
Forest Resources and Management
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Head: Marco Ferretti
The Research Unit (RU) Forest Resources and Management is principally engaged in four research themes:
- Monitoring, analysis, assessment and prognosis of forest resources
- Silvicultural interventions to ensure the provision of forest products and services
- Availability and optimized utilisation of forest resources, especially timber
- Development of methods and models related to the three research themes mentioned previously
Among the forest resources, the RU focuses its research on timber and carbon sequestration. Moreover, it provides contributions to protection from natural hazards and to the forest as habitat and recreational area, by covering forest structures and their development.
Although the RU focuses on forests, it also deals with the interaction between forests and other landscape elements. The RU handles its research themes on different spatial levels: from the stand, to the forest enterprise, to the region and up to the national level. Its research has a strong international reach, especially regarding the methods.
The RU administers the major project Swiss National Forest Inventory LFI and executes it by statutory mandate and in co-operation with the Federal Office of the Environment FOEN. Substantial parts of the LFI are carried out within the RU, while other parts are processed in co-operation with other RUs.
Methodically the RU excels at its emphasis on a solid empirical basis and on technologies needed to acquire the necessary data, especially in the fields of data collection, data management, data retrieval and data analysis. Parts of the data series concerning forest structure from the LFI, from growth and yield research and from forest reserves, surveyed over many decades, are worldwide unrivaled. These form the bases for modelling and prognoses. The methodological development of the RU focuses on statistical methods (sampling theory and time series analysis, spatial data analysis), information sciences and technologies (inventory techniques, navigation, data management, GIS) as well as simulation and decision models and their implementation in tools (expert systems as decision supports).
The RU is active in knowledge transfer. Its research projects are usually application-relevant and have an implementation component.
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Publications
Moser, G.E.; Ghosh, S., 2021: Finding exceedance locations in a large spatial database using nonparametric regression. Ecological Complexity, 45: 100905 (14 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2020.100905
Forrester, D.I.; Baker, T.G.; Elms, S.R.; Hobi, M.L.; Ouyang, S.; Wiedemann, J.C.; Xiang, W.; Zell, J.; Pulkkinen, M., 2021: Self-thinning tree mortality models that account for vertical stand structure, species mixing and climate. Forest Ecology and Management, 487: 118936 (17 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.118936
Bayer, A.D.; Fuchs, R.; Mey, R.; Krause, A.; Verburg, P.H.; Anthoni, P.; Arneth, A., 2021: Diverging land-use projections cause large variability in their impacts on ecosystems and related indicators for ecosystem services. Earth System Dynamics, 12, 1: 327-351. doi: 10.5194/esd-12-327-2021
Allgaier Leuch, B.; Fischer, C.; Brändli, U., 2021: D'après l'IFN4, la forêt protectrice joue actuellement mieux son rôle. Forêt, 74, 3: 19-23.
Portier, J.; Wunder, J.; Stadelmann, G.; Zell, J.; Abegg, M.; Thürig, E.; Rohner, B., 2021: 'Latent reserves': A hidden treasure in National Forest Inventories. Journal of Ecology, 109: 369-383. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13487
Ouyang, S.; Xiang, W.; Gou, M.; Chen, L.; Lei, P.; Xiao, W.; Deng, X.; Zeng, L.; Li, J.; Zhang, T.; Peng, C.; Forrester, D.I., 2021: Stability in subtropical forests: the role of tree species diversity, stand structure, environmental and socio-economic conditions. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30: 500-513. doi: 10.1111/geb.13235
Bouwman, M.; Forrester, D.I.; Den Ouden, J.; Nabuurs, G.-J.; Mohren, G.M.J., 2021: Species interactions under climate change in mixed stands of Scots pine and pedunculate oak. Forest Ecology and Management, 481: 118615 (18 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118615
Fitzpatrick, B.R.; Baltensweiler, A.; Düggelin, C.; Fraefel, M.; Freitag, A.; Vandegehuchte, M.L.; Wermelinger, B.; Risch, A.C., 2021: The distribution of a group of keystone species is not associated with anthropogenic habitat disturbance. Diversity and Distributions, 27, 4: 572-584. doi: 10.1111/ddi.13217
Beran, J.; Steffens, B.; Ghosh, S., 2021: On nonparametric regression for bivariate circular long-memory time series. Statistical Papers, doi: 10.1007/s00362-021-01228-1
Amazonas, N.T.; Forrester, D.I.; Silva, C.C.; De Almeida, D.R.A.; Oliveira, R.S.; Rodrigues, R.R.; Brancalion, P.H.S., 2021: Light- and nutrient-related relationships in mixed plantations of Eucalyptus and a high diversity of native tree species. New Forests, doi: 10.1007/s11056-020-09826-x
Klesse, S., 2021: Critical note on the application of the “two-third” spline. Dendrochronologia, 65: 125786 (9 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.dendro.2020.125786
Sterchi, M.; Sarasua, C.; Grütter, R.; Bernstein, A., 2021: Outbreak detection for temporal contact data. Applied Network Science, 6: 17 (21 pp.). doi: 10.1007/s41109-021-00360-z
Allgaier Leuch, B.; Fischer, C.; Brändli, U., 2021: Momentan schützt der Schutzwald besser. Wald und Holz, 102, 3: 30-34.
Gillerot, L.; Forrester, D.I.; Bottero, A.; Rigling, A.; Lévesque, M., 2021: Tree neighbourhood diversity has negligible effects on drought resilience of European beech, silver fir and Norway spruce. Ecosystems, 24: 20-36. doi: 10.1007/s10021-020-00501-y
Forrester, D.I.; Dumbrell, I.C.; Elms, S.R.; Paul, K.I.; Pinkard, E.A.; Roxburgh, S.H.; Baker, T.G., 2021: Can crown variables increase the generality of individual tree biomass equations?. Trees: Structure and Function, 35: 15-26. doi: 10.1007/s00468-020-02006-6
Pretzsch, H.; Hilmers, T.; Uhl, E.; Bielak, K.; Bosela, M.; Del Rio, M.; Dobor, L.; Forrester, D.I.; Nagel, T.A.; Pach, M.; Avdagić, A.; Bellan, M.; Binder, F.; Bončina, A.; Bravo, F.; De-Dios-García, J.; Dinca, L.; Drozdowski, S.; Giammarchi, F.; ... Tognetti, R., 2021: European beech stem diameter grows better in mixed than in mono-specific stands at the edge of its distribution in mountain forests. European Journal of Forest Research, 140: 127-145. doi: 10.1007/s10342-020-01319-y
Mey, R.; Stadelmann, G.; Thürig, E.; Bugmann, H.; Zell, J., 2021: From small forest samples to generalised uni and bimodal stand descriptions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13566
Mathys, A.S.; Brang, P.; Stillhard, J.; Bugmann, H.; Hobi, M.L., 2021: Long-term tree species population dynamics in Swiss forest reserves influenced by forest structure and climate. Forest Ecology and Management, 481: 118666 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118666
Temperli, C.; Allgaier Leuch, B.; Frutig, F., 2021: Des exploitations plus efficaces. Forêt, 74, 1: 14-17.
Schweier, J.; Bont, L.; Frutig, F., 2021: Seilkraneinsatz auf befahrungsempfindlichen Böden. Zürcher Wald, 30-33.
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