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Serafin Streiff wins Swiss Systematics Society best Master's thesis award!
The Swiss Systematics Society grants an annual award to the best Swiss Master's thesis in systematics (across all organismal disciplines). Serafin Streiff has won this prestigious award for his work entitled “Herbarium phylogenomics,…
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Graduation day at the PPE group!
Today we can celebrate three alumni from our group: Lia Zehnder and Anina Wacker successfully passed their master exam. Jochem Baan defended his PhD thesis and was awarded a “summa cm laude”. Congratulations to all three new PPE alumn!
Congratulations to Karin Odermatt for successfully defending her master’s thesis!
In her master’s project, Karin investigated recovery mechanisms of extensively managed forage grasslands after summer drought. Her findings provide essential context on the importance of soil nutrient dynamics in grassland resilience to…
Article about Caspar Bauhin and his passion for Botany
In the context of the Bauhin22 conference which took place from 15-16 September 2022 at the University of Basel the regional newspaper Basler Zeitung has published an interesting article about the life and work of the botanist and anatomist…
PPE Retreat 2022
On September 5 & 6 the PPE group went on a group retreat to the Naturpark Thal in canton Solothurn.
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The SRF Tagesschau featured the Swiss Canopy Crane II research site on August 29th.
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First ISJRP project meeting held at Pondicherry University, India
With some delay due to the pandemic we were now able to hold the first physical meeting of the SNF (Switzerland) and DBT (India) jointly funded ISJRP project "Using millet-legume model intercropping systems to establish…
A new paper on the cold range limits of the most widespread alpine graminoids on acidic soils: Carex curvula and Nardus stricta
Raphael S. von Büren and Erika Hiltbrunner published a new paper in Journal of Biogeography. The paper represents a condensed piece of Raphi’s Master's thesis (defended 2021). The cold range limits of the widespread alpine graminoids Carex…
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TreeNet 10-year anniversary conference
On June 27/28, 2022, the TreeNet 10-year anniversary conference was taking place in the Basel region in Switzerland. The conference focused on the assessment of tree growth with different experimental methods and networks.
Serafin Streiff successfully defended his MSc!
In his work “Herbarium phylogenomics, taxonomy, and floral evolution in Connaraceae”, he tackled a difficult taxonomic problem, the delimitation of Rourea and related genera in the pantropical Connaraceae family. To this end, he inferred a…
Maya Bosshard successfully defended her MSc!
In her work “Comparing historic and contemporary flowering phenology of plants in northwest Switzerland in the light of climate change from 1860 to today”, she compiled historic phenological data from a very detailed manuscript of Franz…
Seven years of snow manipulation at Furka Pass
This year, we performed the snow manipulations at our alpine research site for the 7th time. In this long-term experiment close to the Furka Pass, we investigate how alpine grassland is affected by climate change. Warmer spring temperatures…
New SNF project funded
The Swiss National Science Foundation funded one of our recent grant applications which will bring two new PhD students to the group. The funded project will focus on the acclimation potential of temperate European tree species to…
2022 botany field trip to La Palma
After a two year covid break we are finally able to take our students abroad again to study the spectacular flora of the Canary Islands. This year’s trip with 18 students took us to the island of La Palma. The diversity of plant life that…