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25 years of growth development in 19 Swiss forests under increasing drought

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

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Changes in forest understorey vegetation over 25 years at LWF sites

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 (...)

02/2025

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Trends in atmospheric deposition and effects on soil water quality and tree nutrition

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

Fig. 1 Point dendrometers automatically measure changes in the radius of tree trunks.

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Growth and drought stress – physiological characterisation of Swiss forest trees

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 (...)

02/2025

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25 years of growth development in 19 Swiss forests under increasing drought

Changes in forest understorey vegetation over 25 years at LWF sites

Trends in atmospheric deposition and effects on soil water quality and tree nutrition

Growth and drought stress – physiological characterisation of Swiss forest trees