Conservation Biology seminar 2020

Spring

19.02.2020 No seminar, but CB meeting for current and future CB members

26.02.2020 Carole Niffenegger (MSc proposal)
Nest site selection of the White-winged Snowfinch (Montifringilla nivalis)

04.03.2020 Ivan Candolfi (MSc final results)
The seasonal pattern of prey availability and its effects on the foraging habitat selection and breeding phenology of Alpine Ring Ouzels

11.03.2020 Noémie Pichon University of Bern (IPS)
Multiple global changes affect grassland ecosystem functioning: response and effect of intrasepcific variation

18.03.2020

25.03.2020 Elisenda Peris (MSc final results)
Habitat selecion of the Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) and the Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius) in the Rhone river in Valais

01.04.20120 Franziska Arnold (MSc final results)
Tracking five neonicotinoids and chlorpyrifos in European Hoopoe feathers from 2001 to 2012 & in 2019 and in their prey the Mole Cricket

08.04.2020 Ariane Stöckli (MSc proposal)
Nesting incidence of ground-nesting bees in Swiss lowland farmland

15.04.2020 Eastern break

22.04.2020 (1) Guillaume Audo, MSc project, and (2) Rachel Arnaud, MSc project
(1) Ecological resilience of Auchenorrhyncha communities following relaxation of intensification in mountain grasslands
(2) Influence of trophy hunt on population dynamic of Ibex (Capra ibex ibex) in Switzerland

29.04.2020 Lucas Rossier (MSc final results)
Effects of permanent and rotational uncut grass refuges on plant species richness and plant community composition

06.05.2020 Gerard Martinez De Leon (MSc final results)
Environmental factors shape land snail communities in montane and subalpine intensively managed meadows

Fall

16.09.2020 No seminar, but CB meeting for current and future CB members

23.09.2020 Raphaël Arlettaz
Revision of the Swiss Hunting Act

30.09.2020 No seminar, but CB meeting for current CB members

07.10.2020 No seminar, but CB meeting for current CB members

14.10.2020 Anina Hold (MSc proposal)
Effects of a flexible first mowing date on the biodiversity of extensively managed meadows and social aspects of mowing regime choice

21.10.2020 Cécile Auberson (MSc first results)
Mid-term effects of soil disturbance on grasslands ground beetle community

28.10.2020 Gino Enz (MSc final results)
Auchenorrhyncha and host plant networks in extensively managed grasslands in the Swiss lowlands

04.11.2020 Carole Niffenegger (MSc first results)
Nest site selection of the White-winged Snowfinch (Montifringilla nivalis)

11.11.2020 Ariane Stöckli (MSc first results)
Nesting incidence of ground-nesting bees in Swiss lowland farmland

18.11.2020 Elizabete Ferreira (MSc first results)
Effect grassland restoration with soil disturbance on ground-dwelling spiders

25.11.2020 Myles Menz, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (Radolfzell, Germany)
Tracking insect migration through space and time

02.12.2020 Shannon Luepold, Vogelwarte
Not all who wander are lost: dynamic settlement decisions in a migratory songbird

09.12.2020 Arnaud Barras (PhD final results)
The breeding ecology, population dynamics and migration of Alpine Ring Ouzels: building the evidence for species conservation management

16.12.2020 Sergio Vignali
Distribution and movement patterns of the bearded vulture in the Swiss Alps