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77 datasets found

  • Dataset on PV Production in Snow Covered Mountains

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    Education, culture and sport

    Overview The SUNWELL Modelling Environment is a combination of data and code that models electricity production from satellite-derived irradiance data and other spatial data sets...

    Last updated: July 3, 2024

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    • ZIP
    • reflection
    • irradiance
    • albedo
    • photovoltaic
    • mountain
    • snow
    • energy
  • Water-use strategies of temperate tree species

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    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

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

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    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

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

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    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

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    • defense-chemistry
    • fraxinus
    • cross-resistance
    • emerald-ash-borer
    • intraspecific-variation
    • invasive-species
    • ash-dieback
  • Elk and bison carcasses in Yellowstone, USA

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    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

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    • wolf
    • decomposition
    • yellowstone
    • fungi
    • bacteria
    • soil-biodiversity
    • detritus
    • carrion
    • carcass
    • biogeochemical-cycling
  • Data Konzeptionelles Systemmodell

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    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
  • 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
  • Climarctic seasons

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes measurements of potential microbial functions (potential extracellular enzyme activities and microbial functional genes abundance) and soil physico-chemical...

    Last updated: April 23, 2025

    • XLS
    • microbial-biodiversity
    • greenhouse-gases
    • soil
    • microbial-functions
    • arctic
  • Longterm hydrological observatory Alptal (central Switzerland)

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes 56 years of hydrometeorological measurements from small (first-order) catchments in the pre-alpine valley Alptal. Here we provide daily mean values; values...

    Last updated: March 17, 2025

    • XLS
    • runoff
    • subalpine
    • meteorological-data
    • first-order-catchment
    • snow
    • alptal
  • Spatial modelling of ecological indicator values

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    Education, culture and sport

    Ecologically meaningful predictors are often neglected in plant distribution studies, resulting in incomplete niche quantification and low predictive power of species distribution...

    Last updated: June 11, 2020

    • ZIP
    • XLS
    • soil-moisture
    • soil-mapping
    • ecological-indicator-values
    • ecological-maps
    • switzerland
    • landolt
    • soil-ph
    • plants
  • Native and no-native plant interactions in Australian grasslands

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    Education, culture and sport

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

    Paper Citation:

    _Schlierenzauer, C., Risch, A.C., Schütz, M., Firn, J. 2021. Non-native...

    Last updated: March 25, 2025

    • XLS
    • native-plant
    • herbivory
    • grassland
    • non-native-plant
    • weed-management
  • Soil property maps for the Swiss forest

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    Education, culture and sport

    We used 2071 forest soil profiles to model a wide range of soil properties for the forested area of Switzerland. The spatial prediction is based on the principle of «digital soil...

    Last updated: February 26, 2024

    • ZIP
    • XLS
    • switzerland
    • soil-texture
    • soil-depth
    • soil-ph
    • soc
    • forest
    • soil-properties
    • dsm
    • soil
  • Beetle communities reared from beech branches and associated forest and environmental variables

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data was generated during a landscape experiment performed on 69 plots in Sihlwald forest between 2016 and 2019. Branch bundles of different sizes consisting of beech branches...

    Last updated: November 17, 2023

    • XLS
    • colonisation
    • forest-management
    • conservation
    • biodiversity
    • habitat-heterogeneity
    • sloss
    • habitat-availability
    • saproxylic-beetles
    • dead-wood
  • Grassland restoration: nematodes and plant communities

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    Education, culture and sport

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

    Paper Citation:

    Resch, M.C., Schütz, M., Graf, U., Wagenaar, R., van der Putten, W.H., Risch,...

    Last updated: October 19, 2021

    • XLS
    • diversity
    • grassland
    • vegetation
    • long-term-experiment
    • nematodes
    • topsoil-removal
    • restoration
  • Evaluating the predictive performance of human avalanche forecasts and model predictions in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set was used in the analysis by Techel et al. **Can model-based avalanche forecasts match the discriminatory skill of human danger level forecasts? A comparison from...

    Last updated: June 30, 2025

    • ZIP
    • XLS
    • avalanche-release-probability
    • avalanche-forecast
    • spatial-modelling
    • machine-learning
    • forecast-models
  • Impact of non-native tree species in Europe on soil properties and biodiversity: a review

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    Education, culture and sport

    Compiled data on the impacts of seven important NNTs (Acacia dealbata, Ailanthus altissima, Eucalyptus globulus, Prunus serotina, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus rubra, Robinia...

    Last updated: October 21, 2022

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    • SERVICE
    • XLS
    • pairwise-stand-comparisons
    • biodiversity
    • biogeography
    • soil-impacts
    • forest-management
  • Schynige Platte Alpine Botanical Garden land-use experiment

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset was used for the publication "Boch, Blaser, Föhr, Küchler, Fischer (2024) Haymaking complemented by moderate disturbances can sustain and restore species-rich alpine...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • land-use-abandonment
    • disturbance
    • biodiversity
    • grassland-management
    • vascular-plant
  • Snow depth, canopy structure and meterorological datasets from the Davos area, Switzerland, Winters 2012/13-2014/15, used for high-resolution forest snow modelling

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all snow, canopy and meteorological data presented and used in the publication: Mazzotti, G., Essery, R., Moeser, D. & Jonas T. (2020) 'Resolving spatial...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • snow-modelling
    • forest-snow
    • snow-distribution
    • forest-structure
    • snow-energy-balance
  • Data Broedlin CNP

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    Education, culture and sport

    Mircocosm experiment to identify the individual patterns and controls of C, N, and P mobilization in soils under beech forests. Organic and mineral horizons sampled along a...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • XLS
    • drying-rewetting
    • carbon
    • phosphorus
    • soil
    • nitrogen
    • forest
    • dissolved-organic-matter
    • stoichiometry
    • mineralization
  • Fetzer_Khibiny_Treeline_NPcycling

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data on soil nutrients and charcteristics, tree and understory biomass, foliage nutrients, mineralogy, soil temperature and moisture along an elevation gradient from boreal forest...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • climate-change
    • biomass-dynamics
    • treeline-ecosystems
    • plant-traits
    • plant-community
    • soil-nutrients