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 (...)
02/2025
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 (...)
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
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 (...)
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
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 (...)
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