Forest Reserves Monitoring in Switzerland

Long term monitoring of natural forests provides insights into ecological processes shaping forests without human intervention. To study natural forest dynamics, the former chair of silviculture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) initiated a network of forest reserves in the late 1940's. Since 2006, the monitoring is carried out in a cooperation project of the chair of Forest Ecology at ETH, the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). The project relaunch led to a streamlining of the reserve network, which now contains 33 of the original reserves and 16 new reserves. The main goal is to evaluate the effectiveness of the federal reserve policy by analysing to what extent forest reserves differ from managed forests in terms of structure, dynamics, and habitat quality.天然林长期监测可为解析无人类干预下塑造森林的生态过程提供关键科学洞见。为研究天然林动态变化规律，瑞士联邦理工学院（Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH）前造林学讲席主任于20世纪40年代末发起建立了森林保护区网络。 自2006年起，该监测工作由ETH森林生态学教研室、瑞士联邦森林、雪与景观研究所（Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, WSL）以及瑞士联邦环境办公室（Federal Office for the Environment, FOEN）联合开展。本次项目重启对保护区网络进行了优化整合，当前网络包含33处原有保护区与16处新增保护区。 本项目的核心目标为：通过分析森林保护区在林分结构、动态变化与栖息地质量方面与经营林的差异程度，评估联邦保护区政策的实施成效。