Research interests

  • Statistical modeling of forest dynamics
  • Climatic influences on growth and mortality of trees and forests
  • Combination of data with differing resolutions - from tree rings to forest inventories

Curriculum vitae

Since 2015 Scientific staff member, Swiss NFI
2012 - 2015 PostDoc at WSL, Project KliWaWa
2009 - 2012 Ph.D. thesis in the Forest Ecology Group, ETH Zurich
2009 - 2011 Advanced Studies in Applied Statistics at the Seminar for Statistics, ETH Zurich
2003 - 2008 Bachelor and Master Studies in Environmental Sciences, ETH Zurich
Major: Forest and Landscape Management

Projects

We demonstrate optimization pathways of forest management to mitigate climate change.

The main objective of this project is to elaborate how different diversity components in Swiss forest change with increasing area and how they depend on changing heterogeneity.

We are studying the impacts of forest management on a variety of forest services. Using two models and a range of indicators we are simulating forest development and services with a variety of management and climate scenarios.

Publications

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

Flury R., Portier J., Rohner B., Baltensweiler A., Di Bella Meusburger K., Scherrer D., … Stadelmann G. (2024) Soil and climate‐dependent ingrowth inference: broadleaves on their slow way to conquer Swiss forests. Ecography. 2024(7), e07174 (14 pp.). doi:10.1111/ecog.07174 Institutional Repository DORA

Portier J., Shackleton R.T., Klesse S., Ferretti M., Flury R., Hobi M.L., … Thürig E. (2024) No evidence that coring affects tree growth or mortality in three common European temperate forest tree species. Eur. J. For. Res. 143, 129-139. doi:10.1007/s10342-023-01612-6 Institutional Repository DORA

Rohner B., Wüest Karpati R., Abegg M., Portier J. (2024) Web-App zur erwarteten Baumartenvielfalt in Abhängigkeit der Waldfläche. Schweiz. Z. Forstwes. 175(5), 268-269. doi:10.3188/szf.2024.0268 Institutional Repository DORA

Stadelmann G., Portier J., Rohner B., Frehner M., Ibrahim M., Klesse S., … Flury R. (2024) Ökologisch kohärente Baumartengruppen für die praxisnahe Forschung. Schweiz. Z. Forstwes. 175(6), 312-313. doi:10.3188/szf.2024.0312 Institutional Repository DORA

Düggelin C., Abegg M., Allgaier Leuch B., Bischof S., Bont L., Cioldi F., … Thürig E. (2023) Inventaire forestier national suisse. Manuel pour l'enquête auprès du service forestier dans le cadre du cinquième relevé 2018–2026. WSL Berichte: Vol. 142. Birmensdorf: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, WSL. 78 p. doi:10.55419/wsl:35654 Institutional Repository DORA

Düggelin C., Abegg M., Allgaier Leuch B., Bischof S., Bont L., Cioldi F., … Thürig E. (2023) Schweizerisches Landesforstinventar. Anleitung für die Befragung der Forstdienste im Rahmen der fünften Erhebung 2018-2026. WSL Berichte: Vol. 141. Birmensdorf: Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL. 76 p. doi:10.55419/wsl:35032 Institutional Repository DORA

Marqués L., Weng E., Bugmann H., Forrester D.I., Rohner B., Hobi M.L., … Stocker B.D. (2023) Tree growth enhancement drives a persistent biomass gain in unmanaged temperate forests. AGU Adv. 4(5), e2022AV000859 (19 pp.). doi:10.1029/2022AV000859 Institutional Repository DORA

Rohner B. (2023) Dialog über die Baumarten im Schweizer Wald der Zukunft. Wald Holz. 104(9), 6-7. Institutional Repository DORA

Rohner B. (2023) Dialogue sur les essences de la forêt suisse de demain. Forêt. 76(9), 4-5. Institutional Repository DORA

Zweifel R., Pappas C., Peters R.L., Babst F., Balanzategui D., Basler D., … Sterck F. (2023) Networking the forest infrastructure towards near real-time monitoring - a white paper. Sci. Total Environ. 872, 162167 (11 pp.). doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162167 Institutional Repository DORA

Portier J., Zellweger F., Zell J., Alberdi Asensio I., Bosela M., Breidenbach J., … Rohner B. (2022) Plot size matters: toward comparable species richness estimates across plot‐based inventories. Ecol. Evol. 12(6), e8965 (12 pp.). doi:10.1002/ece3.8965 Institutional Repository DORA

Bose A.K., Rohner B., Bottero A., Ferretti M., Forrester D.I. (2021) Did the 2018 megadrought change the partitioning of growth between tree sizes and species? A Swiss case-study. Plant Biol. 24(7), 1146-1156. doi:10.1111/plb.13380 Institutional Repository DORA

Portier J., Wunder J., Stadelmann G., Zell J., Abegg M., Thürig E., Rohner B. (2021) 'Latent reserves': A hidden treasure in National Forest Inventories. J. Ecol. 109, 369-383. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13487 Institutional Repository DORA

Rohner B., Kumar S., Liechti K., Gessler A., Ferretti M. (2021) Tree vitality indicators revealed a rapid response of beech forests to the 2018 drought. Ecol. Indic. 120, 106903 (10 pp.). doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106903 Institutional Repository DORA

DeSoto L., Cailleret M., Sterck F., Jansen S., Kramer K., Robert E.M.R., … Martínez-Vilalta J. (2020) Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees. Nat. Commun. 11, 545 (9 pp.). doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14300-5 Institutional Repository DORA

Fischer C., Rohner B., Herold A., Allgaier Leuch B., Temperli C., Frutig F., … Rösler E. (2020) Holzproduktion. In U. B. Brändli, M. Abegg, & B. Allgaier Leuch (Eds.), Schweizerisches Landesforstinventar. Ergebnisse der vierten Erhebung 2009-2017. Birmensdorf; Bern: Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL; Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU. 147-187. Institutional Repository DORA

Fischer C., Rohner B., Herold A., Allgaier Leuch B., Temperli C., Frutig F., … Rösler E. (2020) Production de bois. In U. B. Brändli, M. Abegg, & B. Allgaier Leuch (Eds.), Inventaire forestier national suisse. Résultats du quatrième inventaire 2009-2017. Birmensdorf; Berne: Institut fédéral de recherches sur la forêt, la neige et le paysage WSL; Office fédéral de l'environnement OFEV. 147-187. Institutional Repository DORA

Rohner B., Lanz A., Cioldi F., Meile R., Thürig E., Ferretti M. (2020) Kronenzustand und Zuwachs in Schweizer Buchenwäldern während der Trockenheit 2018. Schweiz. Z. Forstwes. 171(5), 306-309. Institutional Repository DORA

Trotsiuk V., Hartig F., Cailleret M., Babst F., Forrester D.I., Baltensweiler A., … Schaub M. (2020) Assessing the response of forest productivity to climate extremes in Switzerland using model-data fusion. Glob. Chang. Biol. 26(4), 2463-2476. doi:10.1111/gcb.15011 Institutional Repository DORA

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