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396 datasets found

  • Data on multi-year drought impacts on European beech in northern Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    This study investigated multi-year drought impacts on beech forests through a unique large-scale monitoring of 963 individual beech trees, which showed either premature leaf...

    Last updated: May 2, 2024

    • ZIP
    • leaf-senescence
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • growth-reaction-to-drought-stress
    • forests
    • drought-2018
    • european-summer-drought
  • Meteorological data for investigation of rain-on-snow events in 58 catchments in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Meteorological data used to run SNOWPACK for 58 catchments in the Swiss Alps. The data consists of a 2 km grid of "virtual meteorological stations" for each catchment. It was used...

    Last updated: September 10, 2025

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • snowpack
    • catchment-data
    • snow-hydrology
    • rain-on-snow
    • meteorological-data
  • Torymus sinensis local and regional early population dynamics in the Insubrian and Piedmont regions

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the population evolution of a pest and its biocontrol agent in terms of presence proportion at gall level and absolute number of insects.

    The study area...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • CSV
    • castanea-sativa
    • population-evolution
    • southern-switzerland
    • biological-control
    • pest-invasion
    • dryocosmus-kuriphilus
    • torymus-sinensis
  • gbif.range - An R package to generate species range maps based on ecoregions and a user-friendly GBIF wrapper

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    Education, culture and sport

    Although species range may be obtained using expert maps or modeling methods, expert data is often species-limited and statistical models need more technical expertise as well as...

    Last updated: June 24, 2025

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • occurrence-records
    • synonyms
    • flags
    • r-package
    • filtering
    • gbif
    • landsca
    • range-maps
    • accepted-name
    • ecoregions
    • species-observations
    • taxonomy
    • large-scale
    • species-distribution
    • hard-limit
    • conservation
  • A grain-size driven transition in the deformation mechanism in slow snow compression

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    Education, culture and sport

    We conducted consecutive loading-relaxation experiments at low strain rates to study the viscoplastic behavior of the intact ice matrix in snow. The experiments were conducted...

    Last updated: October 10, 2023

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • ice
    • slow-snow-compression-experiments
    • snow-mechanics
    • microstructure
    • x-ray-tomography
  • Swiss electricity system modeling -- HV grid - hydropower topology and inflows - renewable productions - past and forecast meteorological data

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains several useful components for Swiss Electricity system modeling:

    1. High-voltage Swiss grid: 2019 snapshot of the high-voltage (>150kV) grid composed...

    Last updated: September 26, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • meteorological-data
    • forecast-models
    • electricity-grid
    • solar-irradiance
    • reservoir-inflow
    • hydropower
    • renewable-energy
  • Replication files for "Integrating biodiversity: A longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics"

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    Education, culture and sport

    Introduction

    The ZIP file contains all data and code to replicate the analyses reported in the following paper.

    Reber, U., Fischer, M., Ingold, K., Kienast, F., Hersperger, A....

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • policy-analysis
    • biodiversity
    • text-corpus
    • switzerland
    • policy-documents
    • bgb
    • environmental--policy
  • Swiss-wide survey on restorative places and road traffic noise

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    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data related to the Swiss-wide survey of the RESTORE project. This project is a collaboration between the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and...

    Last updated: March 28, 2025

    • XLS
    • PDF
    • CSV
    • traffic-noise
    • landscape-perception
    • outdoor-restoration
    • ppgis
    • survey
  • Snow water equivalent for reference date April 1 for Wägital catchment, starting 1943

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    Education, culture and sport

    Total water reserves of the snow cover [mio m3] for Wägital catchment, Switzerland, for reference date April 1. Data is separated in 2 elevation zones 900m-1500m asl and...

    Last updated: April 30, 2025

    • TXT
    • gcos
    • meteodat-gmbh
    • snow
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • wagital
  • Environmental DNA Marine France Evhoe 2020

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    Education, culture and sport

    Environmental DNA complements scientific trawling in surveys of marine fish biodiversity (Dataset 2020)

    In October 2020 we chose 16 sites from the 2020 EVHOE survey for eDNA...

