Recently Edited Publications
BOOKS & REPORTS
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL (2022) Self-Assessment Report. WSL Evaluation 2022, Volumes 1 (87 pp) & 2 (62 pp). WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland. https://www.wsl.ch/de/ueber-die-wsl/organisation/direktion-und-geschaeftsleitung/self-assessment-report.html
Federal Office for the Environment FOEN (Ed) Riverscape – Sediment Dynamics and Connectivity: practice-oriented research in hydraulic engineering and ecology. FOEN, Bern, Switzerland. (in progress)
Asesoramientc Ambiental Estratégico AAE (2021) Lessons Learnt Report for the Readiness 1.0 Portfolio of the Green Climate Fund.
Brunner D, Durinx C, Erb M, Fischer M, Hari Y, Jazwinska A, Leeb T, Reymond C, Scheidegger C, Stieger P, Studer B, Vergères G, Walter A (2021) Biology Roadmap for Research Infrastructures 2025–2028 by the Swiss Biology Community. Swiss Academies Reports 16 (2). Swiss National Academy of Sciences, Bern, Switzerland. 52 pp. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4572622
Spygen SAS (2021) Innovation for Life. Vigilife Magazine (1). Spygen, France. 92 pp. https://www.vigilife.org/en/the-magazine/
Fischer C, Traub B (Eds) (2019) Swiss National Forest Inventory – Methods and Models of the Fourth Assessment. Series: Managing Forest Ecosystems (35). Springer Nature, Switzerland. 431 pp. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-19293-8
Haberkorn A (Ed) (2019) European Snow Booklet – an Inventory of Snow Measurements in Europe. EnviDat. 363 pp. https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/european-snow-booklet
Hoegh-Guldberg O, Jacob D, Taylor M, Bindi M, Brown S, Camilloni I, Diedhiou A, Djalante R, Ebi KL, Engelbrecht F, Guiot J, Hijioka Y, Mehrotra S, Payne A, Seneviratne SI, Thomas A, Warren R and Zhou G (2018) Impacts of 1.5°C Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems (Chapter 3). In: Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty [Masson-Delmotte V, Zhai P, Pörtner HO, Roberts D, Skea J, Shukla PR, Pirani A, Moufouma-Okia W, Péan C, Pidcock R, Connors S, Matthews JBR, Chen Y, Zhou X, Gomis MI, Lonnoy E, Maycock T, Tignor M and Waterfield T (Eds)]. World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Schweingruber FH, Börner A, Schulze E-D (2011) Atlas of Stem Anatomy in Herbs, Shrubs and Trees: Volumes 1 & 2. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg. Vol. 1 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-11638-4, Vol. 2 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-20435-7
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SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES (>400 in total)
2023
Angst JK, Kupferschmid AD (2023) Assessing browsing impact in beech forests: the importance of tree responses after browsing. Diversity 15 (2), 262. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020262
Casanelles-Abella J, Pellissier L, Aleixo C, Orti MA, Chiron F, Deguines N, Laanisto L, Myczko Ł, Niinemets Ü, Pinho P, Samson R, Tryjanowski P, Villarroya-Villalba L, Moretti M (2023) Habitat amount, temperature and biotic interactions drive community structure, life-history traits, and performance traits of cavity-nesting bees and wasps and their natural enemies in cities. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.07.522464 (preprint, in review)
Guo W, Zhang J, Li MH, Qi L (2023) Soil fungal community characteristics vary with bamboo varieties and soil compartments. Frontiers in Microbiology 14, 1120679. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1120679
Milesi P, Kastally C, Dauphin B, Cervantes S, Bagnoli F, Budde KB, Cavers S, Ojeda DI, Fady B, Faivre-Rampant P, González-Martínez SC, Grivet D, Gugerli F, Jorge V, Lesur-Kupin I, Olsson S, Opgenoorth L, Pinosio S, Plomion C, Rellstab C, Rogier O, Scalabrin S, Scotti I, Vendramin GG, Westergren M, GenTree Consortium, Lascoux M, Pyhäjärvi T (2023) Synchronous effective population size changes and genetic stability of forest trees through glacial cycles. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.05.522822 (preprint, in review)
Vitali V, Peters RL, Lehmann MM, Leuenberger M, Treydte K, Büntgen U, Schuler P, Saurer M (2023) Tree-ring isotopes from the Swiss Alps reveal non-climatic fingerprints of cyclic insect population outbreaks over the past 700 years. Tree Physiology, tpad014. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpad014 (in press)
