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Helen Moor

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Dr. Helen Moor

Group leader

Department Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modelling

Main interests

Bayesian hierarchical modelling to understand complex ecological processes across scales, while leveraging diverse data sources. Communication and application of research findings for sustainable adaptive ecosystem management, restoration and conservation.

To address the biodiversity crisis, we need knowledge about the status and dynamics of species populations and communities at large spatial scales and about their response to various environmental stressors. Effective and cost-effective conservation measures or ecosystem management must be based on the best possible knowledge, which requires the integration of all available sources of information. At the same time, uncertainties should be clearly and intuitively communicated in science-based recommendations.


I am interested in an approach called data integration or integrated modeling to improve our understanding of the status and dynamics of aquatic diversity. Integrated modeling involves analyzing different data sets with different spatial, temporal, or ecological resolutions (e.g., traits/population growth rates/abundances/occurrences) in a single model to make the best use of all relevant data. For example, high-resolution experimental data can be combined with large-scale monitoring or opportunistic data to better understand and predict changes in species distribution.

Hierarchical modeling with Bayesian inference provides a natural framework for integrated modeling. The measurement error or imprecision of each dataset is accounted for, and these uncertainties are incorporated into the results. Results are stated in terms of intuitively understandable probabilities, which facilitates their communication. Calibrated models can be used to predict ecosystem management impacts to explore and evaluate alternative scenarios.

Integrated modeling is one of a suite of tools that can harness the wealth of data generated by the digital revolution, as well as data from monitoring programs and long-term experiments. The challenge is to apply and develop them while exploring and understanding their limitations.

Curriculum Vitae

2023-current Group leader, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology Eawag,
Department Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modelling, Dübendorf, Switzerland
2022-2023 Scientist, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology Eawag,
Department Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modelling, Dübendorf, Switzerland
2020-2022 Postdoc, Swiss Federal Institutes for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL and Aquatic Science & Technology Eawag, Birmensdorf and Dübendorf, Switzerland
2017-2020 Postdoc, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU, Uppsala, Sweden.
’Biodiversa project GreenFutureForest - Impact of Future Forestry Scenarios on
Metapopulation Dynamics of Wood-Decaying Fungi.’
2017 Scientific consultant, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU, Uppsala, Sweden
2011-2016 PhD in Natural Resource Management, Stockholm Resilience Centre SRC,
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
2008–2010 MSc Biological Oceanography, IfM-GEOMAR, Christian-Albrechts Universität, Kiel, Germany

Publications

Selected

Moor H, Bergamini A, Vorburger C, Holderegger R, Bühler C, Bircher N & Schmidt BR. (2024) Building pondscapes for amphibian metapopulations. Conservation Biology, e14165. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14281

Moor H, Bergamini A, Vorburger C, Holderegger R, Bühler C, Egger S & Schmidt BR. (2023)

Bending the curve: Simple but massive conservation action leads to landscape-scale recovery of amphibians. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America PNAS, 119(42): e2123070119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2123070119

Moor H, Eggers J, Bradter U, Henckel L, Mazziotta A, Nordén J, Siitonen J & Snäll T. (2022) Rebuilding green infrastructure in a boreal production forest. Journal of Applied Ecology, 59: 1659-1669. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14175

Dawson SK, Carmona CP, Gonzalez-Suarez M, Jönsson M, Melero Y, Moor H, Simaika J & Duthie B. (2021) The traits of ’trait ecologists’: an analysis of the use of trait and functional trait terminology. Ecology and Evolution, 11(23): 16434-16445. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8321

Moor H, Nordén J, Siitonen J & Snäll T. (2020) Long-term effects of colonisation-extinction dynamics of specialist vs. generalist wood-decaying fungi. Journal of Ecology, 109(1): 491-503. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13526

Outreach publications

Moor H, Holderegger R, Bergamini A, Schmidt BR & Vorburger C. (2023) Weiherbau stoppt Abwärtstrend bei Amphibien. Aqua Viva, 65(3), 8-11.

Moor H, Gossner MM, Graham C, Hobi ML, Logar I, Narwani A, Reber U, Seehausen O, Holdereger R & Altermatt F. (2022) Besserer Biodiversitätsschutz in Blau-Grünen Ökosystemen. Des écosystèmes bleus-verts pour mieux protéger la biodiversité. Nature + Paysage. Natur + Landschaft: Inside, (1), 25-29.

Moretti M, Moor H & Obrist MK. (2022) Lebensraumvernetzung im Anthropozän: von der Theorie in die Praxis. Pro Natura Lokal, 2, 3-6.

Moor H, Gossner MM, Graham C, Hobi ML, Logar I, Matthews B, Narwani A, Seehausen O, Holderegger R & Altermatt F (2022). Blau-grüne Biodiversität ist ein wichtiger Teil des Waldes. Wald und Holz, 103(4), 30-33.

Moor H, Gossner MM, Graham C, Hobi ML, Holderegger R, Reber U, Altermatt F, Logar I, Matthews B, Narwani A, Seehausen O & Shipley R. (2021) Biodiversitätsschutz dank Ökosystem-übergreifendem Denken. Forschungsinitiative Blau-Grüne Biodiversität (BGB). Aqua & Gas, 101(12), 44-49.

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Address

E-Mail: helen.moor@eawag.ch
Phone: +41 58 765 6475
Fax: +41 58 765 5802
Address: Eawag
Überlandstrasse 133
8600 Dübendorf
Office: FC D06
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Expert on

biodiversity, statistical ecology, modeling, conservation, restoration

Expert on

ecology, modeling, biodiversity, wetlands

Research Group

Ecological Modelling

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