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451 datasets found

  • Greenland shrubs and microclimate

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Study Aim

    We collected these data to alternatively train and validate high resolution (~ 90 m) Species Distribution Models (SDMs) and Species Abundance Models (SAMs) for _Betula...

    Last updated: February 9, 2022

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    • validation
    • climate
    • arctic
    • sdm
    • accessible-shrub-forest
    • field-data
  • Snow depth mapping by airplane photogrammetry (2017 - ongoing)

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    Education, culture and sport

    The available datasets are snow depth maps with a spatial resolution of 0.5 m derived from images of the survey camera Vexcel Ultracam mounted on a piloted airplane. Image...

    Last updated: July 2, 2025

    • GeoTIFF
    • snow-hydrology
    • photogrammetry
    • dischma
    • davos
    • snow-depth-distribution
    • avalanches
  • MadCrypto – Bryophyte and macrolichen diversity in laurel forests of Madeira

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes species lists of bryophytes and macrolichens (presence/absence) sampled on the forest floor and on trees in disturbed and undisturbed plots along elevation...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

    • XLS
    • climate-change-impact
    • disturbance
    • madeira-island
    • endemic-species
    • elevational-gradient
    • moss
    • bryophyte-life-strategy
    • lichen
    • functional-taxonomic-groups
    • bryophyte
    • biodiversity
    • liverwort
    • endemic
    • climate-change
    • photobiont
    • functional-taxonomic-group
    • lichen-growth-form
    • lichen-growthform
  • Causal effect of MFOZ

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Title: Closer to causality: How effective is spatial planning in governing built-up land expansion in Fujian Province, China?

    Research objective: The Major Function Oriented Zone...

    Last updated: February 14, 2022

    • ZIP
    • propensity-score-matching
    • selection-bias
    • built-up-land-change
    • causality
    • the-major-function-oriented-zone
    • fujian-province
  • Factors influencing teenagers' forest visit frequency

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
  • Nutrient addition experiment at the Alpine treeline site Stillberg, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Background information

    The availability of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) is considered to be a major factor limiting growth and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems globally....

    Last updated: June 26, 2024

    • HTML
    • PNG
    • SERVICE
    • fertilization
    • tree-rings
    • dwarf-shrubs
    • nitrogen-isotope
    • stillberg
    • treeline
  • Rockfall gallery testing Parde 2016

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    Education, culture and sport

    Five full-scale field tests were conducted with concrete blocks weighting between 800 and 3200 kg being dropped onto the roof of a gallery structure made from reinforced concrete....

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • field-test
    • rockfall-experiments
    • field-tests
    • experiment
    • rockfall
    • impact-testing
    • natural-hazard
    • mass-movements
    • field-data
    • experiments
  • Modeled Isotopic Composition of Water Vapour Along Air Parcel Trajectories in the Antarctic

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    Education, culture and sport

    Summary

    This data set contains Python programming code and modeled data discussed in a related research article. We developed a simple isotope model to study the drivers of the...

    Last updated: July 14, 2023

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • backward-trajectories
    • lagrangian-analysis
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • evaporation
    • antarctica
    • isotopic-distillation
    • snow-sublimation
  • Stability tests, avalanche observations, Switzerland, Norway

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    Education, culture and sport

    Observational data used to quantitatively describe the key elements describing avalanche danger: snowpack stability, the frequency distribution of snowpack stability, and avalanche...

