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Cyrill Zosso, Nicholas Ouma Ofiti, Guido Lars Bruno Wiesenberg, Michael W.I. Schmidt of the URPP GCB published the results of their research in Nature Geoscience. The study highlights the major significance of relying on soils and forests as natural carbon sinks as one of the key strategies in the fight against global warming.
Bernhard Schmid and colleagues novel results suggest that over time evolutionary processes in diverse plant communities select the most ‘collaborative’ plant genotypes among the different species, thus increasing division of labor, community productivity and ecosystem stability published in Nature communications
Gabriela Schaepman-Strub and Patricia Holm composed the section on biodiversity and changing ecosystems in Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) report on increasing pressure on the Artic.
Keller-pressure loggers are being used to monitor conditions in the Mangrove forests of Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles
Florian Altermatt and co-authors investigated how green and blue food webs are structured and how they change in response to climatic and human influences
Jacqueline Oehri and Gabriela Schaepman-Strub: scientific evidence that the type of vegetation covering the land surface does matter for summer energy fluxes
making them more resilient to subsequent drought.
Sofia van Moorsel was awarded her award for her project - Unraveling the genetic diversity of an economically and ecologically important aquatic plant. the FAN awards are support excellent young researchers at the University of Zurich in their academic career.
UZH highlighted the URPP GCB on social media to mark Biodiversity Day on 22 May 2022
Plant communities can be reliably monitored using imaging spectroscopy, which in the future will be possible via satellite.
Their study examines the extent to which societies have become decoupled from their local ecosystem services across delta systems due to the modification of natural processes.
Annabelle Constance's work on the Aldabra Atoll is featured as a showcase for the instruments being used in their project on the Atoll.
Jordi Bascompte received this prestigious award for his mathematical work on the description of biological network
The study will link functional traits maps of Lägern forest with field measured diversity
Spectral complementarity can reveal resource-use complementarity.
During the summer insects die from a single streetlight each night during the summer months.
Annabelle Constance and coauthors research on the extent of change of protected mangrove forest on the Aldabra Atoll was featured in a recent Seychelles broadcasting corporation broadcast and published in Global Ecology and Conservation
Pascal Niklaus and co-authors review the practical and conceptual challenges inherent in the development of variety mixtures, and discuss common approaches to overcome these.
Jakob talked about the research they are doing at the limnological station at the Lake of Zurich, one of the seven URPP GCB test sites.
Gabriela Schaepman-Strub is specialised in Arctic biodiversity and ecosystem functions, applying experiments, modelling, and remote sensing and has been involved in SPI activities since the institute was formed.
Hanneke van 't Veen wins best student presentation at IASC 2021 Commoning the Anthropocene conference. The conference focused the on common property systems to land use and other shared resources (commoning) roles in the Anthropocene.
A new website explains the understanding of „landscape services“ and lists recommendations and good practice examples – an outcome of a research project by the Space, Nature & Society unit with the University of Lausanne.
Leading researchers from a variety of fields came together at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2021 with the theme: Understanding Dynamic Ecosystems. The virtual conference featured a talk by UZH President Michael Schaepman on how remote sensing can help protect biodiversity.
InfoFauna/CSCF hosts the Swiss database on all faunistic data.
URPP GCB's Florian Altermatt in his role for the Swiss Biodiversity Forum explains what Mission B has achieved and how Swiss biodiversity is doing today.
In no time animals and plants adapt to the city.
Florian Altermatt and co-authors have combined environmental DNA (eDNA) samples and hydrological methods to accurately determine the biodiversity of a river in Switzerland.
60 % of insects are endangered or potentially endangered.
These criteria should shape scientific conferences of the future
A new format for conferences aims to facilitate much-needed change in science. Researchers from all over the world, from all gender and from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, are to be explicitly invited to scientific conferences and research networks.
URPP GCB 's Pascal Niklaus, Bernhard Schmid and co-authors found that directed species loss may severely hamper productivity in already diverse young forests in a recent publication in Nature Ecology and Evolution.
The unprecedented decline in species diversity and the impact of such a loss of diversity on ecosystems and human well-being is not as acknowledged as much as the threats of climate change. Strategies to address the alarming rate of biodiversity loss is on the program at the World Biodiversity Forum.
