Agroecology is a discipline, an agricultural practice, and a political-social movement. Students will attend public lectures by experts from different fields and will reflect on agroecology and its principles. Moreover, students will expand their knowledge with case studies and discuss about the role of agroecology to support sustainable agriculture and food systems.

Die Lehrveranstaltung ist zweiteilig aufgebaut:Im Molekularbiologischen Laborpraktikum (5 Kurstage, jeweils freitags, ab dem 26. Sept) erlernen die Studierenden grundlegende Techniken der Molekularbiologie.Im anschliessenden Methodentraining (5 Kurstage im Block) wenden sie zentrale Methoden des jeweiligen Fachgebiets praxisnah in einer der beteiligten Forschungsgruppen an.

This course will introduce the concept and different aspects of biodiversity. Effects of biodiversity on forest and agro-ecosystem goods and services, e.g. productivity and biogeochemical cycling, but also on stability of production systems against natural and anthropogenic disturbances will be addressed. Different management options for sustainable resource use will be studied.

This course focuses on the interactions between ecology, biogeochemistry and management of agro- and forest ecosystems, thus coupled human-environmental systems. Students learn how environmental conditions but also human impacts on ecosystems via management influence the greenhouse gas exchange (fluxes) between atmosphere and biosphere.

Future climate change can only kept within reasonable bounds when CO2 emissions are drastically reduced. In this course, we will discuss a portfolio of options involving the alteration of natural carbon sinks and carbon sequestration. The course includes introductory lectures, presentations from guest speakers from industry and the public sector, and final presentations by the students.

Fallbeispiele aus der Forschung entlang der Nahrungsmittelkette

The colloquium “Challenges in Plant Sciences” is a core class of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center's PhD program. The colloquium introduces participants to the broad spectrum of plant sciences within the network. The course offers the opportunity to approach interdisciplinary topics in the field of plant sciences.

The general theme of this course is the effect of environmental factors (such as light, temperature, relative humidity, CO2 concentrations, etc.) on plant physiology: water uptake and transport, transpiration, CO2 gas exchange of plants (photosynthesis, respiration), growth and C allocation, yield and production, stress physiology. Working with measurement data and Jupyter Notebooks is included.

Research results in grassland will be presented by experienced researchers as well as Ph.D. students and graduate students. Citation classics as well as most recent research results from published or on-going studies will be presented and discussed. Topics will range from plant ecophysiology, biodiversity and biogeochemical cycling to management aspects in agro- and forest ecosystems.

Research results in agro- and forest ecosystem sciences will be presented by experienced researchers as well as by doctoral and graduate students. Citation classics as well as recent research results will be discussed. Topics will range from plant ecophysiology, biodiversity and biogeochemistry to management aspects in agro- and forest ecosystems.

Research results in agro- and forest ecosystem sciences will be presented by experienced researchers as well as by doctoral and graduate students. Citation classics as well as recent research results will be discussed. Topics will range from plant ecophysiology, biodiversity and biogeochemistry to management aspects in agro- and forest ecosystems.

Research results in grassland sciences will be presented and discussed, ranging from citation classics to most recent research results from published or on-going studies. Topics will range from plant ecophysiology, biodiversity and biogeochemical cycling to management aspects in grassland systems.

Research results in grassland sciences will be presented and discussed, ranging from citation classics to most recent research results from published or on-going studies. Topics will range from plant ecophysiology, biodiversity and biogeochemical cycling to management aspects in agro and forest ecosystems.

This course introduces plant ecology. Through lectures, exercises and excursions, students will gain a broad vision of the cutting edge topics that are being researched and studied at the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH and WSL. This will be the base for a future dialog between the field of landscape architecture and the field of sciences.

This course raises awareness of doctoral students to ethical issues that may arise during their doctorate. After an introduction to ethics and good scientific practice, students use resources that can assist them with ethical decision-making. Students are given the opportunity to apply their knowledge and train their newly acquired skills in an interactive, discipline specific context.

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Different experimental designs will be discussed and various statistical tools will be applied to research questions in agroecosystem sciences. Statistical methods range from simple analysis of variance to mixed-models and multivariate statistics. Surveys and manipulative field and laboratory experiments are addressed and students learn to analyse data using a hands-on approach.