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Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
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Projects
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Ongoing projects
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FORECOM Forest cover changes in mountainous regions - drivers, trajectories and implications
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In the Polish-Swiss joint research project Forecom we will analyze historical forest cover changes and their drivers in the Carpatians and Alps. We will develop scenarios of potential future forest cover changes and assess the impact of past and future changes on key ecosystem services.
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German
English
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D-STRESS-CH – Drought STress REsponse of Scots pineS: linking Carbon allocation and Hydraulic pathways
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The project D-STRESS-CH aims at generating an integrated, tree-level understanding of how water deficit affects the hydraulic xylem architecture, plant-water relations, and carbon allocation.
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Pilot-project extraction of coniferous/deciduous tree species for entire canton Bern
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The aim of this project is to establish a workflow to distinguish semi-automatically between coniferous / deciduous trees using ADS80 images for entire canton Bern.
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Pilot-project tree species classification for canton Aargau
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This project aims at developing methods for tree species classification of the two study areas Bremgarten and Lägern. The pilot incorporates testing the operationality, data handling, amount of reference data needed and the detection of the main tree species.
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GeneMig Module G1 – Practitioners meet scientists
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To bundle scientific and practical knowledge, a research project in conservation biology should involve practitioners from the onset. In GeneMig, practitioners and researchers first identified important topics and species of conservation concern in the context of environmental change. From this, a project of practical relevance will now be developed.
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The production of renewable energy in Switzerland: a spatial analysis of potential conflicts with landscape services
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Renewable energy production (wind power, hydropower, solar power, geothermal energy, and biomass) is a landscape service with growing importance and high political relevance in Switzerland. The expansion of energy production will have a strong impact on competing landscape services such as agricultural production, recreation, tourism, biodiversity conservation and aesthetics.
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Biodiversität und Raumentwicklung
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Das Projekt "Biodiversität und Raumentwicklung" untersucht Zusammenhänge zwischen Biodiversität und Raumentwicklung auf Landschaftsebene. Dafür analysieren wir Daten des Schweizer Mittelands im Allgemeinen sowie der Kantone Aargau und Luzern im Speziellen für möglichst verschiedene Organismengruppen und unterschiedliche Aspekte der Biodiversität. Die Resultate werden kartographisch dargestellt und können zur Visualisierung von Szenarien der Landschaftsentwicklung eingesetzt werden.
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German
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BBS: Developing methods to simulate biome boundary shifts
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Tree species migration can considerably slow down biome boundary shifts. We develop methods to simulate migration reliably and efficiently with coarse resolution.
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Evolutionary Niche dyNamics of Invasive Species (ENNIS)
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ENNIS is a project that seeks to understand how the evolutionary history of the ecological niche can influence whether species become invasive in regions to which they are introduced.
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Comparison of methods for interpolating soil properties using limited data
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Spatial interpolation of biological and biophysical variables is of central interest to many landscape ecologists. In this study, scientists evaluated the utility, accuracy, and effectiveness of ordinary kriging, inverse-distance weighting, and thin-plate smoothing splines with tensions using soil samples from the Omo Basin, Ethiopia.
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