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396 datasets found

  • Metabarcoding of urban and forest bird faecal samples

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We captured birds in urban parks and peri-urban forests in the cities of Lugano, Zurich (Switzerland) and Napoli (Italy). The urban sites were located in urban forests (Lugano,...

    Last updated: June 16, 2025

    • ZIP
    • trophic-networks
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • arthropoda
    • urban-biodiversity
    • birds
  • Disdrometer Data Gotschnagrat

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A laser optical disdrometer (Parsivel² , OTT Hydromet) was deployed at Gotschnagrat (LON: 9.849, LAT: 46.859) to measure hydrometeors by extinction when passing a laser beam. The...

    Last updated: May 31, 2022

    • ZIP
    • precipitation
    • hydrometeors
    • visibility
    • raclets
    • disdrometer
  • Simulation data and analyses of regional food web robustness under habitat loss

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all processed data, simulation outputs, and R/Python scripts used to assess the robustness of regional multi-habitat food webs in Switzerland under various...

    Last updated: April 22, 2025

    • ZIP
    • habitat-fragmentation
    • food-webs
    • trophic-networks
    • trophich
    • network-analysis
    • robustness
    • metaweb
  • Simulated and observed prevalence of dispersal-related traits in tropical reef fish assemblages worldwide

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data and R codes (R Development Core Team, https://www.R-project.org) used in the following publication: Donati GFA, Parravicini V, Leprieur F, Hagen O,...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • TXT
    • ecology
    • traits
    • reef-fish
    • dispersal
    • biodiversity
  • Dataset for the publication New particle formation events can reduce cloud droplets in boundary layer clouds at the continental scale

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains PMCMx-UF model outputs used for the paper: D. Patoulias K. Florou S. N. Pandis and A. Nenes: New particle formation events can reduce cloud droplets in...

    Last updated: November 14, 2023

    • ZIP
    • nucleation
    • total-number
    • pmcamx-uf
    • modeling
    • cloud-droplets
  • GPS-derived data of SWE, HS and LWC and corresponding validation data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes GPS-derived snow water equivalent (SWE), snow depth (HS) and liquid water content (LWC) data for three entire snow-covered seasons (2015-2016, 2016-2017,...

    Last updated: November 29, 2019

    • CSV
    • PDF
    • liquid-water-content
    • snow-depth
    • gps
    • snow-cover
    • snow
  • C-N-P-Release Treeline

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    1. Chemical characteristics of litter layer sampled along elevation gradient across treeline ecotones in the Khibiny mountains (birch) and South Urals (spruce)
    2. Release of C-N-P...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • climate-change
    • litter-decomposition
    • carbon-cycle
    • biogeochemical-cycling
    • enzymatic-activities
    • nutrient-fluxes
    • microbial-biomass
    • treeline-ecosystems
  • Base cation dynamics in an Oriental beech forest

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Throughfall, litterflow and soil solution were sampled during one whole year under five Oriental beech trees in a mixed Hyrcanian beech forest. The amounts of Ca2+, Mg2+, K+ and...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • XLS
    • biogeochemical-cycling
    • fagus-orientalis-lipsky
    • potassium
    • calcium
    • magnesium
  • Ramerenwald Close Range Remote Sensing Benchmark

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Close Range Remote Sensing Benchmark for different LiDAR and photogrammetric Sensors in a mixed temperate forest. Benchmarks are needed to evaluate the performance of different...

    Last updated: March 15, 2023

    • ZIP
    • structure-from-motion
    • unmanned-aerial-vehicle-laser-scanning
    • mobile-laser-scanning
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • terrestrial-photogrammetry
    • lidar
    • 3d-point-cloud
    • forest-inventory
  • Above- and below-ground herbivore communities along elevation

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Despite the common role of above- and below-ground herbivore communities in mediating ecosystem functioning, our understanding of the variation of species communities along natural...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • TXT
    • functional-traits
    • environmental-gradients
    • herbivores-communities
    • plant-herbivore-interactions
    • alps
    • elevation
    • community-indices
  • Fire Weather Index for Hydrological Bavaria from 1980-2099 derived from the 50 member CRCM5-LE

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the Fire Weather Index for Hydrological Bavaria from 1980 - 2099 as stated in the paper "Climate change impacts on regional fire weather in heterogeneous...

