A5031751458- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Seed and Plant Biochemistry
- Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
- Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Toxin Mechanisms and Immunotoxins
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Nuts composition and effects
- Plant Pathogens and Resistance
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
- Earthquake Detection and Analysis
University of Bern
2021-2025
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research
2021-2025
Agroscope
2021-2024
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
2023
Agricultural food production is both affected by and contributing to climate change. At the global scale, agri-food systems are responsible for one-third of total greenhouse gas emissions. With progressing change, risks crop failure increase. Thus, an urgent need reduce emissions from while increasing their resilience Enormous untapped potentials achieve these dual goals lie in transforming towards more diverse, plant-based, regional systems. In this paper, we present innovative approach...
Emerging diseases caused by both native and exotic pathogens represent a main threat to forest ecosystems worldwide. The two invasive soilborne Phytophthora cinnamomi × cambivora are the causal agents of ink disease, which has been threatening Castanea sativa in Europe for several centuries seems be re-emerging recent years. Here, we investigated distribution, agents, infection dynamics disease southern Switzerland. A total 25 outbreaks were identified, 19 with only P. cinnamomi, 5...
Due to the increasing duration and magnitude of both agricultural hydrological droughts, farmers face problem declining yields reduced irrigation possibilities. In our recent study (Heinz et al. 2025, under review), we found that soil organic carbon (SOC) could increase water retention thus mitigate yield losses during a drought year. However, it is unclear how accumulation SOC in soils affect processes on catchment scale.Local- regional-scale changes land use, such as afforestation, or...
Abstract. With climate change, the increasingly limited availability of irrigation water resources poses a major threat to agricultural production systems worldwide. This study explores adaptation options in soil and crop management reduce yield losses due scarcity restrictions during 2022 summer drought. The focus is on potato Broye catchment Switzerland, which representative many mid-sized lowland catchments central Europe facing reduced availability. We employed field-scale...
In Central Europe, increasing temperatures and declining summer precipitation intensify the water heat stress on crops reduce availability for irrigation from rivers groundwater. Thus, approaches that need are required. this study, we quantify potential of soil crop management adaptations to deficits a mid-sized rainfed catchment in Switzerland. The Broye catchment, comprising 68 % agricultural land with notable portion dedicated irrigated agriculture, faces frequent bans. We employ...
Abstract. With climate change, the increasingly limited availability of irrigation water resources poses a major threat to agricultural production systems world-wide. This study explores adaptation options in soil and crop management reduce yield losses due scarcity restrictions during 2022 summer drought. The focus is on potato Broye catchment Switzerland, which representative many mid-sized lowland catchments Central Europe facing reduced availability. We employed field-scale...
European Agriculture is experiencing the consequences of summer droughts and heatwaves in form quality quantity losses for numerous crops feed production. Water availability irrigation vital fall months decreasing therefore, will most likely not be able to sufficiently mitigate effects heat future. Thus, approaches that reduce need are required. We investigate potential water-use reduction strategies based on a modelling framework applied selected case study Western Switzerland, Broye...
CONTEXT: Agricultural food production is affected by and contributing to climate change. At the global scale, agri-food systems are responsible for one third of total greenhouse gas emissions. With progressing change, risks crop failure increase. There thus an urgent need reduce emissions from systems, while increasing their resilience Large untapped potentials achieve these dual goals lie in transformation towards more diverse, plant-based regional consumption behavior. OBJECTIVE: In this...
<p>Rising temperatures, shifts in precipitation patterns and longer dry periods provoke a need for better adapted crops Switzerland to maintain agricultural productivity the long term. The aim of this work was identify plants with high climatic suitability future. A simple mechanistic model (ecocrop) applied determine different time under RCP scenarios 4.5 8.5. considers temperature ranges. From pool 600 edible plants, 21 were identified that would benefit from progressing...