
Community Ecology
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Head: Dr. Marco Conedera
The Research Unit focuses on functional interactions between communities of plants (producers), herbivores (primary consumers), predators (secondary consumers), and soil biota (decomposers) with regard to critical ecosystem services such as productivity, protection, nutrient cycling and storage. Environmental factors considered include direct and indirect anthropogenic impacts with global relevance such as land-use change (e.g. land abandonment, fragmentation, urban sprawl, eutrophication, trivialization of herbivore communities), natural disturbances (e.g. avalanches, landslides, fire) or climatic changes. Particular emphasis is given to sensitive natural, semi-natural and urban ecosystems, among many others wetlands, treeline ecotones and insubric ecosystems. Comparing history and modeling functional processes in and between these systems provides clues for predicting biodiversity changes, the evolution of ecosystems, and consequences for ecosystem services in the context of future global change.
The Unit has partners both within WSL and the wider scientific community. Stakeholders are mainly the forest and agricultural services, nature conservation, forest owners, regional and federal agencies.
Research groups
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Staff
Community Ecology
head of research unit | |
senior scientist | |
trainee | |
visiting scientist |
Insubric Ecosystems
head of research unit | |
master student | |
temporary employee | |
temporary employee | |
visiting scientist | |
Civil service employee | |
master student | |
visiting scientist | |
temporary employee | |
Postdoc | |
civil service employee | |
technical staff member | |
administrative staff member | |
scientific staff member | |
Aushilfe / Wiss. Mitarbeiter | |
temporary employee | |
scientific staff member | |
Aushilfe / Wiss. Mitarbeiterin | |
visiting scientist | |
visiting scientist | |
bachelor student | |
scientific staff member | |
visiting scientist | |
visiting scientist | |
civil service employee | |
temporary employee |
Plant-Animal Interactions
teamleader, senior scientist | |
visiting scientist | |
PhD student guest | |
master student | |
master student | |
master student | |
PhD student guest | |
Bachelor student | |
PhD student guest | |
Trainee | |
master student | |
master student | |
master student | |
PhD student guest | |
visiting scientist | |
visiting scientist | |
master student | |
master student | |
PhD student | |
master student | |
scientific assistant | |
PhD student guest | |
master student | |
PhD student guest | |
visiting scientist | |
scientific staff member | |
master student | |
master student | |
master student |
Functional Plant Ecology
Joint Professorship, Gruppenleiterin , Leiterin Standort Lausanne | |
Postdoc | |
visiting scientist | |
Extension services | |
visiting scientist, senior scientist | |
trainee | |
visiting scientist | |
PhD student guest | |
PhD student guest | |
Aushilfe SNF | |
administrative staff member | |
PhD student guest | |
PhD student guest | |
Aushilfe NF | |
civil service employee | |
fellow | |
visiting scientist | |
visiting scientist |