    Last updated: December 22, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • climate-indicators
    • indicator-values
    • forest-fire
    • mountains
    • meteorological-data
    • climate
    • european-alps
    • fire
    • climate-change
    • europe
  • Three-dimensional debris flow simulation tool debrisInterMixing

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Here debrisInterMixing until version 7 is provided for download. Further versions as well as installation instructions and tutorials and discussion forums (mostly in german) can be...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • natural-hazard
    • finite-volumes
    • hangmuren
    • debris-flow
    • interfoam
    • barrier-impact-simulation
    • shallow-landslide
    • dberisintermixing
    • murgang
  • Database on holdover time of lightning-ignited wildfires

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This database contains open, harmonized, and ready-to-use global data on holdover time. Holdover time is defined as the time between lightning-induced fire ignition and fire...

    Last updated: March 26, 2025

    • ZIP
    • database
    • holdover
    • smouldering
    • zenodo
    • lightning-location-system
    • forest-fire
  • WFJ_ICE_LAYERS: Multi-instrument data for monitoring deep ice layer formation in an alpine snowpack

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The WFJ_ICE_LAYERS dataset contains multi-instrument snowpack measurements at high temporal resolution, which enable to monitor the formation of deep ice layers due to preferential...

    Last updated: October 19, 2020

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • ice-layers
    • weissfluhjoch
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • water-front
    • snowmicropen
    • snow-temperature
  • Data on the diet of urban and rural bumblebees

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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 Zürich) obtained using...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • CSV
    • bern
    • bees
    • macronutrients
    • lad-use-chages
    • nutrient-intake
    • pollen-metabarcoding
    • foraging-behaviour
    • rural
    • basel
    • dietary-patterns
    • zurich
    • bombus-lapidarius
    • urban
    • bumblebees
    • bombus-pasquorum
  • Wind LIDAR Davos Wolfgang

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Scanning wind Lidar from Meteoswiss was installed at Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) and measured from 200 m above ground to 8100 m. The time resolution is up to 5...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • ZIP
    • wind
    • raclets
    • profiles
    • wolfgangpass
    • lidar
  • CALISHTO campaign dataset for the publication Biological and Dust Aerosols as Sources of Ice-nucleating Particles in the Eastern Mediterranean

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains all observational data sets during CALISHTO campaign used for the paper: Gao, K., Vogel, F., Foskinis, R., Vratolis, S., Gini, M. I., Granakis, K.,...

    Last updated: September 4, 2024

    • ZIP
    • inp-parameterization
    • ice-nucleation
    • aerosol-cloud-interactions
    • biological-particles
    • aerosol-source-apportionment
  • Teaser videos Swiss landscapes under climate change

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Short videos showing scenarios of potential landscape development in a 4°C warmer climate for a Swiss mountain region and a region on the Swiss Plateau. The videos are in German or...

    Last updated: February 14, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • visualization
    • policy-action
    • landscape-change
    • climate-change
    • scenario
  • Repetitive trajectory testing in Tschamut 2014

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In summer 2014, 6 rock blocks between 20 and 80kg have been thrown in total 111 times down a slope at the Swiss Oberalppass close to the village Tschamut. The slope was mainly...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • field-test
    • trajectory
    • field-tests
    • field-data
    • natural-hazards
    • experiments
    • rockfall
    • experiment
    • mass-movements
  • Long-term meteorological and snow station at 2090 m a.s.l., Stillberg, Davos, Switzerland (1975 - present)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Important This EnviDat entry is outdated. The most recent, usable version of the data can be found under the new EnviDat entry "Long-term meteorological station Stillberg, Davos,...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • PNG
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • wind
    • temperature-profiles
    • precipitation
    • radiation