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107 datasets found

  • Landscape in contemporary strategic spatial plans of European Urban regions

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    The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper Hersperger, A.M., Bürgi, M., Wende, W., Bacău, S. and Grădinaru, S.R., 2020. Does landscape play a role in strategic...

    Last updated: January 19, 2022

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    • green-infrastructure
    • plan-evaluation
    • governance
    • landscape-principles
    • strategic-plan
  • Intraannual d18O measurements of Larix decidua from the Loetschental 2012/2013

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    This file contains isotopic and environmental data from seven individuals of Larix decidua, sampled at two sites located at an elevation of 1300 meters above sea level in the...

    Last updated: September 7, 2023

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    • water-isotopes
    • tree-rings
    • oxygen-isotopes
    • larix-decidua
    • loetschental
  • Manual measuring network

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    The SLF avalanche warning service operates an extensive network of manual measuring sites. The sites are distributed throughout the Swiss Alps and predominantly situated in...

    Last updated: June 19, 2023

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    • snow-height
    • new-snow
    • snow
    • manual-measurements
    • measurement
  • Intercantonal Forest Observation Program – Interkantonale Walddauerbeobachtung (WDB)

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    The IAP has been monitoring forest health since 1984 on behalf of cantonal forest and environmental offices and in collaboration with the Federal Office for the Environment. In the...

    Last updated: January 27, 2023

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    • long-term-monitoring
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • intercantonal-forest-observation-program
    • wdb
    • long-term-data-sets
    • iap
  • Lausanne, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1996 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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    • temperature
    • precipitation
    • meteorology
    • meteo
    • wind-speed
    • relative-humidity
    • long-term
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • climate-change
    • par
  • Othmarsingen, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1996 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 2, 2019

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    • wind-speed
    • long-term
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • climate-change
    • par
    • meteo
    • relative-humidity
    • precipitation
    • meteorology
    • temperature
  • Weather, snowpack and avalanche occurrence data for automated prediction of wet-snow avalanche activity

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    Datasets used to implement the wet-snow avalanche activity model presented in the article:

    Hendrick, M., Techel, F., Volpi, M., Olevski, T., Pérez-Guillén, C., van Herwijnen, A.,...

    Last updated: March 18, 2023

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    • avalanche
    • avalanche-forcasting
    • machine-learning
    • wet-snow-avalanche
    • numerical-avalanche-forecasting
  • Effects of canopy disturbance on Swiss forests

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    The files refer to the data used in Scherrer et al. (2021) "Canopy disturbances catalyse tree species shifts in Swiss forests" in Ecosystems.

    The two data files contain...

    Last updated: April 20, 2021

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    • disturbance
    • picea-abies
    • insect-outbreaks
    • vegetation-shift
    • castanea-sativa
    • drought
    • pinus-sylvestris
    • switzerland
    • national-forest-inventory
    • tree-recruitment
    • windthrow
  • Dynamics of insect natural enemies of bark beetles

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    In 1994 a large area of mountain spruce forest was infested by the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) in the Gandberg forest near Schwanden, canton Glarus, Switzerland...

    Last updated: April 28, 2022

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    • spruce
    • predators
    • bark-beetles
    • pests
    • picea
    • antagonists
    • insects
    • parasitoids
  • Napf soil wetness monitoring data

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    The dataset contains the soil wetness monitoring data from the publication Wicki et al. (2022). It was collected in Wasen i.E. (Napf area, Switzerland). The monitoring data is...

    Last updated: January 28, 2023

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    • matric-potential
    • landslide-early-warning
    • soil-moisture
    • shallow-landslides
    • monitoring
  • LiDAR metrics predict suitable forest foraging areas of endangered Mouse-eared bats (Myotis myotis)

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    Habitat shift caused by human impact on vegetation structure poses a great threat to species which are special- ized on unique habitats. Single layered beech forests, the main...

    Last updated: April 12, 2022

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    • forest-management
    • echolocation
    • chiroptera
    • vegetation-structure
    • habitat-modelling
  • Discharge, rainfall, and deuterium compositions of streamwater, rainwater and groundwater, for four rainfall events in the Studibach, Alptal, Switzerland

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    This dataset includes discharge and rainfall measurements and deuterium compositions of streamflow, rainfall and groundwater, for four rainfall events and three baseflow snapshot...

    Last updated: April 12, 2022

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    • alptal
    • groundwater
    • streamflow
    • runoff
    • stable-water-isotopes
  • Supplementary Data Sample Plot Inventory Sihlwald

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    Supplementary Data Sample Plot Inventory Sihlwald

    The Sihlwald is one of the largest contiguous beech forests in the Swiss Plateau region. In the year 2000, timber harvesting...

    Last updated: April 20, 2022

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    • forest-inventory
    • natural-forest-dynamics
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • sihlwald
    • forest-reserves
  • Stability tests, avalanche observations, Switzerland, Norway

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    Observational data used to quantitatively describe the key elements describing avalanche danger: snowpack stability, the frequency distribution of snowpack stability, and avalanche...

    Last updated: October 19, 2020

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    • rutschblock-test
    • extended-column-test
    • switzerland
    • norway
    • avalanche-danger
    • avalanche-observations
  • Debris-flow volumes at the Illgraben 2000-2017

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    Debris-flow bulk volumes from the WSL monitoring station. More information can be found in McArdell et al. (2007) and Schlunegger et al. (2009).

    Last updated: August 13, 2021

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    • debris-flow
    • illgraben
    • magnitude
    • monitoring-station
    • force-plate
    • volume
  • Pine insects along elevational gradients

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    The colonization of cut pine stems by wood-inhabiting insects was investigated at various elevations. The study sites were located in the regions of Aosta Valley (Italy), Valais...

    Last updated: April 22, 2022

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    • elevation
    • insects
    • pests
    • bark-beetles
    • predators
    • pinus
    • gradient
    • parasitoids
  • Grassland restoration: insects and insect traits

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

    Paper Citation:

    Neff, F., Resch, M. C., Marty, A., Rolley, J. D., Schütz, M., Risch, A. C,...

    Last updated: November 8, 2022

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    • functional-diversity
    • long-term-experiment
    • topsoil-removal
    • functional-traits
    • diversity
    • restoration
    • insects
    • grassland
  • Challenging the sustainability of urban beekeeping: evidence from Swiss cities

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    Data on: (1) spatial distribution of urban beekeeping (number of hives and number of beekeeping locations) in 14 Swiss cities (Geneva, Lausanne, Biel, Neuchatel, Basel, Zurich,...

    Last updated: February 10, 2023

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    • sustainability
    • honeybees
    • urban-biodiversity
    • urbanization
    • pollination
    • remote-sensing
  • Quantifying Surface Heat Exchange over Heterogeneous Land Surfaces at Ultra-High Spatio-Temporal Resolution

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    The lateral transport of heat above abrupt (sub-)metre-scale steps in land surface temperature influences the local surface energy balance. We present a novel experimental method...

    Last updated: November 21, 2022

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    • 2d-temperature-field
    • surface-heat-exchange
    • infrared-thermography
    • snow-atmosphere-interactions
    • snow-melt
    • patchy-snow-cover
    • near-surface-atmospheric-layer
    • 2d-wind-field
  • Bats and nocturnal insects in urban green areas

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    Animal biodiversity in cities is generally expected to be uniformly reduced, but recent studies show that this is modulated by the composition and configuration of Urban Green...

    Last updated: December 6, 2021

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    • urbanisation
    • nocturnal-fauna
    • flying-arthropods
    • paris
    • urban-biodiversity
    • chiroptera
    • zurich
    • antwerp