Dr. Noëlle Klein

Dr. Noëlle Klein
Lecturer at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
ETH Zürich
Additional information
2024 – now: Postdoctoral researcher • Agroscope and ETH Zurich
- Agroscope: GreeNet Biodiversa project, Agro4estery pilot project, evaluation of biodiversity-damaging subsidies in agriculture
- ETH: Consideration of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in spatially relevant decisions
2019 – 2023: Doctor of Sciences in Environmental Engineering • Agroscope and ETH Zürich
- Thesis: The role of agricultural landscape structure in predicting bird and butterfly diversity
2018 – 2019: MSc in Ecology and Evolution (Animal Ecology and Conservation) • University of Bern
- Thesis: The effects of grassland intensification on Orthoptera as a food resource for insectivorous birds
2014 – 2017: BSc in Ecology and Evolution • University of Bern
- Thesis: Performance of PIT tags used for identification of individuals and quantification of feeding rates in Hoopoes in relation to chick age, feeding posture and parent gender
Publications
Noëlle Klein, Antoine Adde, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Antoine Guisan, Felix Herzog, Philippe Jeanneret, Sonja Kay. 2025. Identification of focus zones for the conservation and promotion of priority bird species in Swiss farmlabd.
https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13286
Focus map: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15120338
Noëlle Klein, Felix Herzog, Philippe Jeanneret, Sonja Kay, 2023. Validating Farmland Biodiversity Life Cycle Assessment at the Landscape Scale. Environmental Science and Technology.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c09677
Noëlle Klein, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Felix Herzog, Maarten J. van Strien, Sonja Kay, 2023. A multi-scale analysis on the importance of patch-surroundings for farmland birds. Ecological Indicators
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110197
Noëlle Klein, Coralie Theux, Raphaël Arlettaz, Alain Jacot, Jean-Nicolas Pradervand, 2020. Modeling the effects of grassland management intensity on biodiversity: a multitrophic study. Ecology and Evolution
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6957
Collaboration
2020 - 2023: Associated with ValPar.CH project
2019 - now: Collaboration with Agri-Environmental Protection Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, China