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Key factors determining the presence of Tree-related Microhabitats: A synthesis of potential factors at site, stand and tree scales, with perspectives for further research
Tree-related microhabitats (TreMs) have been identified as key features for forest-dwelling taxa and are often employed as measures for biodiversity conservation in integrative forest management. However, managing forests to ensure an uninterrupted resourc ...
2022Biogeoinformatics for the management of Farm Animal Genetic Resources (FAnGR)
In the context of both severe selection in farm animals and potential effects of climate change, it is crucial to implement a sustainable management of the breeding practice, supported by a judicious use of geographic information technologies. Based on thi ...
EPFL2020Marteloscopes as training tools for the retention and conservation of habitat trees in forests
Recently several initiatives on the political and practical level have aimed at promoting forest biodiversity and at halting the loss of species in forest ecosystems. Nevertheless numerous species are still threatened. The main reason for this phenomenon i ...
2019A case-study evaluating river rehabilitation alternatives and habitat heterogeneity using the hydromorphological index of diversity
Anton Schleiss, Walter Gostner
Concurrent rehabilitation alternatives were evaluated for a 1900 m reach of the River Etsch in northern Italy using a recently developed Hydro Morphological Index of Diversity (HMID) model. HMID is a new tool enabling quantitative assessments of river rest ...
2019Seeing is building better understanding - the Integrate+ Marteloscopes
Marteloscopes are multifunctional training tools that can create a better understanding of forest management and have been developed as didactic tools for virtual tree selections. With this paper the authors provide explanatory information on the more than ...
Integrate+ Technical Paper2018Ecological response of tree saplings to simulated climate change along an elevational gradient (CLIMARBRE)
María Paula Sanginés De Cárcer
Switzerland will face higher temperature increases than the global average, which will have strong impacts on the mountain ecosystems. How tree species will respond to future climate change scenarios, and what mechanisms will they adopt, remains as a gap o ...
EPFL2017Disturbance-grazer-vegetation interactions maintain habitat diversity in mountain pasture-woodlands
Alexandre Buttler, François Gillet, Alexander Ludwig Johannes Peringer
Low-intensity livestock grazing is a widespread management tool in order to maintain habitat diversity in mountain pasture-woodlands for nature conservation purposes. Historical photographs indicate that forest disturbance significantly contributed to fore ...
Elsevier Science Bv2017Suppressed convective rainfall by agricultural expansion in southeastern Burkina Faso
Marc Parlange, Gabriel George Katul, Natalie Claire Ceperley, Theophile Mande, Scott W. Tyler
With the green economy being promoted as a path to sustainable development and food security within the African continent, the influx of agricultural land is proliferating at a rapid pace often replacing natural savannah forests. Where agriculture is prima ...
American Geophysical Union2015Experimental evidence for strong stabilizing forces at high functional diversity of aquatic microbial communities
Andrea Rinaldo, Andrea Giometto, Francesco Carrara, Florian Altermatt
Unveiling the mechanisms that promote coexistence in biological communities is a fundamental problem in ecology. Stable coexistence of many species is commonly observed in natural communities. Most of these natural communities, however, are composed of spe ...
Ecological Soc Amer2015Microclimatological consequences for plant and microbial composition in Sphagnum-dominated peatlands
Luca Bragazza, Bjorn Jozef Maria Robroek
In three Scandinavian peatlands we studied to what extent plant and microbial community compositions are governed by local-scale microhabitat, with a special interest in the effect of aspect (i.e. exposition of slopes). Despite differences in solar irradia ...
Finnish Environment Inst2014