Reto Nyffeler

Taxonomy and Distribution Of Epiphytic Cacti In Uruguay—Notes Towards A Checklist Of Cactaceae Of Uruguay, Part 3 (2008)

Urs Eggli, Eduardo Marchesi, Mauricio Bonifacino, Reto Nyffeler

The most recent treatments of the family Cactaceae for Uruguay are that of Arechavaleta (1905), Osten (1941), and Herter (1953–55). While the globular members of the family (Parodia [including...

Variations On A Theme: Repeated Evolution Of Succulent Life Forms In the Portulacineae (Caryophyllales) (2008)

Reto Nyffeler, Urs Eggli, Matt Ogburn, Erika Edwards

The succulent life form is a tried and true strategy for plants living in arid environments. It has evolved in many distantly related lineages comprising 12,500 species from 70 flowering plant...

A New Species of Parodia (Cactaceae, Notocacteae) from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (2008)

Marlon C. Machado, Reto Nyffeler, Urs Eggli

A new species, Parodia gaucha M. Machado & Larocca (Cactaceae, Notocacteae), from Encruzilhada do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, is described and illustrated. The new species is morphologically very...

Comparative Stem Anatomy and Systematics ofEriosyce sensu lato(Cactaceae) (1997)

NYFFELER, RETO, EGGLI, URS

The genusEriosyceas circumscribed by Kattermann (Succulent Plant Research1: 1–176, 1994) comprises six subsections with 33 species and 38 heterotypic infraspecific taxa and is restricted in...

Different Modeling Strategies for Discrete Choice Models of Female Labour Supply: Estimates for Switzerland

Reto Nyffeler

In recent applications of discrete choice models of labour supply considerable attention has been devoted to strategies to increase the flexibility of models for a better fit to the data. These...

Berufliche Weiterbildung in der Schweiz

Michael Gerfin, Robert E. Leu, Reto Nyffeler

Berufliche Weiterbildung spielt in der modernen Arbeitswelt eine zentrale Rolle bei der Entwicklung der beruflichen Fähigkeiten von Arbeitnehmern und hat daher potentiell grosse Auswirkungen auf...