
Ecological Genetics
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Head: Dr. Martina Peter
We study ecological processes in populations of plants, mycorrhizal fungi and animals with molecular-genetic methods and supplement them with experimental approaches. We mainly investigate species that are relevant for Switzerland owing to their function in ecosystems, their distributional focus or their conservation status. We describe how plants of the Alpine region evolve to adapt to changing environmental conditions (adaptation). As important symbiosis partners of our forest trees, we investigate mycorrhizal fungi, their adaptation to tree partners and local conditions, and their significance for the stability of forest ecosystems in a changing environment. We study what effects the characteristics and configuration of landscape elements impose on the dispersal and the connectivity of organisms and their populations or how land use affects rare species of plants and animals (conservation genetics).
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Bose, A.K.; Rigling, A.; Gessler, A.; Hagedorn, F.; Brunner, I.; Feichtinger, L.; Bigler, C.; Egli, S.; Etzold, S.; Gossner, M.M.; Guidi, C.; Lévesque, M.; Meusburger, K.; Peter, M.; Saurer, M.; Scherrer, D.; Schleppi, P.; Schönbeck, L.; Vogel, M.E.; ... Schaub, M., 2022: Lessons learned from a long‐term irrigation experiment in a dry Scots pine forest: impacts on traits and functioning. Ecological Monographs, 92, 2: e1507 (18 pp.). doi: 10.1002/ecm.1507
Schwörer, C.; Leunda, M.; Alvarez, N.; Gugerli, F.; Sperisen, C., 2022: The untapped potential of macrofossils in ancient plant DNA research. New Phytologist, doi: 10.1111/nph.18108
Fonti, P.; Rellstab, C.; Martínez-Sancho, E., 2022: Deciphering 'time to hydraulic failure' to select drought-resistant tree provenances. Tree Physiology, 42, 4: 704-707. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpac010
Neophytou, C.; Heer, K.; Milesi, P.; Peter, M.; Pyhäjärvi, T.; Westergren, M.; Rellstab, C.; Gugerli, F., 2022: Genomics and adaptation in forest ecosystems. Tree Genetics and Genomes, 18: 12 (7 pp.). doi: 10.1007/s11295-022-01542-1
Mossion, V.; Dauphin, B.; Grant, J.; Kessler, M.; Zemp, N.; Croll, D., 2022: Transcriptome‐wide SNPs for Botrychium lunaria ferns enable fine‐grained analysis of ploidy and population structure. Molecular Ecology Resources, 22, 1: 254-271. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13478
Wötzel, S.; Andrello, M.; Albani, M.C.; Koch, M.A.; Coupland, G.; Gugerli, F., 2022: Arabis alpina: a perennial model plant for ecological genomics and life‐history evolution. Molecular Ecology Resources, 22, 2: 468-486. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13490
Rehnus, M.; Bollmann, K.; Gugerli, F.; Brodbeck, S.; Schenker, L., 2022: Schneehase. Bestandsdynamik und geschlechterspezifische Lebensraumnutzung. Jagd in Tirol, 74, 1: 12-17.
Kessler, C.; Brambilla, A.; Waldvogel, D.; Camenisch, G.; Biebach, I.; Leigh, D.M.; Grossen, C.; Croll, D., 2022: A robust sequencing assay of a thousand amplicons for the high‐throughput population monitoring of Alpine ibex immunogenetics. Molecular Ecology Resources, 22, 1: 66-85. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13452
Leigh, D.M.; Peranić, K.; Prospero, S.; Cornejo, C.; Crossed Dsignurković-Perica, M.; Kupper, Q.; Nuskern, L.; Rigling, D.; Jeić, M., 2021: Long-read sequencing reveals the evolutionary drivers of intra-host diversity across natural RNA mycovirus infections. Virus Evolution, 7, 2: 1-14. doi: 10.1093/ve/veab101
Zweifel, R.; Etzold, S.; Basler, D.; Bischoff, R.; Braun, S.; Buchmann, N.; Conedera, M.; Fonti, P.; Gessler, A.; Haeni, M.; Hoch, G.; Kamen, A.; Koechli, R.; Maeder, M.; Nievergelt, D.; Peter, M.; Peters, R.L.; Schaub, M.; Trotsiuk, V.; ... Eugster, W., 2021: TreeNet - the biological drought and growth indicator network. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4: 776905 (14 pp.). doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2021.776905
Opgenoorth, L.; Hofmann, S.; Schmidt, J., 2021: Rewinding the molecular clock in the genus Carabus (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in light of fossil evidence and the Gondwana split: a reanalysis. PLoS One, 16, 9: e0256679 (21 pp.). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256679
Hagedorn, F.; Solly, E.; Frey, B.; Rixen, Ch.; Hartmann, M.; Peter, M., 2021: Bodenpilze reagieren empfindlich auf den Klimawandel. Bündnerwald, 74, 5: 48-51.
