Laboratory of Functional Ecology

2025 – 2026 Making Kin, Making Communities. Spreading the Alpine scientific knowledge through accessible participation practices
2019 – 2023 The Black Rhino Conservation Ecology Project.
2018 – 2022 FNS – PhytoChemAlp: Assessing the causes and consequences of phytochemical diversity.
2018 – 2022 From fundamental questions to practical conservation actions: a study of the pollination system, population genetics and mycorrhizal associations in Cypripedium calceolus (Orchidaceae).
2019 – 2022 CORDIS- EU Microbe-induced Resistance to Agricultural Pests (MIRA project)
2017 – 2020 Ecology and evolution of olfactory signalling in the deceptive pollination of Arum maculatum: mimicry and local adaptation.
2015 – 2019 Plant-microbe-insect interactions along elevation gradients.
2015 – 2019 SINERGIA Impacts of management strategies on soil quality indicators and below ground diversity in urban gardens of Zurich.
2015 – 2018 FNS Attracting bodyguards: testing macro-evolutionary trends of belowground plant indirect defenses and effects on plant fitness.
2014 – 2018 FNS – Ecosystem engineers’ contribution to soil structure formation in floodplains – FloodSTRESS.
2012 – 2015 FNS-DACH – Effect of climate on coarse woody debris decay dynamics and incorporation into the soils of forested Alpine areas -DecAlp.