Disturbances in Swiss forests are likely to increase. Active planting can therefore be appropriate where there is insufficient natural regeneration. Here the focus lies on introducing species (...)
06/2024
The management of Swiss forests is characterised by legal entities or corporations that own forests. In the last two decades, a large number of surveys of corporations regarding their relationship (...)
01/2025
Forest management is a complex task, which is carried out by a large number of stakeholders. Differing interests and information asymmetries often lead to challenges in cooperation resulting in (...)
In the context of climate change, mountain forests constrained by temperature limitations are experiencing higher soil temperatures, promoting the growth of spruce (Picea abies). In the subalpine (...)
Long-term forest ecosystem research (LWF) in Switzerland provides detailed results on the impacts of air pollution and climate change on forest soils and tree nutrition. Since the 1980s, sulphur (...)
02/2025
The understorey vegetation is a major component of the biodiversity in forest ecosystems. Its species composition has been recorded since the mid-1990s at intervals of two to ten years within the (...)
Forests are an important carbon sink but are under increasing pressure due to more frequent climate extremes such as heat and drought. After 25 years of monitoring at the 19 sites of the Long-Term (...)
The monitoring network TreeNet uses automatic sensors on tree stems – so-called point dendrometers – to study the water balance and growth of forest trees at around 70 sites in Switzerland (incl. 13 (...)
Wissen Valentin Tippmann 1 , Brigitte Wolf 2 , Roland Norer 3 , Eva Lieberherr 1,* 1 Natural Resource Policy Group, ETH Zürich (CH) 2 Arbeitsgemeinschaft für den Wald (CH) 3 Lehrstuhl für öffentliches (...)
03/2025
Andrea Doris Kupferschmid 1,* , Meinrad Abegg 1 1 Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL, Birmensdorf (CH) The Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI) documents the frequency of (...)
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