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451 datasets found

  • Data on Douglas fir seedlings from the DOCH-WO experiment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data is related to the publication "Non-native Douglas fir seedlings outcompete native Norway spruce, silver fir and Scots pine under dry and nutrient-poor conditions". It...

    Last updated: March 6, 2025

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    • norway-spruce
    • douglas-fir
    • climate-change
    • european-beech
    • drought
  • Ring wind tunnel experiments - airborne snow metamorphism and stable water isotopes

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset collection contains all datasets collected during the ring wind tunnel experiments in January and May 2023 at the SLF cold laboratory facilities in Davos. A full...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • snow-saltation
    • water-isotopes
    • wind-tunnel
    • cold-lab
    • experiments
    • blowing-snow
    • metamorphism
    • drifting-snow
  • IMIS Phenology Data Since 1998

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    Education, culture and sport

    Long-term phenological data in alpine regions are often limited to a few locations and thus, little is known about climate-change induced plant phenological shifts above the...

    Last updated: April 9, 2025

    • OCTET
    • PNG
    • XLS
    • imis
    • grassland
    • snowmelt
    • climate
    • alpine
    • long-term
    • monitoring
    • snow
    • ultrasonic
    • phenology
  • Ecological properties of urban ecosystems. Biodiversity dataset of Zurich

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    Education, culture and sport

    Richness, site occurrence and abundance data of bees, beetles, birds, hoverflies, net-wingeds, true bugs, snails, spiders, milipides, wasps collected in the city of Zurich using...

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

    • TXT
    • diversity
    • spiders
    • snails
    • sdms
    • birds
    • urban-ecology
    • urbanization
    • arthropods
    • insects
    • species-richness-models
    • species-abundance-distributions
  • How do stability corrections perform in the stable boundary layer over snow?

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    Education, culture and sport

    We used five different atmospheric turbulence datasets from four test sites, with these sites showing differences in their topographical characteristics. We chose one typical...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • stable-boundary-layer
    • snow
    • atmospheric-turbulence
    • atmosphere
    • turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes
  • Phosphorus and nitrogen leaching from beech forest soils

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data on dissolved organic and inorganic phosphorus and nitrogen concentrations in leachates and their corresponding fluxes from the litter layer, the Oe/Oa horizon, and the A...

    Last updated: July 14, 2021

    • XLS
    • forest-topsoil
    • soil-temperature
    • dissolved-organic-phosphorus
    • nutrient-fluxes
    • nitrogen
    • beech
    • seasons
    • zero-tension-lysimeters
    • phosphorus
    • fertilization
  • 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
    • edna
    • indian-ocean
    • teleo
    • laperouse
    • environmental-dna
    • marine
    • coral-reef
    • fish-composition
  • IRKIS Soil moisture measurements Davos

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    Education, culture and sport

    Meteorological and soil moisture measurements from soil moisture stations installed from October 2010 - October 2013 in the area surrounding Davos, in particular in the Dischma...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • dischma-catchment
    • davos
    • meteo-station
    • meteorological-measurements
    • soil-moisture
  • Data reliability study: avalanche size estimates and outlines

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the data used and collected to investigate the reliability of avalanche size estimates and avalanche outlines (see related publications). Namely this is

    ...

    Last updated: July 31, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • remote-sensing
    • avalanche-size-estimation
    • avalanche-mapping
    • avalanche
    • reliability
  • Automatic Classification of Avalanches

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the classification and localization results obtained during the automatic classification of avalanches during the winter season 2017.

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • avalanche
    • seismic
    • localization
    • monitoring
    • machine-learning
  • Soil measurements of Seewer Berg and Davos

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains measured values of soil liquid water content, matric potential, and soil texture of 40 soil samples in Davos, Switzerland. The measurements were used for...

    Last updated: May 8, 2025

    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • TXT
    • glide-snow-avalanche
    • soil-classification
    • soil
    • lwc
    • alpine
    • measurements
    • matric-potential
    • soil-texture
  • Cropland and grassland map of Switzerland based on Sentinel-2 data

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    Education, culture and sport

    We developed a map of cropland and grassland allocation for Switzerland based on several indices dominantly derived from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery captured over multiple growing...

    Last updated: March 29, 2021

    • TIFF
    • GeoTIFF
    • SERVICE
    • habitat
    • phenology
    • machine-learning
    • cropland
    • agriculture
    • grassland
    • sentinel-2
    • vegetation-indices
    • remote-sensing
    • switzerland
  • Groundwater time series Studibach (Rinderer et al., 2019, WRR)

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    Education, culture and sport

    Groundwater time series between 2010 and 2014 of the distributed monitoring system in the Studibach (C7), Alptal, Switzerland. Data published in Rinderer M., van Meerveld I,...

    Last updated: February 4, 2021

    • TXT
    • studibach
    • groundwater
    • alptal
    • switzerland
    • time-series
  • trophiCH v1 - a food web for Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Environmental pressures on species can cascade within food webs and even extend beyond individual ecosystems to interconnected systems at large spatial scales. To facilitate the...

    Last updated: May 26, 2025

    • ZIP
    • trophic-networks
    • food-webs
    • vascular-plants
    • metaweb
    • vertebrates
    • switzerland
    • invertebarates
  • Open Science Support at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. The EnviDat Concept

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This poster was originally created for the swissuniversities Open Science Action Plan: Kick-Off Forum, and showed to the audience on 17.10.2019. It illustrates how the...

    Last updated: April 23, 2021

    • PDF
    • jupyter-notebooks
    • hpc
    • research-data-management
    • open-source
    • open-science
    • open-data
    • reproducibility
  • Selected wet snow avalanche activity data Davos, Switzerland (2011-2014)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Polygons of wet snow avalanches in the Davos area, as documented by the Swiss avalanche warning service. The georeferenced outlines of the avalanches contain both the release as...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • avalanches
    • snow
    • observations
    • alps
    • shapefile
  • Starter Kit for the TreeMig framework v1 for easy simulation of spatio-temporal forest dynamics

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Starter kit for the TreeMig framework that allows for an easy application of the forest landscape model TreeMig for simulating forest dynamics in space under changing environmental...

    Last updated: May 2, 2025

    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • r-package
    • species-migration
    • forest-model
    • forest
    • gui
    • species-interaction
    • spatial-modelling
    • bioclimatic-variables
    • treemig
    • forest-dynamics
    • land-use
  • Carabid beetles in forests

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Carabidae data from all historic up to the recent projects (21.10.2019) of WSL, collected with various methods in forests of different types.

    Version 2 ('FIDO_global_extract...

    Last updated: February 12, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • running-beetles
    • carabidae
    • trapping
    • insects
    • coleoptera
    • arthropoda
    • forest
  • Figures perspective urban beekeeping

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
    • urban-beekeeping
    • urban-ecology
    • wildbees
    • hymenoptera
    • insects
    • diversity-distributions
  • The usage of landscape ecological concepts in the planning literature

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Table of content: 1. Frequency of early concepts; 2. Frequency of additional concepts; 3. Use of any early concept; 4. Use of any additional concept, 5. Planning steps; 6....

    Last updated: October 25, 2021

    • XLS
    • CSV
    • landscape-ecology
    • pdfsearch
    • socio-ecological-system
    • landscape-perception
    • literature-review
    • resilience
    • landscape-planning
    • planning
    • multifunctionality
    • landscape-services
    • green-infrastructure
    • ecosystem-services
    • decision-making
    • sense-of-place