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Current research projects

Project leader	Project title
Bosshard	Species-rich field margins in the lowlands of Switzerland: state of the art, ecological potential and restoration methods
De Deyn van der Putten Kowalchuk Schmid	Plant–soil feedback/microbial ecology
Schmid	Biodiversity and climate change, a risk analysis (BACCARA)
	Influence of abiotic and biotic environment on the ecological performance of GM and non-GM wheat
	Non-target effects of GM plants on insect food webs
Schmid Fischer	Mechanisms underlying plant community productivity, assembly and stability
Schmid Flynn	Community history and ecosystem functioning
Schmid Gessner	Biodiversity and biogeochemical cycles: a search for mechanisms across ecosystems (acronym: BioCycle)
Schmid Ma	Effects of forest biodiversity and climate on ecosystem carbon flux
Schmid Manser	The ecology of intraguild interactions between carnivore species
Schmid Niklaus	Aboveground primary productivity in forest ecosystems as a function of species richness and composition
Schmid Wiemken	Decision-making in plants: resource allocation to mycorrhizal hyphal networks
Turnbull	Aphids as drivers of natural selection
van der Heijden Schmid	Soil Biodiversity and Functioning of Agricultural Ecosystems: Developing Science for Evidence Based Policy

Completed research projects

Project leader	Project title
Fischer	How modern landscape fragmentation affects plants: demography, genetics, and biotic interactions
	How the interaction between cultural traditions and socio-economically motivated changes in agricultural land use is shaping future grassland biodiversity in the landscape of the Alps
Hector Schmid	BIODEPTH (biodiversity and ecological processes in terrestrial herbaceous ecosystems: experimental manipulations of plant communities)
Jenni	How susceptible are Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus to human disturbances? – An endocrinological and behavioral approach.
Joshi	The Importance of genetic diversity in invasive plants
	Evolutionary consequences of hybridization between a rare and a common plant species
Schmid	Linking above- and belowground interactions to explain plant diversity changes by habitat fragmentation and global warming
	The role of community assembly processes in biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments
	Functional traits and plasticity of plant functional types (PFT) in experimental grasslands
	Short course within the "master in plant sciences" of the Zurich-Basel plant science center (PSC): plant responses to stress — knowledge and research practice (PRESS)
	DivBASE, a SCOPE science synthesis project about consequences of biodiversity loss on ecosystem functioning and services
Schmid Joshi	Life-history and genetic variation of native and introduced populations of Solidago spp.
Schmid Joshi Saha	Plant interaction networks
Schmid Turnbull	Mechanisms promoting biodiversity effects and species coexistence in plant communities
Turnbull	Coexistence of sand dune annuals
	Components of seed-size variation
	Coexistence in chalk grassland communities