Annals of Forest Science (Feb 2024)

Advancing forest inventorying and monitoring

  • Marco Ferretti,
  • Christoph Fischer,
  • Arthur Gessler,
  • Catherine Graham,
  • Katrin Meusburger,
  • Meinrad Abegg,
  • Peter Bebi,
  • Ariel Bergamini,
  • Eckehard G. Brockerhoff,
  • Ivano Brunner,
  • Christoph Bühler,
  • Marco Conedera,
  • Pierre Cothereau,
  • Petra D’Odorico,
  • Christoph Düggelin,
  • Christian Ginzler,
  • Alex Grendelmeier,
  • Matthias Haeni,
  • Frank Hagedorn,
  • Martin Hägeli,
  • Karin Tessa Hegetschweiler,
  • Rolf Holderegger,
  • Frank Krumm,
  • Felix Gugerli,
  • Valentin Queloz,
  • Andreas Rigling,
  • Anita C. Risch,
  • Brigitte Rohner,
  • Christian Rosset,
  • Daniel Scherrer,
  • Tobias Schulz,
  • Esther Thürig,
  • Berthold Traub,
  • Georg von Arx,
  • Peter Waldner,
  • Thomas Wohlgemuth,
  • Niklaus E. Zimmermann,
  • Ross T. Shackleton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-023-01220-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 81, no. 1
pp. 1 – 25

Abstract

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Key message Evolving societal demands and accelerated ecological dynamics due to global change are rapidly altering forest ecosystems and their services. This has prompted the need for advancing forest inventorying and monitoring initatives to expand their scope, improve data collection, foster scientific understanding, and better inform policy responses. Here, we discuss the collaborative processes followed to develop an Advanced Inventorying and Monitoring (AIM) system for Swiss forests. Further, we provide the key messages that emerged from this process which can be of interest to those involved in similar processes at the national/international level.

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