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Novel methods to correct for observer and sampling bias in presence-only species distribution models

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Aim: While species distribution models (SDMs) are standard tools to predict species distributions, they can suffer from observation and sampling biases, particularly presence-only...

Saltation of cohesive granular materials

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The wind-driven saltation of sand and snow shapes dunes and ripples, generates dust emission, and erodes the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet. Here, we use a model based on the...

Disdrometer Data Gotschnagrat

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A laser optical disdrometer (Parsivel² , OTT Hydromet) was deployed at Gotschnagrat (LON: 9.849, LAT: 46.859) to measure hydrometeors by extinction when passing a laser beam. The...

Data: Environmental drivers of eukaryotic plankton and fish biodiversity in an Arctic fjord

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This dataset contains the raw environmental DNA data associated with the publication Environmental drivers of eukaryotic plankton and fish biodiversity in an Arctic fjord in the...

Biogeochemical data from a transplantation experiment of monolith soil turfs along an altitudinal gradient to simulate climate change scenarios

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Silvopastoral systems are highly productive and combine long-term wood production with annual provision of forage for livestock. In the Swiss Jura Mountains these systems are a key...

Satellite avalanche mapping validation data

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Validation points, validation area, ground truth coverage, SPOT 6 avalanche outlines, Sentinel-1 avalanche outlines, Sentinel-2 avalanche outlines, Davos avalanche mapping...

Automated Avalanche Release Area (PRA) Delineation Davos

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This dataset contains the output and reference data published in the paper "Automated snow avalanche release area delineation - validation of existing algorithms and proposition of...

Species distribution maps of Fagales and Pinales (GDPlants)

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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...

Monthly topsoil and near surface microclimate temperature data for Switzerland

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Climate data matching the scales at which organisms experience climatic conditions are often missing. Yet, such data on microclimatic conditions are required to better understand...

Meteorological data for investigation of rain-on-snow events in 58 catchments in Switzerland

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Meteorological data used to run SNOWPACK for 58 catchments in the Swiss Alps. The data consists of a 2 km grid of "virtual meteorological stations" for each catchment. It was used...

Disdrometer Data Laret

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A laser optical disdrometer (Parsivel² , OTT Hydromet) was used to measure hydrometeors by extinction when passing a laser beam. The instrument can classify eight different...

Phytodiversity is associated with habitat heterogeneity from Eurasia to Hengduan

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This research data is used to re includes 1 km resolution seed plant species range maps for the Hengduan mountain region (southwest China), elevation information for each species,...

gbif.range - An R package to generate species range maps based on ecoregions and a user-friendly GBIF wrapper

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Although species range may be obtained using expert maps or modeling methods, expert data is often species-limited and statistical models need more technical expertise as well as...

REMA topography and AntarcticaLC2000 for WRF

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Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA) topography and AntarcticaLC2000 landuse data are now available as static data input for the Weather Research and Forecasting model...

Long-term afforestation experiment at the Alpine treeline site Stillberg, Switzerland

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Background information

The Stillberg ecological treeline research site in the Swiss Alps was established in 1975, with the aim to develop ecologically, technically, and...

Validating and improving the critical crack length in SNOWPACK

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To validate the critical crack length as implemented in the snow cover model SNOWPACK, PST experiments were conducted for three winter seasons (2015-2017) at two field site above...

DISCHMEX - High-resolution WRF simulations in complex alpine terrain and station measurements

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The data presented here corresponds to the publication "Spatial variability in snow precipitation and accumulation in COSMO-WRF simulations and radar estimations over complex...

Precipitation Scaling Data Set (Vögeli et al., Frontiers)

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Dataset (Model input, snow distribution and validation) for the precipitation scaling paper, which should be cited along with the data set citation.

This data is useful for...

Repetitive trajectory testing in Tschamut 2014

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In summer 2014, 6 rock blocks between 20 and 80kg have been thrown in total 111 times down a slope at the Swiss Oberalppass close to the village Tschamut. The slope was mainly...

Global species distributions for mammals, reptiles, and amphibians

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We modelled the global distribution of 730 amphibian, 1276 reptile, and 1961 mammal species globally as a function of current climate at a 0.5° spatial resolution using four...