Published on August 28, 2024 at 9:46 p.m. / Modified on August 28, 2024 at 9:49 p.m.
The Finges forest, which extends down the mountainside into the Rhone Valley near Leuk (VS), is exceptional in every way. It is not only the largest pine forest in the Alps, but also, since 2003, an open-air laboratory for studying the response of trees to climate change.
“In this low-altitude site, at around 600 metres, the Scots pines have been experiencing very high mortality for two decades, following significant droughts,” explains Charlotte Grossiord, professor of plant ecology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). “Studying this region, one of the most affected by drought in Switzerland, allows us to better understand the precise conditions that cause the trees to die.”
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