Mountain Ecosystems

Mountain ecosystems are characterized by harsh environmental conditions. These include often long lasting snow cover, short growing seasons and topographically related disturbances such as avalanches, rockfall or landslides.Mountain ecosystems and inhabiting animal and plant species are generally well adapted to these conditions. However, they may react sensitively to changes of climate, land-use and disturbance regimes. Activities of the group focus on mountain ecosystems above and below the treeline (mountain forest, alpine ecosystems) and represent links between ecosystem research of WSL and snow and avalanche topics of the SLF in Davos.

Mountain ecosystems are one of the main topics of the CERC research centre.

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Please contact the team members, if you are interested in writing your Bachelor's/Master's thesis or doing an internship in team Mountain Ecosystems in Davos.

Staff

Mountain Ecosystems

Peter Bebi

Head of CERC, Groupleader

Theresa Banzer

Scientific assistant

Julien Leon Bota

PhD student

Alessandra Bottero

Scientific staff member

Leon Bührle

Visiting scientist

Noémie Delpouve

PhD student guest

Esther Frei

Scientific staff member

Andrés Garcia

Visiting scientist

Melissa Gerwin

PhD student guest

Frank Graf

Scientific staff member

Andreas Gygax

Visiting scientist

Kevin Patrick Helzel

IT specialist

Till Jäggi

Trainee

Beatrix Junghardt

Master student

Anne Kempel

Scientific staff member

Anja Lebedicker

Master student

Lia Lechler

Concetta Lisella

PhD student guest

Simon Mägli

Civil service employee

Achille Mauri

Scientific staff member

Riccardo Pedrelli

Trainee

Christian Rixen

Senior Scientist

Franco Salvador

Trainee

Ryan Shipley

Scientific staff member

Sophie Spelsberg

Trainee

Mauro Vareni

Civil service employee

Raphael von Büren

PhD student guest

Sonja Wipf

Visiting scientist

Michael Zehnder

PhD student