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., Ratnaweera, N., Hengl, T., Laube, P., Grunder, J., Tischhauser, W., Bhandari, N., & Zeuss, D. (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). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-024-06636-4
• Laube, P., Ratnaweera, N., Wróbel, A., Kaelin, I., Stephani, A., Reifler-Baechtiger, M., Graf, R. F., & Suter, S. (2023). Analysing and predicting wildlife–vehicle collision hotspots for the Swiss road network. Landscape Ecology, 38(7), 1765–1783. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01655-5

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Gygax, G., Ratnaweera, N., Tischhauser, W., Smits, T. H. M., Laube, P., & Ott, T. (2023). An oracle for the optimization of underconstrained compositions of neural networks : the tick hazard use case [Conference paper]. In J. J. Schneider, M. S. Weyland, D. Flumini, & R. M. Füchslin (Eds.), Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (pp. 24–31). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23929-8_3

Other publications

• Grüter, R., Forrer, C., Buchmann, F., Vogel, R., & Ratnaweera, N. (2024). Impact of climate change on black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) cultivation : a global suitability analysis. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-32658
• Grüter, R., Ringgenberg, J., Ratnaweera, N., Rahn, H., & Schumacher, P. (2023). Standortanalyse von pilzwiderstandsfähigen Rebsorten für den Kanton Luzern (Offensive Spezialkulturen). ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-31678

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Ratnaweera, N., Ratnaweera, R., & Früh, D. (2017). Developing a new method to detect small mustelids. Book of Abstracts : 32nd European Mustelid Colloquium. https://32mustelidscol.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Book_of_Abstracts_32EMC_1.pdf

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