A visual digest of the @SwissForestLab Summer School on #Forests and #Extremes co-organized with the @WSL_research program Extremes and Nancy-Freiburg-Zürich forest research network . It was a great inspiration and learning exercise! Annie Chang Daniela Domeisen @Hydrology_WSL 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 @wslresearch.bsky.social 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_research– 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 @EstherWidmann (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_research.🌳🚀🤓

Just in time for the peak of this year's #mushroom season, we tested the prototype of our new mushroom identification tool in the field! 🍄We're thrilled with the accuracy—it can distinguish over 1,000 #species and has provided many good results.🎉 shorturl.at/jY4Xr

🌏 Honored to participate in the DMZ Open ECOPEACE FORUM in Goyang, South Korea , where we explored how ecology can play a vital role in fostering peace on the Korean Peninsula. #EcoPeace #DMZ #ClimateResilience #Biodiversity #KoreanPeninsula WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social WSL Dynamic Macroecology

Had an excellent exchange with the National Assembly Futures Institute (NAFI), the think tank of South Korea’s National Assembly. Together, we aim to build resilient, sustainable future scenarios for Korea. #NAFI #FutureofKorea #NationalAssembly WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social WSL Dynamic Macroecology

W. Jetz & Dr. Dirk Karger presented their work on “Mountain Thermal Belts in a Changing #Climate.” Using #CHELSA climate data on structuring the elevation belts of global mountains by thermal belts anchored to the #alpine tree line has led to a new high-resolution (90m) dataset.⛰️🛰️