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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2 datasets found

  • Data on bryophyte diversity and treatment factors in the PaNDiv experiment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset was used to analyse effects of different biodiversity and functional group treatments, fertilizer and fungicide applications as well as weeding of vascular plants on...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • biodiversity-experiment
    • biomass
    • bryophytes
    • functional-traits
    • fungicide
    • grassland
    • moss
    • nitrogen
    • pandiv
    • species-richness
  • Urban bird predation on artificial caterpillars

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We established our study sites in the cities of Basel, Lugano and Zurich, and their peri-urban forests. We characterised urban tree cover of each city using a rectangular grid with...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • XLS
    • biodiversity
    • biodiversity-experiment
    • birds
    • insect-herbivores
    • periurban
    • pest-invasion
    • urban
    • urban-biodiversity
    • urban-ecology