scholarly journals Wildfire history and fire ecology of the Swiss National Park (Central Alps): new evidence from charcoal, pollen and plant macrofossils

The Holocene ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 805-817 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Stahli ◽  
W. Finsinger ◽  
W. Tinner ◽  
B. Allgower
Keyword(s):  
Fire Ecology ◽  
National Park ◽  
Plant Macrofossils ◽  
Central Alps ◽  
Swiss National Park ◽  
New Evidence

scholarly journals The Swiss National Park

Oryx ◽  
1955 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-70
Author(s):  
G. N. Zimmerli
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Swiss Society ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Swiss National Park ◽  
Plant Life ◽  
Eastern Border ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One ◽  
Protection Commission

The idea of a Swiss national park originated with the Swiss Society for Nature Research and this Society played the leading part in its realization. In 1906 the Society set up as part of its own organization a Swiss Nature Protection Commission and charged it to search for an area in Switzerland suitable for establishment as a reserve, in which all the animal and plant life could be protected against interference by man and so could be left entirely to the play of natural forces. It was not easy to find in Switzerland a suitably large area which still retained its original characteristics, was virtually free from human settlement, and contained some wealth of fauna and flora. After a careful survey of the whole country it became clear that the most suitable region was the Lower Engadine, with its isolated valleys on the eastern border of the country. The district in which, at the beginning of the century, bears had still lived was the one in which primitive nature could be found in its truest state.

scholarly journals The Swiss National Park

Nature ◽  
1923 ◽  
Vol 112 (2813) ◽  
pp. 478-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. SCHRÖTER
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Swiss National Park

Impact of herbivory by red deer (Cervus elaphus L.) on patterns and processes in subalpine grasslands in the Swiss National Park

2003 ◽  
Vol 181 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 177-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Schütz ◽  
Anita C Risch ◽  
Eliane Leuzinger ◽  
Bertil O Krüsi ◽  
Gérald Achermann
Keyword(s):  
Cervus Elaphus ◽  
National Park ◽  
Red Deer ◽  
Swiss National Park ◽  
Subalpine Grasslands ◽  
Patterns And Processes

scholarly journals Diatom communities of lake/stream networks in the Tatra Mountains, Poland, and the Swiss Alps

2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Kawecka ◽  
Christopher Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
National Park ◽  
Swiss Alps ◽  
Stream Networks ◽  
Tatra Mountains ◽  
Swiss National Park ◽  
Diatom Communities ◽  
Tatra Mts ◽  
The Tatra Mountains ◽  
Distinguished Group

Diatom communities of lake/stream networks in the Tatra Mountains, Poland, and the Swiss AlpsDiatom communities in alpine-zone streams of the Tatra National Park and the Swiss National Park were heterogeneous with respect to species richness, abundance, Shannon diversity index, and ecological preference. Two groups of diatoms were distinguished. Group 1, inhabited streams in the upper Gąsienicowa Valley (Tatra Mts) and Macun Lakes region (Alps), and had high species richness and Shannon diversities (especially in the Tatra Mts streams) but low abundances. The most abundant and common diatoms were

scholarly journals The Swiss National Park

Nature ◽  
1926 ◽  
Vol 117 (2950) ◽  
pp. 705-706
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Swiss National Park

scholarly journals Vegetation dynamics and Fire History in Färnebofjärden National Park, Central Sweden

The Holocene ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
Gina E Hannon ◽  
Karen Halsall ◽  
Chiara Molinari ◽  
Erin Stoll ◽  
Diana Lilley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
National Park ◽  
Fire History ◽  
Plant Macrofossils ◽  
Natural Fire ◽  
Disturbance Factor ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Flooding Events

Palaeoecological studies can identify past trends in vegetation communities and processes over long time scales. Pollen, plant macrofossils and charcoal analyses are used to reconstruct vegetation over the last 6400 years and provide information about former human impact and disturbance regimes in Färnebofjärden National Park, Central Sweden. Three specific conservation planning topics were addressed: (1) the changing ratio of conifers to broadleaved trees; (2) the origin and history of the river meadows and the biodiverse Populus tremula meadows; (3) the role of fire in the maintenance of biological values. Early diverse mixed broadleaved forest assemblages with pine were followed by significant declines of the more thermophilic forest elements prior to the expansion of spruce in the Iron Age. The rise to dominance of spruce was a ‘natural’ process that has been exaggerated by anthropogenic disturbance to artificially high levels today. The initial river meadow communities were facilitated by fire and frequent flooding events, but subsequent dynamics have more definitely been supported by human activities. Rural abandonment during the last 100 years has led to woody successions. Fire has been a continual disturbance factor with an influence on conservation issues such as Picea abies dominance and the maintenance of diverse, non-forest communities. Present occurrence of fire is unusually low, but natural fire frequencies are increasing in the region.

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