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First impact assessment of the 2018 drought on European forests now published in Basic and Applied Ecology
In June 2018 researchers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland gathered in Basel to assemble a first overview on the impact of the 2018 drought on European forests. The results of this workshop have now been published in an opinion paper in…PPE Group Featured in Neue Zürcher Zeitung
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung recently published a story on the increasing impact that the combination of high temperature and drought are having on our regions forests. Work by the PPE Group at Hoelstein was discussed in the article, with…New paper in New Phytologist on tree recovery from drought
Matthias Arend and colleagues from Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU published a letter in New Phytologist that sheds new light on the recovery of trees from drought. They summarize in…
Rachel Patthey passes her master's exam
Congratulations to Rachel for passing her master's exam in Plant Sciences on May 15! Good luck, we all hope you enjoyed your social distance celebration, and wish that we could have joined you!
Patrícia dos Santos and Jurriaan de Vos receive new funding for fieldwork in the Canary Islands
Funding comes from the Stiftung zur Förderung der Pflanzenkenntnis, and will support fieldwork on the islands of El Hierro and Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. The project "The eco-morphological diversification of the genus Aeonium…
Botany Snow Day 2020
The annual Basel Botany snow day took place on Friday, February 21st at Engelberg. We had nice conditions and great views! There was some skiing, ski instruction, some sledding, some food, and lots of fun!
Song-Wei Wang joins the PPE group as a new PhD student
We are pleased to welcome Song-Wei Wang to the PPE group. Song-Wei comes to our group after obtaining his MSc degree from the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he worked on phenology and leaf maturation in…
New paper in Global Change Biology suggests no carbon limitation of aboveground growth in alpine plants
Patrick Möhl, Erika Hiltbrunner, and Christian Körner addressed the question whether biomass production in the most common type of alpine grassland in the Alps is carbon limited. Instead of varying the CO2 supply, they adopted another…
PPE PhD students win awards at the Plant Science Center Symposium
Congratulations to Patrick Möhl and Florian Cueni for their awards at the Plant Science Center Symposium! Patrick and Florian both won awards for their posters on their respective PhD research topics. Patrick was awarded the first place…Open PhD Position in Agroecology and Plant-Microbe Interactions
The Physiological Plant Ecology group (Prof. Dr. Ansgar Kahmen) of the Department of Environmental Sciences has an open position within a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). We seek to establish “bioirrigation” in…
New paper on stomatal regulation of intercellular CO2 and H2O concentrations published in Plant Physiology
Matthias Arend co-authored a new paper published by Cernusak et al. in Plant Physiology that explores the function of stomata in controlling intercellular H2O and CO2 concentrations during leaf gas exchange. Taking advantage of genetically…
Yating Li joins the PPE group as a new PhD student
We are pleased to welcome Yating Li to the PPE group. Yating comes to our group on a Chinese fund (Chinese Scholarship Council, CSC), and will work with PD Dr. Günter Hoch on cold temperature effects on water uptake in temperate tree…
News article in the Volksstimme: Forests will change because of drought
Last week a local primary school class visited the SCCII research site to learn more about the forest and its ecosystem. A journalist from Baselbiet accompanied the group to report on the experience. As the article in the link explains, the…
PPE Block Course Underway
The annual PPE Block Course in Plant Biology began last week. We welcome this year's class and are excited for the many opportunities for learning about stable isotope ecology and plant physiological ecology from both a theoretical and…