Christian Ginzler

TL;DR: The results suggest that an extended shift in species composition is actually occurring in the pine forests in the Valais, with the main driving factors found to be climatic variability, particularly drought, and variability in stand structure and topography.

TL;DR: It is shown that climate-driven outbreaks of Yersinia pestis in Asian rodent plague reservoirs are significantly associated with new waves of plague arriving into Europe through its maritime trade network with Asia, which strongly suggests that the bacterium was continuously reimported into Europe during the second plague pandemic.

TL;DR: In this paper, the use of DSI-derived vertical information for capturing variations in forest structure and compare these results to those acquired using airborne laser scanning (ALS) was reported.

TL;DR: In this paper, both a canopy height model derived from a photogrammetric digital surface model and laser point data were tested in estimation of sample-plot-level forest attributes, including diameter, mean and dominant height, basal area, and volume of growing stock.

TL;DR: Although many areas remain intensively managed, the extent, structure, and dynamics of the forests of the Alps reflect natural drivers more strongly today than at any time in the past millennium.