Istituto federale di ricerca per la foresta, la neve e il paesaggio WSL
Funzione
collaboratore tecnico
Unità
Dinamica del paesaggio
Gruppo
Macroecologia dinamica
Contatto
Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf
Sito
WSL Birmensdorf Bi HL E 30
Als Makroökologe interessieren mich ökologische Prozesse, die sich auf grossen Skalen abspielen und nicht immer intuitiv fassbar sind. Dabei faszinieren mich fundamentale theoretische Fragen, wie die Gründe für die grossen Unterschiede in Arten- und Formvielfalt, aber auch aktuelle Themen, insbesondere Auswirkungen von Klimawandel und Extremereignissen. Ich mag die Arbeit mit grossen Datensätzen und versuche mich gerne darin, neue statistische Methoden und Modelle in meine Analysen zu integrieren. Ich arbeite hauptsächlich mit Pflanzen, insbesondere mit alpinen Arten, aber aus meinem Doktorat habe ich auch Erfahrung mit marinen Organismen, vor allem mit Phyto- und Zooplankton.
| 2021-heute | Technischer Mitarbeiter an der WSL |
| 2020-2021 | Postdoc zum Thema automatisierte Erkennung von Pflanzenarten an der WSL (Projekt COMECO) |
| 2017-2020 | Postdoc zum Thema Biodiversität der alpinen Flora an der WSL (Projekt OriginAlps) |
| 2016-2017 | Postdoc zum Thema Meeresökologie am Centre for Ocean Life, DTU Aqua in Charlottenlund (Dänemark) |
| 2013-2017 | Doktorat in Meeresbiologie; Titel der Arbeit : “Plankton biogeography - an exploration of patterns, drivers, functions, and predictability” am Centre for Ocean Life, DTU Aqua in Charlottenlund (Dänemark) |
| 2011-2013 | Master in Umweltwissenschaften an der ETH Zürich; Major in Biogeochemie und Schadstoffdynamik; Minor in Bodenschutz und Landnutzung; Masterarbeit über die Verbreitung von Phytoplankton im globalen Ozean |
| 2007-2010 | Bachelor in Umweltwissenschaften an der ETH Zürich |
| 38 | Ding, W., R. Ree, M. May, P. Brun, O. Hagen, D. N. Karger, A. Skeels, L. Pellissier, Y. Xing, and N. E. Zimmermann. In press. The asynchronous rise of Northern Hemisphere alpine floras reveals general responses of biotic assembly to orogeny and climate change. Science Advances |
| 37 | Popp, M., N. E. Zimmermann, and P. Brun. 2025. Evaluating the use of automated plant identification tools in biodiversity monitoring—a case study in Switzerland. Ecological Informatics 103316, doi: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103316 |
| 36 | Yuan, Z., G. Yang, W. Ding, P. Brun, A. Skeels, L. Pellissier, and N. E. Zimmermann. 2025. The geography of connectivity shapes plant endemism hotspots. Ecography, doi: 10.1002/ecog.07514 |
| 35 | Plekhanova, E., D. Robert, J. Dollinger, E. Arens, P. Brun, J. D. Wegner, N. E. Zimmermann. 2025. SSL4Eco: A Global Seasonal Dataset for Geospatial Foundation Models in Ecology. arXiv, doi: arXiv:2504.18256 |
| 34 | Brun, P., L. C. de Witte, M. R. Popp, D. Zurell, D. N. Karger, P. Descombes, R. de Lutio, J. D. Wegner, C. Bornand, S. Eggenberg, T. Olevski, and N. E. Zimmermann. 2025. FlorID – a nationwide identification service for plants from photos and habitat information. Environmental Modelling & Software 106402, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106402 |
| 33 | Chen L., P. Brun, P. Buri, S. Fatichi, A. Gessler, M. J. McCarthy, F. Pellicciotti, B. D. Stocker, and D. N. Karger. 2025. Global increase in the occurrence and impact of multiyear droughts. Science 387:278-284, doi: 10.1126/science.ado4245 |
| 32 | Gessler A., M. Wilhelm, P. Brun, N. E. Zimmermann, and A. Rigling. 2024. Zurück in die Zukunft - Ein neuer Blick auf die Perspektiven für die Buche nach 20 Jahren Forschung und weiter fortschreitendem Klimawandel. Allgemeine Forst und Jagdzeitung 193:206-224, doi: 10.23765/afjz000101 |
| 31 | Adde A., N. Külling, P.-L. Rey, P. Brun, O. Broennimann, A. Lehmann, B. Petitpierre, N. E. Zimmermann, L. Pellissier, F. Altermatt, and A. Guisan. 2024. Projecting Untruncated Climate Change Effects on Species’ Climate Suitability: Insights from an Alpine Country. Global Change Biology 30:17557, doi: 10.1111/gcb.17557 |
| 30 | Zurell, D., N. E. Zimmermann, and P. Brun. 2024. The niche through time: Considering phenology and demographic stages in plant distribution models. Journal of Ecology 112:1926-1939, doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.14361 |
