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Sustainable Use of Natural Resources

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WSL has from the very start been concerned with the sustainable use of the natural resources wood, water, snow and fertile soils. Computer simulations of forest development help foresters make the best economic use of Swiss forests, and, at the same time, take into account other functions that forests perform for people, animals and plants.

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Does a warmer climate lengthen the mushroom fruiting season?

Climate change lentghens mushroom season

21.08.2012: For the fist time researchers analyzed the growth of mushrooms over a period of almost 40 years. The study shows that the fruiting season has become longer in many European countries.

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New publication

Angst, M., 2012:

Integration of Nature Protection in Swiss Forest Policy. INTEGRATE Country Report for Switzerland.

Country report within the framework of the research project INTEGRATE Integration of nature protection in forest management and its relation to other functions/services) of the Central European Office of the European Forest Institute (EFICENT), Freiburg i.B. [published online July 2012] Available from World Wide Web <http://www.wsl.ch/publikationen/pdf/11873.pdf>. Birmensdorf, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL . 77 S.

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