The main objectives of this project were to stratify the landscape of individual military ranges, to identify the fundamental vegetation and soil attributes, to establish ecosystem response and recovery in relation to disturbance (land use), to identify the attributes of remote sensing systems and to develop methods for scaling indices between coarse and fine resolution imagery.

Forests of the Central Rocky Mountains are of value for nature conservation and biodiversity maintenance. Developing a spatially explicit forest succession model upon a sound physiological basis is important to assist management and to further science of these crucial forests.

Noch vor 150 Jahren waren die Wälder stark durch agrarische Nutzungsweisen geprägt. Dazu gehörte neben der Waldweide auch die Nutzung der Waldstreue. Durch experimentelle Streunutzung wollen Wissenschafter herausfinden, welche Bedeutung diese Nutzungsweise für die heutigen Naturschutzmassnahmen im Wald haben könnte.

Verfügbare Sprachen: deutsch englisch

In a changing environment, the analysis of how forest ecosystems may react under scenarios involving changing climatic conditions is of major importance. This project wants to evaluate the influence of expected climatic changes (precepitation and temperature regimes) on trees and the state of our forests.

Verfügbare Sprachen: englisch