Zhang P, Lü X-T, Jin G, Liu Z, Li M-H (2023) Leaf nitrogen resorption is more important than litter nitrogen mineralization in mediating the diversity–productivity relationship along a nitrogen-limited temperate forest succession chronosequence. Forest Ecosystems 10, 100102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fecs.2023.100102
2022
Boch S, Küchler H, Küchler M, Bedolla A, Ecker KT, Graf UH, Moser T, Holderegger R, Bergamini A (2022) Observer-driven pseudoturnover in vegetation monitoring is context-dependent but does not affect ecological inference. Applied Vegetation Science 25, e12669. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12669
Bont LG, Ramstein L, Frutig F, Schweier J (2022) Tensile forces and deflections on skylines of cable yarders: comparison of measurements with close-to-catenary predictions. International Journal of Forest Engineering 33 (3), 195–216. https://doi.org/10.1080/14942119.2022.2051159
Boussange V, Aceituno PV, Pellissier L (2022) Mini-batching ecological data to improve ecosystem models with machine learning. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.25.501365 (preprint, in review)
Boussange V, Pellissier L (2022) Eco-evolutionary model on spatial graphs reveals how habitat structure affects phenotypic differentiation. Communications Biology 5, 668. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03595-3
Bühlmann I, Gossner M (2022) Invasive Drosophila suzukii outnumbers native controphics and causes substantial damage to fruits of forest plants. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e87489 (preprint, in review)
Casanelles-Abella J, Moretti M (2022) Challenging the sustainability of urban beekeeping using evidence from Swiss cities. npj Urban Sustainability 2, 3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-021-00046-6
Casanelles-Abella J, Müller S, Keller A, Aleixo C, Alós Orti M, Chiron F, Deguines N, Hallikma T, Laanisto L, Pinho P, Samson R, Tryjanowski P, Van Mensel A, Pellissier L, Moretti M (2022) How wild bees find a way in European cities: pollen metabarcoding unravels multiple feeding strategies and their effects on distribution patterns in four wild bee species. Journal of Applied Ecology 59, 457–470. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14063
Chen Z, He S, Nicollier T, Ammann L, Badoux A, Rickenmann D (2022). Signal response of the Swiss plate geophone monitoring system impacted by bedload particles with different transport modes. Earth Surface Dynamics 10 (2), 279–300. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-10-279-2022
Comte V, Schneider L, Calanca P, Rebetez M (2022) Effects of climate change on bioclimatic indices in vineyards along Lake Neuchatel, Switzerland. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 14, 423–436. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-021-03836-1
Flück B, Mathon L, Manel S, Valentini A, Dejean T, Albouy C, Mouillot D, Thuiller W, Murienne J, Brosse S, Pellissier L (2022) Applying convolutional neural networks to speed up environmental DNA annotation in a highly diverse ecosystem. Scientific Reports 12, 10247. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-13412-w
Frey B, Rast BM, Qi W, Stierli B, Brunner I (2022) Long-term mercury contamination does not affect the microbial gene potential for C and N cycling in soils but enhances detoxification gene abundance. Frontiers in Microbiology 13, 1034138. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1034138
Gao D, Bai E, Wang S, Zong S, Liu Z, Fan X, Zhao C, Hagedorn F (2022) Three-dimensional mapping of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in soil microbial biomass and their stoichiometry at the global scale. Global Change Biology 28 (22), 6728–6740. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16374
Guo W, Zhang J, Sui X, Hu X, Lei G, Zhou Y, Li M-H, Qi L (2022) Compartment niche and bamboo variety influence the diversity, composition, network and potential keystone taxa functions of rhizobacterial communities. Rhizosphere 24, 100593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rhisph.2022.100593
Hagen, O. (2022), Coupling eco-evolutionary mechanisms with deep-time environmental dynamics to understand biodiversity patterns. Ecography e06132. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06132 (in press)
