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Fabian Cahenzli

Activity areas

  • Functional agrobiodiversity, agroecology, biodiversity
  • Development of new biocontrol strategies to solve pest problems in organic agriculture

Projects

StatusFiBLTitleStartEnd
ongoing CH Biodiversity provides Pollination Security: Honeybees and Wild Bees in (Swiss) Agriculture (CompBees) 01.10.2021 31.12.2025
ongoing CH Alternative Regulierungsmethoden des Kartoffelkäfers (Bio Suisse Kartoffelkäfer) 01.01.2021 31.12.2024
ongoing CH Change in insect communities over time (Insektengemeinschaften im Wandel) 01.01.2021 31.12.2025
completed CH Conversion from Integrated Production (IP) to organic farming: Long-term effects on the diversity of beneficial arthropods (Langzeitauswirkungen) 01.01.2020 31.12.2023
ongoing CH Mit neuen Strategien gegen neue Schädlinge: Wanzenbekämpfung im biologischen Landbau (Wanzenregulierung) 01.01.2019 31.12.2024
completed CH Neue Wege im Pflanzenschutz im Bio-Obstbau: Entwicklung und Evaluation von IT-gestützten Pflanzenschutzverfahren im FiBL-Freiluft-Labor 01.01.2019 31.12.2021
completed CH Innovative flower strips for sustainable orchard production 01.01.2019 31.12.2022
completed CH Rapsglanzkäferregulierung im insektizidfreien Rapsanbau - Phase 2 (Duftdispenser gegen Rapsglanzkäfer) 01.01.2019 31.12.2020
completed CH Use of functional agro-biodiversity to improve ecosystem services in vineyards 01.01.2018 31.12.2021
ongoing CH Wildbienenfördernde landwirtschaftliche Bewirtschaftung im Kanton Aargau (WildbiAG) 01.01.2017 31.12.2024
ongoing CH Monitoring of biodiversity on a farm during transition to bio-dynamic agriculture in a Swiss upland (2016-2025) 01.01.2016 31.12.2025
completed CH Sustainable plant protection against invasive pests in pomiculture and viticulture (InvaProtect) 01.01.2016 31.12.2018
completed CH Innovative design and management to boost functional biodiversityof organic orchards (ECOORCHARD) 01.01.2015 31.12.2017
completed CH Pollen beetle control in insecticide-free oilseed rape production (Migros Bioraps) 01.06.2013 31.12.2018
completed CH Examining different organically suitable regulatory measures against Drosophila suzukii 01.01.2012 31.12.2020
completed CH Potential and Limits of Pesticide Free Apple Growing by a Self-Regulating Orchard Set-Up (SFS) 01.01.2005 31.12.2016
ongoing CH Schädlingsregulierung Obstbau 01.01.2002
completed CH Regulierung der Kirschfruchtfliege 01.01.2002 31.12.2014
ongoing CH Prüfung von Pflanzenbehandlungsmitteln und lebenden Organismen in verschiedenen Kulturen

Training / professional career

  • Since 2023 Senior Scientist plant protection and ecosystem services, FiBL Switzerland 
  • 2020 - 2022 Leader of the Group Plant Protection - Entomology & Agroecology, FiBL Switzerland 
  • 2015 - 2020 Project manager in the Department of Crop Sciences, FiBL Switzerland
  • 2013 - 2015 Global technical manager at R&D Syngenta Crop Protection AG
  • 2008 - 2012 PhD at the University of Basel, Switzerland
  • 2006 - 2008 Master at the University of Basel, Switzerland
  • 2003 - 2006 Bachelor at the University of Basel, Switzerland

Committee work

  • Tagfalterschutz BL (Pro Natura)

Teaching

  • ETH Zürich and University of Basel (since 2022): FiBL Lecture "Introduction to organic farming systems" – Plant protection

Publications

Publications in the Organic Eprints archive

Publications that are not in the Organic Eprints archive

  • Siffert, A., Cahenzli, F., Kehrli, K., Daniel, C., Dekumbis, V., Egger, B., Furtwengler, J., Minguely, C., Stäheli, N., Widmer, F., Mazzi & D. Collatz, J. (2021): Predation on Drosophila suzukii within hedges in the agricultural landscape. Insects (12) 305
  • Schenker, A., Cahenzli, F., Gutbrod, K. G., Thevenot, M. & Erhardt, A. (2019) The Northern Bald Ibis Geronticus eremita in Morocco since 1900: Analysis of ecological requirements. Bird Conservation International
  • Cahenzli, F., Sigsgaard, L., Daniel, C., Herz, A., Jamar, L., Kelderer, M., Kramer Jacobsen, S., Kruczyńska, S., Matray, S., Porcel, M., Małgorzata Sekrecka, M., Świergiel, W., Tasin, M., Telfser, J. & Pfiffner, L. (2019): Perennial flower strips for pest control in organic apple orchards-A pan-European study. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment (278) 43-53.
  • Pfiffner, L., Cahenzli, F., Steinemann, B., Jamar, L., Bjørn, M.C., Porcel, M., Tasin, M., Telfser, J., Kelderer, M., Lisek, J. & Sigsgaard, L. (2019): Design, implementation and management of perennial flower strips to promote functional agrobiodiversity in organic apple orchards: a pan-European study. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment (278) 61–71.
  • Cahenzli, F., Bonetti, C. & Erhardt, A. (2018): Divergent strategies in pre- and postzygotic reproductive isolation between two closely related Dianthus species. Evolution (9) 1851-1862.
  • Cahenzli, F., Bühlmann, I., Daniel, C. & Fahrentrapp, J. (2018). The distance between forests and crops affects the abundance of Drosophila suzukii during fruit ripening, but not during harvest. Environmental Entomology (47) 1274-1279.
  • Cahenzli, F., Strack, T. & Daniel, C. (2018): Screening of 25 different natural crop protection products against Drosophila suzukii. Journal of Applied Entomology (142), 563-577.
  • Cahenzli, F., Pfiffner, L. & Daniel, C. (2017): Reduced crop damage by self-regulation of aphids in an ecologically enriched, insecticide-free apple orchard. Agronomy for Sustainable Development (2017) 37:65.
  • Cahenzli, F., Wenk, B. A. & Erhardt, A. (2015): Female butterflies adapt and allocate their progeny to the host plant quality of their own larval experience. Ecology 96 (7), 1966-1973.
  • Cahenzli, F. & Erhardt, A. (2013): Transgenerational acclimatization in an herbivore-host plant relationship. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 280: 1756 20122856.
  • Cahenzli, F. & Erhardt, A. (2013): Nectar amino acids enhance reproduction in male butterflies. Oecologia, 171: 197-205.
  • Cahenzli, F. & Erhardt, A. (2012): Enhancing offspring quality or quantity? Different ways for using nectar amino acids in female butterflies. Oecologia, 169: 1005-1014.
  • Cahenzli, F. & Erhardt, A. (2012): Nectar sugars enhance fitness in male Coenonympha pamphilus butterflies by increasing longevity or realized reproduction. Oikos, 121: 1417-1423.
  • Cahenzli, F. & Erhardt, A. (2012): Host plant defence in the larval stage affects feeding behaviour in adult butterflies. Animal Behaviour, 84: 995-1000.