The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research is concerned with the use, development and protection of natural and urban spaces. The focus of our research is on solving problems to do with the responsible use of landscapes and forests and a prudent approach to natural hazards, especially those common in mountainous countries. WSL occupies a leading position internationally in these research areas. We also provide groundwork for sustainable environmental policies in Switzerland.

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5 datasets found

  • Herb layer biomass in Swiss forests

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The purpose of this project was to develop a model to estimate herb layer biomass and carbon stock based on the categorical cover estimate on each NFI sample plot. To this end,...

    Last updated: August 20, 2021

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    • sedges
    • grasses
    • shrubs
    • national-forest-inventory
    • biomass
    • ferns
    • herbs
  • MASSIMO

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    MASSIMO is a distance-independent individual-tree simulator that represents demographic processes (regeneration, growth and mortality) with empirical models that have been...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

    • PNG
    • forest-management
    • massimo
    • biomass
    • tree-growth
    • model
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • forest
    • nfi
    • timber-harvesting
  • Stumps as a dead wood resource in forests - data based on the Swiss National Forest Inventory

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Based on the detailed tree stump inventory implemented in the Swiss NFI5 (https://www.lfi.ch/lfi/lfi.php), a study was conducted to obtain an accurate assessment of the stumps pool...

    Last updated: August 10, 2022

    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • biomass
    • national-forest-inventory
    • protection-forest
    • volume
    • biodiversity
    • carbon
  • Individual tree TLS point clouds for tree volume estimation

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset This dataset is based on terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data acquired during winter 2020/2021 in leaf-off conditions, with a Leica BLK 360 instrument following a...

    Last updated: August 30, 2023

    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • biomass
    • single-tree
    • tree-volume
    • lidar
    • terrestiral-laserscanning
    • forest-inventory
  • Urals: latitudinal decline in treeline biomass and productivity

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    1. Stand characteristics of treeline ecotone along 18 elevational gradients of the Ural mountains.
    2. Extrapolated climate data at treeline using nearby meteo station...

    Last updated: January 29, 2020

    • XLS
    • permafrost
    • soil-temperature
    • soil
    • phosphorus
    • nitrogen
    • air-temperature
    • elevational-gradient
    • treeline
    • climate
    • biomass
    • latitude