Holderegger R, Spillmann J (2022) Do revisitation studies overestimate local extinction? Conservation Science and Practice 4 (10), e12797. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12797
Kurz M, Kölz A, Gorges J, Carmona BP, Brang P, Vitasse Y, Kohler M, Rezzonico F, Smits THM, Bauhus J, Rudow A, Hansen OK, Vatanparast M, Sevik H, Zhelev P, Gömöry D, Paule L, Sperisen C, Csilléry K (2022) Tracing the origin of Oriental beech stands across Western Europe and reporting hybridization with European beech – implications for assisted gene flow. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.25.501368 (preprint, in review)
Lyu L, Leugger F, Hagen O, Fopp F, Boschman LM, Strijk JS, Albouy C, Karger DN, Brun P, Wang Z, Zimmermann NE, Pellissier L (2022) An integrated high-resolution mapping shows congruent biodiversity patterns of Fagales and Pinales. New Phytologist 235, 759–772. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18158
Martínez-Sancho E, Treydte K, Lehmann MM, Rigling A, Fonti P (2022) Drought impacts on tree carbon sequestration and water use – evidence from intra-annual tree-ring characteristics. New Phytologist 236 (1), 58–70. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18224
Pitteloud C, Defossez E, Albouy C, Descombes P, Rasmann S, Pellissier L (2022) DNA-based networks reveal the ecological determinants of plant–herbivore interactions along environmental gradients. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16545 (in press)
Szép E, Trubenová B, Csilléry K (2022) Using gridCoal to assess whether standard population genetic theory holds in the presence of spatio-temporal heterogeneity in population size. Molecular Ecology Resources 22 (8), 2941–2955. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13676
Wang X, Wang J, Hu B, Zheng W-L, Li M, Shen Z-X, Yu F-H, Schmid B, Li, M-H (2022) Richness, not evenness, of invasive plant species promotes invasion success into native plant communities via selection effects. Oikos 2022, e08966. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08966
2021
Boch S, Saiz H, Allan E, Schall P, Prati D, Schulze ED, Hessenmöller D, Sparrius LB, Fischer M (2021) Direct and indirect effects of management intensity and environmental factors on the functional diversity of lichens in Central European forests. Microorganisms 9 (2), 463. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9020463
Boluda CG, Rico VJ, Naciri Y, Hawksworth DL, Scheidegger C (2021) Phylogeographic reconstructions can be biased by ancestral shared alleles: the case of the polymorphic lichen Bryoria fuscescens in Europe and North Africa. Molecular Ecology 30, 4845–4865. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16078
Brožová N, Baggio T, D'agostino V, Bühler Y, Bebi P (2021) Multiscale analysis of surface roughness for the improvement of natural hazard modelling. Natural Hazards and Earth System Science 21 (11), 3539–3562. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-3539-2021
Donati GFA, Zemp N, Manel S, Poirier M, Claverie T, Ferraton F, Gaboriau T, Govinden R, Hagen O, Ibrahim S, Mouillot D, Leblond J, Julius P, Velez L, Zareer I, Ziyad A, Leprieur F, Albouy C, Pellissier L (2021) Species ecology explains the spatial components of genetic diversity in tropical reef fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 228 (1959), 20211574.https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1574
Hagen O, Flück B, Fopp F, Cabral JS, Hartig F, et al. (2021) gen3sis: A general engine for eco-evolutionary simulations of the processes that shape Earth’s biodiversity. PLOS Biology 19 (7), e3001340. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001340
Hagen O, Skeels A, Onstein RE, Pellissier L (2021) Earth history events shaped the evolution of uneven biodiversity across tropical moist forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (40), e2026347118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2026347118
Frey B, Walthert L, Perez-Mon C, Stierli B, Köchli R, Dharmarajah A, Brunner I (2021) Deep soil layers of drought-exposed forests harbor poorly known bacterial and fungal communities. Frontiers in Microbiology 12, 674160. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.674160
