Recherche
Projets de recherche
Projets en cours
2019-2023. The Black Rhino Conservation Ecology Project. blackrhinoconservation.com
2018-2022. PhytoChemAlp: Assessing the causes and consequences of phytochemical diversity.
2023-2027. UrbaSoil: Urban soils and ecosystem services in cities: assessing the potential for water and heat regulation.
2019-2026. Terres Vivantes - Projet d’Utilisation Durable des Ressources Naturelles. Terres Vivantes
Projets précédents
2018-2022. From fundamental questions to practical conservation actions: a study of the pollination system, population genetics and mycorrhizal associations in Cypripedium calceolus (Orchidaceae).
2019-2022. Microbe-induced Resistance to Agricultural Pests (MIRA project)
2017-2020. Ecology and evolution of olfactory signalling in the deceptive pollination of Arum maculatum: mimicry and local adaptation.
2015-2019. Plant-microbe-insect interactions along elevation gradients.
2015-2019. Impacts of management strategies on soil quality indicators and below ground diversity in urban gardens of Zurich. SINERGIA project.
2015-2018. Attracting bodyguards: testing macro-evolutionary trends of belowground plant indirect defenses and effects on plant fitness. FNS funding.
2014-2018. Ecosystem engineers' contribution to soil structure formation in floodplains - FloodSTRESS. FNS funding.
2012-2015. Effect of climate on coarse woody debris decay dynamics and incorporation into the soils of forested Alpine areas -DecAlp. FNS-DACH international project (Germany, Autria, Italy and Switzerland).
2013-2014. Earthworm diversity in Switzerland. SwissBOL CSCF.
2012. La Combe Girard : fertilité des jardins ouvriers (Le Locle). Mandat.
2011-2014. Bioindication in Urban Soils. OFEV/FOEN.
2011-2013. A phylogenetic study on altitudinal gradients of plant defenses against herbivores: testing classic hypotheses with contemporary methods. FNS funding.
2011. Biodiversity and functionality of soil biota in a subalpine floodplain. SNF overheads.
2010-2011. Collembola as bioindicators in floodplains. ACR OFEV/FOEN.
2010-2011. Bioindication in urban soils: a preliminary study. ACR OFEV/FOEN.
2008-2011. Manipulation of plant defenses by belowground herbivory. FNS funding.
2007- 2011. Role of organic matter and soil biota on first steps of soil structuring. The case of alluvial soils from alpine to plain level. Flood STRUBIO. FNS funding.
2007-2008. Direct and indirect, above- and belowground defenses on common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca). FNS funding.
2004-2007. Campus virtuel Do It Your Soil.
2004-2007. Mycorrhiza development and functioning, and its effect on soil structure. TG7 Plant Survival.
2001-2004. Plant nutrition under stress conditions. NCCR Plant Survival.