Rellstab, C.; Dauphin, B.; Exposito-Alonso, M., 2021: Prospects and limitations of genomic offset in conservation management. Evolutionary Applications, 14, 5: 1202-1212. doi: 10.1111/eva.13205
Opgenoorth, L.; Dauphin, B.; Benavides, R.; Heer, K.; Alizoti, P.; Martínez-Sancho, E.; Alía, R.; Ambrosio, O.; Audrey, A.; Auñón, F.; Beffa, G.; Brodbeck, S.; Di Gerardi, N.; Fonti, P.; Graf, R.; Gugerli, F.; Meier, B.; Marchon, J.; Morganti, S.; ... Cavers, S., 2021: The GenTree Platform: growth traits and tree-level environmental data in 12 European forest tree species. GigaScience, 10: 1-13. doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giab010
Major, E.I.; Höhn, M.; Avanzi, C.; Fady, B.; Heer, K.; Opgenoorth, L.; Piotti, A.; Popescu, F.; Postolache, D.; Vendramin, G.G.; Csilléry, K., 2021: Fine-scale spatial genetic structure across the species range reflects recent colonization of high elevation habitats in silver fir (Abies alba Mill.). Molecular Ecology, 30, 20: 5247-5265. doi: 10.1111/mec.16107
Guillaume, A.S.; Leempoel, K.; Rochat, E.; Rogivue, A.; Kasser, M.; Gugerli, F.; Parisod, C.; Joost, S., 2021: Multiscale very high resolution topographic models in alpine ecology: pros and cons of airborne LiDAR and drone-based stereo-photogrammetry technologies. Remote Sensing, 13, 8: 1588 (18 pp.). doi: 10.3390/rs13081588
Benavides, R.; Carvalho, B.; Bastias, C.C.; López‐Quiroga, D.; Mas, A.; Cavers, S.; Gray, A.; Albet, A.; Alía, R.; Ambrosio, O.; Dauphin, B.; Fonti, P.; Graf, R.; Gugerli, F.; Marchon, J.; Martínez‐Sancho, E.; Morganti, S.; Opgenoorth, L.; Rellstab, C.; Valladares, F., 2021: The GenTree leaf collection: inter‐ and intraspecific leaf variation in seven forest tree species in Europe. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30, 3: 590-597. doi: 10.1111/geb.13239
Kuo, L.; Tang, S.K.; Kao, T.; Ebihara, A.; Fawcett, S.; Hsiao, M.; Shinohara, W.; Dauphin, B., 2021: A dormant resource for genome size estimation in ferns: C‐value inference of the Ophioglossaceae using herbarium specimen spores. Applications in Plant Sciences, 9, 11-12: e11452 (9 pp.). doi: 10.1002/aps3.11452
Minter, M.; Nielsen, E.S.; Blyth, C.; Bertola, L.D.; Kantar, M.B.; Morales, H.E.; Orland, C.; Segelbacher, G.; Leigh, D.M., 2021: What is genetic diversity and why does it matter?. Frontiers for Young Minds, 9: 656168 (9 pp.). doi: 10.3389/frym.2021.656168
Ramírez-Valiente, J.A.; Solé-Medina, A.; Pyhäjärvi, T.; Savolainen, O.; Heer, K.; Opgenoorth, L.; Danusevicius, D.; Robledo-Arnuncio, J.J., 2021: Adaptive responses to temperature and precipitation variation at the early-life stages of Pinus sylvestris. New Phytologist, 232, 4: 1632-1647. doi: 10.1111/nph.17678
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