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

  • ATREE forest owners survey about climate regulation services of forests

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Forest owners of the Canton of Lucerne were survey about their willingness to employ different forest management measures to provicde climate regulation services by forests. Of the...

    Last updated: February 9, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • forest-ecosystem-services-for-climate-regulation
    • wood-carbon-sink
    • forest-management
    • atree
    • fuel-wood
    • forest-carbon-sink
  • Impact of non-native tree species in Europe on soil properties and biodiversity: a review

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Compiled data on the impacts of seven important NNTs (Acacia dealbata, Ailanthus altissima, Eucalyptus globulus, Prunus serotina, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus rubra, Robinia...

    Last updated: October 21, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • XLS
    • CSV
    • forest-management
    • soil-impacts
    • pairwise-stand-comparisons
    • biogeography
    • biodiversity
  • ATREE forest owners survey about forest clearances offsetting in the forest

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In April 2020, about 1700 forest owners of the plateau region of the Canton of Berne were invited to participate in a survey (virtually all of them received a conventional...

    Last updated: February 9, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • atree
    • forest-policy
    • nature-conservation
    • biodiversity-offsetting
    • forest-management
    • forest-clearances
  • LiDAR metrics predict suitable forest foraging areas of endangered Mouse-eared bats (Myotis myotis)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Habitat shift caused by human impact on vegetation structure poses a great threat to species which are special- ized on unique habitats. Single layered beech forests, the main...

    Last updated: April 12, 2022

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • forest-management
    • echolocation
    • chiroptera
    • vegetation-structure
    • habitat-modelling
  • 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
    • nfi
    • model
    • forest-management
    • forest
    • tree-growth
    • massimo
    • biomass
    • timber-harvesting
    • swiss-forest-lab