Nils Ratnaweera

Projects

• VegCHange: A toolbox to investigate anthropogenic changes in the Swiss flora and vegetation / Team member / ongoing
• Sustainable Protein and Oil Crops: The potential of protein and oil crops for a transformation towards a more sustainable Swiss food system / Team member / ongoing
• Data-based Screening and Monitoring Methods for Tracking Environmental and Social Dynamic around Gold Mines / Team member / ongoing
• VegChangeCH – A comprehensive picture of anthropogenic changes in the vegetation of Switzerland / Team member / completed
• DSembedded: Integrating discipline-specific Know How into Data Stewardship / Team member / completed
• Developing a new detection method for small mammals, focusing on small mustelids and dormice / Project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Bald, L. et al. (2025) ‘Assessing tick attachments to humans with citizen science data : spatio-temporal mapping in Switzerland from 2015 to 2021 using spatialMaxent’, Parasites & Vectors, 18(22). doi: 10.1186/s13071-024-06636-4.
• Laube, P. et al. (2023) ‘Analysing and predicting wildlife–vehicle collision hotspots for the Swiss road network’, Landscape Ecology, 38(7), pp. 1765–1783. doi: 10.1007/s10980-023-01655-5.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Gygax, G. et al. (2023) ‘An oracle for the optimization of underconstrained compositions of neural networks : the tick hazard use case’, in Schneider, J. J. et al. (eds) Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation. Cham: Springer, pp. 24–31. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-23929-8_3.

Other publications

• Grüter, R. et al. (2024) Impact of climate change on black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) cultivation : a global suitability analysis. Wädenswil: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-32658.
• Grüter, R. et al. (2023) Standortanalyse von pilzwiderstandsfähigen Rebsorten für den Kanton Luzern (Offensive Spezialkulturen). Wädenswil: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-31678.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Ratnaweera, N., Ratnaweera, R. and Früh, D. (2017) ‘Developing a new method to detect small mustelids’, in Book of abstracts : 32nd European Mustelid Colloquium. Available at: https://32mustelidscol.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Book_of_Abstracts_32EMC_1.pdf.

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