| 29 | Dollinger, J., P. Brun, V. Sainte Fare Garnot, and J. D. Wegner. 2024. SAT-SINR: HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS THROUGH SATELLITE IMAGERY. ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. X-2-2024, doi: 10.5194/isprs-annals-X-2-2024-41-2024 |
| 28 | Zou, Y., C. Zohner, C. Averill, H. Ma, J. Merder, M. Berdugo, L. Bialic-Murphy, L. Mo, P. Brun, N. E. Zimmermann, J. Liang, S. de-Miguel. G.-J. Nabuurs, P. B. Reich, Ü. Niinemets, J. Dahlgren, G. Kändler, S. Ratcliffe, P. Ruiz-Benito, M. Zavala, GFBi Consortium, and T. W. Crowther. 2024. Positive feedbacks and alternative stable states in forest leaf types. Nature Communications 15:4658, doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-48676-5 |
| 27 | van Thiel, N., F. Fopp, P. Brun, J. van den Hoogen, D. N. Karger, C. M. Casadei, D. Tuia, N. E. Zimmermann, T. W. Crowther, and L. Pellissier. 2024. Regional uniqueness of tree species composition and response to forest loss and climate change. Nature Communications 15:4375, doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-48276-3 |
| 26 | Brun, P., D. N. Karger, D. Zurell, P. Descombes, L. C. de Witte, R. de Lutio, J. D. Wegner, and N. E. Zimmermann. 2024. Multispecies deep learning using citizen science data produces more informative plant community models. Nature Communications 15:4421, doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-48559-9 |
| 25 | Zemlianskii, V., P. Brun, N. E. Zimmermann, K. Ermokhina, O. Khitun, N. Koroleva, and G. Schaepman-Strub. 2024. Current and past climate co-shape community-level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic. Ecology and Evolution 14:e11140, doi: 10.1002/ece3.11140 |
| 24 | Dechamps, G., G. Poggiato, P. Brun, C. Galiez, and W. Thuiller. 2023. Predict first–assemble later versus assemble first–predict later: Revisiting the dilemma for functional biogeography. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14:2680-2696, doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.14203 |
| 23 | Adde, A., P.-L. Rey, P. Brun, N. Külling, F. Fopp, F. Altermatt, O. Broennimann, A. Lehmann, B. Petitpierre, N. E. Zimmermann, L. Pellissier, and A. Guisan. 2023. N-SDM: a high-performance computing pipeline for Nested Species Distribution Modelling Ecography doi: 10.1111/ecog.06540 |
| 22 | Rodriguez Torres, R., R. Almeda, J. Xu, N. Hartmann, S. Rist, P. Brun, and T. Nielsen. 2023. The behavior of planktonic copepods minimizes the entry of microplastics in marine food webs Environmental Science & Technology 57:179-189, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.2c04660 |
| 21 | Kyathanahally, S., T. Hardeman, M. Reyes, E. Merz, T. Bulas, P. Brun, F. Pomati, and M. Baity-Jesi. 2022. Ensembles of Vision Transformers as a New Paradigm for Automated Classification in Ecology. Scientific reports 12:18590, doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-21910-0 |
| 20 | Meusburger, K., V. Trotsiuk, P. Schmidt-Walter, A. Baltensweiler, P. Brun, F. Bernhard, M. Gharun, R. Habel, F. Hagedorn, R. Köchli, A. Psomas, H. Puhlmann, A. Thimonier, P. Waldner, S. Zimmermann, and L. Walthert. 2022. Soil-plant interactions modulated water availability of Swiss forests during the 2015 and 2018 droughts. Global Change Biology , doi: 10.1111/gcb.16332 |
| 19 | Brun, P., N. E. Zimmermann, C. Hari, L. Pellissier, and D. N. Karger. 2022. Global climate-related predictors at kilometer resolution for the past and future. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 56:6455-6465, doi: 10.5194/essd-14-5573-2022 |
| 18 | Xu, J., R. Rodriguez Torres, S. Rist, T. Nielsen, N. Hartmann, P. Brun, D. Li, and R. Almeda. 2022. Unpalatable plastic: efficient taste-discrimination of microplastics in planktonic copepods Environmental Science & Technology 56:6455-6465, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.2c00322 |
| 17 | Lyu, L., F. Leugger, O. Hagen, F. Fopp, L. M. Boschman, J. S. Srijk, C. Albouy, D. N. Karger, P. Brun, Z. Wang, N. E. Zimmermann, and L. Pellissier. 2022. An integrated high‐resolution mapping shows congruent biodiversity patterns of Fagales and Pinales New Phytologist 235:759-772, doi: 10.1111/nph.18158 |
