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Andreas Ensslin

Conservateur, Dr ès Sc (Univ. de Berne)

Unité FloCoSi
Groupe Conservation
Responsable de la banque de semences

CJB

Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques
Ch. de l'Impératrice 1
CP 71 CH-1292 Chambésy, Genève
Switzerland
Tél. (+41) 22 418 51 60
Fax (+41) 22 418 51 01

Research topics and scientific interests

Ex situ conservation, seed banking, conservation translocations (plant reintroductions and reinforcements), global change ecology and evolutionary ecology.

Research and conservation projects

Monitoring de la flore et des milieux naturels du canton de Genève (MonGE).
COST Action "ConservePlants" www.conserveplants.eu
Ex situ conservation and reintroduction of threatened Swiss plant species (collaboration with Prof. Markus Fischer and Sarah Bürli, University of Bern, Switzerland)
Using seed banks to study plant adaptations to climate change (collaboration with Prof. Niek Scheepens and Robert Rauschkolb, University of Frankfurt, Germany)
Evolutionary aspects in ex situ plant conservation (collaboration with Dr Sandrine Godefroid, Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium)
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andreas_Ensslin

Selected publications:

Ensslin A., Godefroid S. 2020. Ex situ cultivation impacts on plant traits and drought stress response in a multi-species experiment. Biological Conservation (accepted)

Rembold K. Junge A-L., Amiet F., Balzari C.A., Bergamini A., … Ensslin A., …Fischer M.2020. Vielfalt bedingt Vielfalt: wildlebende Arten im Botanischen Garten der Universität Bern. Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Bern (accepted)

Peters MK, Hemp A, Appelhans T, Becker JN, … Ensslin A, …Steffan-Dewenter I. 2019. Climate-land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Nature 568, 88-92.

Ensslin, A., Godefroid, S. 2019. How the cultivation of wild plants in botanic gardens can change their genetic and phenotypic status and what this means for their conservation value. Sibbaldia 17, 51-69.
Ensslin A, Godefroid, S. 2019. Assessing the magnitude and implications of seed germination changes during ex situ cultivation. Samara 34, 8-9.

Slik, F., Arroyo-Rodriquez, V., Field, R., Aguilar, S., Aguirre, N., Ahumad, J., Aiba, S-I., Alves, L.F., … Ensslin, A., …Zang, R. 2018. A phylogenetic classification of the world´s tropical forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 15, 1837-1842.

Ensslin, A., Van de Vyver, A., Vanderborght, T., Godefroid, S. 2018. Ex situ cultivation entails high risk of seed dormancy loss in short-lived wild plant species. Journal of Applied Ecology 55, 1145-1154.

Ensslin, A., Mollel, N.P., Hemp, A., Fischer, F. 2018. Elevational transplantation suggests different responses of African submontane and savanna plants to climate change. Journal of Ecology 106, 296-305.

Ensslin, A., Tschöpe, O., Burkart, M., Joshi, J. 2015. Fitness decline and adaptation to novel environments in ex-situ plant collections: Current knowledge and future perspectives. Biological Conservation 192, 394-401.

Ensslin, A., Fischer, M. 2015. Variation in life-history traits and their plasticities to elevational transplantation among seed families suggests potential for adaptative evolution of 15 tropical plant species to climate change. American Journal of Botany 102, 1371-1379.