PublicationsOther international projects (non ZIL funded)Buchmann, N., Kahmen, A., <strong>2006</strong>: Addressing the functional valueof biodiversity for ecosystem functioning using stable isotopes.Joint SIBAE/BASIN Conference on “Isotopes as Tracers of EcologicalChange”, Tomar, Portugal, March 15.Buchmann, N., <strong>2006</strong>: Ecosystem functioning, biodiversity andenvironmental change: Understanding links and feedbacks in terrestrialecosystems. Colloquium of the Max Planck Institute forTerrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany, April 24.Buchmann, N., <strong>2006</strong>: Auswirkungen des Globalen Wandels auf terrestrischeÖkosysteme. 6 th University Day of the TechnicalUniversity Munich, Germany, June 30.Buchmann, N., et al., <strong>2006</strong>: Environmental and physiological controlsof oxygen isotope signals in water and organic matter resultin varying time lags among different plant compartments. <strong>Annual</strong>Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), Memphis, USA,August 9.Buchmann, N., <strong>2006</strong>: Biospheric-atmospheric trace gas exchangeof terrestrial ecosystems: Fluxes, drivers, open questions.Colloquium of the Federal Institute of Materials Science andTechnology (Empa), Dübendorf, Switzerland, December 12.Buchmann, N., 20<strong>07</strong>: Trace gas exchange between the biosphereand the atmosphere: What determines net ecosystem fluxes?Colloquium of the Institute of Environmental Sciences at theUniversity of Zurich. February 7.Buchmann, N., 20<strong>07</strong>: Global change research: From ecosystemfunctioning to policy relevance. Mentoring NetworkFrauSchafftWissen, <strong>ETH</strong> Zurich. August 13.Clément, C., <strong>2006</strong>: Análisis químicas y efecto de la maca sobreparámetros de fertilidad de toros suizos. 8 th Curso Internacional dela Maca, Dirección de Promoción Agraria Pasco, Cerro de Pasco,Peru, October 13 – 14.Dorn, S., Gu, H., 20<strong>07</strong>: Codling moth mobility and fecundity, anddispersal in relation to radiation dose: Optimisation for SterileInsect Technique. 4 th FAO/IAEA Research Coordination Meeting on“Improvement of codling moth SIT to facilitate expansion of fieldapplication”, EMBRAPA. Brazil, Vacaria, March 19 – 23.Dorn, S., Sarvary, M., 20<strong>07</strong>: Cactoblastis cactorum laboratory performancestudies. International Cactoblastis cactorum Conference.USA, Phoenix, May 7 – 10.Egli, I., <strong>2006</strong>: Inhibitors and enhancers of iron absorption, Ho ChiMinh City, Vietnam, September 4 – 8.Egli, I., <strong>2006</strong>: Iron absorption from beans: Influence of phytatesand polyphenols. Joint International Atomic Energy Agency /HarvestPlus Meeting on Nutrient Uptake from Biofortified Crops.Vienna, Austria, May 17 – 19.Ehlers, K., <strong>2006</strong>: Informationsreise zur Pflege einer ökologisch orientiertenAgrarwende in Kuba. Besuch einer Kuba Delegation inEschikon, Switzerland, July 21.Engel, S., <strong>2006</strong>: The complexities of decentralization as anapproach to reduce natural resource degradation and poverty in aglobalized world. Keynote presentation at the InternationalConference on “Economics of Poverty, Environment and NaturalResource Use”, Wageningen, The Netherlands. May 17 – 19.Engel, S., López, R., <strong>2006</strong>: Exploiting common resources with capital-intensivetechnologies: The role of external forces. <strong>Annual</strong>Meeting of the Verein fuer Socialpolitik’s Research Committee onEnvironmental and Resource Economics (AURO), Oldenburg,Germany, May 5 – 6.Engel, S., López, R., <strong>2006</strong>: Exploiting common resources with capital-intensivetechnologies: The role of external forces. Conferenceon Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics (SURED<strong>2006</strong>), Ascona, Switzerland, June 4 – 9.Engel, S. Palmer, C., <strong>2006</strong>: Designing payments for environmentalservices in the context of weak property rights and commercialinterests. Supply and demand for ecosystem services from tropicalforestry – Market actors, marketing and institutions, Workshoporganised by <strong>ETH</strong>-HES, Zurich, Switzerland, January 16.Engel, S., 20<strong>07</strong>: Increasing the efficiency of conservation spending:The case of payments for environmental services in Costa Rica.Workshop “A Global Network of Forest Protected Areas under theCBD: Opportunities and Challenges”, University of Freiburg, May9 – 11.Engel, S., 20<strong>07</strong>: Conservation of tropical forests: Addressing