Environmental DNA (eDNA) as a tool for biodiversity monitoring Julie Guenat, PhD student at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland Friday 9 december 2022 at 11.00 AM, amphi Billet   Abstract The current…

Conserving avian diversity in Sub-Saharan human-dominated landscapes Gabriel Marcacci (Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach) Friday November 18th 2022, 11.00 am, Billet amphitheater   European populations of long-distance migratory birds are declining at a…

A world genomic study shows why invasive species are so successful Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) is an annual weed species that is native to North America with a 200-year history of global introduction,…

Plate tectonics controlled ocean oxygenation over the last 540 million years Ocean oxygenation paced marine biodiversity changes at the geological time scale. It is widely admitted that changes in ocean dissolved oxygen…

Environmental stability on Earth allowed marine biodiversity to flourish Modern ocean biodiversity, which is at its highest level ever, was achieved through long-term stability of the location of so-called biodiversity hotspots, regions…

A study has found that indigenous people in the rainforests of Gabon have knowledge of plant and fruit-eating animal interactions that exceeds that found in academic literature. These preliminary results will be…

Microplastics in the freshwater ecosystem: unveiling the drivers of their spatio-temporal variability and of their ingestion by aquatic organisms Aline De Carvalho, postdoc at Biogéosciences, will present the 14 december 2021 her…

Picturing our planet and its climate, 520 million years ago, when animals diversified throughout the oceans Complex forms of animal life, including the ancestors of most of the major animal groups that…

City life could lead to differential evolution between urban and forest populations. Aurelie Khimoun and her collaborators showed, in their article published in Biology Letters, that urban populations of the tiny acorn…