Prof. Niklaus Zimmermann

Contact

Organisation

Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

Department

Job titles

Senior Scientist, Research program leader

Based in

Switzerland

Languages

English, German

Working on daylight in relation to

Why daylight matters in my work

Light is a key energy resource for plants. As a plant ecologist, I can say that plant life - and therefore, life on earth - would not exist in the form we know our planet without sunlight. It drives photosynthesis, and by this is the fuel for the whole trophic pyramid of life on earth.

Daylight Academy projects I worked on

Lightbook

Main discipline

Biology

Other disciplines

Agriculture, Botany, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering and Technology, Geography, History, Physics, Sociology

Fields of expertise

Climate Science, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Forest Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Plant Biology, Plant Ecology, Biodiversity