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451 datasets found

  • High resolution land use forecasts for Switzerland in the 21st century

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We present forecasts of land-use/land-cover (LULC) change for Switzerland for three time-steps in the 21st century under the representative concentration pathways 4.5 and 8.5, and...

    Last updated: March 27, 2024

    • ZIP
    • landscape-change
    • machine-learning
    • modelling
    • land-use
    • landscape
    • land-cover
  • Data on bryophyte diversity and treatment factors in the PaNDiv experiment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset was used to analyse effects of different biodiversity and functional group treatments, fertilizer and fungicide applications as well as weeding of vascular plants on...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • species-richness
    • fungicide
    • nitrogen
    • biodiversity-experiment
    • functional-traits
    • bryophytes
    • grassland
    • pandiv
    • biomass
    • moss
  • Tree measurements 2002-2016 from the long-term irrigation experiment Pfynwald, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    To study the performance of mature Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) under chronic drought conditions in comparison to their immediate physiological response to drought release, a...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • XLS
    • tree-species
    • irrigation
    • lwf
    • diameter-at-breast-height
    • drought
    • scots-pine
    • forest
    • tree
    • dbh
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • crown-condition
  • Field observations of snow instabilities

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes 589 snow profile observations including a rutschblock test, observations of signs of instability and an assessment of the local avalanche danger level,...

    Last updated: April 17, 2023

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    • CSV
    • avalanche-danger
    • snow-instability
    • danger-level
    • avalanche-forecasting
    • snow
    • avalanche
  • Wind crust formation: Microsoft Kinect data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data sets contains the Microsoft Kinect data from 15 wind tunnel experiments on wind-packing / wind crust formation. These experiments were performed in the winter 2016/17....

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • kinect
    • wind-packing
    • wind-crust
    • wind-tunnel
    • snow
  • Urban bird predation on artificial caterpillars

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We established our study sites in the cities of Basel, Lugano and Zurich, and their peri-urban forests. We characterised urban tree cover of each city using a rectangular grid with...

    Last updated: April 9, 2025

    • XLS
    • urban-ecology
    • biodiversity
    • urban
    • periurban
    • biodiversity-experiment
    • pest-invasion
    • insect-herbivores
    • urban-biodiversity
    • birds
  • Nuclear microsatellite genotypes of Pinus cembra

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains individual genotypes at 11 nuclear microsatellite markers of samples of Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra). Samples were collected in 12 natural and presumably...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • TXT
    • molecular-markers
    • genetic-structure
    • afforestation
    • reproductive-matieral
    • pinus-cembra
  • Environmental DNA Freshwater Namibia Namibia 2022

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Monitoring terrestrial mammals through eDNA in rivers of northern Namibia In 2022, we collected 20 water samples from 10 stations two rivers of Namibia. Samples were taken from the...

    Last updated: August 5, 2025

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    • edna
    • eukaryotes
    • metabarcoding
    • bivalves
    • namibia
  • Long-term recovery of above-and belowground interactions in restored grasslands

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

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

    Paper Citation:

    _Resch, M.C., Schütz, M., Ochoa-Hueso, R., Buchmann, N., Frey, B., Graf, U.,...

    Last updated: October 20, 2021

    • XLS
    • restoration
    • soil-biodiversity
    • fungi
    • soil-biology
    • bacteria
    • topsoil-removal
    • soil
    • grassland
    • biodiversity
    • plants
    • soil-chemistry
    • nematodes
  • Isone, 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
    • meteorology
    • climate-change
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • meteo
    • wind-speed
    • temperature
    • relative-humidity
    • long-term
    • precipitation
    • par
  • Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This report was prepared as one of the synthesis report chapters of the Hydro-CH2018 project of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). An important feature of snow cover is...

    Last updated: May 20, 2020

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    • snowfall
    • hydrology
    • snow
    • climate-change-impacts
    • water-cycle
  • Photogrammetric Drone Data Grüenbödeli

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We conducted various drone flights at Grüenbödeli near Davos with the Sony RX1R II mounted on a Wingtra drone during 2020/21/22. The data was processed with the Agisoft Metashape...

    Last updated: April 22, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • uav
    • drone-data
    • wingtra
    • dsm
    • snow-depth-mapping
    • photogrammetry
    • orthophoto
  • A high-resolution snow and hydrometeorological dataset for the Dischma region in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data from the alpine Dischma watershed and its surroundings in eastern Switzerland and includes: (a) hourly hydrometeorological data with 100m spatial...

    Last updated: August 22, 2025

    • ZIP
    • inarch
    • modelling
    • hydrology
    • cryosphere
    • dischma
    • snow
  • Field-based eDNA analysis to detect the threatened and elusive African manatee

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data associated to the publication "Rapid field-based detection of a threatened and elusive species with environmental DNA and CRISPR-Dx"
    Authors:
    Flurin Leugger,...

    Last updated: June 16, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • crispr-dx
    • field-based-protocol
    • threatened-species
    • qpcr
    • environmental-dna
    • african-manatee
    • crispr-cas
    • edna
    • biodiversity-monitoring
  • Plant species list from 1775 and 2020 for Uetliberg Zürich

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The list gives the clearly identifiable plant species from Schinz (1775). Die Reise auf den Uetliberg. Verlag des Waysenhauses, Zürich). Several species given in Schinz (1775) are...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • CSV
    • occurrence
    • zurich
    • uetliberg
    • flora-change
    • plant-species
  • Tree species map of Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dominant tree species map of Switzerland We created a tree species map of Switzerland for the dominant tree species in the forested areas. The spatial resolution of the map is 10...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • PNG
    • switzerland
    • tree-species
    • forest
    • map
    • remote-sensing
  • Sentinel-2 time series of Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We processed Sentinel-2 image time series from 2017 to 2023 for Switzerland with the Software FORCE (Frantz 2019) on the basis of [Sentinel-2...

    Last updated: February 19, 2025

    • OCTET
    • TIFF
    • switzerland
    • force
    • remote-sensing
    • sentinel-2
    • raster-processing
    • time-series
  • Soil and stem xylem water isotope data from two pan-European sampling campaigns

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Here, we present a comprehensive isotope dataset of soil and stem xylem water collected during two pan-European sampling campaigns in spring and summer 2023. The dataset includes...

    Last updated: September 23, 2025

    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • europe
    • isotopes
    • picea-abies
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • critical-zone
    • hydrology
    • cryogenic-extraction
    • soil-water
    • xylem-water
    • oxygen-isotopes
    • ecohydrology
    • hydrogen-isotopes
    • spruce
    • forest
    • beech
    • water-isotopes
  • SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 24 January 2018

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Outlines of 18'737 avalanches mapped from SPOT6 satellite data over the Swiss Alps on 24 January 2018. The outlines have different attributes described in the data example key...

    Last updated: August 22, 2025

    • SHP
    • snow
    • natural-hazard
    • avalanche
    • hazard-mapping
    • satellite
  • RADAR Wind profiler Davos Wolfgang

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The RADAR wind profiler from Meteoswiss was installed at Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) and measured from 2171 m above sea level to 11079 m, with a temporal...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • ZIP
    • wind-speed
    • wolfgangpass
    • wind-direction
    • radar
    • raclets