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396 datasets found

  • Urban bird predation on artificial caterpillars

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We established our study sites in the cities of Basel, Lugano and Zurich, and their peri-urban forests. We characterised urban tree cover of each city using a rectangular grid with...

    Last updated: April 9, 2025

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    • urban-ecology
    • biodiversity
    • urban
    • periurban
    • biodiversity-experiment
    • pest-invasion
    • insect-herbivores
    • urban-biodiversity
    • birds
  • Nuclear microsatellite genotypes of Pinus cembra

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains individual genotypes at 11 nuclear microsatellite markers of samples of Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra). Samples were collected in 12 natural and presumably...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • CSV
    • TXT
    • molecular-markers
    • genetic-structure
    • afforestation
    • reproductive-matieral
    • pinus-cembra
  • Environmental DNA Freshwater Namibia Namibia 2022

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Monitoring terrestrial mammals through eDNA in rivers of northern Namibia In 2022, we collected 20 water samples from 10 stations two rivers of Namibia. Samples were taken from the...

    Last updated: August 5, 2025

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    • edna
    • eukaryotes
    • metabarcoding
    • bivalves
    • namibia
  • Long-term recovery of above-and belowground interactions in restored grasslands

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data, on which the following publication below is based.

    Paper Citation:

    _Resch, M.C., SchĂŒtz, M., Ochoa-Hueso, R., Buchmann, N., Frey, B., Graf, U.,...

    Last updated: October 20, 2021

    • XLS
    • restoration
    • soil-biodiversity
    • fungi
    • soil-biology
    • bacteria
    • topsoil-removal
    • soil
    • grassland
    • biodiversity
    • plants
    • soil-chemistry
    • nematodes
  • Isone, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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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    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • meteorology
    • climate-change
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • meteo
    • wind-speed
    • temperature
    • relative-humidity
    • long-term
    • precipitation
    • par
  • Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This report was prepared as one of the synthesis report chapters of the Hydro-CH2018 project of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). An important feature of snow cover is...

    Last updated: May 20, 2020

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    • snowfall
    • hydrology
    • snow
    • climate-change-impacts
    • water-cycle
  • Photogrammetric Drone Data GrĂŒenbödeli

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We conducted various drone flights at GrĂŒenbödeli near Davos with the Sony RX1R II mounted on a Wingtra drone during 2020/21/22. The data was processed with the Agisoft Metashape...

    Last updated: April 22, 2024

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    • uav
    • drone-data
    • wingtra
    • dsm
    • snow-depth-mapping
    • photogrammetry
    • orthophoto
  • A high-resolution snow and hydrometeorological dataset for the Dischma region in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data from the alpine Dischma watershed and its surroundings in eastern Switzerland and includes: (a) hourly hydrometeorological data with 100m spatial...

    Last updated: August 22, 2025

    • ZIP
    • inarch
    • modelling
    • hydrology
    • cryosphere
    • dischma
    • snow
  • Field-based eDNA analysis to detect the threatened and elusive African manatee

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data associated to the publication "Rapid field-based detection of a threatened and elusive species with environmental DNA and CRISPR-Dx"
    Authors:
    Flurin Leugger,...

    Last updated: June 16, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • crispr-dx
    • field-based-protocol
    • threatened-species
    • qpcr
    • environmental-dna
    • african-manatee
    • crispr-cas
    • edna
    • biodiversity-monitoring
  • Tree species map of Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dominant tree species map of Switzerland We created a tree species map of Switzerland for the dominant tree species in the forested areas. The spatial resolution of the map is 10...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • PNG
    • switzerland
    • tree-species
    • forest
    • map
    • remote-sensing
  • Sentinel-2 time series of Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We processed Sentinel-2 image time series from 2017 to 2023 for Switzerland with the Software FORCE (Frantz 2019) on the basis of [Sentinel-2...

    Last updated: February 19, 2025

    • OCTET
    • TIFF
    • switzerland
    • force
    • remote-sensing
    • sentinel-2
    • raster-processing
    • time-series
  • SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 24 January 2018

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Outlines of 18'737 avalanches mapped from SPOT6 satellite data over the Swiss Alps on 24 January 2018. The outlines have different attributes described in the data example key...

    Last updated: August 22, 2025

    • SHP
    • snow
    • natural-hazard
    • avalanche
    • hazard-mapping
    • satellite
  • RADAR Wind profiler Davos Wolfgang

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The RADAR wind profiler from Meteoswiss was installed at Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) and measured from 2171 m above sea level to 11079 m, with a temporal...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • ZIP
    • wind-speed
    • wolfgangpass
    • wind-direction
    • radar
    • raclets
  • A numerical solver for heat and mass transport in snow based on FEniCS

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This python code uses the Finite Element library FEniCS (via docker) to solve the one dimensional partial differential equations for heat and mass transfer in snow. The results are...

    Last updated: February 22, 2022

    • ZIP
    • python
    • numerical-model
    • vapor-transport
    • pattern-formation
    • snow
  • Environmental DNA Marine France Calanques 2021

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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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    • teleo
    • marseille
    • fish-composition
    • edna
    • marine
    • mediterraneaen
  • Amphibian observation and pond data (Aargau, Switzerland)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In the canton of Aargau, hundreds of new ponds have been constructed since the 1990s to benefit declining amphibian populations. This dataset consists of monitoring data for all 12...

    Last updated: September 24, 2024

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    • OCTET
    • HTML
    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • landscape
    • conservation
    • occupancy-models
    • connectivity
    • wetlands
    • amphibians
  • Grassland-use intensity maps for Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A rule-based algorithm (Schwieder et al., 2022) was used to produce annual maps for 2018–2021 of grassland-management events, i.e....

    Last updated: February 14, 2024

    • PNG
    • GeoTIFF
    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • land-use
    • use-intensity
    • remote-sensing
    • grassland
    • landsat
    • sentinel-2
    • mowing
    • management
  • Celerina, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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: September 28, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • PDF
    • par
    • relative-humidity
    • temperature
    • long-term
    • precipitation
    • meteo
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • wind-speed
    • climate-change
    • meteorology
  • Avalanche fatalities in the European Alps (1969/1970 - 2014/2015)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    During the last 45 years, about 100 people lost their lives in avalanches in the European Alps each year. Avalanche fatalities in settlements and on transportation corridors have...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • TXT
    • avalanche-accident
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
    • avalanche-fatalities
    • long-term-trends
    • avalanche-statistics
  • Data-set for prediction of natural dry-snow avalanche activity and avalanche size using physics-based snowpack simulations

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data set contained in this repository was used in the analysis by Mayer et al. (2023): Mayer, S. I., Techel, F., Schweizer, J., and van Herwijnen, A.: Prediction of natural...

    Last updated: August 2, 2023

    • XLS
    • avalanche-size
    • avalanche
    • machine-learning
    • snowpack-model
    • natural-avalanches