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Dr. Nadine Keller

Academic Qualifications

PhD, 2023 – Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), Switzerland

MSc, 2018 – Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland

BSc, 2016 – Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Research areas

Tropical forest ecology; forestry; active restoration; natural regeneration; ecosystem functioning; eco-hydrology; soil science; below-ground carbon storage

Research interests

Nadine’s research aims to evaluate the long-term success of active restoration in comparison to natural regeneration of lowland dipterocarp forests in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. She focusses on the recovery of eco-hydrological and below-ground ecosystem processes and wants to assess the effect of restoration on an ecosystem level.

Biography

Nadine joined the Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions with a SNF Postdoc.Mobility fellowship. For her doctorate she investigated the recovery of (hydrological) ecosystem functions of forests after disturbance through logging, and assessed the biodiversity consequences of active restoration. For her Postdoc she now builds up on work from her PhD, but lays particular focuses on linking above-and below-ground processes.

Nadine is further interested in scientific outreach activities and organized several public presentations in her hometown in Switzerland.

Selected publications:

  • Keller, N., Niklaus, P. A., Ghazoul, J., Marfil, T., Godoong, E., & Philipson, C. D. (2023). Biodiversity consequences of long-term active forest restoration in selectively-logged tropical rainforests. Forest Ecology and Management, 549, 121414. 
  • Keller, N., van Meerveld, I., Philipson, C. D., Asner, G. P., Godoong, E., Tangki, H., & Ghazoul, J. (2023). Does heterogeneity in regenerating secondary forests affect mean throughfall?. Journal of Hydrology, 130083.
  • Boul Lefeuvre, N., Keller, N., Plagnat-Cantoreggi, P., Godoong, E., Dray, A., & Philipson, C. D. (2022). The value of logged tropical forests: A study of ecosystem services in Sabah, Borneo. Environmental Science & Policy, 128, 56-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.11.003.
  • Keller, N., Van Meerveld, I., Ghazoul, J., Chiew, L. Y., Philipson, C. D., Godoong, E., & Slade, E. M. (2022). Dung beetles as hydrological engineers: effects of tunnelling on soil infiltration. Ecological entomology, 47(1), 84-94. https://doi.org/10.1111/EEN.13094.
  • Slade, E. M., Bagchi, R., Keller, N., & Philipson, C. D. (2019). When Do More Species Maximize More Ecosystem Services?. Trends in plant science, 24(9), 790-793. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2019.06.014.

Feature and publications in popular media:

Conference and presentations:

July 2022: European Conference of Tropical Ecology, Montpellier (France)

June 2022: World Biodiversity Forum, Davos (Switzerland)