What does the Swiss forest look like and how does it change over time? The Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI) tries to answer these questions.

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Long-term forest growth & yield research: Organizational and methodical problems and their consequences on the results for research and practice

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The mission of LWF is to improve our understanding of how natural and anthropogenic stresses affect forests in the long term, and which risks for humans are involved. Consequently, we need to gain a more profound knowledge of the cause-effect relationships in the forest ecosystem and the underlying processes.

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The Sanasilva Inventory has been carried out in its current form since 1985. Its aim is to monitor the health of the Swiss forest using crown and tree parameters as indicators of forest condition.

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TreeNet is a biological drought and growth indicator network of forest ecosystems. It provides information about drought responses of trees all over Switzerland and their effects on the carbon balance of forests. TreeNet links the research of the eddy flux super sites Davos and Lägeren to the forest next to your home.

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In the scientific part of the project "Landscape Monitoring Switzerland", basic knowledge for new indicators of landscape quality is developed. This includes both landscape ecological and social scientific approaches.

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The aim of the research project WaMos 2 is to assess the attitudes of the population towards forest and wood related topics. In doing so, the project revisits and builds upon work that was done in 1997. The results of WaMos 2 will serve as a basis for forest related policy, and the forest- and environment-related reporting of FOEN.

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The project "Monitoring the effectiveness of habitat conservation in Switzerland" has been initiated by the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN to study whether habitats of national importance (dry meadows and pastures, bogs and fens, alluvial zones, amphibian spawning areas) are developing according to conservation targets. For this, a long-term monitoring project is established.

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Vernetzungsmassnahmen haben das Ziel, den Austausch von Individuen zwischen isolierten Populationen wieder herzustellen. Genetische Methoden erlauben es, diesen Austausch über grosse Räume hinweg genau festzustellen.

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Die meisten Schweizer Wälder werden bewirtschaftet. Einige Wälder stehen aber als Naturwaldreservate unter Schutz; hier kann sich die Natur entwickeln, ohne dass der Mensch eingreift. Wie über 50 Jahre Forschung in Schweizer Waldreservaten zeigen, werden diese Wälder immer naturnäher.

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Die WSL pflegt die nationalen Datenzentren für Pilze und Flechten, dokumentiert deren Bestandesentwicklung und erarbeitet die Roten Listen für beide Organismengruppen.

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Since the foundation of the Swiss National Park in 1914, one focus of botanical research has always been long-term monitoring of vegetation development. As relevées have been repeated on the permanent plots, the researchers are now able to make precise statements about long-term development of tall-herb communities, nutrient-rich meadows, rich and poor pastures as well as woodland communities.

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Accurate measurements of bedload transport in natural channels are important to improve process understanding and predictive methods. The geophone sensors of the WSL provide continuous measurements with high temporal resolution.

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At various locations in the Swiss Alps, the SLF has been measuring permafrost temperatures and slope movements in the permafrost for more than 12 years. The SLF measuring network extends from Engadine via the Gotthard region to southern Valais. Several of the boreholes containing instruments form part of the Swiss PERMOS monitoring network.