Ecology Team
The Ecology research group in April 2026 in the Tropical Greenhouse of the Botanical Garden in Basel. From left to right: Front row - Leo, Sarina, Sophie G., Sabine, Myriam, Maimoonah, Judith; Second row - Benjamin, Sophie, Noah, Franziska, Peppa, Sonja, Raphael; Back row - Samuel, Martino, Marco, Georg, Jonathan
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University of Basel
Departement of Environmental Sciences
Research Group Ecology
Bernoullistrasse 32
4056 Basel
Switzerland
Franziska Grob / Administration:
Tel. +41 61 207 23 11
Monday - Thursday afternoons
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Completed theses
Charlotta Mattsson - Master's thesis completed in 2026: Ninety Years of Change: Elevational Range Shifts of Vascular Plants on Clavering Island, Northeast Greenland
Myriam Grosse - Master's thesis completed in 2026: Ecological Homogenisation of the Flora in the Basel Region: A Four-Century Perspective
Sarina Burkard - Master's thesis completed in 2026: Should They Stay or Should They Go? Changes in the Flora of Grisons over the Last 90 Years
Leo Amrein - Master's thesis completed in 2026: From scree to grassland: warming favours taller growth forms in an alpine plant community
Bastian Zingg - Master's thesis completed in 2025: Wild bee diversity increases with urbanisation
Saskia Durisch - Master's thesis completed in 2025: Reduced copper concentrations in Salix alba rootstock soil on a Swiss vineyard without affecting arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi diversity
Alexandra Kuttnig - Master's thesis completed in 2024: Beta diversity analyses reveal the benefits of grazing exclusion for regional bird diversity in Burkina Faso
Former group members
Charlotta Mattsson
Myriam Grosse
Sarina Burkard
Maya Schrödl
Christopher Johnson
Bastian Zingg
Saskia Durisch
Tianchen Liang
Alexandra Kuttnig
Brigitte Braschler
Camila Pacheco-Riaño
Sarah Bürli
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