WSL-Institut für Schnee-und Lawinenforschung SLF
Funktion
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
Flüelastrasse 11
7260 Davos Dorf
Standort
SLF Davos Da C 1 54
I am Research Scientist in the Mountain Ecosystems research group at the Climate Change, Extremes, and Natural Hazards in Alpine Regions Research Centre CERC. The CERC is part of the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF in Davos, Switzerland.
As a forest ecologist, I am interested in the influence and interaction of climate change, disturbances, and management on forest ecosystems. My research benefits from different types of data, based on a data fusion approach, and from the combination of different methods.
Strongly influenced by my professional activities as a forester, I value much the engagement and interaction with local stakeholders and practitioners, as well as the communication to and with the public.
Personal website https://bottero.ch/
Impact of climate change and natural disturbances on mountain forest ecosystems, protective forests, ecosystem services, forest management, silviculture, forest adaptation strategies, dendroecology.
| 09.2021-present | Research Scientist. Alpine Environment and Natural Hazards Research Unit / Mountain Ecosystems Research Group, SLF, Davos, Switzerland. |
| 01.2020-08.2021 | Research Associate. Forest Dynamics Research Unit / Ecosystem Ecology Research Group, WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland. |
| 01.2017-12.2019 | Postdoc. Forest Dynamics Research Unit / Ecosystem Ecology Research Group, WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland. |
| 04.2016-12.2016 | Visiting Scientist. Forest Dynamics Research Unit, WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland. |
| 03.2014-12.2015 | Research Associate - NE CSC Postdoctoral Fellow. Department of Forest Resources (University of Minnesota); United States Forest Service (USFS) Northern Research Station, USA; NE Climate Science Center – US Department of the Interior. |
| 09-10.2013 | Visiting Scientist, COST Action ES1203. Chair of Forest Ecology, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland. |
| 03.2013-02.2014 | Research Fellow. DISAFA, University of Torino, Grugliasco (TO), Italy. |
| 04-11.2011, 09-10.2012 | Visiting Scholar. University of Colorado, Boulder (CO), USA. |
| 01.2010-02.2013 | Ph.D. in Forest Management and Silviculture (University of Torino, Italy) “Interactions and ecological feedbacks between natural and anthropogenic disturbances in mountain forests in the European Alps”. Supervisor: Prof. Renzo Motta, Univ. of Torino, IT; Co-Supervisor: Prof. Thomas T. Veblen, Univ. of Colorado, USA. |
See my CV here.
Gleason, K.E.; Bradford, J.B.; Bottero, A.; D’Amato, A.W.; Fraver, S.; Palik, B.J.; Battaglia, M.A.; Iverson, L.; Kenefic, L.; Kern, C.C., 2017: Competition amplifies drought stress in forests across broad climatic and compositional gradients. Ecosphere 8(7): 1-16. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.1849
Bottero, A.; D'Amato, A.W.; Palik, B.J.; Bradford, J.B.; Fraver, S.; Battaglia, M.A.; Asherin, L.A., 2017: Density-dependent vulnerability of forest ecosystems to drought. Journal of Applied Ecology 54(6): 1605-1614. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12847
Bottero, A.; D'Amato, A.W.; Palik, B.J.; Kern, C.C.; Bradford, J.B.; Scherer, S.S, 2017: Influence of repeated prescribed fire on tree growth and mortality in Pinus resinosa forests, Northern Minnesota. Forest Science 63(1): 94-100. doi: 10.5849/forsci.16-035
Castagneri, D.; Bottero, A.; Motta, R.; Vacchiano, G., 2015: Repeated spring precipitation shortage alters individual growth patterns in Scots pine forests in the Western Alps. Trees 29(6): 1699-1712. doi: 10.1007/s00468-015-1250-z
Bottero, A.; Garbarino, M.; Long, J.N.; Motta, R., 2013: The interacting ecological effects of large-scale disturbances and salvage logging on montane spruce forest regeneration in the western European Alps. Forest Ecology and Management 292: 18-28. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.12.021
Garbarino, M.; Lingua, E.; Weisberg, P.J.; Bottero, A.; Meloni, F.; Motta, R., 2013: Land-use history and topographic gradients as driving factors of subalpine Larix decidua forests. Landscape Ecology 28(5): 805-817. doi: 10.1007/s10980-012-9792-6
Bottero, A.; Garbarino, M.; Dukić, V.; Govedar, Z.; Lingua, E.; Nagel, T.A.; Motta, R., 2011: Gap-phase dynamics in the old-growth forest of Lom, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Silva Fennica 45(5): 875-887. doi: 10.14214/sf.76
Vacchiano, G.; Bottero, A.; Castagneri, D.; Chiavetta, U.; Matteucci, G.; Ripullone, F.; Pollastrini, M., 2020: La sete del bosco. Come le foreste reagiscono alla siccità e come aiutarle. Articolo LifeGate Ambiente – Biodiversità. Language: Italian. www.lifegate.it/sete-del-bosco-foreste-siccita
Berretti, R.; Bottero, A.; Bruno, E.; Della Beffa, G.; Freppaz, M.; Giordano, L.; Gonthier, P.; Gottero, F.; Mosca, A.; Motta, R.; Nicolotti, G.; Vacchiano, G.; Viglietti, D.; Wermelinger, B., 2011: Foreste di protezione diretta: disturbi naturali e stabilità nelle Alpi occidentali. Arezzo: Compagnia delle Foreste, s.r.l., pp. 1-144, ISBN: 9788890122385. Language: Italian.
