Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution

This summer, postdoc Virginie Marques spent a month in Greenland for the last fieldwork session of the GreenFjord project, aiming to understand the effect of glacier melt on marine biodiversity from plankton 🪼 to fish 🐟 @VirginieMarque2

"Happy to take part in the Biodiversity Research Day 2024 at WSL. Thanks to the Biodiversity Center for organising" @WSL_research

🌿"Update on invasive Japanese beetle project in the canton of Ticino"🌳 🌳We have successfully completed this year’s field season for our invasive Japanese beetle project, aiming to develop rapid detection solutions for this quarantine organism. #Biodiversity #Ecosystem

We are finishing off this week with yet another fantastic PhD defense by @DoKirschner, on using #environmentalDNA to study patterns of riverine fish diversity. #Congratulations #PhDone 🎉🥳

Congratulations to @YaquanChang on successfully defending her thesis on the geological controls on plant #biodiversity in the #HengduanMountains. #PhDone #CelebrateSuccess

Congratulations to @LiuYi_eco for successfully defending his dissertation on the global drivers of mountain plant biodiversity today! #PhDone

What lives in ponds? Detecting amphibians by their DNA - New publication by @FlurinLeugger @ELE_ETHWSL wsl.ch/en/news/what-l…

Excited to share our latest paper! 🐸 Using #CRISPR-Dx tech, @FlurinLeugger and colleagues detected endangered amphibians from #environmentalDNA faster & more efficiently than traditional methods. #eDNA Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

🚨 Exciting news! Martina Lüthi was part of the team interviewed in this @CNN article about a revolutionary #eDNA-collecting robot #fish 🐟🤖! Dive into the future of #EnvironmentalScience with this cutting-edge tech 🌍🔬 #ProudTeam edition.cnn.com/science/switze…

@kaim_dominik @PlieningerLab @ELE_ETHWSL @We_Rolf

New paper from our group! Looking at climatic shifts in the last 250 million years, @chulio_rog et al. find that the vegetation response may have strongly delayed the climatic recovery after past CO2 inputs! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We had the great opportunity to share our work on developing an autonomous robot fish named "Eve" to explore the ocean and help protect marine ecosystems with @cnni #TechForGood. You can vote for us to be featured in a special episode here: edition.cnn.com/science/marine…

🌊 #eDNA reveals fish composition turnover in the coral reefs of West Indian Ocean islands. Combining eDNA inventories and #spatialmodeling provides insights into species #habitat preferences related to distance-to-reef gradients at a small scale. 🐟doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1…

🏔️ #Bhutan's #Himalayas are home to elusive snow leopards, Pallas's cats, and more. 🐾 With #eDNA, we can now detect these rare species through river water samples, revealing the hidden biodiversity of this region. 🌿🧬 worldwildlife.org/stories/what-a…

La science estime que des mesures politiques s’imposent en matière de biodiversité. Die Wissenschaft sieht politischen Handlungsbedarf bei der Biodiversität. sgm-meteo.ch/de/about_en/uu…

An #eDNA time series reveals the influence of protection level, depth, and seasonality on the dynamics of #fish communities in a #Mediterranean #Marine Protected Area. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecol…

«Die #Wissenschaft sieht #politischen #Handlungsbedarf bei der #Biodiversität» CarteBlanche @scnatCH von @loic_pellissier, @mjsantos_uzh und mir: scnat.ch/de/uuid/i/93e5… 1/3: Zustand & Entwicklung der Biodiversität in der 🇨🇭 sind nach wie vor besorgniserregend.

Curious about how #alpine valleys shaped the genetic population structure of #chamois across #Alps over millennia and their management? @FlurinLeugger et al summarized the results of the chamois project & its conservation implications, available in DE/FR: tinyurl.com/chamoisflyer

📢 @mk_goralczyk uses #environmentalDNA to monitor #biodiversity to aid in #Forest #restoration! 🧬Find out more about how her work is revolutionising #wildlife #monitoring and #conservation here: blogs.ethz.ch/Science_and_Po…

🦋🦊Introducing #trophiCH 🌿🐛, the Swiss 🇨🇭national #metaweb of >1 million empirically-based #trophic interactions between 23k #species. For a sneak peek at how @merinrejichacko and colleagues built this #foodweb, check out our 📄preprint here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie…