Research
List of ongoing projects
- Biodiversity and biogeography of soil protists in continental and oceanic islands - SNSF 182531
- Inventaire national des collemboles et acariens et développement du metabarcoding pour le monitoring de la biodiversité des sols - OFEV
- METAS - Développement d'une méthode destinée à détecter la présence de tourbe dans les substrats de terre
- SwissBOL
- CLIMPEAT
- CADAVER
- Biology ethnology
- Is everything everywhere? A metabarcoding approach to protist biogeography
Completed Project
- ANR Peatwarm
- CCES RECORD
- CCES BigLink
- SNF Amoeba
- SNF Ambizione
- CH-RUS S&T Cooperation
- Barcoding amoebae
- BUS – Bioindication in Urban Soils
- EU-ISEFOR
- COST "Threats to woodland"
Main topics
Our research falls within two general topics:
- community and ecosystem ecology
- biodiversity and evolution of protists
Community and ecosystem ecology
- Ecology of above-ground and below-ground communities, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry & functional soil ecology
- Applied community ecology: biomonitoring and palaecology
Biodiversity and evolution of protists
- Phylogeny, taxonomy, biodiversity, and biogeography of soil protists with special focus on testate amoebae, other ameoboid protists, and oomycetes
- Evolutionary biology: convergence, symbiosis, and sex
