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99 datasets found

  • FACE: Stillberg CO2 enrichment and soil warming study

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    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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    • habitat-heterogeneity
    • hypervolume
    • phytodiversity
    • model-residuals
    • hengduan-mountains
  • 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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    • solutes
    • oxygen-isotopes
    • hydrogen-isotopes
    • catchment
    • catchment-data
    • stream-water
    • groundwater
  • Mortality of regeneration: Acer spp. and Fagus sylvatica

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    One individual per species, vitality class (low and high) and height class (eight classes: 0–10, 11–20, 21–35, 36–60, 61–90, 91–130, 131–200 and 201–500 cm) was randomly selected...

    Last updated: November 4, 2021

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    • fagus
    • dominance
    • acer
    • regeneration
    • lar
    • shade-tolerance
    • mortality-rate
  • Challenging the sustainability of urban beekeeping: evidence from Swiss cities

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    Data on: (1) (Dataset 1) spatial distribution of urban beekeeping (number of hives and number of beekeeping locations) in 14 Swiss cities (Geneva, Lausanne, Biel, Neuchatel, Basel,...

    Last updated: August 12, 2024

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    • urban-biodiversity
    • honeybees
    • pollination
    • remote-sensing
    • urbanization
    • sustainability
  • Number of avalanche fatalities per calendar year in Switzerland since 1937

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    Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This dataset contains the statistics on the number of avalanche fatalities per calendar year in Switzerland. The data...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • fatalities-on-transportation-corridors
    • avalanche-fatalities
    • fatalities-in-the-backcountry
    • fatalities-in-or-around-buildings
    • fatalities-in-settlements
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
    • fatalities-in-terrain-close-to-ski-areas
  • Jussy, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

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    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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    • precipitation
    • temperature
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    • relative-humidity
    • meteo
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • wind-speed
    • climate-change
    • meteorology
  • Lausanne, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1996 onwards

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    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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    • meteo
    • precipitation
    • long-term
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • wind-speed
    • par
    • relative-humidity
    • meteorology
    • temperature
    • climate-change
  • Aerosol Data Weissfluhjoch

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    Aerosol properties were measured between February 8 and March 31 2019 at the measurement site Weissfluhjoch (LON: 9.806475, LAT: 46.832964). Optical and aerodynamic particle...

    Last updated: March 6, 2022

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    • ice-nucleation
    • aerosol
    • inp
    • raclets
    • particles
    • linda
  • Spatio-temporal soil and local snow monitoring in a glide-snow avalanche prone slope above Davos Switzerland

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    This dataset consists of spatio-temporal soil measurements and local snow measurements which were recorded to investigate glide-snow avalanche release in the Seewer Berg slope...

    Last updated: March 25, 2025

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    • glide-snow-avalanche
    • avalanche
    • soil-moisture
    • avalanche-activity
    • snow-profile
  • Othmarsingen, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1996 onwards

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    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 2, 2019

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    • swiss-forest-lab
    • meteorology
    • relative-humidity
    • meteo
    • temperature
    • climate-change
    • long-term
    • precipitation
    • wind-speed
    • par
  • Observed and simulated snow profile data

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    This data set includes information on all observed and simulated snow profiles that were used to train and validate the random forest model described in Mayer et al. (2022). The RF...

    Last updated: October 21, 2022

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    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snowpack-simulation
    • snow-profiles
    • failure-layer
    • snow-instability
    • snowpack
    • rutschblock
  • Impact of non-native tree species in Europe on soil properties and biodiversity: a review

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    Compiled data on the impacts of seven important NNTs (Acacia dealbata, Ailanthus altissima, Eucalyptus globulus, Prunus serotina, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus rubra, Robinia...

    Last updated: October 21, 2022

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    • pairwise-stand-comparisons
    • biodiversity
    • biogeography
    • soil-impacts
    • forest-management
  • Modified TypoCH reference list of diagnostic species for the classification of vegetation types in Switzerland

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    The TypoCH scoring system (Eggenberg & Bornand 2023), which is widely used in Switzerland, provides good results as classification method for vegetation types based on Delarze et...

    Last updated: May 22, 2025

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    • vegetation-classification
    • vegetation-type
    • phytosociology
    • diagnostic-species
    • character-species
    • typoch
  • Phenotypic and Growth Stage Development Data of a Quercus robur Mycorrhization Experiment

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    In this experiment, we investigated the inoculation-effects of two ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) species with contrasting evolutionary histories, ecological properties,...

    Last updated: May 9, 2025

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    • oak
    • ectomycorrhiza
    • quercus-robur
    • rhythmic-growth
    • piloderma-croceum
    • cenococcum-geophilum
  • Data supporting ‘Examining honeybee (Apis mellifera) dominance patterns within urban bee communities worldwide’

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    The following repository contains the data and code to reproduce the figures analyses of the paper "Examining honeybee (Apis mellifera) dominance patterns within urban bee...

    Last updated: August 4, 2025

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    • honeybees
    • urban-ecosystems
    • sads
    • urban-beekeeping
    • anthophila
    • wildbees
    • cities
    • dominance
  • Nitrogen availability under trees exposed to CO2 enrichment (FACE)

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    Data obtained in the free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiment at Hofstetten, NW Switzerland, between 2009 and 2016. This dataset contains analyses of the soil solution throughout...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • co2
    • face
    • soil
    • picea-abies
    • forest
    • nitrogen
  • Energyscape 2 - Comparing stated preferences of renewable energy landscapes in Switzerland in 2018 and 2022

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    This repository presents the basis data of both the Energyscape 1 (2018) and the Energyscape 2 (2022) survey about renewable energy infrastructure related landscape preferences in...

    Last updated: September 29, 2025

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    • survey
    • landscape-perception
    • energy-transition
    • discrete-choice
    • renewable-energy
  • Visp, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

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    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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    • temperature
    • long-term
    • relative-humidity
    • wind-speed
    • meteo
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • climate-change
    • meteorology
    • precipitation
  • Bats in beaver systems

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    This dataset contains processed bat acoustic data collected to evaluate the ecological impacts of beaver-engineered ponds on bat species richness, activity, and feeding activity....

    Last updated: September 3, 2025

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    • beaver
    • wetland
    • nature-conservation
    • habitat-heterogeneity
    • flying-arthropods
    • ecosystem-engineer
    • castor
    • chiroptera
    • deadwood