The Section Nature Protection and Historical Ecology no longer exists. WSL has been reorganized. The change took place on 1. July 06.
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Former Section Nature Protection and Historical Ecology

Klaus Ewald

Prof. Klaus Ewald (Head of section)

Professor of Nature and Landscape Conservation at the ETH Zürich
Matthias Bürgi

Dr. Matthias Bürgi (Deputy Head)

develops integrative methods to study landscape changes.
Maria-Pia Gennaio

Maria-Pia Gennaio (PhD student)

studies the driving forces behind traffic and land deveopment.
Urs Gimmi

Urs Gimmi (PhD student)

studies impacts of historical forest use and management on forest decline in Scots pine stands in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland
Franziska Hasselmann

Dr. Franziska Hasselmann

is a guest scientist investigating the connections between infrastructure and spatial development so far with empirical and statistical methods and methods of technical history as well as in the context of the urban eclectricity network and sustainable land use.
Anna M. Hersperger

Dr. Anna M. Hersperger

analyses driving forces of landscape change.
Claude Steck

Claude Steck (PhD student)

studies the impact of habitat history on cricket species diversity.

Former PhD students:

 Beatrice Miranda-Gut

Beatrice Miranda-Gut (PhD completed in 2006)

studied guild structure and space use of three species of woodpeckers in the 'Niderholz' in the Canton of Zürich.
Nina Schneeberger

Nina Schneeberger (PhD completed in 2005)

studied the transformation of landscape structures of the last 200 years in selected regions in Switzerland.

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