Rodolphe Schlaepfer

Examples of international experience:

Research project in Indonesia (Impact of forest exploitation on the ecological quality of rivers)
Research project in Columbia (Impacts of petroleum exploitation on rivers and landscapes)
Teaching at the University of Antananarivo (Sustainable management of natiral resources)
Other countries: Canada, Sweden, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Switzerland, France, UK

Scientific education:

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (Forestry),
University Laval Quebec (Forest inventory and Statistics),
University of Edinburgh (Statistics, Biometry),
Oregon State University (Landscape ecology, Forest ecology).

Professional career:

Statstician at Ciba-Geigy Basel(1969-1975),
Professor for Statistics and Physics at the Swiss Engineering School for Agriculture Zollikofen (1975-1982),
Professor for Forest Management and Forest Biometry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (1982-1987),
Director general of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Birmensorf and Professor for Forest Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Zürich (1987-1996),
Professor for Ecosystem Management at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technolgy Lausanne (1997-2005)
From 2005: Honory Professsor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

About this result

This page is automatically generated and may contain information that is not correct, complete, up-to-date, or relevant to your search query. The same applies to every other page on this website. Please make sure to verify the information with EPFL's official sources.

Related units (3)

Related research domains (9)

Related publications (35)

Landscape

A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal. A landscape includes the physical elements of geophysically defined landforms such as (ice-capped) mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of land use, buildings, and structures, and transitory elements such as lighting and weather conditions.

Soil

Soil, also commonly referred to as earth, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life of plants and soil organisms. Some scientific definitions distinguish dirt from soil by restricting the former term specifically to displaced soil. Soil consists of a solid phase of minerals and organic matter (the soil matrix), as well as a porous phase that holds gases (the soil atmosphere) and water (the soil solution). Accordingly, soil is a three-state system of solids, liquids, and gases.

Ecosystem

An ecosystem (or ecological system) consists of all the organisms and the physical environment with which they interact. These biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. Energy enters the system through photosynthesis and is incorporated into plant tissue. By feeding on plants and on one another, animals play an important role in the movement of matter and energy through the system. They also influence the quantity of plant and microbial biomass present.

Composition and superposition of alluvial deposits drive macro-biological soil engineering and organic matter dynamics in floodplains

Pascal Turberg, Claire Guenat, Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Renée-Claire Le Bayon, Andreas Cedric Schomburg

Soil structure formation in alluvial soils is a fundamental process in near-natural floodplains. A stable soil structure is essential for many ecosystem services and helps to prevent river bank erosio

2019

Asymmetric effects of cooler and warmer winters on beech phenology last beyond spring

Alexandre Buttler, Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Constant Signarbieux, Yann Vitasse, María Paula Sanginés De Cárcer, Ester Toledano Díaz

In temperate trees, the timings of plant growth onset and cessation affect biogeochemical cycles, water, and energy balance. Currently, phenological studies largely focus on specific phenophases and o

Wiley2017

Earthworms as ecosystem engineers : a review

Pascal Turberg, Géraldine Michèle Bullinger, Claire Guenat, Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Renée-Claire Le Bayon, Andreas Cedric Schomburg

The concept of ecosystem engineering has emerged decades ago and highlights the direct or indirect modulation of available resources by organisms through their biological activities. Ecosystem enginee

Nova Science Publishers, Inc.2017