Research interests

Biodiversity patterns and processes at different spatial and temporal scales, monitoring, conservation strategies, statistical modeling, plant ecology (flowering plants, mosses, lichens) and floristics (especially of mosses), peatlands, TWW, floodplains, red lists

Education and professional career

since 2011 Head of the 'Habitat Dynamics' group in the 'Biodiversity and Conservation Biology' research unit

2006-2010 Head of the 'Indicators and Evaluation' group in the 'Biodiversity and Conservation Biology' research unit

2003-2006 Staff scientist at the WSL in the department 'Genetic Ecology'

2001-2003 Staff scientist at the 'Research Center for Environmental Monitoring (FUB)'

1999-2002 Field surveys and moss determinations for the project 'Erfolgskontrolle Moorbiotopschutz' (WSL)

1996-2001 PhD thesis at the Institute of Systematic Botany and the Institute of Environmental Sciences at the University of Zurich under the Head of Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schmid and Dr. E. Urmi: 'Species diversity of bryophytes in montane calcareous wetlands: Effects of environmental variables and influence of vascular plants'

1993-1995 Diploma thesis at the Institute of Systematic Botany at the University of Zurich under the Head of Dr. E. Urmi: ' Investigations of the relationships between moss flora and environmental parameters using canonical correspondence analysis '

Further activities

since 1993 Staff member of the 'National Inventory of the Swiss Moss Flora' NISM

since 1996 board member of the 'Swiss Association for Bryology and Lichenology' (BRYOLICH)

2001- 2009 Webmaster at BRYOLICH: development and maintenance of the homepage

since 2004 Member of the mapping commission 'Natural inventory of the Swiss moss flora'

2008 - 2012 Member of the Board of the Zurich Botanical Society ZBG

since 2016 President of the 'Swiss Association for Bryology and Lichenology' BRYOLICH

since 2014 IUCN Red List Authority (RLA) Coordinator Bryophytes within the IUCN Bryophyte Specialist Group(BSG)

Topics for Master's theses

  • Master's theses on bryological topics are also always possible. For New topics just ask (ariel.bergamini(at)wsl.ch).

Projects

Urbanisation is a main driver of biodiversity and ecological change, but how the process affects biodiversity is not well understood. This project on urban ecology monitors the impact of urbanisation and establishes an Urban Living Lab (ULL) for sustainable city development.

In this project, we are investigating the extent to which the spatial predictability of forest plant species and fungi can be improved by using high-resolution soil maps. In addition, we analyse how climate change affects the distribution of different species and what role soil plays in this.

In diesem Projekt analysieren wir, wie lokale und landschaftsbezogene Merkmale die von Amphibien genutzte blau-grüne Infrastruktur beeinflussen und wie gut neu angelegte Standorte dazu beitragen.

The main goal of MoGLI is to project the potential distribution of the most common Swiss woody species across the entire forested area of Switzerland.

Publications

Lin M., Bergamini A., Pichon N.A., Allan E., Boch S. (2025) Nitrogen enrichment and vascular plant richness loss reduce bryophyte richness. Sci. Rep. 15(1), 4049 (12 pp.). doi:10.1038/s41598-025-88425-2 Institutional Repository DORA

Bergamini A., Büschlen A., Hofmann H. (2024) Braunia alopecura (Brid.) Limpr.
 
. Moosflora der Schweiz. Zürich: Swissbryophytes Working Group. 6 p. doi:10.5167/uzh-259588
Institutional Repository DORA

Bergamini A., Kiebacher T., Lüth M., Meier M., Schnyder N. (2024) Beiträge zur bryofloristischen Erforschung der Schweiz – Folge 19. Meylania. 73, 15-24. Institutional Repository DORA

Bergamini A., Stofer S., Vonarburg C., Finsterwald E., Steffen J., Amann S., … Zimmermann E. (2024) Moose und Flechten in Gärten - Resultate eines Projekts der Bryolich. Meylania. 74, 15-28. Institutional Repository DORA

Büttner M., Weibel U., Jutzi M., Bergamini A., Holderegger R. (2024) Ein altes Herbarium als Informationsgrundlage für den regionalen Artenrückgang. An old herbarium as information base for regional species decline. Nat. Landsch. 99(2), 49-58. doi:10.19217/NuL2024-02-01 Institutional Repository DORA

