Publications by Rita Bütler Sauvain

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Key factors determining the presence of Tree-related Microhabitats: A synthesis of potential factors at site, stand and tree scales, with perspectives for further research

Tree-related microhabitats (TreMs) have been identified as key features for forest-dwelling taxa and are often employed as measures for biodiversity conservation in integrative forest management. However, managing forests to ensure an uninterrupted resourc ...

2022

Long-term dynamics of aboveground fungal communities in a subalpine Norway spruce forest under elevated nitrogen input

François Gillet, Rita Bütler Sauvain

As anthropogenic N deposition has been suspected to be the main reason for the decline of macromycetous sporocarp production in forest ecosystems, various N-fertilization experiments were started in the mid 1990s. The dynamics of ectomycorrhizal (root-inha ...

Springer Verlag2010

Tree-related microhabitat assemblages in boreal forests depend more on local environmental conditions and tree species than on tree size

Rita Bütler Sauvain

Tree-related microhabitats (TreMs) are crucial for biodiversity, supporting thousands of species. Most TreM research has focused on temperate forests, prompting us to evaluate the TreM typology in the boreal biome. We aimed to: (i) identify factors influen ...

2025

Marteloscopes as training tools for the retention and conservation of habitat trees in forests

Rita Bütler Sauvain

Recently several initiatives on the political and practical level have aimed at promoting forest biodiversity and at halting the loss of species in forest ecosystems. Nevertheless numerous species are still threatened. The main reason for this phenomenon i ...

2019

Inventaire des coléoptères saproxyliques de treize forêts du canton de Vaud

Rita Bütler Sauvain

In 2017, surveys of saproxylic beetles (dependent on dead wood) were conducted in thirteen forests in the canton of Vaud (Switzerland), including several forest reserves. Interception traps were used to catch a total of 298 species of Coleoptera, including ...

2018

Diversité des lichens et enjeux de gestion dans les forêts de Montricher

Rita Bütler Sauvain

Two lichenological studies were conducted in the Montricher forests, one on lignicolous lichens of stumps in 2005 and the other on lichens of the different forest types in 2015. The synthesis of the two allows to establish a reference state of forest liche ...

2021

The search for old-growth forests in Switzerland

Rita Bütler Sauvain

Old-growth forests and stands have multiple values, such as biological, scientific, socioeconomic, aesthetic, spiritual and cultural ones, but they are very rare in central Europe. Currently, an overview about the existence and size of old-growth forest pa ...

2015

Spatial distribution of tree-related microhabitats in European beech-dominated forests

Rita Bütler Sauvain

Tree-related Microhabitats (TreMs) are of prime concern for biodiversity since they host thousands of taxa. TreMs are discrete habitat patches borne by trees and cover a wide range of lifespans, from days to decades to centuries. The taxa associated with s ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2025

Espaces protégés forestiers et libre évolution

Rita Bütler Sauvain

The protection of long time unmanaged forests, formally defined for the first time in the Cévennes National Park, is part of the continuum of a long-lasting history of natural space preservation. These forests cover around 41,000 ha in mainland France in 2 ...

2022

Tree related microhabitats in temperate and Mediterranean European forests: A hierarchical typology for inventory standardization

Rita Bütler Sauvain

2018

Log decay of Picea abies in the Swiss Jura mountains of central Europe

Claire Guenat, Rita Bütler Sauvain, Rodolphe Schlaepfer

2007

Seeing is building better understanding - the Integrate+ Marteloscopes

Rita Bütler Sauvain

Marteloscopes are multifunctional training tools that can create a better understanding of forest management and have been developed as didactic tools for virtual tree selections. With this paper the authors provide explanatory information on the more than ...

Integrate+ Technical Paper2018

Spatial Distribution of Tree-related Microhabitats in European Beech-dominated Forests (Corrigendum - vol 301, 2025, 11086)

Rita Bütler Sauvain

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2025

Évolution du bois mort dans les forêts de Montricher

Rita Bütler Sauvain

Depuis 2001, le Canton de Vaud a instauré des réserves forestières naturelles pour favoriser le maintien et le développement de boisements riches en bois mort et des espèces associées. Dans ces réserves, les quantités de bois mort augmentent en partant d’u ...

2021

Dendro-microhábitats guía de campo. Descripción, identificación y clasificación para su inventario

Rita Bütler Sauvain

Birmensdorf, Switzerland, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL2020