Pierri Daunt AB, Inostroza L, Hersperger AM (2021) The role of spatial planning in land change: an assessment of urban planning and nature conservation efficiency at the southeastern coast of Brazil. Land Use Policy 111, 105771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105771
Polanco FA, Mutis Martinezguerra M, Marques V, Villa-Navarro F, Borrero Pérez GH, Cheutin MC, Dejean T, Hocdé R, Juhel J-B, Maire E, Manel S, Spescha M, Valentini A, Mouillot D, Albouy C, Pellissier L (2021) Detecting aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity in a tropical estuary using environmental DNA. Biotropica 53, 1606–1619. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13009
Schreckinger J, Mutz M, Mendoza-Lera C, Frossard A (2021) Attributes of drying define the structure and functioning of microbial communities in temperate riverbed sediment. Frontiers in Microbiology 12, 676615. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.676615
Turc, B., Vollenweider, P., Le Thiec, D., Gandin, A., Schaub, M., Cabané, M., & Jolivet, Y. (2021) Dynamics of foliar responses to O3 stress as a function of phytotoxic O3 dose in hybrid poplar. Frontiers in Plant Science 12, 679852. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.679852
Walthert L, Ganthaler A, Mayr S, Saurer M, Waldner P, Walser M, Zweifel R, Von Arx G (2021) From the comfort zone to crown dieback: sequence of physiological stress thresholds in mature European beech trees across progressive drought. Science of the Total Environment 753, 141792. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141792
2020
Abrahamczyk S, Wohlgemuth T, Nobis M, Nyffeler R, Kessler M (2020). Shifts in food plant abundance for flower-visiting insects between 1900 and 2017 in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. Ecological Applications 30 (6), e2138. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2138
Arıkan B, Mohr F, Bürgi M (2020). Exploring the common ground of landscape ecology and landscape archaeology through a case study from eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Landscape Ecology 36, 2295–2315. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-020-01128-z
Bacău S, Grădinaru SR, Hersperger AM (2020) Spatial plans as relational data: using social network analysis to assess consistency among Bucharest's planning instruments. Land Use Policy 92, 104484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104484
Berendt F, Tolosana E, Hoffmann S, Alonso P, Schweier J (2020). Harvester productivity in inclined terrain with extended machine operating trail intervals: a German case study comparison of standing and bunched trees. Sustainability 12 (21), 9168. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12219168
Boch S, Becker T, Deák B, Dengler J, Wagner V (2020). Traditional land use, management and biodiversity of European semi-natural grasslands – editorial to the 15th EDGG Special Feature. Tuexenia 40, 401–407. https://doi.org/10.14471/2020.40.026
Bont LG, Hill A, Waser LT, Bürgi A, Ginzler C, Blattert C (2020) Airborne-laser-scanning-derived auxiliary information discriminating between broadleaf and conifer trees improves the accuracy of models for predicting timber volume in mixed and heterogeneously structured forests. Forest Ecology and Management 459, 117856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117856
Brantschen J, Gygax S, Mestrot A, Frossard A (2020). Soil Hg contamination impact on earthworms’ gut microbiome. Applied Sciences 10 (7), 2565. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10072565
Descombes P, Kergunteuil A, Glauser G, Rasmann S, Pellissier L (2020). Plant physical and chemical traits associated with herbivory in situ and under a warming treatment. Journal of Ecology 108, 733–749. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13286
Descombes P, Pitteloud C, Glauser G, Defossez E, Kergunteuil A, Allard P-M, Rasmann S, Pellissier L (2020) Novel trophic interactions under climate change promote alpine plant coexistence. Science 370 (6523), 1469–1473. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd7015
Erni M, Burg V, Bont L, Thees O, Ferretti M, Stadelmann G, Schweier J (2020). Current (2020) and long-term (2035 and 2050) sustainable potentials of wood fuel in Switzerland. Sustainability 12 (22), 9749. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12229749
