WSL is organized in Research Units, Research Programmes and Initiatives and Service and Support Units.
Forest Resources and Management Stand Dynamics and Silviculture GIS Sustainable Forestry Resource Analysis Plant regeneration ecology Scientific Service NFI Land Change Science Dynamic macroecology Remote Sensing Land-use systems Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution Forest Dynamics Dendrosciences LWF I Ecophysiology Ecosystem Ecology rog. SwissForestLab Economics and Social Sciences Regional Economics and Development Social Sciences in Landscape Research Environmental and Resource Economics Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry Biogeochemistry Soil Functions and Soil Protection LWF II Rhizosphere Processes Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements Glaciology High Mountain Glaciers and Hydrology Hydrological Forecasts Torrents and Mass Movements Forest Health and Biotic Interactions Phytopathology Forest Entomology Swiss Forest Protection Alpine Environment and Natural Hazards Alpine Remote Sensing Alpine Mass Movements Mountain Ecosystems Permafrost RAMMS Rapid Mass Movements Community Ecology Functional Plant Ecology Insubric Ecosystems Plant-Animal Interactions Snow Avalanches and Prevention Avalanche formation and dynamics Avalanche Warning Risk and Resilience Avalanche Protection Measures Warning and Information Systems Biodiversity and Conservation Biology Evolutionary genetics Ecosystem Dynamics Conservation Biology Ecological Genetics Ecological fluid dynamics Spatial Evolutionary Ecology Snow and Atmosphere Snow Climatology and Monitoring Snow Hydrology Snow Physics Snow Processes