Forest and Soil Ecology ¶
Head: Dr. Thomas Wohlgemuth a.i.
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The Research Unit explores the functional significance of forest diversity with respect to the ecology of managed and unmanaged forests. In order to assess the future development of forests in Switzerland and other temperate and mountainous regions, the Unit pursues a threefold research agenda:
- it performs basic research on forest diversity and its influence i) on forest dynamics, i.e. successional processes including tree growth, mortality and regeneration, and ii) on ecosystem goods and services;
- it studies the disturbance agents such as storms, avalanches, fires and insects with respect to their occurrences and their impact on forest dynamics, as well as the importance of forest diversity to resist disturbance;
- it investigates the impact of management operations on forest structure and development to improve sustainable forest management.
Based on the research outcomes, the Unit develops recommendations for best practice to sustain or improve forest products and services such as production of timber and other forest goods (e.g. mushrooms), catchment value, water quality, protection against natural hazards and pests, conservation and recreation. The infrastructure of the Research Unit includes extensive networks of forest study plots and laboratories for insects and fungi analysis.
The Unit has partners both within WSL and the wider scientific community. Stakeholders are mainly the forest services, forest owners and federal agencies.
Topics ¶
Projects ¶
Research Groups and Staff ¶
Forest and Soil Ecology
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Thomas Wohlgemuth |
Member of Directors Board; Senior Scientist, interim Head of Research Unit |
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Andreas Rigling |
Visiting scientist |
Soil Biogeochemistry
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Frank Hagedorn |
Group leader |
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Andrea Benech |
Master student |
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Philipp de Jong |
PhD student |
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Ika Djukic |
Visiting scientist |
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Jasmin Fetzer |
Visiting scientist |
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Konstantin Gavazov |
Visiting scientist |
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Claudia Guidi |
Scientific staff member |
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Tatiana Hirsiger |
Technical staff member |
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Mathias Mayer |
Visiting scientist |
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Margaux Moreno Duborgel |
Visiting scientist |
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Patrizia Palermo |
Technical staff member |
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Patrick Schleppi |
Scientific staff member |
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Jürg Schmid |
Temporary employee |
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Simone Schmid |
Temporary employee |
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Rienk Smittenberg |
Scientific staff member |
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Tanja Stutz |
Technical staff member |
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Anne Thimonier Rickenmann |
Scientific staff member |
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Annegret Udke |
PhD student |
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Peter Waldner |
Scientific staff member |
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Joachim Zhu |
Technical specialist |
Soil Functions and Soil Protection
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Katrin Di Bella Meusburger |
Group leader |
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Arun Bose |
Scientific staff member |
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Daniel Christen |
Technical staff member |
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Andreas Dietzel |
Postdoc |
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Louis John Graup |
Postdoc |
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Prachi Joshi |
Scientific staff member |
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Roger Köchli |
Technical staff member |
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Peter Lüscher |
Visiting scientist |
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Sonia Meller |
Visiting scientist |
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Christoph Mullis |
Technical specialist |
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Behzad Rahimi |
Technical specialist |
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Dennis Günther Ried |
PhD student |
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Marco Walser |
Technical staff member |
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Lorenz Walthert |
Scientific staff member |
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Stephan Zimmermann |
Visiting scientist |
Dendrosciences
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Georg von Arx |
Group leader |
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Marçal Argelich Ninot |
Temporary employee |
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Jesper Björklund |
Visiting scientist |
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Antoine Cabon |
Scientific staff member |
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Paolo Cherubini |
Senior Scientist |
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Patrick Fonti |
Senior Scientist |
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Holger Gärtner |
Scientific staff member |
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Mara Nägelin |
Scientific staff member |
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Daniel Nievergelt |
Technical staff member |
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Nicola Antonio Santacroce |
Temporary employee |
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Loïc Schneider |
Technical staff member |
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Lenka Slámová-Matéju |
Visiting scientist |
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Nadja-Tamara Studer |
Technical staff member |
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Kerstin Treydte |
Senior Scientist |
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Anne Verstege |
Technical staff member |
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Wenjin Wang |
Postdoc |
Functional Plant Ecology
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Christoph Bachofen |
Scientific staff member |
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Rita Bütler Sauvain |
Knowledge transfer |
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Alexandre Buttler |
Visiting scientist |
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Cross Jacob Heintzelman |
PhD student guest |
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Alyssa Kullberg |
Postdoc |
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Sandra Levin Zürcher |
Administrative staff member |
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Helena Vallicrosa Pou |
Postdoc |
LWF I
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Christoph Mullis |
Technical specialist |
Ecophysiology
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Marcus Schaub |
Group leader |
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William Aeberhard |
Visiting scientist |
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Carlo di Bello |
PhD student |
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Sophia Etzold |
Scientific staff member |
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Jonas Gisler |
Technical staff member |
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Madeleine S. Goerg-Günthardt |
Visiting scientist |
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Rudolf Häsler |
Visiting scientist |
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Dominik Andrin Hummel |
Technical specialist |
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Maihe Li |
Senior Scientist |
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Volodymyr Trotsiuk |
Data Scientist |
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Pierre Vollenweider |
Scientific staff member |
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Yanli Zhang |
PhD student |
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Roman Zweifel |
Scientific staff member |
Ecosystem Ecology
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Arthur Gessler |
Group leader |
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Julia Born |
Project Manager |
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Arun Bose |
Scientific staff member |
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Alessandra Bottero |
Scientific staff member |
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Justine Charlet de Sauvage |
Visiting scientist |
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Liangzhi Chen |
Postdoc |
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Olga Churakova |
Visiting scientist |
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Haoyu Diao |
Postdoc |
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Elham Freund |
Scientific staff member |
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Matthias Haeni |
IT specialist |
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Christian Hug |
Technical staff member |
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Stefan Hunziker |
Scientific staff member |
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Frank Krumm |
Scientific staff member |
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Jelle Lever |
Postdoc |
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Martin Ley |
Administrative specialist |
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Mirko Lukovic |
Scientific staff member |
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Yunpeng Luo |
Scientific staff member |
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Regine Maier |
Administrative specialist |
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Eugénie Paul-Limoges |
Scientific staff member |
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Simone Maria Pieber |
Scientific staff member |
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Martine Rebetez |
Senior Scientist |
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Matthias Saurer |
Scientific staff member |
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Léonard Schneider |
Visiting scientist |
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Pascal Schneider |
PhD student |
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Flurin Sutter |
GIS specialist |
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Volodymyr Trotsiuk |
Data Scientist |
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Yann Vitasse |
Scientific staff member |
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Micah Wilhelm |
Scientific assistant |
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Yongzhi Yu |
PhD student |
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Artin Zarsav |
PhD student |
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Jan Ziegler |
Technical specialist |
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Yann Vitasse |
Scientific staff member |