41 Result(s)

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A case study of forest change in the Swiss lowlands

This paper presents a regional case study of forest development and the history of forest use and management in the north-eastern lowlands of Switzerland during the 19th and 20th centuries. The analysis draws ...

Matthias Bürgi in Landscape Ecology (1999)

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Factors and Processes Sha** Land Cover and Land Cover Changes Along the Wisconsin River

Matthias Bürgi, Monica G. Turner in Ecosystems (2002)

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Assessing the Restoration Success of River Widenings: A Landscape Approach

During the last 200 years, many rivers in industrialized countries have been modified by canalization. In the last two decades, the philosophy of river management has changed considerably, and restoration of e...

Sigrun Rohde, Felix Kienast, Matthias Bürgi in Environmental Management (2004)

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Driving forces of landscape change — current and new directions

The concept of driving forces is gaining increasing attention in landscape-change research. We summarize the state of the art of this field and present new conceptual and methodological directions for the stud...

Matthias Bürgi, Anna M. Hersperger, Nina Schneeberger in Landscape Ecology (2004)

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Driving forces of landscape change - current and new directions

The concept of driving forces is gaining increasing attention in landscape-change research. We summarize the state of the art of this field and present new conceptual and methodological directions for the stud...

Matthias Bürgi, Anna M. Hersperger, Nina Schneeberger in Landscape Ecology (2005)

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Hotspots and richness pattern of grasshopper species in cultural landscapes

The success of the hotspot approach for biodiversity conservation depends on the spatial scale and the indicator species used. In this study, we investigated grasshopper species richness in Switzerland at a 1 ...

Claude E. Steck, Matthias Bürgi, Thomas Coch, Peter Duelli in Biodiversity and Conservation (2007)

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Three objectives of historical ecology: the case of litter collecting in Central European forests

Most ecosystems and landscapes worldwide are dominated or influenced by human impacts. Consequently, studies of pattern and processes of and within anthropogenic ecosystems and cultural landscapes have to cons...

Matthias Bürgi, Urs Gimmi in Landscape Ecology (2007)

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Reconstructing Anthropogenic Disturbance Regimes in Forest Ecosystems: A Case Study from the Swiss Rhone Valley

Anthropogenic disturbances of forest ecosystems are increasingly recognized as fundamental ecological processes with important long-term implications for biogeochemical cycles and vegetation patterns. This art...

Urs Gimmi, Matthias Bürgi, Martin Stuber in Ecosystems (2008)

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Linking Forest Fire Regimes and Climate—A Historical Analysis in a Dry Inner Alpine Valley

Forest fire regimes are likely to experience considerable changes in the European Alps due to climatic changes. However, little is known about the recent regional fire history and the impact of local climate o...

Thomas Zumbrunnen, Harald Bugmann, Marco Conedera, Matthias Bürgi in Ecosystems (2009)

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Quantifying disturbance effects on vegetation carbon pools in mountain forests based on historical data

Although the terrestrial carbon budget is of key importance for atmospheric CO₂ concentrations, little is known on the effects of management and natural disturbances on historical carbon stocks at the regional sc...

Urs Gimmi, Annett Wolf, Matthias Bürgi, Marc Scherstjanoi… in Regional Environmental Change (2009)

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Land-use and climate change effects in forest compositional trajectories in a dry Central-Alpine valley

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The recent landscape history of Limpach valley, Switzerland: considering three empirical hypotheses on driving forces of landscape change

Understanding global landscape dynamics is a core challenge for the newly emerged field of land change science. Such an understanding requires insights into general pattern of landscape changes and the related...

Matthias Bürgi, Angela Straub, Urs Gimmi, Daniel Salzmann in Landscape Ecology (2010)

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Reconstructing the collapse of wetland networks in the Swiss lowlands 1850–2000

In Central Europe vast wetland areas have been converted into agricultural land over the past few centuries. Long-term spatially explicit reconstructions of wetland cover changes at regional scale are rare but...

Urs Gimmi, Thibault Lachat, Matthias Bürgi in Landscape Ecology (2011)

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Human impacts on fire occurrence: a case study of hundred years of forest fires in a dry alpine valley in Switzerland

Forest fire regimes are sensitive to alterations of climate, fuel load, and ignition sources. We investigated the impact of human activities and climate on fire occurrence in a dry continental valley of the Sw...

Thomas Zumbrunnen, Patricia Menéndez, Harald Bugmann… in Regional Environmental Change (2012)

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Soil carbon pools in Swiss forests show legacy effects from historic forest litter raking

Globally, forest soils contain twice as much carbon as forest vegetation. Consequently, natural and anthropogenic disturbances affecting carbon accumulation in forest soils can alter regional to global carbon ...

Urs Gimmi, Benjamin Poulter, Annett Wolf, Hanspeter Portner… in Landscape Ecology (2013)

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264 years of change and persistence in an agrarian landscape: a case study from the Swiss lowlands

Century-long interaction between societies and their environment has shaped the cultural landscapes across Europe. Specific farming systems have persisted for long periods, and their abandonment has led to far...

Matthias Bürgi, Daniel Salzmann, Urs Gimmi in Landscape Ecology (2015)

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Exploring links between culture and biodiversity: studying land use intensity from the plot to the landscape level

In recent years, the term biocultural diversity has been promoted to raise awareness for the interrelationship between culture and biodiversity. Whereas the term is hard to conceptualize in general, specific l...

Matthias Bürgi, Li Li, Thanasis Kizos in Biodiversity and Conservation (2015)

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Evaluating forest transition based on a multi-scale approach: forest area dynamics in Switzerland 1850–2000

A trend of forest area expansion after decades of decline is taking place in many countries around the globe. In Switzerland, forest cover has been expanding since at least the mid-nineteenth century. However,...

Christin Loran, Christian Ginzler, Matthias Bürgi in Regional Environmental Change (2016)