetic pattern recognition