WSL-Institut für Schnee-und Lawinenforschung SLF

Research Interests

I am interested in how animals and plants are interacting with each other and how they influence biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in a changing world.

For my PhD I am currently investigating how invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens are shaping alpine plant communities and how global warming is influencing them.

Publications

Please find a full list of my publications on ORCID

Projekte

Climate change effects on plant-enemy interactions

A major challenge is predicting how ecosystems will respond to climate change. A key knowledge gap limiting our predictive ability is how climate alters the interactions of plants with their enemies.

The Bug-Network

The aim of BugNet is to better understand the impact of invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens on plant communities and ecosystems. To do so we coordinate surveys on consumers and plant communities, and invertebrate herbivore and fungal exclusion experiments in many part of the world.

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