Research discipline and focus | Methodology | Description | References |
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Ecology (impact of global change on forest processes and ecosystem goods and services) | Experiments | Afforestation (irrigated/non-irrigated, altitudinal gradients, transplantations) | |
Rain-out shelter (under shelter/open land) | Eilmann and Rigling 2012 | ||
Rigling et al. 2013 | |||
Thinnings (understory/overstory removal) | |||
Monitoring | National forest inventory and plots from the long-term ecosystem monitoring program | Weber et al. 2008; Wermelinger et al. 2008; Zweifel et al. 2009; Rigling et al. 2010; Heiniger et al. 2011 | |
Additional temporal monitoring of plots (e.g., for insects, mistletoe, pathogens) | |||
Modeling | Forest dynamics and future forest states were simulated using the landscape-scale model LandClim | ||
Socio-economic (land-use change analysis under global change) | Modeling | Modeling concomitant effects of climate and land-use change on the provision of ecosystem goods and services using an activity-based, spatially explicit economic land allocation model | |
Formative scenario analysis | Constructing consistent regional multi-scale scenarios by transdisciplinary processes | Brand et al. 2013 | |
Policy analysis (identification of best accepted policy strategies) | Policy network and policy preferences analysis | Network structures and governance modes in adaptation policies in the Canton of Valais; role of network governance in enhancing sustainable development in mountain areas | |
Network dynamics and policy preferences in Swiss agricultural and forest policy | Hirschi et al. 2013 |