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...

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...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

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.

ClimSens - Climate Sensitivity of plants and animals in Switzerland

This project assesses the sensitivity of (mostly) plant and animal species to expected climatic changes.

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Publications WSL

Scientific publication article peer reviewed

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

Garcés-Pastor, S.; Coissac, E.; Lavergne, S.; Schwörer, C.; Theurillat, J.; Heintzman, P.D.; Wangensteen, O.S.; Tinner, W.; Rey, F.; Heer, M.; Karger, D.N.; Pellissier, L.; Zimmermann, N.E.; Wüest, R.O.; Latzin, S.; Spillmann, J.; Feichtinger, L.; Alsos, I.G., 2022: High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change. Nature Communications, 13, 1: 6559 (16 pp.). doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34010-4

Dauphin, B.; Rellstab, C.; Wüest, R.O.; Karger, D.N.; Holderegger, R.; Gugerli, F.; Manel, S., 2022: Re-thinking the environment in landscape genomics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2022.10.010

Portier, J.; Zellweger, F.; Zell, J.; Alberdi Asensio, I.; Bosela, M.; Breidenbach, J.; Šebeň, V.; Wüest, R.O.; Rohner, B., 2022: Plot size matters: toward comparable species richness estimates across plot‐based inventories. Ecology and Evolution, 12, 6: e8965 (12 pp.). doi: 10.1002/ece3.8965

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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.

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