A5017585124- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Plant and animal studies
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Forest ecology and management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Climate variability and models
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Climate Change and Environmental Impact
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
2009-2020
University of Bern
1994-1995
Species distribution models (SDMs) constitute the most common class of across ecology, evolution and conservation. The advent ready‐to‐use software packages increasing availability digital geoinformation have considerably assisted application SDMs in past decade, greatly enabling their broader use for informing conservation management, quantifying impacts from global change. However, must be fit purpose, with all important aspects development applications properly considered. Despite...
Understanding niche evolution, dynamics, and the response of species to climate change requires knowledge determinants environmental range limits. Mean values climatic variables are often used in such analyses. In contrast, increasing frequency extremes suggests importance understanding their additional influence on Here, we assess how measures representing (i.e., interannual variability parameters) explain predict spatial patterns 11 tree Switzerland. We find clear, although comparably...
ABSTRACT Aim Species ranges have adapted during the Holocene to altering climate conditions, but it remains unclear if species will be able keep pace with recent and future change. The goal of our study is assess influence changing macroclimate, competition habitat connectivity on migration rates 14 tree species. We also compare projections range shifts from distribution models (SDMs) that incorporate realistic classical assume no or unlimited migration. Location Europe. Methods calibrated...
Predicting future climatic conditions at high spatial resolution is essential for many applications and impact studies in science. Here, we present monthly time series data on precipitation, minimum- maximum temperature four downscaled global circulation models. We used model output statistics combination with mechanistic downscaling (the CHELSa algorithm) to calculate mean minimum temperatures, as well precipitation 5 km globally the years 2006-2100. validated performance of algorithm by...
Briner, S., R. Huber, P. Bebi, C. Elkin, D. Schmatz, and A. Grêt-Regamey. 2013. Trade-offs between ecosystem services in a mountain region. Ecology Society 18(3): 35. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05576-180335
Coupling recent observed declines of terrestrial mid‐latitude near‐surface wind speed ( u ) with knowledge that high‐elevation sites rapidly experience climate change led to an assessment the regional elevation dependence Z at two mountainous regions (central China and Switzerland). The monthly were calculated from 1960–2006. In both higher in winter (∼2.25 m s −1 km compared summer (∼1.25 ). For first time trends calculated, results strongly seasonal, ranging ∼−0.025 a ∼−0.005 summer. trend...
Projections of landscape dynamics are uncertain, partly due to uncertainties in model formulations. However, quantitative comparative analyses forest models lacking. We conducted a systematic comparison all currently applied temperate European forests (LandClim, TreeMig, LANDIS-II, iLand). examined the uncertainty projections under several future climate, disturbance, and dispersal scenarios, quantified by variance partitioning. While past climate conditions were good agreement with...
Tree populations usually show adaptations to their local environments as a result of natural selection. As climates change, can become locally maladapted and decline in fitness. Evaluating the expected degree genetic maladaptation due climate change will allow forest managers assess vulnerability, develop strategies preserve health productivity. We studied potential future three major European tree species, Norway spruce (Picea abies), silver fir (Abies alba), beech (Fagus sylvatica). A...
Alpine and Arctic species are considered to be particularly vulnerable climate change, which is expected cause habitat loss, fragmentation and-ultimately-extinction of cold-adapted species. However, the impact change on glacial relict populations not well understood, specific recommendations for adaptive conservation management lacking. We focused mountain hare (Lepus timidus) as a model modelled distribution in combination with patch landscape-based connectivity metrics. They were derived...
Mountain forest areas are key for providing a wide range of ecosystem services and hot spots land use change processes, in particular, increase cover at the expense mountain pastures meadows. systems eastern western Europe have likely similar future socio-economic situations but significantly different history. Using scenario-based modelling approach (Dyna-CLUE framework) we model three scenarios (trend, liberalisation self-sufficiency) Polish Carpathians Swiss Alps, focussing on change. We...
The European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) is one of the most ecologically and economically important tree species in Europe. Nonetheless, post-fire ecological processes forests have only been marginally studied although they might become more for forest management light global climate change drought effects. Focusing on Southern Alps, where numerous fires affected stands, we assessed temporal trends detected factors that influence regeneration burnt between 1970 2012. Beech was found to occur...
Abstract. Studies of the impacts historical, current and future global change require very high-resolution climate data (≤ 1 km) as a basis for modelled responses, meaning that from digital models generally substantial rescaling. Another shortcoming available datasets on past is effects sea level rise fall are not considered. Without such information, study glacial refugia or early Holocene plant animal migration incomplete if impossible. Sea at last maximum (LGM) was approximately 125 m...
Gegitterte Klimadaten mit einer regelmässigen räumlichen Auflösung sind eine wichtige Grundlage für Umweltstudien. Sie werden mithilfe statistischer Methoden aus Punktdaten von Messstationen erzeugt und haben insbesondere in topografisch komplexen Gebirgsregionen wie den Schweizer Alpen limitierte Genauigkeit. Dieser Artikel vergleicht vier die Schweiz entwickelte gegitterte Datensätze unterschiedlicher Temperatur- Niederschlagsvariablen unabhängigen Messdaten 14 Dauerbeobachtungsflächen der...