Fin dalla sua nascita all’inizio dell’Ottocento la fotografia è stata utilizzata per fissare e documentare a futura memoria ogni aspetto visibile della realtà. Con il progredire della tecnica, si è passati dalla fotografia alla fotogrammetria, con la possibilità di effettuare rilievi e cartografie a partire da documenti fotografici.

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

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Since as early as the 16th century, botanists have been collecting data and recording the flora on summits in the Alps with the purpose of documenting the limits of plant life in association with permanent snowfields and glaciers. How has summit vegetation changed since these early records? Based on new vegetation surveys on 150 peaks and passes, the SLF examines whether and how the climate has shaped high-alpine plant life during the last century.

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The new WSL research programme Room for People and Nature is examining the future development of intensively exploited regions, and intends to formulate basic principles for managing them in a sustainable way. It is being established and implemented in close collaboration with practitioners.

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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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The research project contributes to the scientific development of a Transferable development rights (TDR) research program, explores the possible impacts of a TDR program in Switzerland and hence provides pro- and contra-arguments to the political discussion about their implementation in Switzerland.

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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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