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News & Events
News
We are looking for a PhD candidate in the area of plant ecology/biodiversity. If you are interested, please follow the link in the add or click here.
We are proposing B.Sc and M.Sc. projects. If you are interested, please contact the relevant project leader (find his/her email address here) or propose your own topic.
May 2013
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Nina Buchmann, Marco Lehmann and Roland Werner attended the COST SIBAE 2013 Meeting - Challenges in the applications of stable isotopes across disciplines and scales at Wroclaw, Poland (14th-17th of May). See Marco's poster here >>. |
Congratulations (Dr.) Dennis Imer, (Dr.) Susanne Burri and (Dr.) Uli Prechsl to the successful defence of your thesis during the last days.
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New publication by Jin Cui et al. on Phenology and gross primary production of two dominant savanna woodland ecosystems in Southern Africa with contributions from Lutz Merbold is now available in the current issue of Remote Sensing of Environment. |
April 2013
Newest findings of currently ongoing research in the grassland sciences group were presented during the open science conference on "Climate Extremes and Biogeochemical Cycles", the "EGU General Assembly" and the "Swiss Global Change Day".
click on the thumbnails below for larger versions of the posters.
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A recent article on the citizen-science project "Phaenonet", including comments from Werner Eugster has been published in ETH Life. |
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New paper on A functional trait-based approach to understand community assembly and diversity–productivity relationships over 7 years in experimental grasslands by Christiane Roscher et al. with contributions from Nina Buchmann was accepted in Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. |
March 2013
We wish all our colleagues and friends a happy easter weekend.
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Matthias Haeni attended the World Forests Summit, 5th-6th March at Stockholm. |
February 2013
Sebastian Zielis became treasurer of the VM-USYS and also the representative of the VM-USYS within the departmental conference. Matthias Haeni became a member of the Teaching Commission.
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New papers in Biogeosciences Discussions: "Temporal and spatial variations of CO2, CH4 and N2O fluxes at three differently managed grasslands" by Dennis Imer et al. and "Winter greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4 and N2O) from a sub-alpine grassland" by Lutz Merbold et al. |
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Nuria Altimir currently a Marie Curie Fellow at Laboratory of Functional Ecology and Global Change, Forestry Technological Centre of Catalonia, Solsona, Spain is visiting our group from February 4th until February 8th. |
The final conference of SIBAE is taking place in Wroclaw, Poland, during 14-19 May, 2013. Please register: here
January 2013
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Dr. Janos Balogh, research associate at the Institute of Botany and Ecophysiology, Szent István University Gödöllő, Hungary joined our group as a guest scientist in November 2012 until June 2013. |
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Our most recent publication was accepted in Remote Sensing of Environment entitled "Evaluation of MODIS gross primary production for Africa using eddy covariance data" by Martin Sjöström et al. with contributions from Lutz Merbold. |
We wish all our colleagues and friends a happy new year!
Events
Seminar: Current Topics in Grassland Sciences
Spring semester: Mondays 15:15-17:00 in LFW C5. Talks are in English, 30 min plus discussion. If two presentations: 20 min plus 10 min each.
For further information contact: doerte.bachmann@usys.ethz.ch
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18.02.13 |
Nina Buchmann | Logistics |
| 25.02.13 | no talk | |
| 04.03.13 | ||
| Daniela Marshall | Interacting effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on plant species diversity of 1500 grasslands in Germany differ between regions (Socher et al. 2013) | |
| 11.03.13 | Michael Mannale | Root plasticity maintains growth of temperate grassland species under pulsed water supply (Padilla et al. 2013) |
| Carola Blessing | The effect of drought and increased temperature on carbon allocation of young beech saplings | |
| 18.03.13 | Matthias Sieber |
Life-history constraints in grassland plant species: a growth-defence trade-off is the norm (Lind et al. 2013) |
| Fiona Cimei | Response of nitrogen oxide emissions to grazer species and plant species composition in temperate agricultural grassland (Hoeft et al. 2012) | |
| 25.03.13 | Gabriela Küng | Carbon dioxide efflux from long-term grazing management systems in a semiarid region (Liebig et al. 2013) |
| Bruno Gamarra | Leaf physiological processes strongly affect δ2H values of leaf wax n-alkanes in C3 and C4 grasses | |
| 08.04.13 | Nadine Brinkmann | Ecophysiological responses of four common Swiss tree species to global environmental change over the past 150 years - first results of a δ18O approach |
| Gregory Tomlinson | The mobility of nitrogen between tree rings of Norway spruce (Picea abies L.) and the isotopic effect of its extraction | |
| 22.04.13 | Helena Rupp | An assessment of N-cycling and sources of N2O during a simulated rain event using natural abundance 15N (Decock&Six 2013) |
| Dennis Imer | Greenhouse gas fluxes and budgets at a Swiss three-stage farming system: Impacts of climate and management | |
| 29.04.13 | Patrizia Schwegler | Sensitivity of soil organic carbon stocks and fractions to different land-use changes across Europe |
| Susanne Burri | From photosynthesis to soil CO2 efflux – the impact of summer drought on grassland carbon allocation | |
| 06.05.13 | Linda Feichtinger |
Tree species’ response to drought - A century-long irrigation experiment using historical water channels |
| Ellen Schuch | Effects of drought and warming on oak – A case study with different oak species and provenances using stable carbon and oxygen isotopes | |
| 13.05.13 | Carmen Emmel |
Energy balance and CO2 source/sink distribution within an insect-attacked pine stand |
| 27.05.13 | Jacqueline Stieger | Methane emissions in Switzerland: from small-scale measurements to a national inventory estimate |
| John Roden | The enigma of effective pathlength for 18O enrichment of leaf water in conifers. | |
Other events
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