Research Portfolios
Plant Population Ecology
Ecology and evolution in invasive plants
Prof. Dr. Heinz Müller-Schärer, BeNeFri, University of Fribourg, Dept. of Biology
Invasion ecology, the study of the distribution and spread of organisms in habitats to which they are not native, has...
Cell Biology
Establishment of membrane fences and local cell wall modifications in plants
Dr. Daniele Roppolo, BeNeFri, University of Bern, Institute of Plant Sciences
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Plant Evolutionary Genomics
Evolutionary genomics of plant adaptation and speciation
Prof. Dr. Christian Lexer, BeNeFri, University of Fribourg, Dept. of Biology
Understanding the genetics of adaptation, reproductive isolation and speciation has always been of great interest to...
Plant Evolutionary Ecology
Experimental and evolutionary ecology of plants in changing environments
Dr. Oliver Bossdorf, BeNeFri, University of Bern, Institute of Plant Sciences
I am particularly interested in plant intraspecific variation, the different causes of this variation (phenotypic...
Evolutionary Biology
Limits to the adaptive evolution process
Prof. Dr. Yvonne Willi, BeNeFri, University of Neuchâtel, Institute of Biology
The process of adaptive evolution – in the simplest models – occurs as long as selection acts on the population and...
Plant Ecology
Plant ecology
Prof. Dr. Markus Fischer, BeNeFri, University of Bern, Institute of Plant Sciences