Publications de Rodolphe Schlaepfer

Impacts of snow-farming on alpine soil and vegetation: A case study from the Swiss Alps

Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Alexandre Buttler, Pierre Rémi Mariotte, Lucas Georges Jean-Paul Freund, Juan Carlos Quezada Rivera

Snow-farming is one of the adaptive strategies used to face the snow deficit in ski resorts. We studied the impact of a shifting snow-farming technique on a pasture slope in Adelboden, Switzerland. Specifically, we compared plots covered by a compressed sn ...

2023

Ericoid shrub encroachment shifts aboveground-belowground linkages in three peatlands across Europe and Western Siberia

Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Alexandre Buttler

In northern peatlands, reduction of Sphagnum dominance in favour of vascular vegetation is likely to influence biogeochemical processes. Such vegetation changes occur as the water table lowers and temperatures rise. To test which of these factors has a sig ...

WILEY2023

Composition and superposition of alluvial deposits drive macro-biological soil engineering and organic matter dynamics in floodplains

Claire Guenat, Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Pascal Turberg, Renée-Claire Le Bayon, Andreas Cedric Schomburg

Soil structure formation in alluvial soils is a fundamental process in near-natural floodplains. A stable soil structure is essential for many ecosystem services and helps to prevent river bank erosion. Plants and earthworms are successful soil engineering ...

2019

Responses of antinomic foliar traits to experimental climate forcing in beech and spruce saplings

Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Alexandre Buttler, María Paula Sanginés De Cárcer, Constant Signarbieux

Global warming is predicted to have a strong impact on mountain ecosystems. Subalpine sylvopastoral systems are very sensitive to climate change, which puts their future sustainability at stake. These ecosystems are mostly dominated by spruce and beech, an ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Asymmetric effects of cooler and warmer winters on beech phenology last beyond spring

Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Alexandre Buttler, María Paula Sanginés De Cárcer, Constant Signarbieux, Ester Toledano Díaz, Yann Vitasse

In temperate trees, the timings of plant growth onset and cessation affect biogeochemical cycles, water, and energy balance. Currently, phenological studies largely focus on specific phenophases and on their responses to warming. How differently spring phe ...

Wiley2017

Linking historical land use to present vegetation and soil characteristics under slash-and-burn cultivation in Madagascar

Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Alexandre Buttler, Robert Thomas Edmund Mills, Andry Randriamikatra Randrianarison

Aim: In this paper, we link historical land use of cultivated parcels formerly slashed and burnt, with current secondary vegetation and soil characteristics, in the region of evergreen rain forest in Madagascar. Aim is to understand the legacy effect of fo ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Quantifying Biomass Of Secondary Forest After Slash-And-Burn Cultivation In Central Menabe, Madagascar

Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Alexandre Buttler, Jean-Michel Gobat

RAHARIMALALA O, BUTTLER A, SCHLAEPFER R & GOBAT J-M. 2012. Quantifying biomass of secondary forest after slash-and-burn cultivation in Central Menabe, Madagascar. Biomass is the principal input of nutrients in slash-and-burn cultivation of tropical dry dec ...

Forest Research Inst Malaysia2012

Looking for differences in wood properties as a function of the felling date: lunar phase-correlated variations in the drying behavior of Norway Spruce (Picea abies Karst.) and Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.)

Rodolphe Schlaepfer

A large-scale field experiment on the drying behavior of Norway Spruce (Picea abies Karst.) and Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) in relation to the felling date was conducted over a period of 24 weeks in order to investigate the existence of variatio ...

2010

Landscape effects on anuran pond occupancy in an agricultural countryside: barrier-based buffers predict distributions better than circular buffers

Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Flavio Zanini, Anna Klingemann

Species movement and occupancy of habitat patches are dependent on landscape permeability. Some land-use types (e.g., roads) may be barriers to animal movement. Analyses of the effect of landscape structure on patch occupancy usually use circular buffers a ...

2008

Modelling the impact of flooding stress on the growth performance of woody species using fuzzy logic

Rodolphe Schlaepfer

Among the driving processes responsible for riparian forest dynamics the species-specific impact of flooding on the development of woody plants plays a key role-particularly for lowland rivers. Only a few of the forest succession models currently in use in ...

2008

River Rehabilitation through a Mutli-purpose Reservoir

Philippe Heller, Erik Bollaert, Anton Schleiss, Rodolphe Schlaepfer

2007

Log decay of Picea abies in the Swiss Jura mountains of central Europe

Rita Bütler Sauvain, Claire Guenat, Rodolphe Schlaepfer

2007

Mehrzweckprojekt an Flüssen: Synergien zwischen Ökologie und Energieerzeugung

Philippe Heller, Erik Bollaert, Anton Schleiss, Rodolphe Schlaepfer

2006

Flussmehrzweckprojekt : Synergien zwischen Ökologie und Energieproduktion

Philippe Heller, Erik Bollaert, Anton Schleiss, Rodolphe Schlaepfer

2006

Objectifs Environnementaux et Paysagers d'un Aménagement Hydraulique au fil de l'eau

Rodolphe Schlaepfer

2006

Multi-purpose shallow reservoir: Synergies betwenn ecology and energy production

Philippe Heller, Erik Bollaert, Anton Schleiss, Rodolphe Schlaepfer

River Flow 20122006

Analyse de la dynamique du paysage de la plaine du Rhône de 1850 à 2003 sur la base de cartes topographiques

Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Flavio Zanini

2006

Saproxylische Arten in der Schweiz: ökologisches Potential und Hotspots

Rita Bütler Sauvain, Rodolphe Schlaepfer

2006

Förderung von saproxylischen Arten: Massnahmen, Zielkonflikte und offene Fragen

Rita Bütler Sauvain, Rodolphe Schlaepfer

2006

Flooding tolerance of Central European tree and shrub species

Rodolphe Schlaepfer

Extensive efforts have been made in recent years to restore rivers with a view to increasing the ecological value of riparian areas and the surrounding landscape and to improving the protection provided against extreme flooding events. One of the important ...

Elsevier2006