Grünig M, Calanca P, Mazzi D, Pellissier L (2020). Inflection point in climatic suitability of insect pest species in Europe suggests non-linear responses to climate change. Global Change Biology 26 (11), 6338–6349. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15313
Joseph J, Gao D, Backes B, Bloch C, Brunner I, Gleixner G, Haeni M, Hartmann H, Hoch G, Hug C, Kahmen A, Lehmann MM, Li M, Luster J, Peter M, Poll C, Rigling A, Rissanen KA, Ruehr NK, … Gessler A (2020). Rhizosphere activity in an old-growth forest reacts rapidly to changes in soil moisture and shapes whole-tree carbon allocation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (40), 24885–24892. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2014084117
Pagliarin S, Hersperger AM, Rihoux B (2020) Implementation pathways of large-scale urban development projects (lsUDPs) in Western Europe: a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), European Planning Studies 28 (6), 1242–1263. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2019.1681942
Perez-Mon C, Frey B, Frossard A (2020). Functional and structural responses of Arctic and alpine soil prokaryotic and fungal communities under freeze-thaw cycles of different frequencies. Frontiers in Microbiology 11, 982. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00982
Polanco FA, Fopp F, Albouy C, Brun P, Boschman L, Pellissier L (2020). Marine fish diversity in Tropical America associated with both past and present environmental conditions. Journal of Biogeography 47 (12) 2597–2610. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13985
Portier J, Wunder J, Stadelmann G, Zell J, Abegg M, Thürig E, Rohner B (2020). ‘Latent reserves’: A hidden treasure in National Forest Inventories. Journal of Ecology 109 (1), 369–383. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13487
Rüthi J, Bölsterli D, Pardi-Comensoli L, Brunner I, Frey B (2020). The "plastisphere" of biodegradable plastics is characterized by specific microbial taxa of Alpine and Arctic soils. Frontiers in Environmental Science 8, 562263. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2020.562263
Salehi M, Walthert L, Zimmermann S, Waldner P, Schmitt M, Schleppi P, … Thimonier A (2020) Leaf morphological traits and leaf nutrient concentrations of European beech across a water availability gradient in Switzerland. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 3, 19. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2020.00019
Walthert L, Ganthaler A, Mayr S, Saurer M, Waldner P, Walser M, Zweifel R, Von Arx G (2021). From the comfort zone to crown dieback: sequence of physiological stress thresholds in mature European beech trees across progressive drought. Science of the Total Environment 753, 141792. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141792
Wang Z, Ginzler C, Waser LT (2020). Assessing structural changes at the forest edge using kernel density estimation. Forest Ecology and Management 456, 117639. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117639
Wermelinger B, Schneider Mathis D, Knížek M, Forster B (2020). Tracking the spread of the northern bark beetle (Ips duplicatus [Sahlb.]) in Europe and first records from Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Alpine Entomology 4, 179–184. https://doi.org/10.3897/alpento.4.53808
Zhao C, Wenig Q, Hersperger AM (2020). Characterizing the 3-D urban morphology transformation to understand urban-form dynamics: a case study of Austin, Texas, USA. Landscape and Urban Planning 203, 103881. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103881
2019
Bont LG, Maurer S, Breschan JR (2019) Automated cable road layout and harvesting planning for multiple objectives in steep terrain. Forests 10, 687.
Brunner MI, Zappa M, Stähli M (2019). Scale matters: effects of temporal and spatial data resolution on water scarcity assessments. Advances in Water Resources 123, 134–144.
Brunner MI, Liechti K, Zappa M (2019) Extremeness of recent drought events in Switzerland: dependence on variable and return period choice. Natural Hazards and Earth System Science 19, 2311–2323.
Cerrato R, Cherubini P, Büntgen U, Coppola A, Salvatore MC, Baroni C. (2019). Tree-ring-based reconstruction of larch budmoth outbreaks in the Central Italian Alps since 1774 CE. iForest 12, 289–296.
Dähler NB, Holderegger R, INFO FLORA, Bergamini A (2019) Effectiveness of Swiss protected areas in maintaining populations of rare vascular plants. Journal for Nature Conservation 52, 125749.
