Projects

Wildlife-vehicle collisions
Collaboration: Kanton Zürich

Analysis of roadkill data
to guide mitigation actions

Artificial intelligence

Biodiversity conservation planning
Analysis of natural history collections

Data management
Naturmuseum Thurgau,
Zoologisches Museum Zürich

„Post mortem, we sort them“
Specify: a unified database of
natural history collections

Predictability of
declining biodiversity
Collaboration: Anthony Ives

Methods to assess the
predictability of
declining biodiversity

Butterflies
Collaboration: Hannes Geisser

Quantitative approach
to restore
meta-communities

Crayfish
Collaboration: Simone Pisano

Eco-epidemiological analysis
of crayfish communities
affected by crayfish plague

Amphibians and
plant protection strategies
Collaboration: Benedikt Schmidt, Agroscope

Spatio-temporal analysis
of (meta-)populations for
risk minimization

Collection data
Natural history museums
Collaboration: Hannes Geisser

Quantitative analyses
Visualization

Wild boar
5 projects
Collaboration: Hannes Geisser

Abundance estimation
Dynamical analysis
Quantitative management

Wild boar
5 projects
Collaboration: Hannes Geisser

Abundance estimation
Dynamical analysis
Quantitative management

Covid-19
5 projects
Collaboration: Anthony Ives

Estimation of R₀
Vaccination strategies
Predictability of disease spread

Fire salamander and Bsal
5 projects
Collaboration: see publications

Epidemiological modeling
Modeling spread scenarios

Nonindigenous species
Collaboration: Stefano Canessa

Analysis of efficient management options

Emerging wildlife diseases
3 projects
Collaboration: Jacob Koella, Stefano Canessa,
Benedikt Schmidt

Spatio-temporal population modeling
Mitigation strategies
Decision analysis

Alpine ibex colony
Collaboration: Iris Biebach

Analysis population growth
Habitat suitability
Sustainable harvesting

Round goby
Collaboration: Anouk N'Guyen

Spatio-temporal population modeling
Quantitative management

Inbreeding depression
Collaboration: Anthony Ives

Detecting inbreeding depression
in ecological time series
(new statistical method)

Biodiversity
Collaboration: Wolf Blanckenhorn

How taxonomic uncertainty
and environmental effects can affect
quantitative biodiversity assessments

NGO office
2014 - 2015

Swiss Association of
Friends of the Galápagos Islands
more information

Alpine ibex
Collaboration:
Lukas Keller, Iris Biebach,
Steffi Muff, Anthony Ives

How does
inbreeding affect
population dynamics?

Weasel
Collaboration: Irene Weinberger

Metapopulation dynamics
Quantitative habitat evaluation
Modelling dispersal potential