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27 datasets found

  • 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
  • Data Broedlin CNP

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    Mircocosm experiment to identify the individual patterns and controls of C, N, and P mobilization in soils under beech forests. Organic and mineral horizons sampled along a...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • XLS
    • drying-rewetting
    • carbon
    • phosphorus
    • soil
    • nitrogen
    • forest
    • dissolved-organic-matter
    • stoichiometry
    • mineralization
  • Site description Davos Seehornwald CH-DAV

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    Site description of the Seehornwald Davos (CH-DAV) research site. The material provided offers information on the biomass and growth of trees in CH-DAV, including supporting...

    Last updated: May 7, 2025

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • stem-growth
    • icos
    • seehornwald
    • sap-flow
    • dbh
    • carbon-dioxide
    • forest
    • automated-monitoring
    • forest-ecosystems
    • climate-change
    • carbon-cycle
    • forest-area
    • twd
    • tree-stem
    • biomass
    • lwf
    • carbon-sequestration
    • water-relations
    • icp-forests
    • co2
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • ecosystem-functioning
    • metadata
    • ecophysiology
    • eddy-covariance-measurements
    • climate-growth
    • forest-characteristics
    • forest-function
    • open-data
    • treenet
    • forest-monitoring
    • forest-canopy
    • forest-biomass
    • carbon-storage
    • davos
    • subalpine
    • flux
    • picea-abies
    • forest-dynamics
    • eddy-covariance
    • ilter
    • dendrometer
  • Vegetation Height Model LiDAR NFI

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    Education, culture and sport

    Countrywide vegetation height models (VHM) were generated for Switzerland based on LiDAR data acquired in the framework of the swissSURFACE3D campaign (swisstopo). To...

    Last updated: July 3, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • point-cloud
    • three-dimensional
    • vegetation
    • forest
    • vegetation-classification
    • vegetation-height
    • nfi
  • Factors influencing teenagers' forest visit frequency

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data results from a questionnaire survey conducted at 8 schools in the cantons Zurich, Aargau and St. Gallen. Respondents aged 13-22 years. The aim of the survey was to gain...

    Last updated: January 31, 2022

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    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • childhood
    • recreational-activities
    • teenagers
    • adolescents
    • forest
  • Shading by Trees and Fractional Snow Cover Control the Subcanopy Radiation Budget

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    This data set consists of incoming and outgoing short- and longwave radiation as well as sunlit-snow-view-fraction as described in the JGR-Atmospheres paper "Shading by trees and...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • TXT
    • fractional-snow
    • forest
    • shortwave-radiation
    • longwave-radiation
    • shading
  • LWF-Tea bag sites

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    Education, culture and sport

    Decomposition of plant litter is a key process for the transfer of carbon and nutrients in ecosystems. Carbon contained in the decaying biomass is released to the atmosphere as...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • CSV
    • litter
    • modeling
    • verification
    • carbon
    • roiboos
    • forest
    • tea-bag
    • decomposition
    • green-tea