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88 datasets found

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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    • SERVICE
    • acclimation
    • drought
    • gas-exchange
    • fluorescence
    • photosynthesis
    • pinus-sylvestris
    • vpd
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Escalating effects of multiple perturbations on soil functionality

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    Soil chemical and biological properties of soils affected by 10 different perturbations related with global change, applied individually or in combination. Greenhouse experiment....

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • soil
    • pesticide
    • land-use
    • soil-biodiversity
    • drought
    • soil-nutrients
    • heatwave