Conservation Biology seminar 2016

Spring

24.02.2016 Roel van Klink
How large herbivores shape arthropod communities

02.03.2016 Urs Kormann
Habitat modification and biotic communities - beyond simple species richness

09.03.2016 Yasemin Kurtogullari and Nora Rieder
Conservation and restoration of nardion grasslands (MSc proposal)

16.03.2016 Lauriane Dani
Effects of agricultural intensification on land snail communities in alpine meadows (MSc proposal)

23.03.2016 Damaris Siegenthaler and Livio Ruzzante
Vineyard biodiversity: from management practice to wine quality (MSc proposal)

30.03.2016
No seminar due to Easter break

06.04.2016 Future BSc students
(BSc proposals)   CANCELLED!

13.04.2016 Chantal Herzog
Belowground community responses to management intensification in mountain meadows (MSc final results)

20.04.2016 Stefanie Roder
Spatial relationships between wolves and their ungulate prey (MSc proposal)

27.04.2016 Roman Bühler
Sex specific habitat selection of hoopoes Upupa epops in intensively managed fruit cultures (MSc final results)

18.05.2016 Sarah Ettlin, Elisabeth Klaus, Corina Maurer
SPECIAL SEMINAR with BSc proposals

Autumn

21.09.2016 Darija Josic, University of Zagreb
Foraging and roosting patterns of a bat community in northern Bavaria and NIP and LOKNA bat projects

28.09.2016 Christine Avena, University of Colorado, Boulder
Exploring the microbiome of North American bats: influences of the host, environment, and disease

05.10.2016 Dr. Jens C. Koblitz, BioAcoustics Network
Applied bioacoustics for the conservation of bats and dolphins

12.10.2016 Nathan Horrenberger
Snowfinch foraging site selection: the importance of Macrofaune

19.10.2016 Darina Koubínová;, University of Lausanne
Population genomics of lycaenid butterflies (and new research proposal)

26.10.2016 Lauriane Dani
Effects of agricultural intensification on land snail communities in alpine meadows

02.11.2016 Sarah Schmid, University of Lausanne
Spatial and temporal genetic dynamics of the endangered grasshopper Oedaleus decorus revealed by museum genomics

09.11.2016 Stefanie Roder and Elisabeth Klaus
Spatial relationships between an expanding population of wolves and their ungulate prey - First results

16.11.2016 Corina Maurer and Sarah Ettlin
BSc results (woodlark project and ring ouzel project)

23.11.2016 SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER: Prof. em. Heinz Richner
Aspects of biodiversity in the song of birds: the case of the great tit.

30.11.2016 Yasemin Kurtogullari and Nora Rieder
Conservation and restoration of nardion grasslands

07.12.2016 Jasmin Knutti
Restoring biodiversity on alluvial plains: The 3rd Rhône correction concept

14.12.2016 Sandro Wanner
Flight behaviour of birds around a solitary wind turbine in a Swiss alpine valley

21.12.2016 Roel van Klink
Using life-history traits to predict plant and arthropod responses to grassland biodiversity management