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451 datasets found

  • Water-use strategies of temperate tree species

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset represents the data shown in the Figures 2 - 7 of Walthert et al. (2024): Coordination between degree of isohydricity and depth of root water uptake in temperate tree...

    Last updated: July 4, 2024

    • XLS
    • water-use-strategy
    • water-potential
    • anisohydric
    • stomatal-stringency
    • root-distribution
  • Urban bird predation on horse chestnut leaf miner Cameraria ohridella in three Swiss cities

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We established our study sites in the cities of Basel, Lugano and Zurich. We characterised urban tree cover of each city using a rectangular grid with squares of 100x100 m. Within...

    Last updated: April 9, 2025

    • XLS
    • urban-biodiversity
    • plant-insect-interaction
    • biodiversity
    • insects
    • larvae
    • urban-ecology
    • birds
    • insect-herbivores
  • Raw data-Publication cross-resistance in ash - New Phytologist

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    What are the research data files about: Raw data on perfomance (dry weight, development and mortality) of emerald ash borer larvae used in published bioassays. Raw data on ash...

    Last updated: May 23, 2023

    • XLS
    • defense-chemistry
    • fraxinus
    • cross-resistance
    • emerald-ash-borer
    • intraspecific-variation
    • invasive-species
    • ash-dieback
  • Automatic detection of avalanches

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the results obtained by an automatic classification using hidden Markov models of a continuous seismic dataset. To avoid long computational times, we reduced...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • avalanche-activity
    • seismic
    • snow
    • monitoring
    • hidden-markov-model
  • DISCHMEX - High-resolution daily snow ablation rates in an Alpine environment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We recorded snow ablation maps with a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS, Riegl-VZ6000) at the Gletschboden area. The TLS position is located approximately 30 vertical meters above the...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • snow-ablation-rates
    • riegl-vz6000
    • tls
    • patchy-snow-covers
  • Elk and bison carcasses in Yellowstone, USA

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

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

    Paper Citation:

    Risch, A.C., Frossard, A., Schütz, M., Frey, B., Morris, A.W., Bump, J.K....

    Last updated: June 10, 2020

    • XLS
    • wolf
    • decomposition
    • yellowstone
    • fungi
    • bacteria
    • soil-biodiversity
    • detritus
    • carrion
    • carcass
    • biogeochemical-cycling
  • Number of avalanche fatalities per calendar year in Switzerland since 1937

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • CSV
    • 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
  • SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 16 January 2019

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Outlines of 6'041 avalanches mapped from SPOT6 satellite data over the Swiss Alps on 16 January 2019. The dataset was acquired following a period with very high avalanche danger....

    Last updated: July 31, 2025

    • SHP
    • avalanche
    • hazard-mapping
    • snow
    • natural-hazard
    • satellite
  • Biogas aus Hofdünger in der Schweiz

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Ziel dieses Whitepapers ist es, Entscheidungsträgern, Verwaltungen und Stakeholdern die aktuellsten Forschungsergebnisse zur Verfügung zu stellen, um die optimale Nutzung von...

    Last updated: January 7, 2022

    • PDF
    • manure
    • switzerland
    • biogas
    • review
    • bioenergy
  • Data Konzeptionelles Systemmodell

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This folder contains documents relevant to the project step Konzeptionelles Systemmodell. It specifically contains the following documents:

    1. 0201_Konzeptionelles...

    Last updated: February 3, 2025

    • PDF
    • XLS
    • landscape-change
    • policy-action
    • scenarios
    • qualitative-research
    • climate-change
  • Jussy, 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

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • par
    • precipitation
    • temperature
    • long-term
    • 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

    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

    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • meteo
    • precipitation
    • long-term
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • wind-speed
    • par
    • relative-humidity
    • meteorology
    • temperature
    • climate-change
  • Compressive stick slip and snow-micro-quakes

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    When snow is compressed with a certain speed, micro-snowquakes are triggered in the porous structure of bonded crystals. The present dataset covers uniaxial compression experiments...

    Last updated: July 16, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • microstructure
    • compression-experiments
    • snow
    • snow-mechanics
    • x-ray-tomography
  • Aerosol Data Weissfluhjoch

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • ice-nucleation
    • aerosol
    • inp
    • raclets
    • particles
    • linda
  • Stand inventory data from the 10‐ha forest research plot in Uholka, Ukraine

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In 2000, a permanent forest plot of 10 ha has been established in the core zone of the primeval beech forest of Uholka. All living and dead trees with a diameter at breast height...

    Last updated: March 25, 2020

    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • long-term-data-sets
    • carpathian-biosphere-reserve
    • forest-dynamics
    • dem
    • stand-inventory-data
    • primeval-beech-forest
    • forest
    • permanent-forest-plot-data
    • forest-structure
    • fagus-sylvatica
  • Capillary rise rise experiments in snow using neutron radiography

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset consists of data related to capillary rise experiments performed with neutron radiography. There are 4 videos of capillary rise experiments as well as the files used...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • pore-water
    • snow
    • measurements
    • soil
    • water
    • transport
  • Data, Code Link and Metadata on Forward Scattering of Snow at Totalp

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Overview We present GROUNDEYE, a new model of radiative transfer over mountainous terrain, which considers for the first time the forward scattering properties of snow. Embedded...

    Last updated: June 5, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • albedo
    • photovoltaic
    • shortwave-radiation
    • winter-energy-production
    • snow
  • CH-Kleinstwasserkraftwerke - ein schweizweiter Datensatz zu Kleinstwasserkraftwerken

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In der Schweiz werden Wasserkraftanlagen (WKA) mit einer Leistung von mehr als 300 kW systematisch erfasst und in der nationalen Wasserkraftstatistik (WASTA) zusammengetragen. Die...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • schweiz
    • kleinstwasserkraftwerke
    • wasserkraft
    • speed2zero
    • datensatz
  • Global species distributions for mammals, reptiles, and amphibians

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We modelled the global distribution of 730 amphibian, 1276 reptile, and 1961 mammal species globally as a function of current climate at a 0.5° spatial resolution using four...

    Last updated: July 4, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • generalized-additive-models
    • iucn
    • sdm
    • reptiles
    • niche-models
    • interannual-climate-variability
    • range-maps
    • species-distribution-models
    • random-forests
    • mammals
    • amphibians
    • climate-variablity
    • generalized-linear-models
    • chelsa
  • Weissfluhjoch dataset for ESM-SnowMIP

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This Weissfluhjoch dataset is a processed version of the Weissfluhjoch dataset version 6 from https://doi.org/10.16904/6. This dataset was specially created for the ESM-SnowMIP...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • snow-models
    • snow-depth
    • weissfluhjoch
    • esm-snowmip
    • snow