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Publications associées (8)
Water vapor transport in snowpacks
This thesis is an in-depth treatment of water vapor transport in snowpacks and its impacts on snow structure. The aim is to better understand this transport process and to lay the basis for a model representation in physics-based multi-layer snow models. O ...
EPFL2022Ecological 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 ...
EPFL2017Responses of antinomic foliar traits to experimental climate forcing in beech and spruce saplings
Alexandre Buttler, Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Constant Signarbieux
Global warming is predicted to have a strong impact on mountain ecosystems. Subalpine sylvopastoral systems are very sensitive to climate change, which puts their future sustainability at stake. These ecosystems are mostly dominated by spruce and beech, an ...
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017Quantification of spatial variability for transverse elastic modulus of spruce wood
Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Alireza Farajzadeh Moshtaghin, Steffen Franke
Different factors such as age, location of timber within the tree, structural imperfections, load history such as wind and snow etc. can affect the material properties of timber. Consequently, there is a high variability in the mechanical properties which ...
2016Modern pollen rain and fungal spore assemblages from pasture woodlands around Lake Saint-Point (France)
Modern analogs are commonly used to investigate the relationships between modern pollen rain and the surrounding present vegetation and to improve our interpretation of fossil data. We collected modern pollen and spore rain in 18 more or less grazed and/or ...
Elsevier2012Are there "dragon-kings" events (i.e. genuine outliers) among extreme avalanches?
Predicting the occurrence and spatial extent of extreme avalanches is a longstanding issue. Using field data pooled from various sites within the same mountain range, authors showed that the avalanche size distribution can be described using either an extr ...
Springer-Verlag2012The influence of cattle activity on tree regeneration in wood-pastures
Wood-pastures are semi-natural, highly biodiverse systems maintained by traditional extensive agriculture. They are used for grazing and timber. The shifting mosaics of grassland, shrub thickets and woodland patches in these systems are driven by large her ...
EPFL2006Safe sites for tree regeneration in wooded pastures: A case of associational resistance?
Question: Are tree saplings in wooded pastures spatially associated with specific nurse structures or plants that facilitate tree sapling survival? Location: Wooded pastures in the Jura Mountains, Switzerland. Methods: In two sites, 73 kin apart, we sample ...
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