Preparatory Phase Proposal for the Project "VegChangeCH – A comprehensive picture of anthropogenic changes in the vegetation of Switzerland"

The grasslands of Central Europe are habitats of great ecological and economic importance whose biodiversity has declined drastically due to human influence. Using a globally unique dataset of historical vegetation records, the Square Foot Project aims to quantify this transformation over more than a century and ...

The general aim of this and future projects is to consolidate the knowledge on the application of direct greening methods on green roofs namely to adapt typical ecological restoration procedures to urban ecological design and praxis. Specific aims of this project are: 1) to set up of a first inventory  with the old, ...

The tried and tested forest edge key (Krüsi et al. 2017) is suitable for recording the initial condition and later monitoring the success of forest edge enhancements, as it provides reproducible results and is easy to use (Fuhrer et al. submitted). For this reason, this forest edge key is to be further ...

Pleistocene erratic boulders sometimes harbour exclusive rock-dwelling cryptogams (bryophytes, ferns and lichens) and thereby contribute to the biodiversity of landscapes. This is especially the case where erratic boulders constitute the only natural rock habitats or where the chemical composition of ...

The project was accompanied by a bachelor thesis dealing with the user-friendliness of the app. A web app serves as a preliminary study for the creation of the native app. The web app is already usable on any smartphone. Grasses can be indentified based on user-entered characteristics. In the project the ...