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SCIENTIFIC EVENT: SPSW Summer School 2013 – Plant Volatiles:from lab bench to application

SPSW Summer School September 9-12, 2013, in Les Diablerets, Switzerland

SCIENTIFIC EVENT: PSC Science & Policy Summer School: Governing the Transition to a Bio-based Economy

Still places available for the PSC Science & Policy Summer School from 20-23 August, 2013, in Einsiedeln Switzerland

Current Research Topics in the SPSW

Greenhouse gas fluxes in forests and agroecosystems

Biosphere–Atmosphere Exchange Processes

My main interest is the quantification of greenhouse gas fluxes of CO2, CH4 and N2O and the surface energy fluxes of div...

How species cope with environmental change

Plant Ecology and Evolution

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Microbial functions in soil nutrient dynamics

Plant Nutrition

A good understanding of biological cycling of P in terrestrial ecosystems is important in view of both decreasing mineab...

Phosphorus and nitrogen (re-)cycling in agro-ecosystems

Plant Nutrition

Globally food demand is increasing while natural resources are shrinking. Human alterations of nutrient cycles are a maj...

Polyploidization and stress response in plants

Evolutionary Genomics

Polyploidization is a frequently observed phenomenon in plant species. It has played an important role as a driving forc...

Population genetics and evolutionary biology of plant pathogenic fungi

Plant Pathology

Plant pathogens evolve rapidly to overcome the disease control strategies that are deployed against them. Resistance gen...

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