My research is centred on testing principles and mechanisms structuring biodiversity, species interactions, and ecosystem functioning, from the local to the global scale. Furthermore, I have a strong interest in how global change affects biodiversity and community processes, and what the ecological and evolutionary consequences are. I am a member of the URPP Global Change and Biodiversity of the University of Zürich, and lead the team biodiversity-environment interactions at Agroscope.
In my research, I am interested in how insect communities have been and are shaped by environmental conditions in general and human-induced global change in particular. I use various approaches such as time-series analyses, functional traits and interaction networks to shed new light into how global change, insect communities and ecosystem functioning are interrelated. Please find more information on my website and the website of Agroscope.
My PhD project aims to identify the key drivers of biodiversity in mountain grasslands. Using field surveys and a historical dataset, I will assess which grassland management regimes effectively support biodiversity and how these interact with environmental conditions, landscape structure and land-use history.
My PhD project aims to unravel the combined effects of land use and climate change on plant-invertebrate communities in marginal alpine grasslands. I will further compare biodiversity values of vascular plants and iconic key animal taxa in short- and long-term abandoned grasslands as well as grasslands under conservation management within different European case study areas.
My PhD project aims to quantify the indirect impact of artificial light at night on the structure of diurnal plant-pollinator interaction networks. We are conducting large-scale field experiments as well as garden and greenhouse studies to unravel the underlying mechanisms.
Dr. Eliane Meier
SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATOR
My research focuses on small to large scaled spatio-temporal patterns of biodiversity. In particularly, using data of a large monitoring program on farmland species and habitats (ALL-EMA), I disentangle how land-use and environmental factors drives farmland biodiversity and biotic interactions. I am based at Agroscope. Please find more details on my website or on google scholar.
I am interested in species community patterns from small to large scales. My research focuses on appropriate indicators to describe biodiversity and its drivers, e. g. environmental and land-use factors, or abiotic and biotic interactions. In particularly, I use data of a Swiss monitoring program on farmland species and habitats (ALL-EMA) to investigate biodiversity in space and time. I am based at Agroscope. Please find more details on my website.
I am a biologist with a strong motivation in the field of agro-ecology and conservation biology. My key focus is on promoting biodiversity and ecosystem functioning through sustainable resource use in agricultural systems. In the ALL-EMA monitoring program, my main functions are the project office, public outreach, policy advice, and data analysis. I am based at Agroscope Zurich and my research can be found on my website, Google Scholar or ORCiD.
As part of the ALL-EMA project, I train and supervise a team of botanists. Further, I do own botanical and phytosciological surveys, I am responsible for data processing, and I help with the statistical analyses and the methodological development of the project.
Jonas Winizki
AGROSCOPE SCIENTIFIC-TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE
In my MSc Project I investigate how soundscape is linked to the land-use-intensity and the biodiversity of arthropods and plants. I will do so by recording the sounds on the sites of the monitoring program ALL-EMA.
I do my project with Dr. Birgen Haest from the Swiss Ornithological Station on the biomass and diversity of flying insects close to the ground and in the airspace, and I am co-supervised by Eva Knop.
Lara Plattner, MSc student, 2022-2023
Lara Scherer, MSc student, 2021-2022
Kiera Macdonald, MSc student, 2021-2022
Majken Grimm, MSc student, 2021-2022
Dr. Dina Zografou, post-doctoral fellow, 2020-2022
Dr. Issaad Ezzine, post-doctoral fellow, 2020-2021
Nemanja Savanovic, 2020-2021
Florian Walter, MSc student, 2021
Angelina Arquint, MSc student, 2020-2021
Levi Fuchs, MSc student, 2020-2021
Dr. Simone Giavi, PhD student 2016-2020
Géraldine Chavey, MSc student 2018–2019
Dr. Dominik Ganser, PhD student 2016–2019
Olivia Küchler, MSc student 2016–2017
Barbara Mayr, MSc student 2015–2017
Matthias Kyburz, MSc student 2015–2017
Dr. Miriam Zemanova, PhD student 2012-2016
Raquel Lazaro, MSc student 2014–2016
Leana Zoller, MSc student 2015–2016
Nadia Muhthassim, MSc student 2014–2016
Maurin Hörler, BSc student 2015
Katrin Luder, MSc student 2015–2016
Laurence Etter, BSc student 2016
Sandra Trösch, MSc student 2014–2015
Remo Ryser, MSc student 2014–2015
Christopher Gerpe, MSc student 2014–2015
Fabian Hofmann, BSc student 2014
Stefan Ursenbach, BSc student 2014
Dr. Tabea Turrini, PhD student 2011-2014
Andreas Burri, MSc student 2012–2014
Tamara Blattmann, MSc student 2011–2013
Sandro Schläppi, MSc student 2012–2013
Jan Zünd, MSc student 2011–2013
Marlies Niklaus, BSc student 2012
Nicole Rindlisbacher, MSc student 2010–2012
Anna-Maria Bottini, MSc student 2010–2012
Nick Reusser, MSc student 2009–2011
Dr. Izabela Hajdamowicz, scientific visitor 2011, Siedlce University of Sciences and Humanities, Poland
Dr. Marzena Stańska, scientific visitor 2011, Siedlce University of Sciences and Humanities, Poland
Sophie Ryser, BSc student 2010
Niculin Töndurri, BSc student 2009
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