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451 datasets found

  • ATLFISHREF A 12S mitochondrial reference dataset for metabarcoding Atlantic Fishes frequently caught during scientific surveys in the Bay of Biscay

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    Education, culture and sport

    The global biodiversity crisis driven by anthropogenic pressures significantly threatens marine ecosystems functioning. The rate of climate change and the impacts of anthropogenic...

    Last updated: December 2, 2024

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    • atlantic-ocean
    • actinopterygii
    • barcoding
    • environmental-dna
    • mitochondrial-dna
    • 12s
    • teleo-primers
  • Legacy effects of premature defoliation in response to an extreme drought event modulate phytochemical profiles with subtle consequences for leaf herbivory in European beech

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    What are the research data files about: Raw data on various beech (Fagus sylvatica) leaf traits. Beech leaf chemistry (primary and specialized metabolites), leaf damage...

    Last updated: March 7, 2024

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    • fagus-sylvatica
    • herbivory
    • climate-change
    • phytochemistry
    • drought-legacy
  • ERRA -- an R script for Ensemble Rainfall-Runoff Analysis

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    ERRA is a data-driven, nonparametric, model-independent method for quantifying rainfall-runoff relationships across a spectrum of time lags, in systems that may be nonlinear,...

    Last updated: May 24, 2025

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    • nonstationarity
    • ecohydrology
    • streamflow
    • precipitation
    • time-series
    • nonlinear-deconvolution
    • rainfall-runoff-modelling
    • hydrology
  • Urban bird capture data with prey species and fungal community

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    We captured birds in urban parks and peri-urban forests in the cities of Lugano and Zurich. The urban sites were located in an urban forest (Lugano) and in a cemetery (Zurich), and...

    Last updated: April 10, 2025

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    • urban-ecology
    • biodiversity
    • insects
    • fungal-pathogen
    • fungi
    • urban-biodiversity
    • urban
    • birds
  • High resolution sea ice surface topography from the SIPEX-2 expedition, East Antarctica, 2012

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    This dataset comprises of a post-processed set of terrestrial laser scans (TLS’s) of Antarctic sea ice obtained during the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem Experiment-2 (SIPEX-2,...

    Last updated: August 20, 2025

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    • terrestrial-laser-scans
    • sea-ice
    • tls
    • sea-ice-elevation
    • polar
  • Land use/cover dynamics in Austin metropolitan area since 1992

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    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
  • 2013-2020 gas exchange at Pfynwald

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    Gas exchange was measured on control, irrigated and irrigation-stop trees at the irrigation experiment Pfynwald, during the years 2013, 2014, 2016-2020. The measurement campaigns...

    Last updated: August 13, 2021

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    • acclimation
    • drought
    • gas-exchange
    • fluorescence
    • photosynthesis
    • pinus-sylvestris
    • vpd
  • COSMO-WRF Dataset for Swiss Alps Simulations in Gray-Zone Resolution

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains simulation data for "Influence of Air Flow Features on Alpine Wind Energy Potential" (Kristianti et al., 2024). • The WRF_dia2702 and WRF_dia1103 folders...

    Last updated: April 23, 2024

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    • grayzone
    • wrf
    • numerical-simulation
    • cosmo-wrf
    • complex-terrain
  • Daily data of the volumes, solutes and isotopes in snowpack outflow measured at three locations in the southern Alp catchment

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    This data contain volumes, solutes and isotopes of snowpack outflow measured by a snowmelt lysimeter system at three locations in the southern Alp catchment, situated Central...

    Last updated: August 25, 2021

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    • snowmelt-rate
    • snowpack-outflow
    • snowmelt-lysimeter
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • solutes
  • Survey data on public support for forest restoration in Europe based on evidence from Sweden and Spain

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    This dataset accompanies the article Factors influencing public support for forest restoration in Europe: Evidence from Sweden and Spain, published in the journal Ecosystems and...

    Last updated: September 10, 2025

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    • forest-restoration
    • household-surveys
    • sweden
    • socio-demographic-factors
    • spain
    • public-perceptions
  • Species distribution maps of Fagales and Pinales (GDPlants)

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    Education, culture and sport

    This database contains 1957 distribution maps of species from Fagales and Pinales constructed based on a method integrating polygon mapping and SDMs (Lyu et al., 2022). To...

    Last updated: April 12, 2022

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    • species-occurrence
    • pinales
    • species-distribution-model
    • fagales
    • species-richness
    • species-range-map
  • Snow water equivalent measurements with low-cost GNSS receivers along a steep elevation gradient in the East-ern Swiss Alps

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    This database contains GNSS derived snow water equivalent (SWE), liquid water content (LWC), and snow height (HS) and reference data collected during the two winter 2018-2020 at 4...

    Last updated: December 22, 2021

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    • ZIP
    • gps
    • swe
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • lwc
    • gnss
    • snow
    • liquid-water-content
  • Daily data of solute and stable water isotopes in stream water and precipitation in the Alp catchment, Central Switzerland

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    This dataset contain measurements of solute and stable water isotopes in stream water and precipitation in the Alp catchment and two of its tributaries (between 2015 -2018) . The...

    Last updated: August 25, 2021

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    • precipitation
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • geochemical-solutes
    • spatially-distributed-sampling
    • stream-water
  • Ice nucleating particle concentrations active at -15 °C at Weissfluhjoch

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains number concentrations of ice-nucleating particles active at -15 °C observed at Weissfluhjoch during February and March 2019, as well as complementary data...

    Last updated: February 4, 2021

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    • raclets
    • ice-nucleation
    • clouds
    • backward-trajectories
    • aerosol
  • Biogas from animal manure in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Aim of this white paper is to provide decision-makers, administrations and stakeholders with the most current research findings in order to promote the optimal use of bioenergy...

    Last updated: January 7, 2022

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    • biogas
    • switzerland
    • review
    • bioenergy
    • manure
  • Seilaplan Tutorial: DTM download from swisstopo website

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    In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. As an alternative to using the ‘Swiss Geo Downloader’...

    Last updated: August 30, 2022

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    • cable-yarding
    • digital-elevation-model
    • open-source
    • seilaplan
    • qgis-plugin
    • swisstopo
    • geoinformation-software
    • digital-planning
    • swiss-geodata
  • Environmental DNA Freshwater Senegal Casamance 2018

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    Monitoring fish diversity through eDNA metabarcoding along the Casamance river In 2018, water samples were collected in 13 locations along the Casamance in Senegal. Samples were...

    Last updated: July 10, 2025

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    • metabarcoding
    • senegal
    • edna
    • teleo
    • fish
  • Chicken Creek 10 years

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    Structural and functional changes of microbial communities in ephemeral stream sediments and adjacent soils between was assessed in an artificial newly created catchment at 3 and...

    Last updated: April 23, 2025

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    • microbial-respiration
    • soil-respiration
    • beta-diversity
    • ecosystem-functions
    • microbial-biodiversity
  • Greenland Climate Network (GC-Net) Data

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    Education, culture and sport

    In Memory of Dr. Konrad (Koni) Steffen

    Update October 2022: The GC-Net is kindly continued by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS). Starting...

    Last updated: March 27, 2025

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    • JSON
    • greenland
    • aws
    • climate
    • net-radiation
    • air-temperature
    • automatic-weather-station
  • Neunkirch, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

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    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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    • meteorology
    • temperature
    • relative-humidity
    • meteo
    • precipitation
    • climate-change
    • long-term
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • wind-speed
    • par