Biodiverse ecosystems generally function better than monocultures. Jacqueline Oehri, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Bernhard Schmid and Pascal Niklaus of the URPP GCB, show that the same is true on a larger scale: Having a mix of different land-covers improves the functioning and stability of a landscape – irrespective of the plant species diversity, region and climate.
Maria J. Santos discusses climate change, the environmental themes at WEF 2020 and the inaurgural World Biodiversity Forum in 2020.
URPP GCB's Florian Altermatt and co-authors at Eawag and Zurich University have synthesised for the first time the amounts of carbon transported between many different ecosystems. According to this global synthesis, spatial flows of carbon can be very large – and their significance has previously been underestimated.
Diverse communities of plants and animals typically perform better than monocultures. URPP GCB's Pascal Niklaus, in collaboration with Samuel Wuest, has now found have now been able to identify the genetic cause of effects published in Nature Ecology and Evolution .
Her project is entitled "When trees die: Understanding how plants and microbes interact and influence soil biogeochemical processes"
Professor Florian Altermatt of the URPP GCB is vice-president of Forum Biodiversität.
Alpine and Arctic tundra are warming 2-3 times faster than average. How does vegetation react to this warming? What do plant traits tell us about changes in plant strategies?
Remote sensing expert Michael Schaepman wants to use a new aerial sensing method to investigate the complex interplay between ecosystems, species and genes. It could help measure global biodiversity
Florian Altermatt was appointed Associate Professor for Aquatic Ecology at the University of Zurich in the University Research Priority Programme on Global Change and Biodiversity. Florian has been an affiliated member of the research programme since 2013.
Diversity of microbial community structure and function in Arctic thermokarst ponds: 3 weeks in north-eastern Siberia, in the Kytalyk nature reserve.
Forests offset CO2 emissions, planting a mixture of tree species will store much more carbon than if monocultures were planted.
"Rethinking Our Relationship with Nature", a new research project led by Anna Deplazes-Zemp which is supported by a grant by the Nomis Foundation. Should we conserve nature because of the resources it provides or should we conserve it for its own sake.
In a recent paper in Nature Ecology and Evolution, Debra Zuppinger-Dingley and co-authors found that the evolution of facilitative interactions in plants requires biologically diverse communities.
Most of the carbon resulting from wildfires and fossil fuel combustion is rapidly released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. Researchers at the University of Zurich .......
In a new article in 'Nature Ecology and Evolution', Deplazes-Zemp argue that the Nagoya Protocol could backfire on the Global South.
Gabriela Schaepman-Strub was motivated by EDA and CAFF to represent Switzerland in the Arctic’s Council biodiversity working group CAFF (Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna).
Artenreiche Lebensräume sind stabiler gegenüber Schwankungen der Umweltbedingungen als solche mit geringer Biodiversität. Dass diese bisher experimentellen Erkenntnisse auch für reale Ökosysteme gelten, haben Forschende der Universität Zürich nachgewiesen. (Natur und Umwelt, Tierwelt 10, 2018)
URPP on Global Change and Biodiversity welcomes Maria J. Santos as Assistant Professor in Earth System Science. This professorship allows the University of Zurich to boost its research into human-induced global change.
Congratulations to Stanislav Ksenofontov, a PhD in the URPP Global Change and Biodiversity, has been selected as an International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) fellow for the social and human working group.
Productivity and stability of forest ecosystems strongly depend on the functional diversity of plant communities.
Biodiverse communities of trees are better at coping with phases of drought than uniform monocultures.
Natural Assets Definition Workshop held in Bern, Switzerland.
Ecosystems with high biodiversity are more productive and stable towards annual fluctuations in environmental conditions than those with a low diversity of species. They also adapt better to climate-driven environmental changes.
Researchers would like to make the changes in forests visible.
The winning images of the SNSF Scientific Image Competition have now been released. A photo of Fabien Schneider at the URPP GCB testsite in Borneo was selected in the category “Women and men of science”.
From 2017, the University of Zurich will assume the International Project Office of bioDISCOVERY. UZH was chosen particularly because of the concentration and interdisciplinary nature of the University Research Priority Program “Global Change and Biodiversity”.
Gabriela talks about her research in the Siberian tundra at the talk show Wissenschaft Persönlich.
This year's Biology 16' conference was held in Lausanne. Biology meetings take place every year to celebrate Darwin’s birthday and to share the latest scientific research in ecology and evolution. This year the conference was held at the University of Lausanne, 11 - 12 February 2016.
