Scherrer Daniel
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Department of Ecology and Evolution
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
Scherrer Daniel is working as Faculty of Biology and Medicine in Department of Ecology and Evolution at University of Lausanne.
Research Interest
My research interests encompass spatial ecology, plant ecophysiology and climatology. Earlier research in the field of ecophysiology includes plant-water-relations in forest trees under climate warming and work in the Swiss Canopy Crane project (http://plantecology.unibas.ch/scc/index.shtml). These projects allowed me to familiarise with a large number techniques including dendrometer, sap-flow, thermal imagery, dendrochronology, photosynthesis and soil respiration measurements. During my PhD I worked in arctic and alpine ecosystems investigating the influence of small scale topography on micro-climate and plant species distribution. Based on this small scale data we tried to assess the impact of climate warming on topographic rich alpine environments and to overcome the limitations of large scale models. During the earliest stage of my scientific career I worked on (meta-) population models of high alpine plants in Switzerland.
Publications
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Change IP. (2011). Climate change 2007: The physical science basis. Agenda. 2007 May 31;6(07):333.
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de Witte LC, Scherrer D, Stöcklin J. (2011). Genet longevity and populatiln age structure of the clonal pioneer species Geum reptans based on demographic field data and projection matrix modelling. Preslia. 2011;83:371-86.
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Scherrer D, Massy S, Meier S, Vittoz P, Guisan A. (2017). Assessing and predicting shifts in mountain forest composition across 25 years of climate change. Diversity and Distributions. 2017 May 1;23(5):517-28.
