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Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Facility•Birmensdorf, Switzerland•
About: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research is a facility organization based out in Birmensdorf, Switzerland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Climate change & Soil water. The organization has 1256 authors who have published 3222 publications receiving 161639 citations. The organization is also known as: WSL.
Topics: Climate change, Soil water, Biodiversity, Glacier, Species richness
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TL;DR: In this article, a state-of-the-art application of an economic valuation method to CES can generate meaningful data for supporting real-world, regional decision-making processes.
Abstract: Traditionally managed agrarian landscapes provide several cultural ecosystem services (CES). Still, CES are often not adequately considered in decision-making – partly because of challenges in their quantification and economic valuation. We show that a state-of-the-art application of an economic valuation method to CES can generate meaningful data for supporting real-world, regional decision-making processes. After qualitative pre-studies (semi-structured interviews, stakeholder workshop) and a pilot study (n = 117), a discrete choice experiment (n = 252 respondents) was administered to a random sample of citizens in the Visp region of the Central Swiss Alps, a site with traditional agrarian landscapes. The design of the choice experiment followed an ecosystem services approach, and uses visualizations to support valuation of aesthetic landscape changes. A response rate of 43% was achieved. Citizen support was expressed for agricultural heritage (P
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Technische Universität München1, University of Sarajevo2, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad3, Warsaw University of Life Sciences4, University of Ljubljana5, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague6, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research7, University of East Sarajevo8, University of Novi Sad9, University of Valladolid10, University of Belgrade11, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences12, University of Molise13
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated 60 long-term experimental plots and provided information about the productivity of mixed mountain forests across a variety of European mountain areas in a standardized way for the first time.
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Mixed mountain forests of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst), and silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) cover a total area of more than 10 million hectares in Europe. Due to altitudinal zoning, these forests are particularly vulnerable to climate change. However, as little is known about the long-term development of the productivity and the adaptation and mitigation potential of these forest systems in Europe, reliable information on productivity is required for sustainable forest management. Using generalized additive mixed models this study investigated 60 long-term experimental plots and provides information about the productivity of mixed mountain forests across a variety of European mountain areas in a standardized way for the first time. The average periodic annual volume increment (PAI) of these forests amounts to 9.3 m3ha−1y−1. Despite a significant increase in annual mean temperature the PAI has not changed significantly over the last 30 years. However, at the species level, we found significant changes in the growth dynamics. While beech had a PAI of 8.2 m3ha−1y−1 over the entire period (1980–2010), the PAI of spruce dropped significantly from 14.2 to 10.8 m3ha−1y−1, and the PAI of fir rose significantly from 7.2 to 11.3 m3ha−1y−1. Consequently, we observed stable stand volume increments in relation to climate change.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied large-scale (synoptic) weather patterns and the corresponding occurrence of forest fires in this complex topography and found that the Alps are a region where cyclonic flows in general, and westerly cyclonic in particular, are the dominating large scale weather pattern due to their location in the westerlies of the global circulation system.
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TL;DR: A state-of-the-art overview of the control possibilities of parasitic Armillaria species is given and some still open questions in Armillsaria research are outlined, the investigation of which will strongly benefit from recent methodological advances.
Abstract: The basidiomycete genus Armillaria s.l. (Armillaria s.s. and Desarmillaria) has a worldwide distribution and plays a central role in the dynamics of numerous woody ecosystems, including natural for...
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TL;DR: A case study in the Swiss canton of Ticino finds that the dominant chestnut was the only tree species that regenerated effectively by sprouting from stools after forest fire, creating various habitats for both new invaders and seedlings of the stand-forming trees.
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter H. Verburg | 107 | 464 | 34254 |
| Bernhard Schmid | 103 | 460 | 46419 |
| Christian Körner | 103 | 376 | 39637 |
| André S. H. Prévôt | 90 | 511 | 38599 |
| Fortunat Joos | 87 | 276 | 36951 |
| Niklaus E. Zimmermann | 80 | 277 | 39364 |
| Robert Huber | 78 | 311 | 25131 |
| David Frank | 78 | 186 | 18624 |
| Jan Esper | 75 | 254 | 19280 |
| James W. Kirchner | 73 | 238 | 21958 |
| David B. Roy | 70 | 250 | 26241 |
| Emmanuel Frossard | 68 | 356 | 15281 |
| Derek Eamus | 67 | 285 | 17317 |
| Benjamin Poulter | 66 | 255 | 22519 |
| Ulf Büntgen | 65 | 316 | 15876 |