Lötschental offers an ideal setting to study the influence of global warming on tree-growth

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Das Projekt hat zum Ziel ein bestehendes GIS basiertes Prognosemodell der Naherholungsnutzung inhaltlich zu verfeinern und den räumlichen Geltungsbereich zu erweitern.

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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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HILACOS Historical Land Cover Switzerland

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Energy infrastructures are important for understanding land use dynamics. Most frequently they are not considered in quantitative approaches. Quantification rationales for power networks are deduced from two conceptualizations: contextualism and technological determinism.

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With data of the Swiss dry grassland inventory I investigate how the quality of the reserve network can be maintained under global change, how connectivity between biotopes can be optimised and how threatened species can be protected better.

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Spatially explicit data about the everyday landscape: small landscape object

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Das Forschungsprojekt untersucht, inwiefern sich das Instrument "Handelbare Flächennutzungszertifikate (FNZ)" zur Reduktion des Flächenverbrauchs durch die Siedlungsentwicklung und Zersiedelung eignet.

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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.

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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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