Uli Prechsl

Project

NCCR Climate (PLANT/SOIL)

Research Interests

I’m generally interested in different fields of agricultural sciences, including
the complex interactions between humans, animals, plants, soil and the abiotic environment.
Most of all, for me, plants have been always very fascinating.
Therefore, I focused my agricultural studies on plant production and plant sciences, from a global scale to a sub-cellular level.
For my Ph.D. thesis I contribute to a multi-year field experiment trying to understand:

• Drought response of temperate grasslands with special focus on shifts in the water sourcing and root distribution

• Stable isotopes (as methodological approach) in the hydrological cycle (Soil-plant-atmosphere continuum)

• Effects of soil physical properties on the isotope composition of soil water

CV

Publication

• Anderson R. Meda, Enrico B. Scheuermann, Ulrich E. Prechsl, Bülent Erenoglu,
  Gabriel Schaaf, Heiko Hayen, Günther Weber and Nicolaus von Wirén
  Iron Acquisition by Phytosiderophores Contributes to Cadmium Tolerance,
  2007, Plant Physiology, Vol. 143, pp. 1761 – 1773
• Robert Finger, Anna Katarina Gilgen, Ulrich E. Prechsl,Nina Buchmann
  An economic assessment of drought effects on three grassland systems in Switzerland,
  2012, Regional Environmental Change, online

Conference contribution

• Talk at BASIN conference: The Roles of Stable Isotopes in Water Cycle Research
  Keystone, Colorado, March 29-31, 2011
  about "Effects of soil physicochemical properties on the isotope composition of soil water"
• Talk at the Annual Meeting of the German Association for Stable Isotope Research 2011 (GASIR):
  "The influence of soil properties on the  isotope composition of soil water"
  Villigen-PSI, Switzerland 10th – 12th October, 2011
• Talk at the 97th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA):
  "The water sourcing strategy of drought affected temperate grasslands"
  Portland, Oregon, 5th - 10th August, 2012
• Talk at 10th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, 2012:
  "The water sourcing strategy of drought affected temperate grasslands"
  Friday 16th, 2012, University of Bern, Switzerland

Teaching

• Ecophysiology, contribution to the lecture and practical course (spring semester 2011+2012)
• Grasslandsystems, contribution to the lecture (spring semester 2012)
• Excursion: "Vom Gras zur Milch zum Käse", (spring semester 2012)

Reviewing

• Review activity for Oecologia

Poster

• GASIR Meeting, Köln, Germany, October 2010,
  "Comparing IRMS and Laser Spectroscopy Techniques – Measurement of Water Isotopes",
  RA Werner, U Prechsl, A Hammerle, M-A Allers