I serve as Head of the Applied Research Unit at the Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach, Switzerland. In my team, we focus on the intersection of conservation biology, species interactions, and land‑use change, with the aim of providing robust, evidence‑based insights that can support sustainable biodiversity management and inform both applied and fundamental research.
A central emphasis of our work in spatial ecology. We seek to understand the contextual determinants of conservation effectiveness—why particular interventions excel under certain ecological or socio‑environmental conditions but fail in others. We also investigate how human activities reshape organismal movement across landscapes, and how these altered movement pathways influence ecological processes at broader scales. In parallel, we design and evaluate targeted conservation strategies for threatened species and develop spatially explicit decision‑support tools that enable practitioners and policymakers to allocate resources with maximal ecological impact.
Our current research spans several major lines: assessing the success of restoration efforts for songbird communities and the demography of individual species in agricultural and forested landscapes; unraveling the interplay among migration, dispersal, and demography; the impact of renewale energies (solar, wind) on species of conservation concern and alpine biodiversity, designing decision-support tools to conserve grassland and forest bird species, passive acoustic monitoring, and how mobile linker species — such as hummingbirds and frugivorous birds— interact with the surrpiuding landscape to shape animal‑mediated plant dispersal.
If you would like further information or wish to discuss potential collaborations, you are welcome to contact me by email.
urs.kormann(here is an at sign)vogelwarte[dot]ch
A central emphasis of our work in spatial ecology. We seek to understand the contextual determinants of conservation effectiveness—why particular interventions excel under certain ecological or socio‑environmental conditions but fail in others. We also investigate how human activities reshape organismal movement across landscapes, and how these altered movement pathways influence ecological processes at broader scales. In parallel, we design and evaluate targeted conservation strategies for threatened species and develop spatially explicit decision‑support tools that enable practitioners and policymakers to allocate resources with maximal ecological impact.
Our current research spans several major lines: assessing the success of restoration efforts for songbird communities and the demography of individual species in agricultural and forested landscapes; unraveling the interplay among migration, dispersal, and demography; the impact of renewale energies (solar, wind) on species of conservation concern and alpine biodiversity, designing decision-support tools to conserve grassland and forest bird species, passive acoustic monitoring, and how mobile linker species — such as hummingbirds and frugivorous birds— interact with the surrpiuding landscape to shape animal‑mediated plant dispersal.
If you would like further information or wish to discuss potential collaborations, you are welcome to contact me by email.
urs.kormann(here is an at sign)vogelwarte[dot]ch
