Annual review of Swiss forest policy 2024

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 (...)

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 (...)

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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 (...)

Good things take time: findings on forest health from long-term observations

The condition of the tree crown is an important indicator of the vitality of a tree. In Swiss forests, the crown condition has been surveyed since 1985 as part of the Sanasilva inventories and since (...)

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 (...)

Investigation of the productivity of plantings at ten Swiss forest enterprises

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 (...)

Summary of recent research on the European white elm (Ulmus laevis) in Switzerland

Perspectives In Switzerland, the European white elm (Ulmus laevis) is a poorly known tree species, and its natural origin in this country has often been contested. Consequently, it has received little (...)