A5068237621- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Seed Germination and Physiology
- Forest ecology and management
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Plant and soil sciences
- Forest Management and Policy
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Silkworms and Sericulture Research
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Bryophyte Studies and Records
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Energy, Environment, Agriculture Analysis
Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva
2021-2025
University of Bern
2015-2024
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2024
Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania
2024
University of Primorska
2024
Meise Botanic Garden
2017-2023
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research
2015-2017
University of Potsdam
2015
Philipps University of Marburg
2010
The factors determining gradients of biodiversity are a fundamental yet unresolved topic in ecology. While diversity have been analysed for numerous single taxa, progress towards general explanatory models has hampered by limitations the phylogenetic coverage past studies. By parallel sampling 25 major plant and animal taxa along 3.7 km elevational gradient on Mt. Kilimanjaro, we quantify cross-taxon consensus evaluate predictors from to multi-taxa community level. show complex distribution...
Significance Identifying and explaining regional differences in tropical forest dynamics, structure, diversity, composition are critical for anticipating region-specific responses to global environmental change. Floristic classifications of fundamental importance these efforts. Here we provide a classification that is explicitly based on community evolutionary similarity, resulting identification five major regions their relationships: ( i ) Indo-Pacific, ii Subtropical, iii African, iv...
The protection and sustainable management of forest carbon stocks, particularly in the tropics, is a key factor mitigation global change effects. However, our knowledge how land use elevation affect stocks tropical ecosystems very limited. We compared aboveground biomass trees, shrubs herbs for eleven natural human‐influenced habitat types occurring over wide gradient (866–4550 m) at world's highest solitary mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro. Thanks to enormous gradient, we covered important...
Abstract Aim Palms are an iconic, diverse and often abundant component of tropical ecosystems that provide many ecosystem services. Being monocots, tree palms evolutionarily, morphologically physiologically distinct from other trees, these differences have important consequences for services (e.g., carbon sequestration storage) in terms responses to climate change. We quantified global patterns palm relative abundance help improve understanding forests reduce uncertainty about under Location...
Abstract Rapid environmental changes across Europe include warmer and increasingly variable temperatures, in soil nutrient availability, pollinator decline. These abiotic biotic can affect natural plant populations force them to optimize resource use against competitors. To date, the evolution of competitive ability context availability remains understudied. In this study, we investigated whether common calcareous grassland herb Leontodon hispidus recently evolved its response availability....
Summary Considering the alarming prospect of at least two in five plant species facing extinction, it is urgent to identify unsecured phylogenetic branches within Tree Life and adopt appropriate conservation strategies. While conventional seed banking has potential safeguard a large part world's flora, scarcity phylogenetically informed ex situ programmes poses challenge effective conservation. Leveraging an extensive dataset collections across 109 European banks, our study reveals that...
In most habitats, vegetation provides the main structure of environment. This complexity can facilitate biodiversity and ecosystem services. Therefore, measures serve as indicators in management. However, many structural are laborious require expert knowledge. Here, we used consistent convenient to assess over an exceptionally broad elevation gradient 866–4550m above sea level at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Additionally, compared (human)-modified including maize fields, traditionally...
Ongoing global warming, coupled with increased drought frequencies, together other biotic drivers may have resulted in complex evolutionary adaptation. The resurrection approach, comparing ancestors raised from stored seeds their contemporary descendants under common conditions, is a powerful method to test for recent evolution plant populations. We used 21-26-yr-old of four European species - Matthiola tricuspidata, Plantago crassifolia, Clinopodium vulgare and Leontodon hispidus seed banks...
Ongoing global warming and increasing drought frequencies impact plant populations potentially drive rapid evolutionary adaptations. Historical comparisons, where plants grown from seeds collected in the past are compared to freshly of same sites, a powerful method investigate recent changes across many taxa. We used 21-38 years old 13 European species, stored seed banks originating Mediterranean temperate regions, together with recently sites for greenhouse experiment shifts flowering...
Abstract Many countries have legislation intended to limit or offset the impact of anthropogenic disturbance and development on threatened plants. Translocations are often integral those mitigation policies. When translocation is used exclusively mitigate impacts, it termed a ‘mitigation translocation.’ However, both terminology processes vary regarding interpretation application, resulting in inconsistent standards, leading poorly planned implemented projects. These projects rarely achieve...
Local abundance and regional distribution are two aspects of a species' rarity. They suggested to differentially alter genetic processes in plants: Locally rare species hypothesized suffer less from inbreeding outbreeding than locally common species, thanks purging through long histories weaker local adaptations, respectively. Regionally be more susceptible outbreeding, but inbreeding, compared regionally ones, due small declining range size. While this has major implications for plant...
We introduce the database of European vascular plant red lists, a compilation list categories designated to taxa during in-country conservation assessments. Version 1.0 is standalone static dataset with open access in an end-user friendly format. Its aim fulfil objectives Cooperation Science and Technology (COST) Action 18201, ConservePlants. The synthesizes data across 42 lists from 41 countries, participation 39 out total 44 countries two additional Mediterranean countries. contains 51,109...
Abstract Changes in life‐history traits such as seed dormancy during cultivation of wild plant species ex situ facilities could jeopardize conservation actions including revegetation and reintroductions, but the magnitude these risks their spread across different taxa is unknown. We explored whether plants cultivated Botanic Garden Meise differ germination characteristics from natural populations. Using a Bayesian approach phylogenetically informed generalized linear mixed model, we analysed...
Plant functional traits play an important role in shaping plant ecological responses to environmental conditions and influencing ecosystem functioning. However, how whole-plant strategies manifest at the community level influence aboveground belowground carbon storage across gradients remains poorly understood. We measured stocks variation (above- belowground) twelve types a broad savanna-forest-alpine elevational gradient of climate land use on Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Using Structural...
Summary A wealth of plant material and data is stored globally in conservation seed banks. This represents not only a repository genetic resources but also an asset for nature‐based solutions (NbS), such as ecological restoration reforestation, research science. Here, we explore the temporal spatial dimensions collections challenges limiting their use NbS research, while highlighting how they could be source adaptation evolution studies. However, existing lots originally collected purposes...
Tropical forests are carbon-dense and highly productive ecosystems. Consequently, they play an important role in the global carbon cycle. In present study we used individual-based forest model (FORMIND) to analyze balances of a tropical forest. The main processes this tree growth, mortality, regeneration, competition. Model parameters were calibrated using inventory data from at Mt. Kilimanjaro. simulation results showed that successfully reproduces characteristics (aboveground biomass, stem...
The discipline of horticulture, growing and propagating plants under artificial conditions, has a centuries-long tradition developed into vital industry breeding, trading ornamental wild around the globe. Botanic gardens have always been at centre horticultural training provided excellence advancements in field. In recent decades, botanic also become an active part ex situ conservation activities by storing seeds endangered plants, living collections for purposes, or direct reintroduction...