Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL

Institutional 14.06.2024
New director
New director

The Federal Council has appointed Rolf Holderegger as the new director of WSL.

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Research 27.05.2024
Participatory science improves plant mapping
Participatory science improves plant mapping

A new tool from the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL shows where plant species occur in Switzerland today and in the future.

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Research 08.05.2024
25 years ago: May floods in Switzerland
25 years ago: May floods in Switzerland

25 years ago, the Central Plateau was flooded: a retrospective view on the May floods of 1999, their causes, and consequences.

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Research 08.04.2024
New findings on the cause of earthquakes
New findings on the cause of earthquakes

A WSL study proves for the first time that landslides can trigger earthquakes if they dam lakes.

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Research for people and the environment in a changing world

News

Research
25.06.2024
Ein SLF-Mitarbeiter notiert Vegetations-Daten an einer IMIS-Station im Bäretälli bei Davos. (Foto: Christian Rixen / SLF)

Snow or plant

Machine learning helps researchers to use weather stations to investigate the consequences of climate change for the growth of alpine vegetation.

Services and products
05.06.2024

Cities as habitats

Understanding and improving biodiversity in the city: Read in the new DIAGONAL magazine how WSL is contributing to this.

Research
27.05.2024

Better archiving of genetic data

Getting the most out of genetic data - to enable this, a WSL-led team is calling for standards in archiving.

Research
16.05.2024

Where amphibians feel at home

Quantitative scientific recommendations aim to create new ecological infrastructures to protect amphibians.

Opinion
15.05.2024

AI can fuel environmental crises

Artificial intelligence can boost economic growth in a way that can harm the environment. Carte blanche with Irmi Seidl.

Services and products
14.05.2024

Forest landscape model TreeMig

TreeMig simulates the migration of tree species, and more. Thanks to the new user interface and R package, modelling is now easier.

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Events

18 to 25 August 2024

Summer School Forests and Extremes

Is early browning in European forests a harbinger of tree death or simply a sign of temporary stress? In 2018, science could not answer this…

23 August 2024

Einführungskurs Seilaplan und QGIS

Die ibW Maienfeld und die WSL bieten zwei Weiterbildungen zum Thema Seilkranprojektierung an. Im Einführungskurs Seilaplan und QGIS…

26 to 31 August 2024

Summer School: Blue-green biodiversity. Research and practice at the interface of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems

The WSL Biodiversity Center is pleased to announce their second summer school on blue-green biodiversity.

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