marketfailure. Conference “Economic Development and EnvironmentalSustainability: A Dialogue on India”, The Initiative for PolicyDialogue, New Delhi, India, December 18 – 19.Eugster, W., <strong>2006</strong>: Ion loads in tropical cloud forests in Puerto Ricoand Costa Rica and tracer techniques to assess throughfall. AGUFall Meeting, San Francisco, USA December 11.Farah, Z., <strong>2006</strong>: Chemistry and technology of camel milk: The presentstate of knowledge. International seminar on Livestock andwildlife in the arid and desert regions. Arid Land Institute (IRA),Djerba, Tunisia, September 18 – 20.Frossard, E., <strong>2006</strong>: Die Wiederherstellung der Bodenfruchtbarkeitin Afrika, im Süden der Sahara. Präsentation im Rahmen der “<strong>ETH</strong>unterwegs”, Gymnasium Bulle, Switzerland, November 21.Hurrell, R., <strong>2006</strong>: Role of micronutrient interactions in epidemiologyof micronutrient deficiencies: Interaction of iron, iodine andvitamin A. Symposium at St. John’s Medical School, Bangalore,India, March 14.Hurrell, R., <strong>2006</strong>: Linking the bioavailability of iron compounds tothe efficacy of iron fortified foods. Bioavailability <strong>2006</strong>, ChiangMai, Thailand, March 7.Hurrell, R., <strong>2006</strong>: Optimizing the bioavailability of iron compoundsfor food fortification. Sight and Life Workshop on Nutritionalanaemia, Spain, Barcelona, September 27.Hurrell, R., <strong>2006</strong>: Food fortification as a strategy for healthimprovement: Potential and limits. Taiwan Nutrition Society<strong>Annual</strong> Meeting, Taiwan, Taipei, May 18.Hurrell, R., <strong>2006</strong>: Bioavailability of minerals and vitamins from fortifiedfoods. Taiwan Nutrition Society <strong>Annual</strong> Meeting, Taiwan,Taipei, May 19.Hurrell, R., <strong>2006</strong>: Iron fortification: Efficacy / effectiveness andsafety. WHO Expert Consultation on Iron and Infection, Lyon,France, June 13.Hurrell, R., <strong>2006</strong>: Plant iron in human nutrition. 13 th InternationalSymposium on Iron Nutrition and Interactions in Plants, France,Montpellier, July 4.Hurrell, R., <strong>2006</strong>: Overview – Micronutrient fortification with specialreference to iron. GlaxoSmithKline meeting, Bangalore, India,March 14.84
PublicationsHurrell, R., <strong>2006</strong>: Elemental iron for food fortification. HöganäsSymposium, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 6.Jemo, M., <strong>2006</strong>: Agronomic management options to increase P use inlow-P soils of <strong>South</strong>ern Cameroon, NIDECO Colloquium, <strong>ETH</strong> Zurich,Switzerland, May 11.Kastner, S., <strong>2006</strong>: Microbiological aspects of attiéké production:Microbial diversity in the inoculum and its impact on the fermentationprocess. Colloquium of the CSRS, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, August 31.Kastner, S., 20<strong>07</strong>: Cassava fermentation – Towards the improvementof attiéké quality and safety. International workshop on the potentialof cassava processing in West Africa, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, June 4 – 7.Kreuzer, M., <strong>2006</strong>: Potential and constraints for agriculture andlivestock production in agroforestry systems. Trees for PovertyAlleviation, <strong>Annual</strong> Conference of the Swiss <strong>Centre</strong> forInternational Agriculture (ZIL), Zurich, Switzerland, June 9.Kreuzer, M., 20<strong>07</strong>: Mitigation, especially of methane, from livestockby feeding measures. 8 th Interagency Meeting of Pro-PoorLivestock and Animal Health Research Donors, Swiss College ofAgriculture, Zollikofen, Switzerland, June 7 – 8.Kreuzer, M., 20<strong>07</strong>: Unternutrition: Crossbreds or indigenous Zebubreeds to be preferred? Sustainable livestock-keeping in the tropicsand subtropics – In the suspense between environmental protectionand intensification, Interdisciplinary Day of the Course“Ruminant Science”, <strong>ETH</strong> Zurich, Switzerland, June 20.Mayer, A. C., <strong>2006</strong>: Dieta para vacas criollas en sistemas silvopastorilesnaturales en el bosque montano tucumano-boliviano:observaciones directas, experimentos controlados y análisis bromatológicos.IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Agroforesteria,Varadero, Cuba, October 24 – 28.Mayer, A. C., 20<strong>07</strong>: Pros and cons of forest grazing in subtropicalmountain forests. Sustainable livestock-keeping in the tropics andsubtropics – In the suspense between environmental protectionand intensification. Interdisciplinary Day of the Course “RuminantScience”, <strong>ETH</strong> Zurich, June 20Palmer, C., Engel, S., <strong>2006</strong>: Designing payments for environmentalservices in the context of weak property rights and commercialinterests. 