Bovio, G.; Ascoli, D.; Bottero, A.; Valsecchi, C., 2011: Sintesi delle ricerche sugli incendi boschivi in faggeta dell’estate 2003, in: Piano regionale per la programmazione delle attività di previsione, prevenzione e lotta attiva contro gli incendi boschivi 2011-2014. Regione Piemonte, pp. 163-168. Language: Italian.
Bovio, G.; Ascoli, D.; Valsecchi, C.; Bottero, A., 2011: Indagine sulle caratteristiche degli incendi boschivi e sulle dinamiche di risposta degli ecosistemi forestali. Gestione post-incendio in popolamenti di Fagus sylvatica L. del Piemonte. Language: Italian.
Network of active collaborations (alphabetical list by country name):
02.2023 - present: Member of the Schweizerischen Gebirgswaldpflegegruppe GWG.
08.2022 - present: Member of the Verbund Waldbau Schweiz.
02.2022 - present: Co-representative of the Swiss eLTER team at the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI), together with Esther R. Frei.
05.2021 – present: Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
06.2018 – present: Review Editor for Forest Growth / Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.
Reviewer for scientific journals: Acta Oecologica; Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; Annals of Forest Science; Current Forestry Reports; Ecological Applications; Ecology; European Journal of Forest Research; Fire Ecology; Forest Ecology and Management; Forest Science; Global Change Biology; iForest; Journal of Ecology; PLOS ONE; Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen (SZF); Trees.
Reviewer for scientific institutions: Laboratory of Excellence ARBRE – INRAe Nancy (France); Future of UK Treescapes programme – Natural Environment Research Council, Arts & Humanities Council, Economic & Social Research council, Defra, Welsh Government and Scottish Government (UK).
English
Using silviculture to prepare managed Norway spruce and silver fir forests for drought. News WSL (08.2021)
French / Français
La sylviculture permet de préparer les forêts à la sécheresse, selon une étude suisse. RTS online (08.2021)
La sylviculture à l’aide des forêts d’épicéas et de sapins. Le Journal horaire (17.08.2021 à 15:00, min. 2:38)
Comment préparer les forêts à la sécheresse. News Le Nouvelliste (08.2021)
La sylviculture pour contrer la sécheresse. News La Liberté (08.2021)
Comment préparer les forêts à la sécheresse. News Arcinfo (08.2021)
Préparer les forêts d’épicéas et de sapins à la sécheresse grâce à la sylviculture. News WSL (08.2021)
German / Deutsch
Das SLF war Aussteller auf der Davoser Messe. Der Stand des SLF stiess bei jüngeren und älteren Besucherinnen und Besuchern auf reges Interesse, mit Entnahme von Bohrkernen aus Bäumen, Quiz, Drohnen und mehr. «Davoser Mäss@Promenade» (09.10.2021)
Wie man Wälder auf zunehmende Dürreperioden vorbereiten kann. WDR 5 Quarks – Wissenschaft und mehr (22.09.2021 mit Alessandra Bottero)
Trockenheit im Wald. SRF Wissenschaftsmagazin (Meldungen vom 21.08.2021, ab Min. 9:50)
3 Rezepte für den Wald der Zukunft: Ausdünnen, andere Bäume wählen und sie klein halten. BauernZeitung (18.08.2021)
Hohe Bäume reagieren empfindlicher darauf wenn das Wasser knapp wird. Radio SRF Nachrichten (15 Uhr vom 17.08.2021, Min. 2:02)
Grosse Bäume reagieren besonders empfindlich auf schwere Dürren. News Swissinfo (08.2021)
Tanne zäher gegenüber Dürre als die Fichte. News Blick online (08.2021)
Grosse Bäume reagieren besonders empfindlich auf Dürren. News Tierwelt online (08.2021)
Tanne zäher gegenüber Dürre als die Fichte. News Uzwil24 (08.2021)
Fichten- und Tannenwirtschaftswälder durch den Waldbau auf Trockenheit vorbereiten. News WSL (08.2021)
Italian / Italiano
Il bosco che sta male. RSI News (intervista del 18.07.2022 con Alessandra Bottero)
Castagneri D., A. Bottero e G. Vacchiano. Resilienza alla siccità e diradamenti. Pillole di Scienze Forestali SISEF (03.2022)
Lo stato di salute delle foreste svizzere. Telegiornale RSI (intervista del 29.10.2021 con Alessandra Bottero)
Resistere allo “stress da siccità”. Radiogiornale RSI (intervista del 18.08.2021 con Alessandra Bottero)
Preparare alla siccità le foreste coltivate di abete rosso e bianco attraverso la selvicoltura. News WSL (08.2021)
Vacchiano G., A. Bottero, D. Castagneri, U. Chiavetta, G. Matteucci, F. Ripullone e M. Pollastrini. La sete del bosco. Come le foreste reagiscono alla siccità e come aiutarle. Articolo LifeGate Ambiente – Biodiversità (08.2020)
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