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Revision of the Red List of fern and vascular plants - evaluation and application of statistical methods
Revision of the Red List of fern and vascular plants

Red lists are essential for an objective recording of the threat of species and changes in biodiversity. The accessory study of the revision of the red list of fern and vascular plants aims to evaluate the practicability of using statistical methods as a tool for revisions and quality control of red lists.

Available languages: German English

BioDiVine - Biodiversità tassonomica e funzionale nell'agrosistema vigneto ticinese a diverse scale spaziali
BioDiVine

L'obiettivo del progetto è di investigare la fauna e la flora associata ai vigneti, definire i fattori geografici, ambientali e gestionali che determinano le diverse componenti della biodiversità, valutare l’influenza del paesaggio circostante e infine quantificare il valore ecologico dei vigneti attraverso confronto con altri ambienti naturali.

Available languages: Italian

Effect of wild boars on forest ecosystem processes
Effect of wild boars

Grubbing by wild boars incorporates the forest floor into the mineral soil, which could significantly alter forest soil properties (physical, chemical and biological). This could not only affect carbon (C) and nutrient fluxes and stores, but also forest productivity and stand regeneration. The objectives of this study are be to assess how wild boar grubbing effects soil physical (soil bulk density, pH), chemical and biological (microbial biomass, composition) properties in deciduous forest stands as well a how they affect stand regeneration and understory development.

Available languages: English

Predicted effects of climate change on indicator species of structural and biological diversity in mountain forests
Climate and forest birds

Climate change is expected to affect the distribution and occurrence of breeding birds of mountain forests. In this study, we assess the direct and indirect effects of climate change on the realised ecological niches of habitat specialists of mountain forests by assessing key structural and vegetational habitat components along a climatic gradient.

Available languages: German English

Summit flora
Summit flora

Schon im 16. Jahrhundert sammelten Naturforscher auf den Gipfeln der Alpen Daten und Belege von Pflanzen. Sie wollten damit die Schönheit und Grossartigkeit der Natur dokumentieren. In einem Mitte Juni 2010 gestarteten Projekt untersuchen wir, wie sich die Vegetation seitdem verändert hat und wie Klimawandel und Landnutzung auf die Pflanzen wirken. Dazu machen wir Vegetationsaufnahmen auf 150 Gipfeln und Pässen und vergleichen die Daten aus längst vergangenen Zeiten mit der heutigen Flora.

Available languages: German English French

ENHANCE-M1
ENHANCE-M1

The dispersal of several insect species occurring in fragmented habitats in the agricultural Swiss plateau will be investigated by using genetic methods and mark-recapture studies.

Available languages: German English

Adaptive genetic variation of Norway spruce, silver fir, and beech
Genetic Variation

Die Klimerwärmung dürfte den Wald auf vielen Standorten unter Stress setzen. Wir untersuchen, ob die genetische Variation der Waldbäume es ihnen erlaubt, sich an den Klimawandel anzupassen. Wir fokussieren dabei auf die drei häufigsten Baumarten in Schweizer Wäldern, die Fichte, die Tanne und die Buche.

Available languages: German English

ENHANCE
ENHANCE

The ENHANCE project tests and evaluates ecosystem connectivity with state-of-the art molecular genetic experiments and population-dynamic analysis in terrestrial and riparian habitats, prior and after connectivity is enhanced.

Available languages: German English

Dynamik von Totholz und xylobionten Insekten in Waldreservaten
Totholzabbau

Totholz ist Lebensgrundlage für rund einen Viertel aller Organismen im Wald. Die künftig wahrscheinliche Intensivierung der Holzwirtschaft wird viele holzbewohnende Insekten noch stärker gefährden. In diesem Projekt werden in Waldreservaten die Entstehung und der Abbau von Totholz quantifiziert, die Abhängigkeit von Insekten von Totholz untersucht und Mindestwerte für das Totholzangebot abgeleitet.

Available languages: German

MOUNTLAND
MOUNTLAND

A forest ecosystem model, extended with an avalanche module, is used to study the feedback between climate change driven ecosystem and land use dynamics.

Available languages: German English

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