Dr. Rafael Wüest Karpati

Function

Technical staff member

Biodiversity and Conservation Biology

Spatial Evolutionary Ecology

Contact

rafael.wueest(at)wslto make life hard for spam bots.ch

Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

Site

Birmensdorf Bi MG C 49

Please visit my personal webpage...

rowueest.net

...my research in short:

My research aims to better understand the past evolution, current structure, and future maintenance of biodiversity. As trained plant ecologist, I am mostly studying plants in systems that span various temporal and spatial scales, using a variety of approaches from multiple disciplines.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Projects

GB4 - Grasslands for Biodiversity

The project will assess the natural conditions and management activities that influence grassland plant diversity in the Alps and Carpathians which have diverse land-uses, biodiversity hotspots and good data coverage.

DivScaling

The main objective of this project is to elaborate how different diversity components in Swiss forest change with increasing area and how they depend on changing heterogeneity.

Ecology of Interactions

Hummingbird-plant interactions across elevation gradients in Central and South America

Joint models in biodiversity modeling

This project aims to evaluate advantages and potential pitfalls of JSDMs in biodiversity modeling

MoGLI – modelling woody species in NFI

The main goal of MoGLI is to project the potential distribution of the most common Swiss woody species across the entire forested area of Switzerland.

Show all

Publications WSL

Scientific publication article peer reviewed

Barreto, E.; Lim, M.C.W.; Rojas, D.; Dávalos, L.M.; Wüest, R.O.; Machac, A.; Graham, C.H., 2023: Morphology and niche evolution influence hummingbird speciation rates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290, 1997: 20221793 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1793

Nieto, A.; Wüest, R.O.; Graham, C.H.; Varassin, I.G., 2023: Diel niche partitioning of a plant-hummingbird network in the Atlantic forest of Brazil. Oecologia, 201: 1025-1037. doi: 10.1007/s00442-023-05347-4

Dauphin, B.; Rellstab, C.; Wüest, R.O.; Karger, D.N.; Holderegger, R.; Gugerli, F.; Manel, S., 2023: Re-thinking the environment in landscape genomics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 38, 3: 261-274. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2022.10.010

Cassemiro, F.A.S.; Albert, J.S.; Antonelli, A.; Menegotto, A.; Wüest, R.O.; Cerezer, F.; Coelho, M.T.P.; Reis, R.E.; Tan, M.; Tagliacollo, V.; Bailly, D.; Da Silva, V.F.B.; Frota, A.; Da Graça, W.J.; Ré, R.; Ramos, T.; Oliveira, A.G.; Dias, M.S.; Colwell, R.K.; ... Graham, C.H., 2023: Landscape dynamics and diversification of the megadiverse South American freshwater fish fauna. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America PNAS, 120, 2: e2211974120 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2211974120

Duchenne, F.; Wüest, R.O.; Graham, C.H., 2022: Seasonal structure of interactions enhances multidimensional stability of mutualistic networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289, 1982: 20220064 (11 pp.). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0064

Show all

Further scientific publications

Santander, T.; Guevara, E.; Tobar, F.; Beck, H.; Büttner, N.; Nieto, A.; Marcayata, A.; Richter, F.; Gavilanes, M.J.; Poveda, C.; Rojas, B.; Wüest, R.; Bello, C.; Graham, C.H., 2021: Ecology of plant hummingbird interactions in Las Gralarias, Ecuador. 14 p.

Show all