| 16 | Brun, P., C. Violle, D. Mouillot, N. Mouquet, B. J. Enquist, F. Munoz, T. Münkemüller, A. Ostling, N. E. Zimmermann, and W. Thuiller. 2022. Plant community impact on productivity: trait diversity or key(stone) species effects? Ecology Letters 24:913-925, doi: 10.1111/ele.13968 |
| 15 | de Lutio, R., Y. She, S. D'Aronco, S. Russo, P. Brun, J. D. Wegner, and K. Schindler. 2021. Digital taxonomist: Identifying plant species in community scientists’ photographs. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 182:112-121, doi: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.10.002 |
| 14 | Chauvier, Y., N. E. Zimmermann, G. Poggiato, D. Bystrova, P. Brun, and W. Thuiller. 2021. Novel methods to correct for observer and sampling bias in presence-only species distribution models. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30:2312-2325, doi: 10.1111/geb.13383 |
| 13 | Polanco, A. F., F. Fopp, C. Albouy, P. Brun, L. Boschman, and L. Pellissier. 2020. Marine fish diversity in Tropical America associated with both past and present environmental conditions. Journal of Biogeography 47:2597-2610, doi: 10.1111/jbi.13985 |
| 12 | Visser, A. W., P. Brun, S. Chakraborty, T. S. Dencker, P. D. van Denderen, R. van Gemert, H. van Someren Gréve, I. Heilmann, M. W. Holm, S. H. Jónasdóttir, K. M. Kenitz, T. Kiørboe, M. Lindegren, P. Mariani, L. T. Nielsen, M. Pancic, M. R. Payne, L. Pécuchet, N. A. Schnedler-Meyer, U. H. Thygesen, A. Törnroos and Andersen K. H. 2020. Seasonal strategies in the world’s oceans. Progress in Oceanography 189:102466, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102466 |
| 11 | Brun, P., A. Psomas, C. Ginzler, W. Thuiller, M. Zappa, and N. E. Zimmermann. 2020. Large-scale early-wilting response of Central European forests to the 2018 extreme drought. Global Change Biology 26:7021-7035, doi: 10.1111/gcb.15360 |
| 10 | Chauvier, Y., W. Thuiller, P. Brun, S. Lavergne, P. Descombes, D. N. Karger, J. Renaud, and N. E. Zimmermann. 2020. Influence of climate, soil, and land cover on plant species distribution in the European Alps. Ecological Monographs, doi: 10.1002/ecm.1433 |
| 9 | Brun, P., W. Thuiller, Y. Chauvier, L. Pellissier, R. O. Wüest, Z. Wang, and N. E. Zimmermann. 2020. Model complexity affects species distribution projections under climate change. Journal of Biogeography 47:130-142, doi: 10.1111/jbi.13734 |
| 8 | Brun, P., N. E. Zimmermann, C. H. Graham, S. Lavergne, L. Pellissier, T. Münkemüller, and W. Thuiller. 2019. The productivity-biodiversity relationship varies across diversity dimensions. Nature Communications 10:5691, doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-13678-1 |
| 7 | Brun, P., K. Stamieszkin, A. W. Visser, P. Licandro, M. R. Payne, and T. Kiørboe. 2019. Climate change has altered zooplankton-fuelled carbon export in the North Atlantic. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3:416-423, doi:10.1038/s41559-018-0780-3 |
| 6 | Holm, M. W., T. Kiørboe, P. Brun, P. Licandro, R. Almeda, and B. W. Hansen. 2017. Resting eggs in free living marine and estuarine copepods. Journal of Plankton Research, 1–14, doi:10.1093/plankt/fbx062 |
| 5 | Brun, P., M. R. Payne, and T. Kiørboe. 2017. A trait database for marine copepods. Earth System Science Data 9:99-113, doi:10.5194/essd-9-99-2017 |
| 4 | Brun, P., M. R. Payne, and T. Kiørboe. 2016. Trait biogeography of marine copepods - an analysis across scales. Ecology Letters 19:1403–1413, doi:10.1111/ele.12688 |
| 3 | Brun, P., T. Kiørboe, P. Licandro, and M. R. Payne. 2016. The predictive skill of species distribution models for plankton in a changing climate. Global Change Biology 22:3170–3181, doi:10.1111/gcb.13274 |
| 2 | Brun, P., T. Kiørboe, and M. R. Payne. 2015. Measuring evolutionary adaptation of phytoplankton with local field observations. PNAS 201513353, doi:10.1073/pnas.1513353112 |
| 1 | Brun, P., M. Vogt, M. R. Payne, N. Gruber, C. J. O’Brien, E. T. Buitenhuis, C. Le Quéré, K. Leblanc, and Y.-W. Luo. 2015. Ecological niches of open ocean phytoplankton taxa. Limnology and Oceanography 60:1020–1038, doi:10.1002/lno.10074 |
