Last updated
October 14, 2024
Terms of use
Open use. Must provide the source.

Description

The National Forest Inventory (NFI) is a periodic survey of condition and development of the Swiss forest. It is produced in close cooperation between the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL). This record contains information about: number of deadwood stems, number of deadwood stems per forest area, basal area of deadwood per forest area, biomass of living trees, biomass of living trees per forest area, biomass of living trees, aboveground, biomass of living trees, aboveground per forest area, growing stock (stemwood), root mass of living trees, root mass of living trees per forest area, growing stock (stemwood) per forest area, total wood volume (stemwood), total wood volume (stemwood) per forest area, volume of deadwood (stemwood), volume of deadwood (stemwood) per forest area, total basal area per forest area, total number of stems, total number of stems per forest area, mass of merchantable branchwood from living trees, mass of merchantable branchwood from living trees per forest area, branch brushwood mass of living trees, branch brushwood mass of living trees per forest area, mass of needles/ leaves of living trees, mass of needles/ leaves of living trees per forest area, stemwood mass of living trees, stemwood mass of living trees per forest area, biomass of standing dead trees, biomass of standing dead trees per forest area, biomass of lying dead trees, biomass of lying dead trees per forest area, number of stems, number of stems per forest area and basal area per forest area

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Additional information

Identifier
nfi_C-96@bundesamt-fur-umwelt-bafu
Issued date
November 2, 2023
Modified date
October 14, 2024
Conforms to
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Publisher
Abteilung Wald, Bundesamt für Umwelt
Contact points
Abteilung Wald, Bundesamt für Umwelt
Languages
  • English
  • German
  • French
  • Italian
Further information
Legal basis
Landing page
https://lfi.ch/resultate/resultateliste.php?befNr=96
Documentation
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Temporal coverage
January 1, 1983 - December 31, 2022
Spatial coverage
Switzerland
Update interval
Irregular
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