Ferretti M., Fischer C., Gessler A., Graham C., Meusburger K., Abegg M., … Shackleton R.T. (2024) Advancing forest inventorying and monitoring. Ann. For. Sci. 81(1), 6 (25 pp.). doi:10.1186/s13595-023-01220-9 Institutional Repository DORA

Kambach S., Attorre F., Axmanová I., Bergamini A., Biurrun I., Bonari G., … Bruelheide H. (2024) Climate regulation processes are linked to the functional composition of plant communities in European forests, shrublands, and grasslands. Glob. Chang. Biol. 30(2), e17189 (14 pp.). doi:10.1111/gcb.17189 Institutional Repository DORA

Knollová I., Chytrý M., Bruelheide H., Dullinger S., Jandt U., Bernhardt-Römermann M., … Essl F. (2024) ReSurveyEurope: a database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe. J. Veg. Sci. 35(2), e13235 (18 pp.). doi:10.1111/jvs.13235 Institutional Repository DORA

Leblanc C., Bonnet P., Servajean M., Chytrý M., Aćić S., Argagnon O., … Joly A. (2024) A deep‐learning framework for enhancing habitat identification based on species composition. Appl. Veg. Sci. 27(3), e12802 (17 pp.). doi:10.1111/avsc.12802 Institutional Repository DORA

Moor H., Bergamini A., Vorburger C., Holderegger R., Bühler C., Bircher N., Schmidt B.R. (2024) Building pondscapes for amphibian metapopulations. Conserv. Biol. 38(6), e14165 (16 pp.). doi:10.1111/cobi.14281 Institutional Repository DORA

Moor H., Bergamini A., Holderegger R., Vorburger C., Schmidt B.R. (2024) Weiherbau führt zu einer Erholung der Amphibienbestände. ÖGH-Aktuell. 68, 4-7. Institutional Repository DORA

Moor H., Bergamini A., Holderegger R., Vorburger C., Bühler C., Bircher N., Schmidt B. (2024) Wie muss eine ökologische Infrastruktur für Amphibien aussehen? Nat. Paysag. Nat. Landsch. Inside. (3), 22-25. Institutional Repository DORA

Rota F., Scherrer D., Bergamini A., Price B., Walthert L., Baltensweiler A. (2024) Unravelling the impact of soil data quality on species distribution models of temperate forest woody plants. Sci. Total Environ. 944, 173719 (11 pp.). doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173719 Institutional Repository DORA

Shipley J.R., Frei E.R., Bergamini A., Boch S., Schulz T., Ginzler C., … Rixen C. (2024) Agricultural practices and biodiversity: conservation policies for semi-natural grasslands in Europe. Curr. Biol. 34(16), R753-R761. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.06.062 Institutional Repository DORA

van Zuijlen K., Bisang I., Nobis M.P., Bergamini A. (2024) Extinction risk of European bryophytes predicted by bioclimate and traits. Biol. Conserv. 293, 110584 (11 pp.). doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110584 Institutional Repository DORA

Bergamini A., Hofmann H., Kiebacher T., Schnyder N. (2023) Beiträge zur bryofloristischen Erforschung der Schweiz - Folge 18. Meylania. 71, 5-13. Institutional Repository DORA

Boch S., Bergamini A. (2023) Moore .. wertvolle Kohlenstoff- und Wasserspeicher. Milan Mitt.bl. BirdLife Aargau. (2), 4-7. Institutional Repository DORA

Boch S., Küchler H., Küchler M., Bedolla A., Ecker K.T., Graf U.H., … Bergamini A. (2023) Reduktion der Bearbeitereffekte bei der Analyse von Vegetationserhebungen. Nat. Landsch. 98(4), 188-194. doi:10.19217/NuL2023-04-03 Institutional Repository DORA

Burrascano S., Chianucci F., Trentanovi G., Kepfer-Rojas S., Sitzia T., Tinya F., … Odor P. (2023) Where are we now with European forest multi-taxon biodiversity and where can we head to? Biol. Conserv. 284, 110176 (13 pp.). doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110176 Institutional Repository DORA

Büttner M., Weibel U., Jutzi M., Bergamini A., Holderegger R. (2023) A 150-year-old herbarium exemplifies change of a regional flora. Bauhinia. 29, 113-114. doi:10.12685/bauhinia.1359 Institutional Repository DORA

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