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24 datasets found

  • Niche partitioning between wild bees and honeybees

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    Education, culture and sport

    Cities are socio-ecological systems that filter and select species, thus establishing unique species assemblages and biotic interactions. Urban ecosystems can host richer wild bee...

    Last updated: February 10, 2023

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    • bettergardens
    • urban-biodiversity
    • pollinator-experiment
    • urban-ecosystems
    • gardens
    • zurich
    • resource-availability
    • honeybees
    • city4bees
    • beekeeping
    • wild-bees
    • urbanization
  • Tree-ring laser ablation data

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the values of several chemical elements (Mg, Al, Si, S, K, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Sr, Tl, Pb, Bi) measured in the latewood of tree rings of...

    Last updated: March 31, 2023

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    • laser-ablation
    • tree-rings
    • dendrochronology
    • dendrochemistry
    • air-pollution
  • Land use/cover dynamics in Austin metropolitan area since 1992

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    Education, culture and sport

    The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper Zhao C, Weng Q, Hersperger A M. Characterizing the 3-D urban morphology transformation to understand urban-form...

    Last updated: February 7, 2022

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    • landscape
    • austin
    • urban-morphology
    • land-use
    • land-dynamics
  • intratrait

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set was used to test whether species specialized to high elevations or with narrow elevational ranges show more conservative (i.e. less variable) trait responses across...

    Last updated: September 26, 2022

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    • elevation-range
    • elevation-gradient
    • cold-adapted-plants
    • neighbour-interactions
    • climate-change
    • plant-traits