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.

Only 150 years ago, Swiss forests were markedly affected by agro-forestal uses. In many places leaf litter was collected for different reasons. By experimental removing of the leaf litter, we examine the ecological consequences of this forest use and we evaluate it's potential as a new tool for nature conservation in forests.

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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.

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