The Basel Projects
1.The interactive effect of land-use, nitrogen loading, and climatic warming on high alpine biota in the central Alps.
Project Duration : 2/1/02 - 1/31/05
Funding Source : SNSF
Project Leader : Prof. Christian Körner
Botanisches Institut - Pflanzenökologie
Universität Basel
Schönbeinstrasse 6
4056 Basel
Phone: (41 61) 267 35 10 ; (41 61) 267 35 00
FAX: (41 61) 267 35 04
EMail: ch.koerner@unibas.ch
Disciplines : ecology
Key Words :
high alpine biosphere
land use change
nitrogen loading impact
climate change
mountain
alps
Abstract: abstract Korner.pdf
2. Landscape diversity determined from below ground: the significance of endomycorrhiza
Project Duration: 7/1/02 - 6/30/05
Funding Source: SNSF ,
Project Leader: Prof. Andres Wiemken
Botanisches Institut - Pflanzenphysiologie
Universität Basel
Hebelstrasse 1
4056 Basel
Phone: (41 61) 267 23 10 ; (41 61) 267 23 11
FAX: (41 61) 267 23 30
EMail: andres.wiemken@unibas.ch
Persons related to the project: PhD Rafiqi.Maryam.Co-project leaders Boller Thomas and WiemkenVerena
Disciplines: Ladscape Ecology, Community Ecology, Conservation Biology
Key Words:
arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
biodiversity
alpine meadows
Abstract:abstract pdf
3. How the interaction between cultural traditions and socioeconomically motivated changes in agricultural land use is shaping future grassland biodiversity in the landscape of the Alps (Co-Project with Zürich)
Project Duration: 2/1/02 - 1/31/05
Funding Source : SNSF ,
Project Leader: Dr. Markus Fischer
Institut für Umweltwissenschaften
Universität Zürich
Winterthurerstrasse 190 - Irchel
8057 Zürich, ZH
Phone: (41 1) 635 48 05 ; (41 1) 635 52 04
FAX: (41 1) 635 57 11
EMail: fischerm@uwinst.unizh.ch
Persons related to the project: PhD student Maurer Katrin, PhD studentWeyand Anne, Co-Project leader Stöcklin.Jürg.
Disciplines: Ecology, Cultural Geography, Population Biology
Key Words:
cultural tradition
biodiversity
agricultural land use
Abstract:abstract pdf
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