This article talks about the impacts of global warming and adaptation measures on a farm in the Valais Pre-Alps, specifically a forest where silviculture is adapted to be resilient to climate and disease. In summary, forest professionals try to prepare the forest as well as possible so that it can...

The so-called "DACH Initiative" pursues the goal of enhancing the comparability between the national data sets of the forestry enterprise networks of Germany, Austria and Switzerland and drawing conclusions for politics, science and practice. Initial comparisons of country indicators show that the...

Selection silviculture aims to create and maintain uneven-aged forests with a diameter at breast height (DBH) structure that is balanced at small spatial scales such that the stem number in each DBH class is high enough to replace the harvested and outgrowing trees over time by ingrowth from the...

Climate change exerts an increasingly strong influence on Swiss forest ecosystems. Changes in site conditions and the increased risk of disturbances (droughts, windthrow, storms) have a considerable negative impact on the silvicultural potential of forests. However, these effects can be mitigated...

Integrative forest management approaches, aiming to combine the provision of multiple forest ecosystem services in the same forest area, are popular forest management concepts in Europe. Their understanding and application varies, however, across the continent. This paper looks at one dimension of...

The Swiss forest, through adapted silviculture, provides many services to society that are summarized by the four forest functions: protection, economy, ecology and hospitality. However, challenges to the maintenance of this multifunctionality could compromise the public interest. A bibliographic...

Climate-adaptive forest management aims to sustain the provision of multiple forest ecosystem services and biodiversity (ESB). However, it remains largely unknown how changes in adaptive silvicultural interventions affect trade-offs and synergies among ESB in the long term. We used a...

The development of our forests under Climate Change and the influence of today's actions on future ecosystem services in forests have become important silvicultural issues. There- fore, model-based tools are needed for forest planning and the optimization of interventions. In this article the new,...

The term 'bioeconomy' stands for an economy that primarily relies on renewable biotic resources and thus supports the vision of a low carbon society. The respective 'bioeconomy strategies' bear high conflict potential as they, sometimes unintentionally, rely on forest-land or wood as a resource,...

In this article, Forestry Region Zofingen (FBRZ) has developed guidelines to adapt its 1,700 hectares of forest to the changing climate. Despite the uncertainties for the future, FBRZ has developed guidelines specifically for mixed coniferous forests. The guidelines recommend that the proportion of ...