Cooperation for the forests renewed
The Department of Environmental Systems Science of ETH Zurich has prolonged its involvement in the NFZ.forestnet network for at least five more years.
The network’s goal is to cooperate in questions of forestry and science. NFZ.forestnet was created in 2006 as a cooperation of researchers in Germany, France and Switzerland. The network is composed of seven institutions, universities and research centres in Nancy, Freiburg, Zurich and Switzerland. Partners are the Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), the Nancy-Lorraine centre, Université de Lorraine, AgroParisTech, Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg (FVA),University of Freiburg (Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources), the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), Department of Environmental Systems Science.
The main interest of the network is how trees and forests react to stress produced or increased by climate change which leads to drought or insect infestation. Like, for example, the influence of dry weather periods on different tree species which is being analysed within the framework of LabEx ARBRE in Nancy, France. The capacity of the Douglas fir to handle climate change factors is the subject of another transnational research group.