🌿#Cloud_forests🌱, nestled in the #mountains "Goldilocks zone" with constant water supply and moderate temperatures, are some of the most #biodiversity rich ecosystems on Earth. WSL Dynamic Macroecology WSL Dynamic Macroecology Dive into the full story in the Times of India: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cloud-forests-…

Higher resolution #climate data boosts 🌨️#snow cover❄️accuracy in models by up to 52%! This shows the importance of fine-scale climate in #climatechange impact studies, especially in 🏔️mountainous regions like Switzerland. WSL Dynamic Macroecology WSL Umweltforschung WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF doi.org/10.5194/esd-15…

Our new staff scientist Bert Wuyts Bert Wuyts gave an impressive presentation during the group #science meeting about his previous work on #forest #tippingpoints and his current work on #extinction thresholds in #mountain #ecosystems. WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social

A visual digest of the SwissForestLab Summer School on #Forests and #Extremes co-organized with the WSL Umweltforschung program Extremes and Nancy-Freiburg-Zürich forest research network . It was a great inspiration and learning exercise! Annie Chang Daniela Domeisen Massimiliano Zappa (II don’t post, I tweet) BAFU - OFEV - UFAM - FOEN Niklaus E Zimmermann SwissForestLab

Happy to share my impressions from this year’s summer school of the Extremes_WSL program and SwissForestLab on «Forests & Extremes – crisis or transition?» in Davos. I was teaching how difficult it is to forecast the impact of #ClimateChangerelated extremes on #biodiversity.

Using #CHELSA-TraCE21k #paleoclimate data to analyze pollen records from Slovenia and Croatia we show how #climate shifts and human activity shaped the vegetation of the Northern Dinaric Karst over the last 10,000 years. WSL Dynamic Macroecology WSL Umweltforschung link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Exzellent recherchiert und geschrieben: Fakten werden verdreht, relativiert, die Folgen geleugnet. Dabei ist der schlechte Zustand der Biodiversität wissenschaftlich breit belegt und notwendige Massnahmen zur Verbesserung sind klar! republik.ch/2024/09/05/akt…

Neues Faktenblatt: was ist die Biodiversität und warum ist sie für uns Menschen so wichtig?🧬🐐🌳Welche Wechselwirkung gibt es zwischen dem Klimawandel und der Biodiversität?🌍 Diese und mehr Fragen behandeln wir hier: speed2zero.ethz.ch/de/news-events…🔬🧐- viel Spass beim Lesen! WSL Dynamic Macroecology

New factsheet: what exactly is biodiversity and why is it so important for us humans? 🧬🐐🌳 What is the interaction between climate change and biodiversity? 🌍 We address these and more questions here: speed2zero.ethz.ch/en/news-events/ 🔬🧐 Have a good read! WSL Dynamic Macroecology

Samuel Schlaefli vom Treibhauspodcast.ch hat mich zum Thema #Biodiversitätsinitiative in der Schweiz und zu den aktuellen Diskussionen dazu interviewt🌳. Dabei haben wir auch die vielen Parallelen zur langjährigen Klimadebatte besprochen. shorturl.at/BLxMD

At the final conference of the WSL Umweltforschung– Eawag Blue-Green Biodiversity initiative (shorturl.at/NHnxS), Philipp Brun gave a thrilling talk about "Baseline analyses for planning an ecological infrastructure”🌳. #wsl #biodiversity #ecology

The DME group went on one of the most beautiful panoramic hikes in Switzerland from Melchsee-Frutt to Trübsee with fantastic views of the Alps, floral highlights and passing four mesmerizing mountain lakes.🏔☀ A memorable day filled with fun, laughter and team spirit.❤️

Morgen (mittags, abends) gebe ich auf SRF Auskunft über Zustand und Lösungen der Biodiversitätskrise im Rahmen der Biodiversitäts-Abstimmung. Warum Arten aussterben haben @FlorianAltermann und ich in diesem informativen Artikel von Esther Widmann (unten, Paywall) erläutert.

We are very happy & proud to announce that our lab member Yi Liu Yi Liu has successfully defended his dissertation on "Global drivers of mountain plant biodiversity". 🏔️🥳🎓 We wish him all the best for his next chapter in life & are excited to see more of his future work.🚀

This year's social-science day of the WSL research unit “Land Change Science” with hiking, guided forest tour near #Basel, poster presentations, dinner & lots of rain.☔️The forester showed that #beech has been dying back massively due to increased frequency & severity of drought.

Congratulations Dr. Yaquan Chang｜常雅荃!🎓 She has successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Geologic controls on plant biodiversity of Hengduan Mountains".🌱🏔️ We wish her all the best for her personal and professional future.🚀❤️

DME researchers Elena Plekhanova Elena Plekhanova, Wenna Ding Wenna Ding and Victor Boussange Victor Boussange rocked the Biodiversity Research Day 2024 at WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social.🌳🚀🤓

From individual animal migrations to large-scale biomass flows: Inaugural lecture by WSL researcher Silke Bauer of the Dynamic Macroecology group. On Tuesday, Oct. 22th, at 6.15pm at ETH Zürich: wsl.ch/de/veranstaltu… WSL Dynamic Macroecology #animalmigrations