3 rd World Congress of Environmental and ResourceEconomists, Kyoto, Japan, July 3 – 7.Palmer, C., Engel, S., <strong>2006</strong>: Designing payments for environmentalservices with weak property rights and commercial interests.<strong>Annual</strong> Conference of the International Society of EcologicalEconomics (ISEE), New Delhi, December 15 – 19.Walczyk, T., <strong>2006</strong>: Stable isotope techniques for assessing ironabsorption in humans. Regional Training Course on Stable IsotopeTechniques, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 27 – 31.Walczyk, T., <strong>2006</strong>: Opening new doors to nutrition research usingstable isotope techniques, National University of Singapore,Singapore, February 7.Walczyk, T., <strong>2006</strong>: Effect of calcium and ascorbic acid on ironabsorption from an iron fortified instant drink. Bioavailability<strong>2006</strong>, Chiang Mai, Thailand, March 7 – 10.Wullschleger, S., 20<strong>07</strong>: Seasonal dependence of the microbialdiversity in fèné, a spontaneously fermented dairy product of Mali.NIDECO Colloquium, <strong>ETH</strong> Zurich, May 16.Zeugin, F., 20<strong>07</strong>: Diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a tropicalplantation – Preliminary results. Seminar in Plant Nutrition,<strong>ETH</strong> Zurich, March.Zimmermann, M., <strong>2006</strong>: Interactions of concurrent vitamin A andiodine deficiencies: Effects on the thyroid. Bioavailability <strong>2006</strong>Symposium, Chiang Mai, Thailand, March.Zimmermann, M., <strong>2006</strong>: Iron fortification reduces blood lead levels inIndian children. FASEB Meeting <strong>2006</strong>, Washington DC, USA, April 3.Zimmermann, M., <strong>2006</strong>: Iodine nutrition in pregnancy and childhood:An update. American Thyroid Association Spring Meeting,Washington DC, USA, March 24.Zimmermann, M., <strong>2006</strong>: Assessing iodine status and monitoringprogress of iodized salt programs: An update. National PediatricConference, Tirana, Albania, June 2.Zimmermann, M., <strong>2006</strong>: Vitamin A supplementation in childrenwith poor vitamin A and iron status increases erythropoietin andhemoglobin concentrations without changing total body iron.International Public Health Nutrition Conference, Barcelona,Spain, September 27.Zimmermann, M., <strong>2006</strong>: Monitoring iodine nutrition: An update.Russian National Thyroid Congress Moscow, Russia, November 30.Zimmermann, M., <strong>2006</strong>: Vitamin A and iron interactions in children.International Nutrition Seminar, Wageningen, TheNetherlands, December 12.Zimmermann, M., <strong>2006</strong>: Micronutrient deficiencies in African children:Interactions and public health significance. HabilitationLecture, Zurich, Switzerland, December 5.Doctoral dissertationsZIL funded projectsDällenbach, G., <strong>2006</strong>: Diversified cassava agroecosystems for ecologicallysound crop production in the Andean hillsides. Diss. <strong>ETH</strong>Nr. 17002, Supervised by E. Frossard, co-supervised by M. Wolfe,P. Kerridge, M.R. Finck.Velten, G., 20<strong>07</strong>: Host-plant resistance in dry beans: Implicationsfor tritrophic interactions and hydration properties. Diss. <strong>ETH</strong> Nr.17012, Supervised by S. Dorn and A. S. Rott.RFPP projectsSell, J., <strong>2006</strong>: Decision-making of market actors in the context ofecosystem services from tropical forestry – Criteria, preferencesand expected benefits. Diss. <strong>ETH</strong> Nr. 16447, Supervised by R. W.Scholz and T. Köllner.Zundel, C., <strong>2006</strong>: Of mites and men: Agro-ecological factors affectingthe neotropical predatory mite Typhlodromalus aripo DeLeonand its potential to control the cassava green mite in the mid-altitudesof Cameroon. Doctoral thesis, University of Basel, Supervisedby P. Nagel and U. Scheidegger.Master and diploma thesesZIL funded projectsAufdermauer, T., <strong>2006</strong>: Effect of diet type on the composition ofmilk and milk fat of indigenous and Brown Swiss cows kept at highaltitude in Peru. Supervised by K. Bartl and H. R. Wettstein.Bouillot, H., <strong>2006</strong>: Auswirkungen unterschiedlicher Beweidungsintensitätenauf ausgewählte Baum- und Straucharten in85
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