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

  • Forest Reserves Monitoring in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Long term monitoring of natural forests provides insights into ecological processes shaping forests without human intervention. To study natural forest dynamics, the former chair...

    Last updated: March 25, 2020

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    • natural-forest-dynamics
    • switzerland
    • permanent-plot
    • forest-reserves
    • long-term-monitoring
  • Supplementary Data Sample Plot Inventory Sihlwald

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    Education, culture and sport

    Supplementary Data Sample Plot Inventory Sihlwald

    The Sihlwald is one of the largest contiguous beech forests in the Swiss Plateau region. In the year 2000, timber harvesting...

    Last updated: April 20, 2022

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    • forest-inventory
    • natural-forest-dynamics
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • sihlwald
    • forest-reserves
  • Calibration data for empirical mortality models of 18 European tree species

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset comprises > 90 000 records from inventories in 54 strict forest reserves in...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

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    • forest-reserves
    • inventory-data
    • tree-mortality
    • empirical-mortality-models
    • tree-growth
  • 'Latent reserves' within the Swiss NFI

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    Education, culture and sport

    The files refer to the data used in Portier et al. "‘Latent reserves’: a hidden treasure in National Forest Inventories" (2020) Journal of Ecology.

    'Latent reserves' are...

    Last updated: February 4, 2021

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    • switzerland
    • national-forest-inventory
    • tree-mortality
    • forest-reserves
    • near-natural-forest
  • Data from: Does one model fit all? patterns of beech mortality in natural forests of three European regions

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The datasets comprise nearly 19’000 trees of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) from unmanaged forests in Switzerland, Germany / Lower Saxony and Ukraine. Tree death was...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

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    • forest-inventory
    • primeval-forests
    • mortality-models
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • tree-mortality
    • forest-reserves