    Last updated: October 19, 2020

    • CSV
    • rutschblock-test
    • avalanche-danger
    • norway
    • switzerland
    • extended-column-test
    • avalanche-observations
  • Data set of: Plant and root-zone water isotopes are difficult to measure, explain, and predict: some practical recommendations for determining plant water sources

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The following two tables contain information about the data sources of the values reported in Table 1 and 2 in the paper “Plant and root-zone water isotopes are difficult to...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

    • PDF
    • ecohydrology
    • uncertainties
    • endmember-mixing-models
    • plant-water-uptake
    • root-zone
    • review
    • stable-water-isotopes
  • Nationalpark, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

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    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

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • PDF
    • meteorology
    • precipitation
    • par
    • relative-humidity
    • long-term
    • climate-change
    • meteo
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • temperature
    • wind-speed
  • Monitoring data sets of alpine photovoltaic power-plants

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    Education, culture and sport

    On this repository you can find the monitoring data of the 3 PV power-plants analysed in the article _"Confirmation of the power gain for solar photovoltaic systems in alpine...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • alps
    • photovoltaic
    • winter-electricity
    • snow
    • bifaciality
  • Sensitivity of modeled snow instability

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    Education, culture and sport

    We investigated the sensitivity of modeled snow instability to meteorological input data using SNOWPACK. We therefore used input data from the automatic weather station at the...

    Last updated: October 16, 2020

    • ZIP
    • global-sensitivity-analysis
    • snow-instability
    • snowpack
    • snow-cover-modeling
    • numerical-avalanche-forecasting
  • Life at chilly temperatures - A collection of microorganisms from extreme habitats

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The cold habitats of the Swiss Alps and the Arctic are undergoing change and are at risk of disappearing completely or partially in the future. Along with them, a poorly known...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • glaciers
    • conservation
    • swiss-alps
    • biodiversity
    • collections
    • active-layer
    • permafrost
    • biobank
    • bacteria
    • arctic
    • extreme-habitat
    • fungi
    • plastisphere
  • FSM2trans snowpack simulations with HICAR input

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    Education, culture and sport

    DESCRIPTION The dataset is used to run snowpack simulations with various forcing data at different resolutions with the Flexible Snow Model (FSM2oshd). A dynamical downscaling...

    Last updated: July 17, 2025

    • ZIP
    • fsm2
    • snowpack
    • fsm2trans
    • dischma
    • hicar
    • snow-hydrology
  • Water isotope signatures in Swiss forest ecosystems in 2021 and 2022

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The isotope composition of different forest water pools was analyzed at 10 sites of the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research programme in 2021 and 2022. The sampling was done during...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • PNG
    • water-isotopes
    • water-budget
    • forest-ecosystems
    • xylem-water
    • soil-solution
  • WFJ_DailySMP - High-Resolution Snow Stratigraphy at Weissfluhjoch -- Davos 2015-ongoing

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The WFJ_DailySMP dataset contains daily SnowMicroPen (SMP) measurements conducted throughout the winter seasons 2015-2025 (ongoing) at the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos,...

    Last updated: May 23, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • weissfluhjoch
    • snow
    • snow-stratigraphy
    • snowmicropen
    • wfj-research-site
    • snow-ssa
    • weisfluhjoch
    • snow-density
    • microstructure
    • snow-measurements
  • Pfynwald Geoelectric Experiment 2022

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    Education, culture and sport

    This collection of datasets consists of various measurements taken during the year 2022 in Pfynwald. It combines 2 electrical resistivity transects which were monitored in May and...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • pinus-sylvestris
    • ert
    • irrigation
    • drone-data
    • drought
  • Niche partitioning between wild bees and honeybees

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • bettergardens
    • urban-biodiversity
    • pollinator-experiment
    • urban-ecosystems
    • gardens
    • zurich
    • resource-availability
    • honeybees
    • city4bees
    • beekeeping
    • wild-bees
    • urbanization
  • Larval food composition of four wild bee species in five European cities

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Urbanization poses threats and opportunities for the biodiversity of wild bees. A main gap relates to the food preferences of wild bees in urban ecosystems, which usually harbour...

    Last updated: July 16, 2024

    • CSV
    • zurich
    • poznan
    • tartu
    • osmia-bicornis
    • paris
    • urban-ecology
    • chelostoma-florisomne
    • osmia-cornuta
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • hylaeus-communis
    • plant-pollinator-interactions
    • trap-nest
    • antwerp
    • cavity-nesting-bees