    Last updated: June 27, 2024

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    • fish-composition
    • actinopterygii
    • chondrichthyes
    • edna
    • teleo
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • bay-biscay
    • atlantic-region
  • Amphibian and urban-rural landscape data Swiss Lowlands

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data includes (1) amphibian occurrence data (2017-2019) for ten species across the cantons of Aargau and Zürich gathered from the Coordination Center for the Protection of...

    Last updated: January 7, 2022

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    • ecological-corridors
    • biodiversity
    • human-dominated-landscapes
    • circuit-theory
    • urban-spatial-planning
    • integrated-modelling
  • High resolution global standardized drought indices

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset consists of the standardized precipitation (SPI) and the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) index with a 30 arcsec (~1km) horizontal resolution....

    Last updated: January 28, 2025

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    • XLS
    • PDF
    • extreme-events
    • megadrought
    • multi-year-drought
    • chelsa
    • precipitation
    • drought
    • potential-evapotranspiration
  • Data for the publication "Secondary ice production processes in wintertime alpine mixed-phase clouds"

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    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains all WRF model outputs and observational data sets used for the paper: Georgakaki, P., Sotiropoulou, G., Vignon, É., Billault-Roux, A.-C., Berne, A., and...

    Last updated: December 10, 2024

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    • blowing-snow
    • swiss-alps
    • wrf
    • jungfraujoch
    • ice-crystal-number-concentration
    • ice-water-content
    • liquid-water-content
    • secondary-ice-production
  • Unconfined compression experiments and 3D CT images of spherical model snow and RG snow samples

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    For the investigation of microstructural and mechanical properties of snow unconfined compression experiments and 3D computed tomography (CT) imaging were performed on sintered...

    Last updated: July 16, 2025

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • spherical-model-snow
    • discrete-element-modelling
    • unconfined-compression-experiments
    • snow-mechanics
    • microstructure
    • 3d-ct-images
  • Novel methods to correct for observer and sampling bias in presence-only species distribution models

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    Education, culture and sport

    Aim: While species distribution models (SDMs) are standard tools to predict species distributions, they can suffer from observation and sampling biases, particularly presence-only...

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

    • ZIP
    • plant-species
    • background-data
    • cluster
    • environmental-stratification
    • target-group
    • covariate-correction
    • point-process-model
    • random-stratified-sampling
    • survey-effort
    • independent-dataset
  • Disdrometer Data Davos Wolfgang

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains information on precipitation amount and type for Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) from February 8 to March 19 2019. It includes: characteristics...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • ZIP
    • raclets
    • davos
    • disdrometer
    • precipitation
    • fall-velocity
  • Monitoring of ash trees as part of the Intercantonal Forest Observation Programme

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In 2013, the Institute for Applied Plant Biology (IAP) started a monitoring programme to study the development and the spatial variation of the ash dieback disease with the aim to...

    Last updated: June 3, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • fraxinus
    • iap
    • ash-dieback
    • monitoring
    • forest
  • Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) dataset

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) dataset includes values for 65 biological and ecological traits and 25 bioclimatic variables for all 1816 bryophytes included in the European...

    Last updated: March 3, 2023

    • PDF
    • TXT
    • XLS
    • red-list
    • mosses
    • iucn
    • hornworts
    • liverworts
    • bioclimatic-variables
    • indicator-values
    • life-history-traits
  • Fatal avalanche accidents in Switzerland since 1995-1996

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    Education, culture and sport

    Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This data collection contains information concerning all accidents by snow avalanches causing at least one fatality in...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • CSV
    • avalanche-fatalities
    • avalanche-accidents
    • number-of-dead-persons
    • number-of-caught-persons
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
  • Environmental DNA Freshwater Switzerland VaudCatchment Modipl 2020

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Catchment-based sampling of river eDNA integrates terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity of alpine landscapes

    From 22-Jun-2020 to 26-Jun-2020, we sampled five sites comprising one...

    Last updated: June 19, 2024

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    • sper01
    • spermatophytes
    • switzerland
    • environmental-dna
    • edna
    • vertebrates
    • freshwater
    • vert01