A5039224262- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Landslides and related hazards
- Plant and animal studies
- Fire dynamics and safety research
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Forest ecology and management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Forest Management and Policy
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Diverse academic and cultural studies
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
2014-2024
Vicinay Cadenas (Spain)
2024
The University of Melbourne
2020
Technical University of Munich
2020
Institute for Advanced Study
2020
Landscape Research Group
2009
Federal Criminal Court
2009
Abstract Background The global human footprint has fundamentally altered wildfire regimes, creating serious consequences for health, biodiversity, and climate. However, it remains difficult to project how long-term interactions among land use, management, climate change will affect fire behavior, representing a key knowledge gap sustainable management. We used expert assessment combine opinions about past future regimes from 99 researchers. asked quantitative qualitative assessments of the...
Abstract Questions Ecosystem functions and underlying services are strongly influenced by multitrophic relationships, with functional traits playing a central role in structuring them. Which metrics mediate the impact of different types land use on ecosystem function within across trophic levels? Methods We studied relationships between plants grasshoppers sub‐alpine grasslands under management regimes Central French Alps. applied theoretical response–effect framework described (Journal...
Summary It has long been recognized that leaf traits exert a crucial control on litter decomposition, key process for nutrient cycling, and invading species can greatly alter such soil processes via changes in mixed trait composition. Trait effects ecosystem are hypothesized to operate either dominant values the community (often calculated as community‐weighted mean values; CWM ) or functional diversity (dissimilarity between FD ). Few have studied of these components tandem due their...
Anthropogenic pollen indicators in records are an established tool for reconstructing the history of human impacts on vegetation and landscapes. They also used to disentangle influence activities climatic variability ecosystems. The comprehensive anthropogenic pollen-indicator approach developed by Behre (1981) has been widely used, including beyond its original geographical scope Central Western Europe. Uncritical adoption this other areas is risky because adventives (plants introduced with...
Abstract Surrogates, such as umbrella species, are commonly used to reduce the complexity of quantifying biodiversity for conservation purposes. The presence species is often indicative high taxonomic diversity; however, functional diversity now recognized an important metric and thus should be considered when choosing species. We identified associated with in urban areas Switzerland. analyzed 39,752 individuals 574 animal from 96 study plots 1397 presences 262 plant 58 plots. Thirty‐one...
Abstract. Holdover fires are usually associated with lightning-ignited wildfires (LIWs), which can experience a smoldering phase or go undetected for several hours, days even weeks before being reported. Since the existence and duration of combustion in LIWs is unknown, holdover time conventionally defined as between lightning event that ignited fire detected. Therefore, all have an time, may range from few minutes to days. However, we lack comprehensive understanding times. Here, introduce...
Abstract Questions Does the non‐native evergreen Chinese windmill palm ( Trachycarpus fortunei ) affect native plant community and forest regeneration in deciduous forests? Are effects modulated by soil moisture? What are implications for management nature conservation? Location Broadleaved low‐elevation forests on southern slope of Alps across Swiss–Italian border region. Methods We compared herbaceous woody composition, species richness, Shannon diversity abundance at ten sites two...
Both native and invasive plants can adjust photosynthesis respiration when exposed to warmer temperatures. However, it is uncertain if are more plastic exhibit higher acclimation rising temperatures than ones, a trait that could contribute their behavior in novel environments.We compared the capacity of highly palm central Europe (Trachycarpus fortunei) two co-occurring species (Ilex aquifolium Tilia cordata) acclimate air temperature changes using two-year-long transplant experiment across...
Lightning-induced ignitions play a major role shaping the frequency, patterns and characteristics of wildfires in several regions across globe, including extreme wildfire events (e.g., Góis 2017 Portugal) fire seasons, such as 2019-20 Australia, 2020 California, 2023 Canada. The attention to lightning-ignited has been growing recent years. Studies on LIWs frequently associate lightning data discern or approximate place moment ignition. This typically requires select strike...
Fire regimes are strongly related to weather conditions that directly and indirectly influence fire ignition propagation. Identifying the most important meteorological drivers is thus fundamental for daily risk forecasting. In this context, several indices have been developed focussing mainly on fire-related local fuel characteristics. The specificity of which danger makes its direct transfer applicability problematic in different areas or with other types. paper we used low-to-intermediate...
RECENT INVESTIGATIONS HAVE SHOWN THAT TWO COMPONENTS OF COMMUNITY TRAIT COMPOSITION ARE IMPORTANT FOR KEY ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES: (i) the community-weighted mean trait value (CWM), related to mass ratio hypothesis and dominant values in community, (ii) functional diversity (FD), complementarity divergence of values. However, no experiments controlling for inherent dependence between CWM FD have been conducted so far. We used a novel experimental framework disentangle unique shared effects leaf...
Abstract. Historic records of α-dicarbonyls (glyoxal, methylglyoxal), carboxylic acids (C6–C12 dicarboxylic acids, pinic acid, p-hydroxybenzoic phthalic 4-methylphthalic acid), and ions (oxalate, formate, calcium) were determined with annual resolution in an ice core from Grenzgletscher the southern Swiss Alps, covering time period 1942 to 1993. Chemical analysis organic compounds was conducted using ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) coupled electrospray ionization...