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396 datasets found

  • Overland and topsoil interflow time series from the Studibach - summer 2022

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset comprises the time series of overland flow (OF) and topsoil interflow (TIF) discharges from 14 small runoff plots (1 x 3 m) over 27 rainfall events in 2022 across the...

    Last updated: June 5, 2025

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    • land
    • rainfall
    • topsoil-interflow
    • time-series
    • studibach
    • runoff
    • plot
    • alptal
    • overland-flow
  • Continuity in morphological disparity in tropical reef fishes across evolutionary scales

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    Education, culture and sport

    Tropical reef fishes exhibit a large disparity of organismal morphologies contributing to their astonishing biodiversity. Morphological disparity, scaling from differences among...

    Last updated: March 27, 2025

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    • reef-fish
    • morphology
    • landscape
    • landscape-evolution
    • indian-ocean
    • landscape-genetics
  • Daily cycles in solar flux, snowmelt, transpiration, groundwater, and streamflow at Sagehen and Independence Creeks, Sierra Nevada, USA

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    Hydrometerological and ecohydrological time series from Sagehen Creek and Independence Creek, Sierra Nevada, USA, illustrating hydrological responses to daily cycles in snowmelt...

    Last updated: June 16, 2020

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    • ecohydrology
    • diel-cycle
    • evapotranspiration
    • diurnal-cycle
    • snowmelt
    • sap-flow
    • streamflow
    • groundwater
  • Snow avalanche data Davos, Switzerland, 1999-2019

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    These data include all avalanches that were mapped in the region of Davos, Switzerland during the winters 1998-1999 to 2018-2019 (21 years), in total 13,918 avalanches, and the...

    Last updated: April 11, 2022

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    • snow-avalanche
    • avalanche-forcasting
    • avalanche-activity
    • danger-level
    • avalanche-size
  • Herbivory mediates the response of below-ground food-webs to invasive grasses

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    Dataset supporting the paper "Herbivory mediates the response of below-ground food-webs to invasive grasses", published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. The dataset refers to...

    Last updated: July 18, 2025

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    • TXT
    • soil-biodiversity
    • ecosystem-functioning
    • herbivory
    • grassland
    • invasive-species
  • Digitizing historical plague

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    Education, culture and sport

    We present newly digitized data on 6,929 plague outbreaks that occurred between 1347 and 1900 AD across Europe. The data base on an inventory initially published 1976. For...

    Last updated: October 1, 2020

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    • plague-inventory
    • bubonic-plague
    • yersinia-pestis
    • palaeo-epidemiology
    • black-death
    • plague-mapping
    • plague-outbreaks
    • historical-plague
  • Vordemwald, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1996 onwards

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    Education, culture and sport

    High quality meteorological data are needed for long-term forest ecosystem research, particularly in the light of global change. The long-term data series published here comprises...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

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    • long-term
    • temperature
    • par
    • meteorology
    • precipitation
    • climate-change
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • meteo
    • wind-speed
    • relative-humidity
  • Short-term Drainage Density Dynamics Dataset for the Haute-Mentue Catchment

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains time series of water levels, precipitation measured in the two sub-catchments of the Haute-Mentue catchment and its vicinity during summer and autumn 2022, as...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • channel
    • drainage-network
    • dynamics
    • water-level
    • catchment
    • drainage
    • precipitation
    • catchment-data
  • Environmental DNA Marine France Calanques 2022

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    Description: Fish environmental DNA data set collected in 2022 in the Calanques National Park The eDNA samples were collected in 2022 in two locations (Moyades, M−FPA and “Impérial...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • edna
    • fish-composition
    • mediterraneaen
    • marine
    • marseille
    • teleo
  • Environmental DNA Freshwater Colombia Magdalena 2022

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    Education, culture and sport

    Monitoring of vertebrates of the lower Magdalena river through eDNA metabarcoding The Magdalena River basin harbors a large biodiversity of vertebrates, with numerous endemic...