Donati GFA, Parravicini V, Leprieur F, Hagen O, Gaboriau T, Heine C, … Pellissier L (2019) A process‐based model supports an association between dispersal and the prevalence of species traits in tropical reef fish assemblages. Ecography 42, 2095–2106.
Ge X, Cao Y, Zhou B, Wang X, Yang Z, Li MH (2019). Biochar addition increases subsurface soil microbial biomass but has limited effects on soil CO2 emissions in subtropical moso bamboo plantations. Applied Soil Ecology 142, 155–165.
Gossner MM, Falck K, Weisser WW (2019). Effects of management on ambrosia beetles and their antagonists in European beech forests. Forest Ecology and Management 437, 126–133.
Schleppi P, Körner C, Klein T (2019). Increased nitrogen availability in the soil under mature Picea abies trees exposed to elevated CO2 concentrations. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2, 59.
Thimonier A, Kosonen Z, Braun S, Rihm B, Schleppi P, Schmitt M, … Thöni L (2019). Total deposition of nitrogen in Swiss forests: comparison of assessment methods and evaluation of changes over two decades. Atmospheric Environment 198, 335–350.
2018
Blattert C, Lemm R, Thees O, Hansen J, Lexer MJ, Hanewinkel M (2018) Segregated versus integrated biodiversity conservation: Value-based ecosystem service assessment under varying forest management strategies in a Swiss case study. Ecological Indicators 95, 751–764.
Breiner FT, Nobis MP, Bergamini A, Guisan A (2018) Optimizing ensembles of small models for predicting the distribution of species with few occurrences. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9, 802–808.
Burg V, Bowman G, Haubensak M, Baier U, Thees O (2018) Valorization of an untapped resource: Energy and greenhouse gas emissions benefits of converting manure to biogas through anaerobic digestion. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 136, 53–62.
Donhauser J, Frey B (2018) Alpine soil microbial ecology in a changing world. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 94, fiy099.
Kosonen Z, Thimonier A, Schnyder E, Thoni L (2018) Nitrogen concentration in moss compared with N load in precipitation and with total N deposition in Switzerland. Environmental Pollution 239, 169–178.
Küker S, Faverjon C, Furrer L, Berezowski J, Posthaus H, Rinaldi F, Vial F (2018) The value of necropsy reports for animal health surveillance. BMC Veterinary Research 14, 191.
Kupferschmid AD (2018) Selective browsing behaviour of ungulates influences the growth of Abies albadifferently depending on forest type. Forest Ecology and Management 429, 317–326.
Lendvay B, Hartmann M, Brodbeck S et al. (2018) Improved recovery of ancient DNA from subfossil wood – application to the world’s oldest Late Glacial pine forest. New Phytologist 217, 1737–1748.
Oliveira E, Hersperger AM (2018) Governance arrangements, funding mechanisms and power configurations in current practices of strategic spatial plan implementation. Land Use Policy 76, 623–633.
Pflug EE, Buchmann N, Siegwolf RTW, Schaub M, Rigling A, Arend M (2018) Resilient leaf physiological response of European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) to summer drought and drought release. Frontiers in Plant Science 9, 187.
Rohner B, Waldner P, Lischke H, Ferretti M, Thürig E (2018) Predicting individual-tree growth of central European tree species as a function of site, stand, management, nutrient, and climate effects. European Journal of Forest Research 137, 29–44.
Schnyder E, Štrok M, Kosonen Z, Skudnik M, Mazej D, Jeran Z, Thöni L (2018) Lead concentrations and stable lead isotope ratios in moss in Slovenia and Switzerland. Ecological Indicators 95, 250–259.
Walthert L, Schleppi P (2018) Equations to compensate for the temperature effect on readings from dielectric Decagon MPS-2 and MPS-6 water potential sensors in soils. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 181 (65) 749–759.
Wang C, Chen Z, Brunner I et al. (2018) Global patterns of dead fine root stocks in forest ecosystems. Journal of Biogeography 45, 1378–1394.
