Evelin Iseli's research while affiliated with Hochschule für Technik Zürich and other places

Publications (6)

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Microclimate—proximal climatic variation at scales of metres and minutes—can exacerbate or mitigate the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. However, most microclimate studies are temperature centric, and do not consider meteorological factors such as sunshine, hail and snow. Meanwhile, remote cameras have become a primary tool to monitor wil...
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Deciphering how plants interact with each other across environmental gradients is important to understand plant community assembly, as well as potential future plant responses to environmental change. Plant−plant interactions are expected to shift from predominantly negative (i.e. competition) to predominantly positive (i.e. facilitation) along gra...
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Microclimate - proximal climatic variation at scales of meters and minutes - can exacerbate or mitigate the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. However, most microclimate studies are temperature-centric, and do not consider meteorological factors such as sunshine, hail and snow. Meanwhile, remote cameras have become a primary tool to monitor...
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According to the stress gradient hypothesis (SGH), plant-plant interactions are expected to shift from predominantly negative (i.e. competition) to predominantly positive (i.e. facilitation) along gradients of environmental severity. The SGH has been particularly useful as a framework for understanding how plants interact with each other across ele...
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High-elevation ecosystems are among the few ecosystems worldwide that are not yet heavily invaded by non-native plants. This is expected to change as species expand their range limits upwards to fill their climatic niches and respond to ongoing anthropogenic disturbances. Yet, whether and how quickly these changes are happening has only been assess...
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Recent decades have seen a surge in awareness about insect pollinator declines. Social bees receive the most attention, but most flower-visiting species are lesser known, non-bee insects. Nocturnal flower visitors, e.g. moths, are especially difficult to observe and largely ignored in pollination studies. Clearly, achieving balanced monitoring of a...

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... targeted at agricultural pests [70][71][72] or invasive species [73]. Likewise, since the devices not only detect insects and other invertebrates, the information on vertebrates and micrometeorological conditions [74,75] could feed into their respective monitoring programmes. Ultimately, the data recorded by all devices should be automatically transferred, processed and archived, so that the derived EBVs are available at everyone's fingertips in near-real time. ...
... However, even within Plant Soil a heterogeneous environment, plants at the patch boundaries are likely to experience more heterogeneous conditions than plants in the patch centres. Previous studies have found that roads might provide favourable disturbed habitats and dispersal routes for non-native species to spread along the roads (Christen and Matlack 2006;Iseli et al. 2023;Son et al. 2024). Agricultural field boundaries may act as refugia for grassland species and have an effect on biodiversity in managed agricultural landscapes (Smart et al. 2002), thus might also provide opportunities for non-native species to establish. ...
... The emergence of high-resolution cameras, low-cost sensors, and processing methods based on machine learning (ML) has the potential to fundamentally change insect monitoring methods [7]. Camera traps powered by computer vision models for terrestrial vertebrates monitoring are now commonplace [8], and specialized camera trap hardware for insect monitoring has begun to gain momentum [9][10][11][12][13]. A common group of focus for such studies has been moths [14][15][16], which serve vital ecological roles and represent a fifth of all insect species. ...