Project ID:12 | Module:2 | Status:
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Transformation rates of Alpine landscapes and surrounding areas: potential threats and benefits to people and selected species
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Dr. Felix Kienast
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf ZH |
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kienast@wsl.ch |
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01 739 23 66 / Fax: 01 737 40 80 |
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http://www.wsl.ch/land/ |
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St. Gallen, Gonten (AI), Schwägalp (AR), Wildhaus (SG), Pilatus (OW, NW), Horw, Kriens (LU) |
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Bundesamt für Umwelt, Wald und Landschaft (BUWAL), Naturforschungspark Schwägalp (AR) |
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Summary:
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This project investigated landscape transformation and its potential impacts on people and biota in a historical and a predictive sense. The research had a landscape-ecological and a historical-sociological component. We tried to
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Description:
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What does the landscape transformation signify from a biological and cultural point of view?
Natural processes and the influence of man determine landscape transformation, which in turn affects humans, animals, and plants. This project... ->read more
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Reviewed publications:
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(contains 3 review papers that are submitted to the open literature) Transformation rates and driving forces of landscape change on the northern fringe of the Swiss Alps.
[N. Schneeberger, PhD Thesis ETHZ (English)]
Spatial distributions of landscape elements in Switzerland and theirimplications for multivariable landscape sampling
[Nina Schneeberger, Adrian Lanz, Andri Baltensweiler, Felix Kienast , Landscape Ecology, submitted (English)]
(3 review papers) CHANGING LANDSCAPES OF SWITZERLAND: Assessing effects of historic and future land uses and land covers on the occurrence of selected butterfly species
[Michael Lütolf, PhD thesis Univ. Lausanne (English)]
Retrospektive Analyse der Landschaftsqualität und ihr Einfluss auf Artenverbreitung und Wahrnehmung. Festschrift K. Ewald. Paul Haupt Verlag
[Felix Kienast , Michael Lütolf, Patricia Felber, Nina Schneeberger, Karl Martin Tanner et al. (Hrsg.) Landschaftsqualitäten, Haupt (German)]
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Other publications
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| Publication: | Schlussbericht: Transformation rates of Alpine landscapes and surrounding areas: potential threats and benefits to people and selected species [F. Kienast, M. Bürgi, K. Ewald, A. Guisan, N. Bauer, T. Wohlgemuth, H.D. Koeppel, (English)]
| | Publication: | Landschaftsveränderung in der Wahrnehmung und Bewertung der Bevölkerung Eine qualitative Studie in vier Schweizer Gemeinden. [P. Felber, (German)]
| | Publication: | Landschaftsveränderungen und deren Auswirkungen auf das Tagfaltervorkommen von 1870 bis 1970 in der Gemeinde St. Gallen
[Tessa Hegetschweiler, (German)]
| | Publication: | Freiflächenentwicklung im periurbanen Raum der Stadt St. Gallen 1948 – 2003: Transformationsraten und treibende Kräfte [Christian Schwick, (German)]
| | Publication: | Ortsidentität in verschiedenen Siedlungstypen [Gabriela Rothenfluh , (German)]
| | Publication: | Veränderungen der Flora und Landnutzung im nordöstlichen Pilatusgebiet [Jon Gaudenz, (German)]
| | Poster: | Transformation rates of Alpine landscapes and surrounding areas: potential threats and benefits to people and selected species [Felix Kienast, (English)]
| | Abstract: | Transformation rates of Alpine landscapes and surrounding areas: potential threats and benefits to people and selected species [Felix Kienast, Nicole Bauer, Matthias Bürgi, Klaus Ewald, Antoine Guisan, Hans-Dietmar Koeppel, Thomas Wohlgemuth, Patricia Felber, Michael Lütolf, Nina Schneeberger, (English)]
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