Anne Kempel

 

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Anne Kempel

Institute of Plant Sciences

University of Bern

Altenbergrain 21

CH-3013 Bern

Switzerland

 

Tel.: +41 (0)31 631 4938

Fax: +41 (0)31 631 4942

E-mail: kempel@ips.unibe.ch

 

 

Research interests

Plant-insect interactions, Above-belowground interactions, Plant invasiveness, Mycorrhiza and herbivore resistance, Rhizobia, Evolution of plant-strategies and everything that sounds fun…

 

Research projects

Experimental plant introduction: disentangling the roles of propagule pressure, soil disturbance and life-history traits

with Thomas Chrobock, Markus Fischer & Mark van Kleunen, funded by Swiss National Science Foundation (for contents, search the SNSF Project Database)

   

Curriculum Vitae

Current

PHD student within the section Plant Ecology (Lab of Markus Fischer) at the Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland

2001-2007

Biology studies at the University of Marburg (Germany), Diploma thesis at the Department for Ecology and Animal Ecology with Martin Schädler and Roland Brandl

  

Publications

Kempel A., Schädler M., Chrobock T., Fischer M., van Kleunen M. (2011). Tradeoffs associated with constitutive and induced plant resistance against herbivory. PNAS

Chrobock T., Kempel A., Fischer M., van Kleunen M. (2011). Introduction bias: Cultivated alien plant species germinate faster and more abundantly than native species in Switzerland. Basic and Applied Ecology

Kempel A., Schmidt A., Brandl R., Schädler M. (2010): Support from the underground – Induced plant resistance depends on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Functional Ecology

Schädler M., Brandl R., Kempel A. (2010): Host plant genotype determines bottom-up effects in an aphid-parasitoid-predator system. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Schädler M., Brandl R., Kempel A. (2010): “Afterlife" effects of mycorrhization on the decomposition of plant residues. Soil Biology & Biochemistry

Kempel A., Brandl R., Schädler M. (2009) Symbiotic microorganisms as players in aboveground plant-herbivore interactions – the      role of rhizobia. Oikos

 

 

 

Last updated: 27.04.2011

Universität Bern | Institute of Plant Sciences | Altenbergrain 21 | CH-3013 | Bern | Tel: +41 31 631 49 38