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GreenTech Festival - How Drones map Biodiversity in Peru’s Canopies
- Institute of Agricultural Sciences
- Biodiversity
- D-USYS
Researchers are using drones to reach the hidden world of the rainforest canopy, collecting samples to identify the species living there. This collaborative project between the Environmental Robotics Lab and NGO Wilderness International will be presented at the GreenTech Festival in Berlin May 16-17.
Not just concrete jungle: Wild animals in the city of Zurich
- Biodiversity
- Research
- D-USYS
Wildlife biologist Anouk Taucher is investigating the distribution of wild animals in the city of Zurich as part of a collaboration between the StadtWildTiere project, WSL and ETH Zurich. She is comparing traditional methods such as camera traps and wildlife observations made by the public with newly developed environmental DNA monitoring in order to understand where squirrels, hedgehogs and other wild animals are found in the city.
Landscape evolution makes Madagascar a hotspot for plant species diversity
- Biodiversity
- Research
- D-USYS
Madagascar is home to over 11,000 plant species, 80 percent of which are found nowhere else on Earth. A recent study by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL and ETH Zurich has put forward a new hypothesis for the underlying cause of Madagascar's rich plant biodiversity, which has been regarded as an unsolved mystery of natural history.