Biodiversity Seminar: Advancing forest inventorying and monitoring to account for rapid global change and emerging knowledge and management needs: the SwissAIM case study

Evolving societal demands and accelerated ecological dynamics due to global change are rapidly altering forest ecosystems and their services. To date, current forest inventorying and monitoring (programs are often either disjointed, too narrow in their scope or do not operate at fine enough temporal resolutions, which may hinder scientific understanding, the timely supply of information, and may result in the sub-optimal use of limited resources. This has prompted the need for updated and advancing forest inventorying and monitoring initiatives to expand their scope and relevance to foster improved scientific understanding and better inform forest policy and management responses. We also acknowledge to improve relevance and buy-in it is important that these advanced initiatives need to be co-designed and co-implemented. Here we discuss the collaborative processes followed to develop an Advanced Inventorying and Monitoring (AIM) system for Swiss forests (SwissAIM - an initiative started at WSL) and the associated outcomes of the co-design process.

Our seminars are hybrid. Please send an email to events-biodiversity(at)wsl.ch if you would like to get access to the live stream.

The Biodiversity Seminar Series are organized by the WSL Biodiversity Center. Every two weeks, we aim to host a seminar speaker that presents research or outreach on topics relevant to the biodiversity community at WSL. The seminars are public and are usually broadcasted online.

To find out more about the WSL Biodiversity Center and a complete list of events, please visit our website. 

Please send an email to events-biodiversity(at)wsl.ch if you would like to be updated on the activities of the WSL Biodiversity Center.