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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7 datasets found

  • Lake climate change scenarios CH2018

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset "Lake_climate_change_scenarios_CH2018" provides simulation-based climate change impact scenarios for perialpine lakes in Switzerland. These transient future scenarios...

    Last updated: November 9, 2023

    • XLS
    • climate-change
    • hydrologic-and-hydrodynamic-modelling
    • lake-level-regulation
    • perialpine-lakes
    • switzerland
  • Resurveyed vegetation releves of beech forests in the Swiss Jura Mountains

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset comprised 254 historical (1937 – 1948) and resurveyed (2019 – 2022) vegetation relevés of beech-dominated forests sites in the Swiss Jura mountains. The data contains...

    Last updated: February 21, 2024

    • XLS
    • air-pollution
    • climate-change
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest
    • forest-management
    • ground-vegetation
  • Data Konzeptionelles Systemmodell

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    Education, culture and sport

    This folder contains documents relevant to the project step Konzeptionelles Systemmodell. It specifically contains the following documents:

    1. 0201_Konzeptionelles...

    Last updated: February 3, 2025

    • XLS
    • PDF
    • climate-change
    • landscape-change
    • policy-action
    • qualitative-research
    • scenarios
  • MadCrypto – Bryophyte and macrolichen diversity in laurel forests of Madeira

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes species lists of bryophytes and macrolichens (presence/absence) sampled on the forest floor and on trees in disturbed and undisturbed plots along elevation...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

    • XLS
    • biodiversity
    • bryophyte
    • bryophyte-life-strategy
    • climate-change
    • climate-change-impact
    • disturbance
    • elevational-gradient
    • endemic
    • endemic-species
    • functional-taxonomic-group
    • functional-taxonomic-groups
    • lichen
    • lichen-growth-form
    • lichen-growthform
    • liverwort
    • madeira-island
    • moss
    • photobiont
  • Fetzer_Khibiny_Treeline_NPcycling

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data on soil nutrients and charcteristics, tree and understory biomass, foliage nutrients, mineralogy, soil temperature and moisture along an elevation gradient from boreal forest...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • biomass-dynamics
    • climate-change
    • plant-community
    • plant-traits
    • soil-nutrients
    • treeline-ecosystems
  • Data on Douglas fir seedlings from the DOCH-WO experiment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data is related to the publication "Non-native Douglas fir seedlings outcompete native Norway spruce, silver fir and Scots pine under dry and nutrient-poor conditions". It...

    Last updated: March 6, 2025

    • XLS
    • climate-change
    • douglas-fir
    • drought
    • european-beech
    • norway-spruce
  • C-N-P-Release Treeline

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    1. Chemical characteristics of litter layer sampled along elevation gradient across treeline ecotones in the Khibiny mountains (birch) and South Urals (spruce)
    2. Release of C-N-P...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

    • XLS
    • biogeochemical-cycling
    • carbon-cycle
    • climate-change
    • enzymatic-activities
    • litter-decomposition
    • microbial-biomass
    • nutrient-fluxes
    • treeline-ecosystems