Modelling the eco-cultural niche of giant chesnut trees : new insights into land use history in southern Switzerland through distribution analysis of a living heritage
Alps (The) ; Arboriculture ; Chestnut tree ; Cultural heritage ; Ecological niche ; Historical geography ; Regression analysis ; Switzerland ; Traditional agriculture
The AA. used digital photogrammetry to produce a multi-temporal record of erosion (1963-2005) of a rock slope at the head of the Illgraben, a very active catchment prone to debris flows in Switzerland. Slope failures affect 70% of the study slope
: hayfields, pasture with dwarf shrubs and pasture without dwarf shrubs in the Urseren Valley (Central Switzerland) with a mean slope steepness of 37°. The combination of all three methods turns out to be useful for erosion quantification and process
Biodiversity ; Comparative study ; Ecology ; Environment ; Europe ; Flora ; Germany ; Grassland ; Indicator ; Plant species ; Poland ; Soil properties ; Switzerland
A comparative analysis was performed in regard to the ecological scales of indicator values for plant species proposed by : Ellenberg et al. (1991) for the flora of Germany, Landolt (1997) for the flora of Switzerland and Zarzycki et al, (2002
Alps (The) ; Austria ; Climate ; Climatic variability ; Glacier ; Glacier fluctuation ; Model ; Mountain ; Response time ; Sensitivity analysis ; Switzerland
on response times and a reconstruction of the climatic forcing can be extracted from length records : 2 adjacent glaciers in the Oetztal Alps (Austria), Hintereisferner and Kesselwandferner, and 4 glacier length records from the Oberengadin (Switzerland).
Basel ; Gentrification ; Household ; Housing ; Income ; Inner city ; Middle class ; Real estate development ; Residential choice ; Social geography ; Switzerland ; Zurich