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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…
PPE Group Presents at GfÖ Annual Meeting
Many members of the PPE group attended the GfÖ Annual Meeting 2019, which was held from September 09 to 13, 2019 in Münster, Germany. In total the PPE group gave nine separate presentations. More details on the meeting can be found at the…
Eligio Amicabile passes his master's exam
Congratulations to Eligio for passing his master's exam in Plant Sciences on September 6!
Arthur Brêchet passes his master's exam
Congratulations to Arthur for passing his master's exam in Plant Sciences on September 5th!
Blogpost on the Herbaria Basel
Why do we keep 700’000 plants in the herbarium? Our curator and senior scientist Jurriaan de Vos published a blogpost on the history and relevance of herbaria, from a personal perspective. He explains how 400 years of plant collecting in…
2019 PPE Team Retreat - August 28-30
It has become a good tradition of our group to meet once a year for several days at the ALPFOR research station in the heart of the Swiss Alps. We used the 2019 retreat to look back at our achievements of the last year and outlined our…Article in "Le Temps" features PPE research on Swiss forest response to recent droughts
A recent article published in "Le Temps" features PPE research on the vulnerability of Swiss forests to drought events. The article highlights the important role for combinations of low rainfall and high temperature, as well as the impacts…