
The Physiological Plant Ecology Group
About Us
Plants are fundamental components of the earth system. Their ability to assimilate atmospheric carbon dioxide, to take up nitrogen and to transpire water shapes the way ecosystems function and controls the provision of ecosystem goods and services that we as people depend on. We investigate the ecophysiological processes in plants that determine the fluxes of water, nitrogen and carbon in natural and agricultural ecosystems. The goals of our research are to understand how plants function in the context of their environment, to reveal the responses of plants and ecosystems to global environmental change, and to establish the ecophysiological and biogeochemical basis for the sustainable use ecosystems.

Location:
online on Zoom
Organizer:
Botanik
Colloquium by Prof. Catherine Graham, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)
Location:
online on Zoom
Organizer:
Botanik
Colloquium by Dr. Simon Aeschbacher, University of Zurich
Location:
online on Zoom
Organizer:
Botanik
Colloquium by Prof. Joelle Sasse Schläpfer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
News

News article on Bidmer/Bel-Alp project
How does climate change affect alpine grasslands? Our project in the Swiss central Alps addresses this question and is now featured in the 'Sci Five' blog of the University. The ongoing work is led by Erika Hiltbrunner and started in 2016…
New paper on elevation-specific responses of phenology in evergreen oaks published in Alpine Botany
In this study, Song-Wei Wang, Christian Körner, and their co-authors investigated the shoot phenological development and dynamic growth of Quercus pannosa trees at their low drought limit at 2510 m, upper cold limit at 4270 m, and at an…