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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

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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Aims and financial situation of legal entities with forest property

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

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Management and governance of forestry operations: two theories for practitioners

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 (...)

01/2025

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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

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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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Effect of forest in the transit and deposition area of hillslope debris flows

Knowledge Luuk Dorren 1,* , Christine Moos 1 , Niels Hollard 1 , Estelle Noyer 1 , Christoph Schaller 1 , Mark Günter 1 , Dominik May 1 , Massimiliano Schwarz 1 , Valentin Brühwiler 1 , Alexandra (...)

Christine Moos

s1/2023

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Biodiversity check in the lighthouse forest reserve Sihlwald

Knowledge Elena Haeler 1,2,3,4 , Thibault Lachat 2,3,* , Gaspard Dumollard 2 , Stefan Blaser 3 , Ariel Bergamini 3 , Thomas Kiebacher 5 , Christoph Scheidegger 3 , Christine Keller 3 , Jonas Stillhard (...)

s1/2023

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An integrated landscape approach to the conservation and restoration of forest landscapes

Knowledge Evelyn Coleman Brantschen 1,* , Sébastien Boillat 1 , Mélanie Feurer 1 , Claude A. Garcia 1 , Jelena Markovic 1 , Mariana Melnykovych 1 , Jerylee Wilkes-Allemann 1 , Patrick O. Waeber 1,* 1 (...)

Evelyn Coleman Brantschen
Jerylee Wilkes-Allemann

s1/2023

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Method for forest enterprise benchmarking in the DACH region

Knowledge Patric Bürgi 1* , Bernhard Pauli 1 1 Fachgruppe Forstliche Produktion, Hochschule für Agrar-, Forst- und Lebensmittelwissenschaften HAFL, Zollikofen (CH) While Swiss forest enterprises have (...)

s1/2023

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Growth and drought stress – physiological characterisation of Swiss forest trees

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

Aims and financial situation of legal entities with forest property

Management and governance of forestry operations: two theories for practitioners

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

Changes in forest understorey vegetation over 25 years at LWF sites

Effect of forest in the transit and deposition area of hillslope debris flows

Biodiversity check in the lighthouse forest reserve Sihlwald

An integrated landscape approach to the conservation and restoration of forest landscapes

Method for forest enterprise benchmarking in the DACH region