Previous seminars

Plant insect interaction in a changing world

Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts?: higher-order interactions impact the resistance and recovery of soil bacteria to extreme heat events

BSc project introduction: Microbial colonizers of icelandic nunataks: evaluating fungal and bacterial diversity and the influence of island size and age in glacial landscapes

Anouk Gremion, University of Bern, IEE, Switzerland

MSc project introduction: Does plant-soil-feedback explain the spatial dynamics of the clonal grass Brachypodium pinnatum?

Chemically mediated host pathogen interactions under climate extremes

MSc project final presentation: Drought influence on belowground trophic interactions in slow and fast growing plants

Jan Tscheulin, University of Bern, IEE, Switzerland

MSc project final presentation: Fungal and bacteria interaction in drought

Effects of severe drought on root morphological traits across plant functional groups: A meta-analysis

The role of multitrophic soil diversity in the establishment of an invasive plant during global change

The Roots of Triumph: explaining invasive success through plant-soil feedback experiments in the context of climate extremes

Soil community responses to climate extremes at different elevations across seasons

The resistance and recovery of soil fungi and bacteria under climate extremes: a biotic interaction perspective

MSc project final presentation: Thermoregulation in a lowland spider species

Fabrice Bucheli, University of Bern, IEE, Switzerland

MSc project final presentation: Unveiling the role of host-plant dynamics for butterfly range expansions in a changing world

Effects of periodic heat waves and predation on Collembola

Biotic resistance of a grassland community is not supported through plant soil feedback

FoBEx- introducing an experimental framework to study the effects of  climate extremes on terrestrial biodiversity

Exploring the effect of climate change on soil-associated bacterial communities

Fast life in a warmer world: how does warming affect size-at-stage in two soil invertebrates?

The Bug-Network: testing the impacts of invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage on plant communities on a global scale

Altered root traits due to elevated drought: a meta-analysis

MSc project introduction: Interactions of multiple fungal species with bacteria in soil under extreme condition

Anine Wyser, University of Bern, IEE, Switzerland

MSc project introduction: Drought influence on belowground trophic interactions in slow and fast growing plants

BSc project final presentation: Interactive effects of drought, eutrophication and heat shock on trophic cascades in a soil food chain.

Anouk Gremion, University of Bern, IEE, Switzerland

BSc project introduction: Reproductive senescence in Collembola at higher temperatures: myth, reality or just a temporary phenomenon?

Spread of functional novelty during microbial range expansion

Applications of eDNA in Biodiversity

Impacts of biological invasion on ecosystems

Strain Diversity and Spatial Distribution Are Linked to Epidemic Dynamics in Host Populations [PDF]

Disentangling temporal food web dynamics facilitates understanding of ecosystem functioning  [PDF]

Species multidimensional effects explain idiosyncratic responses of communities to environmental change [PDF]

Linking size spectrum, energy flux and trophic multifunctionality in soil food webs of tropical land-use systems [PDF]

Root traits and belowground herbivores relate to plant–soil feedback variation among congeners [PDF]

Final discussion / Exam