Biodiversity
Preserve biodiversity
Concerns about the preservation of biodiversity often end up on the losing side when it comes to weighing conflicting interests in the balance, and its loss is usually only quantified in financial terms when it is already too late. Eawag is researching what biodiversity really means, what benefits it brings, and what measures can be employed to preserve it.
News
March 2, 2023
Scientific publications
Ho, H.-C.; Brodersen, J.; Gossner, M. M.; Graham, C. H.; Kaeser, S.; Reji Chacko, M.; Seehausen, O.; Zimmermann, N. E.; Pellissier, L.; Altermatt, F. (2022) Blue and green food webs respond differently to elevation and land use, Nature Communications, 13(1), 6415 (12 pp.), doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34132-9, Institutional Repository
McFadden, I. R.; Sendek, A.; Brosse, M.; Bach, P. M.; Baity‐Jesi, M.; Bolliger, J.; Bollmann, K.; Brockerhoff, E. G.; Donati, G.; Gebert, F.; Ghosh, S.; Ho, H.‐C.; Khaliq, I.; Lever, J. J.; Logar, I.; Moor, H.; Odermatt, D.; Pellissier, L.; de Queiroz, L. J.; Rixen, C.; Schuwirth, N.; Shipley, J. R.; Twining, C. W.; Vitasse, Y.; Vorburger, C.; Wong, M. K. L.; Zimmermann, N. E.; Seehausen, O.; Gossner, M. M.; Matthews, B.; Graham, C. H.; Altermatt, F.; Narwani, A. (2023) Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, Ecology Letters, 26(2), 203-218, doi:10.1111/ele.14153, Institutional Repository
Keck, F.; Altermatt, F. (2023) Management of DNA reference libraries for barcoding and metabarcoding studies with the R package refdb, Molecular Ecology Resources, 23(2), 511-518, doi:10.1111/1755-0998.13723, Institutional Repository
Publications for practitioners
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Pesticides and biodiversity [1 MB]
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Trouts in Switzerland [4 MB]
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Factsheet River Corridors [382 KB]
Consulting and knowledge transfer
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Cover picture: Eawag researchers Ewa Merz and Thea Kozakiewicz during field work on Lake Greifen (ZH). The underwater camera Aquascope records the tiny creatures in Lake Greifen in real time. (Photo: Jonas Steiner)