This project is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. It belongs to the group of projects aiming to improve the TreeMig forest landscape model for climate change impact assessments on regional to continental scales.

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AlpFUTUR aims at identifying prospects regarding the use of the Swiss alpine pasturing area in the short and medium term (10 to 40 years).

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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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A landscape scale forest population dynamics model is extended with ecophysiology, and particularly the mechanisms of drought effects on trees.

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

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Greenhouse gases emitted from vegetation feed back on the atmospheric chemistry and climate. We aim to simulate such vegetation produced greenhouse gases and to provide information on emissions from other sources.

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The purpose of the project DNL is to integrate existing national biotope inventories (bogs, flood plains, meadows, etc.) into a database and connect it to further datasources of the FOEN.

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Modelle der WSL zeigen, welche Landschaften in der Schweiz besonders artenreich sind und welche Einflussgrössen die Artenvielfalt unterschiedlicher Organismengruppen bestimmen. Die Arbeiten liefern Grundlagen für ein besseres Verständnis und den Schutz von Artenvielfalt auf Landschaftsebene.

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Über mehrere Jahre ist die Wirkung von Lawinen auf die Biodiversität untersucht worden. Die Zerstörungskraft der Lawinen weist für die Natur auch positive Aspekte auf. Sie schafft Standortbedingungen, die einer ganzen Reihe von Pflanzen überhaupt erst das Überleben ermöglichen.

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National digital surface models are often characterized by global and therefore coarse spatial accuracy and density estimates, which are insufficient for local analysis of nation-wide forest or landscape inventories. Local triangulation allows a robust estimate of spatial point distribution of national LiDAR datasets compared to simple local point density calculation.

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