2017
Beenken L, Lutz M, Scholler M (2017) DNA barcoding and phylogenetic analyses of the genus Coleosporium (Pucciniales) reveal that the North American goldenrod rust C. solidaginis is a neomycete on introduced and native Solidago species in Europe. Mycological Progress 16, 1073–1085.
Brunner I, Frey B, Hartmann M et al. (2017) Ecology of alpine macrofungi – combining historical with recent data. Frontiers in Microbiology 8, 2066.
Carmo LP, Schüpbach-Regula G, Müntener C, Chevance A, Moulin G, Magouras I (2017) Approaches for quantifying antimicrobial consumption per animal species based on national sales data: a Swiss example, 2006 to 2013. Eurosurveillance: European Communicable Disease Bulletin 22, 30458.
Devkota S, Chaudhary RP, Werth S, Scheidegger C (2017) Trade and legislation: consequences for the conservation of lichens in the Nepal Himalaya. Biodiversity and Conservation 26, 2491–2505.
Milanesi P, Holderegger R, Bollmann K, Gugerli F, Zellweger F (2017) Three-dimensional habitat structure and landscape genetics: a step forward in estimating functional connectivity. Ecology 98 (2), 393–402.
Nadyeina O, Zarabska-Bozejewicz D, Wiedmer A, Cornejo C, Scheidegger C (2017) Polymorphic fungus-specific microsatellite markers of Bactrospora dryina reveal multiple colonizations of trees. The Lichenologist 49, 561–577.
Pagliarin S (2017) Working leisure: entertaining guests in gated tourist resorts. Leisure Studies 36, 753–763.
Schleppi P, Curtaz F, Krause K (2017) Nitrate leaching from a sub-alpine coniferous forest subjected to experimentally increased N deposition for 20 years, and effects of tree girdling and felling. Biogeochemistry 134, 319–335.
2016
Badoux A, Andres N, Techel F, Hegg C (2016) Natural hazard fatalities in Switzerland from 1946 to 2015. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 16, 2747–2768.
Concepción ED, Obrist MK, Moretti M, Altermatt F, Baur B, Nobis MP (2016) Impacts of urban sprawl on species richness of plants, butterflies, gastropods and birds: not only built-up area matters. Urban Ecosystems 19, 225–242.
Hagedorn F, Joseph J, Peter M et al. (2016) Recovery of trees from drought depends on belowground sink control. Nature Plants 2, 16111.
Molinier V, Murat C, Baltensweiler A, Büntgen U, Martin F, Meier B, Moser B, Sproll L, Stobbe U, Tegel W, Egli S, Peter M (2016) Fine-scale genetic structure of natural Tuber aestivum sites in southern Germany. Mycorrhiza 26 (8), 895–907.
Rime T, Hartmann M, Frey B (2016) Potential sources of microbial colonizers in an initial soil ecosystem after retreat of an alpine glacier. The ISME Journal 10, 1625–1641.
Sovilla B, Faug T, Köhler A, Baroudi D, Fischer J-T, Thibert E (2016) Gravitational wet avalanche pressure on pylon-like structures. Cold Regions Science and Technology 126, 66–75.
Techel F, Jarry F, Kronthaler G et al. (2016) Avalanche fatalities in the European Alps: long-term trends and statistics. Geographica Helvetica 71, 147–159.
Yan C-F, Gessler A, Rigling A, Dobbertin M, Han X-G, Li M-H (2016) Effects of mistletoe removal on growth, N and C reserves, and carbon and oxygen isotope composition in Scots pine hosts. Tree Physiology 36, 562–575.
2015 and earlier
Breiner FT, Guisan A, Bergamini A, Nobis MP (2015) Overcoming limitations of modelling rare species by using ensembles of small models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 6, 1210–1218.
Hagedorn F, Shiyatov SG, Mazepa VS, Devi NM, Grigor’ev AA, Bartysh AA, … Moiseev PA (2014) Treeline advances along the Ural mountain range – driven by improved winter conditions? Global Change Biology 20, 3530–3543.
Nobis MP, Normand S (2014) KISSMig – a simple model for R to account for limited migration in analyses of species distributions. Ecography 37, 1282–1287.