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Team - Applied research employee, Ecological Research employee

Christian SchanoDr.

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+41 41 462 99 41
christian.schano@vogelwarte.ch

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Applied research employee, Ecological Research employee

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Research

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Applied research, Monitoring

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Monitoring

Waterbird counts

Applied research

Birds and Alpine solar installations

Ecological research

Population dynamics of the White-winged Snowfinch

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Monitoring of selected species

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Potential effect of early snowmelt on nestling growth and first-year apparent survival in an alpine bird

Niffenegger, Carole; Hille, Sabine; Dirren, Sebastian; Gutzwiller, Anne-Cathérine; Ijjas, Fanni; Klein, Charel; Pernollet, Claire Agnès; Schano, Christian; Korner-Nievergelt, Fränzi (2026)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-62167-1

Monitoraggio degli uccelli 2025

Wechsler, Samuel; Bühler, Roman; Gremion, Jérémy; Müller, Claudia; Nef, Ueli; Pradervand, Jean-Nicolas; Schano, Christian; Schneider, Arno; Strebel, Nicolas; Varga, Katarina; Werner, Stefan (2026)

Monitoring des oiseaux 2025

Vogelmonitoring 2025

Rising Temperatures Advance Start and End of the Breeding Season of an Alpine Bird

Niffenegger, Carole A.; Hille, Sabine M.; Schano, Christian; Korner-Nievergelt, Fränzi (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70897

Natural nest cavities in a high elevation habitat provide a more constant thermal environment than human-made nest cavities

Niffenegger, Carole A.; Dirren, Sebastian; Schano, Christian; Korner-Nievergelt, Fränzi (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-023-02130-3

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Nest orientation and proximity to snow patches are important for nest site selection of a cavity breeder at high elevation

Niffenegger, Carole A.; Schano, Christian; Arlettaz, Raphaël; Korner‐Nievergelt, Fränzi (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.03046

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Insufficient considerations of seasonality, data selection and validation lead to biased species–climate relationships in mountain birds

Brambilla, Mattia; Bettega, Chiara; Delgado, Maria M.; Gabriel Hernando, Miguel de; Päckert, Martin; Arlettaz, Raphaël; Dirren, Sebastian.; Fontanilles, Philippe; Gil, Juan Antonio; Herrmann, Mylen... (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.03015

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Hatching phenology is lagging behind an advancing snowmelt pattern in a high-alpine bird

Schano, Christian; Niffenegger, Carole; Jonas, Tobias; Korner-Nievergelt, Fränzi (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01497-8

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Spatio-temporal variation in the wintering associations of an alpine bird

Del Mar Delgado, María; Arlettaz, Raphaël; Bettega, Chiara; Brambilla, Mattia; Gabriel Hernando, Miguel de; España, Antonio; Fernández-González, Ángel; Fernández-Martín, Ángel; Gil, Juan Antonio; H... (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0690

Potential sex-dependent effects of weather on apparent survival of a high-elevation specialist

Strinella, Eliseo; Scridel, Davide; Brambilla, Mattia; Schano, Christian; Korner-Nievergelt, Fränzi (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65017-w

Potential distribution of a climate sensitive species, the White-winged Snowfinch Montifringilla nivalis in Europe

Brambilla, Mattia; Resano-Mayor, Jaime; Arlettaz, Raphaël; Bettega, Chiara; Binggeli, Anaïs; Bogliani, Giuseppe; Braunisch, Veronika; Celada, Claudio; Chamberlain, Dan; Chiffard Carricaburu, Jules;... (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270920000027

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