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477 datasets found

  • Stable Water Isotopes in snow and vapor on the Weissfluhjoch

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    Education, culture and sport

    Notice: Changes to the dataset are still possible. Please do not use this dataset until the final publication with a DOI. Contact the authors if you have questions about...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

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    • latent-heat
    • natural-tracer
    • paleoclimate
    • post-depositional-processes
    • snow
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • sublimation
    • weissfluhjoch
  • Data on wild bee taxonomic and functional diversity in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Raw data supporting the paper "Countrywide wild bee taxonomic and functional diversity reveal a spatial mismatch between alpha and beta-diversity facets across multiple ecological...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

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    • anthophila
    • beta-diversity
    • biodiversity
    • climate
    • community-indices
    • elevation-gradient
    • functional-diversity
    • hymenoptera
    • predictive-modelling
    • protected-areas
    • resource-availability
    • switzerland
    • urbanization
    • wild-bee
  • European Snow Booklet – an Inventory of Snow Measurements in Europe

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    The European Snow Booklet (ESB) is a book of reference for snow measurements that has been produced through collaboration with many European snow practitioners and snow scientists...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

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    • cost-action-es1404-harmosnow
    • depth-of-snowfall
    • harmonisation-of-snow-measurements
    • snow-depth
    • snow-measurement-methods
    • spatial-distribution-of-snow-observations-in-europe
    • water-equivalent-of-the-snow-cover
  • Data set of: Plant and root-zone water isotopes are difficult to measure, explain, and predict: some practical recommendations for determining plant water sources

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    The following two tables contain information about the data sources of the values reported in Table 1 and 2 in the paper “Plant and root-zone water isotopes are difficult to...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

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    • ecohydrology
    • endmember-mixing-models
    • plant-water-uptake
    • review
    • root-zone
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • uncertainties
  • MadCrypto – Bryophyte and macrolichen diversity in laurel forests of Madeira

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    This dataset includes species lists of bryophytes and macrolichens (presence/absence) sampled on the forest floor and on trees in disturbed and undisturbed plots along elevation...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

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    • biodiversity
    • bryophyte
    • bryophyte-life-strategy
    • climate-change
    • climate-change-impact
    • disturbance
    • elevational-gradient
    • endemic
    • endemic-species
    • functional-taxonomic-group
    • functional-taxonomic-groups
    • lichen
    • lichen-growth-form
    • lichen-growthform
    • liverwort
    • madeira-island
    • moss
    • photobiont
  • Environmental DNA Marine France Calanques 2022

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    Education, culture and sport

    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 “ImpĂ©rial...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • edna
    • fish-composition
    • marine
    • marseille
    • mediterraneaen
    • teleo
  • Escalating effects of multiple perturbations on soil functionality

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    Soil chemical and biological properties of soils affected by 10 different perturbations related with global change, applied individually or in combination. Greenhouse experiment....

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • drought
    • heatwave
    • land-use
    • pesticide
    • soil
    • soil-biodiversity
    • soil-nutrients
  • Environmental DNA Marine France Calanques 2021

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    Education, culture and sport

    Description: Fish environmental DNA data set collected in 2021 in the Calanques National Park The eDNA samples were collected in 2021 in two locations (Moyades, M−FPA and “ImpĂ©rial...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • edna
    • fish-composition
    • marine
    • marseille
    • mediterraneaen
    • teleo
  • Dataset on new snow water equivalent

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes quality-controlled measurements of new snow depth (HN), new snow water equivalent (HNW), snow depth (HS), and snow water equivalent (SWE) from 41 stations...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • data-assimilation
    • new-snow
    • precipitation
    • snow-modelling
    • snowfall
  • Hydrochemical Data Collected during Spring-Fall 2022 in the Haute-Mentue Catchment

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    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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    • CSV
    • catchment
    • catchment-data
    • groundwater
    • hydrogen-isotopes
    • oxygen-isotopes
    • solutes
    • stream-water
  • Hydrochemical Data Collected during Spring-Fall 2021 in the Erlenbach Catchment

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    The dataset contains hydrochemical data collected from spring to fall 2021 in the Erlenbach catchment, Switzerland. This hydrochemical data includes solute concentrations and...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • PDF
    • catchment
    • catchment-data
    • erlenbach
    • groundwater
    • hydrogen-isotopes
    • oxygen-isotopes
    • precipitation
    • solutes
    • stream-water
  • 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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    • CSV
    • catchment
    • catchment-data
    • channel
    • drainage
    • drainage-network
    • dynamics
    • precipitation
    • water-level
  • Data on bryophyte diversity and treatment factors in the PaNDiv experiment

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset was used to analyse effects of different biodiversity and functional group treatments, fertilizer and fungicide applications as well as weeding of vascular plants on...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • biodiversity-experiment
    • biomass
    • bryophytes
    • functional-traits
    • fungicide
    • grassland
    • moss
    • nitrogen
    • pandiv
    • species-richness
  • Tectonic and climatic controls on plant biodiversity in the Hengduan Mountains China

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes geomorphic predictors and plant biodiversity patterns in the Hengduan Mountains, published in the Geological Society of London special volume: Asian...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • climate-history
    • endemism
    • plant-biodiversity
    • relief
    • tectonic-faults
  • Automated detection of invasive alien plants along highways

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    Education, culture and sport

    Transport infrastructure such as highways are important corridors for the spread of invasive species. In this project, an automated detection and mapping of **two invasive...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • artificial-intelligence
    • automatic-detection
    • biological-invasions
    • computer-vision
    • invasive-species
    • plants
  • Simulation parameters and outputs for towards a physically and microstructure-based equation for the evolution of the specific surface area in snow

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    Education, culture and sport

    In the associated study [1], evolution of randomly generated bi-continuous microstructures that resemble real snow microstructures has been investigated. The control of the ambient...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ODS
    • fem
    • metamorphism
    • microstructure
    • numerical-simulations
    • snow
  • Environmental DNA Marine France LaPerouse 2019

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    Education, culture and sport

    Fish environmental DNA data set collected in the shallow seamount of La Pérouse located between Madagascar and Réunion Island

    In 2019, we sampled the shallow seamount of La...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • coral-reef
    • edna
    • environmental-dna
    • fish-composition
    • indian-ocean
    • laperouse
    • marine
    • teleo
  • Figures perspective urban beekeeping

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data and code from the perspective paper "When honeybees comes to town" The .r file provides the code to generate the figures. In addition, this repository contains the data for...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • CSV
    • OCTET
    • diversity-distributions
    • hymenoptera
    • insects
    • urban-beekeeping
    • urban-ecology
    • wildbees
  • Data on the diet of urban and rural bumblebees

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data on the diet of urban and rural bumblebees individuals, Bombus lapidarius and Bombus pascuorum, collected in Switzerland (cantons Bern, Basel and ZĂŒrich) obtained using...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • CSV
    • basel
    • bees
    • bern
    • bombus-lapidarius
    • bombus-pasquorum
    • bumblebees
    • dietary-patterns
    • foraging-behaviour
    • lad-use-chages
    • macronutrients
    • nutrient-intake
    • pollen-metabarcoding
    • rural
    • urban
    • zurich
  • Daten Bryolich-Projekt Moose und Flechten in GĂ€rten

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Im Rahmen des Bryolich-Projekts “Moose und Flechten in GĂ€rten” wurden möglichst vollstĂ€ndige Artenlisten von Moosen und Flechten in 26 bzw. 7 GĂ€rten um WohnhĂ€user erstellt. In 5...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • bryolich
    • bryophytes
    • diversitat
    • flechten
    • garten
    • lichens
    • moose