    Last updated: July 3, 2025

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    • edna
    • colombia
    • magdalena
    • metabarcoding
    • teleo
    • vert01
    • fish
  • FACE: Stillberg CO2 enrichment and soil warming study

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    Education, culture and sport

    Background information

    High elevation ecosystems are important in research about environmental change because shifts in climate associated with anthropogenic greenhouse gas...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • soil-temperature
    • climate-change
    • experiment
    • stillberg
    • vegetation
    • carbon-dioxide
  • Phytodiversity is associated with habitat heterogeneity from Eurasia to Hengduan

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    This research data is used to re includes 1 km resolution seed plant species range maps for the Hengduan mountain region (southwest China), elevation information for each species,...

    Last updated: October 28, 2024

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    • CSV
    • habitat-heterogeneity
    • hypervolume
    • phytodiversity
    • model-residuals
    • hengduan-mountains
  • Environmental DNA Marine France Calanques 2023

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    Education, culture and sport

    Description: Fish environmental DNA data set collected in 2023 in the Calanques National Park The eDNA samples were collected in 2023 in two locations (Moyades, M−FPA and “Impérial...

    Last updated: April 10, 2025

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    • teleo
    • marseille
    • fish-composition
    • marine
    • edna
    • mediterraneaen
  • Validating and improving the critical crack length in SNOWPACK

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    Education, culture and sport

    To validate the critical crack length as implemented in the snow cover model SNOWPACK, PST experiments were conducted for three winter seasons (2015-2017) at two field site above...

    Last updated: October 29, 2020

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    • TXT
    • snowpack
    • snow
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-forecast
    • snow-stability-evaluation
  • Disdrometer Data Laret

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    Education, culture and sport

    A laser optical disdrometer (Parsivel² , OTT Hydromet) was used to measure hydrometeors by extinction when passing a laser beam. The instrument can classify eight different...

    Last updated: May 31, 2022

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    • precipitation
    • disdrometer
    • visibility
    • hydrometeors
    • raclets
  • Hydrochemical Data Collected during Spring-Fall 2022 in the Haute-Mentue Catchment

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains hydrochemical data collected from spring to fall 2022 in the Haute-Mentue catchment, Switzerland. This hydrochemical data includes solute concentrations and...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • solutes
    • oxygen-isotopes
    • hydrogen-isotopes
    • catchment
    • catchment-data
    • stream-water
    • groundwater
  • Snow depth mapping by lidar station Braemabuel

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    Education, culture and sport

    We developed a monitoring system using low-cost lidar (Livox Avia) and optical sensors, to measure snow depth variations in an avalanche release area at a high spatiotemporal scale...

    Last updated: May 16, 2025

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    • wind-drifted-snow
    • avalanche
    • low-cost
    • snow
    • monitoring
    • lidar
  • Snow On Antarctic Sea Ice - McMurdoSound 2022 - UAV Retrievals of Snow Topography and Snow Surface Temperature

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset accompanies the publication "How Flat is Flat? Investigating the spatial variability of snow surface temperature and roughness on landfast sea ice using UAVs in...

    Last updated: April 5, 2025

    • ZIP
    • snow-temperature
    • irra
    • sea-ice
    • antarctica
    • snow-roughness
    • drone
    • uav
    • snow
  • DISCHMEX - Meteorological measurements

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    Education, culture and sport

    Meteorological measurements recorded in the Dischma valley from 2014-2016. In 2014 and 2015 we used 11 mobile weather stations from sensorscope to record meteorological parameter...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • ZIP
    • meteorological-measurements
    • dischma
    • dischmex
    • meteorological-data
    • meteo-station
  • GEM2: Meteorological and snow station at Gemsstock (3021 m asl), Canton Uri, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Meteorological station at Gemstock (3021 m asl) in Canton Uri. The station includes in/out LW/SW and a snow height sensor.

    Data from this station is managed by the permos.ch...

    Last updated: May 28, 2024

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    • longwave-radiation
    • snow-height
    • gemstock
    • shortwave-radiation
    • meteo-station