Welcome to the Seehornwald Davos research site in the Swiss Alps

Impressions from the Seehornwald Davos research site. The Norway spruce forest is located in the subapline belt of the Swiss Alps (1640 m a.s.l.)

The Seehornwald Davos site is dedicated to forest ecosystem research.

Current research projects focus on topics of climate change, ecosystem carbon balance, ecophysiology, vegetation and soil sciences.

The Seehornwald Davos site belongs to one of the best equipped long-term forest ecology research sites of the world.

Time series of climate variables, ecosystem gas exchange (eddy covariance), tree physiology records (sap flow, stem radius changes), and air pollution data cover the history of this site over more than 10 years. Records of local climate variables started in 1876.

The Seehornwald Davos site is jointly run by

the National Air Pollution Monitoring Network (EMPA/BAFU),

the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETHZ),

and the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL in Birmensdorf and Davos.

We are grateful to forest owners and to the forestry service of the community of Davos for their continuous support.

The Seehornwald Davos site is part of several national and international networks

and encarouges further synergistic collaborations with scientists from all over the world.

Contact

Dr. Roman Zweifel

Forest Dynamics, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
CH-8903 Birmensdorf
8092 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
E-Mail: roman.zweifel@wsl.ch
for general site coordination requests and topics about ecology and tree physiology

PD Dr. Werner Eugster

Institut f. Pflanzenwissenschaften, ETHZ
Universitätstrasse 2
CH-8092 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
E-Mail: werner.eugster@ipw.agrl.ethz.ch
for topics about eddy covariance and climatology

Dr. Marcus Schaub

Forest Dynamics, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
CH-8903 Birmensdorf
8092 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
E-Mail: marcus.schaub@wsl.ch
for research questions about ozone-flux and as national representative for LTER-Europe