URPP-GCB lunch seminar with Marcus Hall on 8 October Dr. Lars Larsson, a visiting researcher, will be talking about historical landscape changes in Central Asia.
URPP at Scientifica 2015 – Light and Biodiversity The open doors event ‘Scientifica’ of UZH and ETH during the first September weekend 2015 attracted over 25’000 people, including invited guests. The URPP GCB presented the interaction of light and biodiversity from leaf to canopy and landscape scale.
Interdisciplinary cooperation to measure biodiversity from space call made by Prof. Dr. Andrew K. Skidmore of the ITC Faculty of the University of Twente and colleagues around the world, including scientists from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, today (22 July 2015) in Nature
We are glad to announce that Gabriela Schaepman-Strub was recently invited to become a member of the Swiss Committee on Polar and High altitude research (here)
Postdoc Mikey O'Brien working on Projet 4 together with Kentaro Shimizu, Bernhard Schmid and Ang Cheng Choon will give a talk titled "Mast flowering in lowland forests of Borneo: a unique scientific opportunity".
The main goal of the journal club will be to discuss interdisciplinary studies related to the six biomes covered by the URPP GCB.
Sylvia Martinez from the University of Basel introduced the access and benefit-sharing scheme of the Nagoya protocol and its implication for researchers during a URPP GCB lunch seminar. Sylvia Martinez was herself part of the Swiss delegation in the negotiations of the Nagoya protocol and coauthored an excellent brochureon access and benefit sharing for the Swiss Academy of Science.
Project Leader Jakob Pernthaler and PhD Yana Yankova working on Project 2 will present their work on seasonality.
The estimation of forest phenology based on variables derived directly by nearby cameras has been shown to be fruitful and feasible.
On October 24, 2014 the URPP GCB organised a Phenology Symposium.
Diverse plant communities are more successful and enable higher crop yields than pure monocultures, a European research team headed by ecologists from the University of Zurich Priority Research Program on Global Change and Biodiversity has discovered.
A solar panel system was set up in summer 2014 in support of the Siberian field campaigns of the URPP on ‘Global Change and Biodiversity’.
Reinhard Furrer gives a keynote talk at the annual meeting of the Austrian Statistical Society.
From June to August 2014, Stanislav Ksenofontov performed 47 semi-structured in-depth interviews with local indigenous people.
This year, the field season at the Kytalyk site started beginning of May. Inge Juszak visited the site and reestablished two automatic measurement stations for solar radiation, thermal radiation and soil temperature.
Tortoise turf is a (by island standards) species-rich micro-plant community that is heavily cropped by herds of grazing giant tortoises. Exactly how tortoise grazing structures this plant community is unknown.
PhD student Jennifer Bartmess with field assistant Leonard Alaza will give a research update after recent work in Sabah, Malaysia.
On April 23, 2014 the URPP GCB and the EU BON signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for future cooperation and networking.
Project Leader Norman Backhaus will talk about his past and current research in Malaysia and wants to discuss ideas for future research topics on Wednesday, 7 May 2014.
Have a look back at this year's GEO-X Biodiversity Day, organized by the Swiss Federal Office Enivorment (FOEN) and the Swiss Academy of Sciences (scnat).
Project Leader Gabriela Schaepman-Strub will introduce the Siberia Test Site on Thursday, 6. March 2014.
Micky O'Brien and Kentaro Shimizu will introduce the Borneo Test Site on Tuesday, 20. February 2014.
The Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia and the University of Zurich.
The Swiss Federation organises a special event on biodiversity on January 14 and will exhibit throughout the week at the Swiss Pavilion. The URPP GCB is present at the Swiss Pavilion together with the NPOC and many others.
The 2013 expedition to Eastern Siberia has now started. The goal of the expedition will be to assess global change drivers on biodiversity.
The URPP on Global Change and Biodiversity will have a booth at the Scientifica 2013. Visitors will be taken through three studies of local, at risk ecosystems.
Gabriela was interviewed by the SRF4 about her work in the Siberian tundra.
The 2013 expedition to Eastern Siberia has now ended. The expedition was a great success. For more information please have a look at our blog posts.
In occasion of the visit of Terry Chapin to the University of Zurich, the GCB PhDs and Postdocs held on September 19th a breakfast discussion about science, gender and career.
