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290 datasets found

  • 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...

    Last updated: April 12, 2022

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    • species-range-map
    • species-richness
    • pinales
    • fagales
    • species-occurrence
    • species-distribution-model
  • Data set on bromide oxidation by ozone in snow during metamorphism from laboratory study

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    Earth’s snow cover is very dynamic on diurnal time scales. The changes to the snow structure during this metamorphism have wide ranging impacts such as on avalanche formation and...

    Last updated: July 16, 2020

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    • interface
    • heterogeneous
    • arctic
    • brine
    • snow
    • reaction
    • laboratory-study
    • chemistry
    • solution
    • antarctica
    • alpine
    • ozone
    • metamorphism
  • ASRB_WFJ: Shortwave and longwave radiation measurements (2 min) at the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos

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    Corrected incoming and outgoing shortwave and longwave 2 min radiation measurements at the Weissfluhjoch summit, Davos, CH.

    References

    1. Marty, C., Philipona, R., Frohlich, C.,...

    Last updated: July 15, 2020

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    • outgoing
    • incoming
    • longwave-radiation
    • shortwave-radiation
    • weissfluhjoch
  • Bettlachstock, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 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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    • meteo
    • relative-humidity
    • climate-change
    • temperature
    • precipitation
    • long-term
    • wind-speed
    • par
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • meteorology
  • Wind tunnel measurement data of drifting snow and turbulent wind fluctuations

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    The data correspond to the experiments presented and discussed in a paper regarding the interaction between turbulent wind fluctuations and snow saltation mass-fluxes (Paterna,...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

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    • boundary-layer-winds
    • vertical-wind-motion
    • saltation
    • snow-depth
    • snow-cover
  • Mortality of regeneration: Acer spp. and Fagus sylvatica

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    One individual per species, vitality class (low and high) and height class (eight classes: 0–10, 11–20, 21–35, 36–60, 61–90, 91–130, 131–200 and 201–500 cm) was randomly selected...

    Last updated: November 4, 2021

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    • regeneration
    • lar
    • acer
    • dominance
    • fagus
    • shade-tolerance
    • mortality-rate
  • DISCHMEX - Impact of extreme land-surface heterogeneity on micrometeorology over spring snow-cover

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    This dataset contains eddy-covariance measurements in the ablation period of 2014-2016. Measurements were taken from two turbulence towers over a long-lasting snow patch, which are...

    Last updated: September 13, 2023

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    • eddy-covariance-measurements
    • dischmex
    • turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes
    • snow-patch
    • patchy-snow-covers
  • 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...

    Last updated: June 10, 2020

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    • snow-distribution
    • snow-hydrology
    • alpine3d-simulations
    • snow
    • alpine-precipitation
    • snow-cover
    • alpine3d
  • 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...

    Last updated: September 26, 2023

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    • climate-change
    • biodiversity
    • radiation-transfer
    • forest
    • microclimate
    • statistical-interpolation
    • ecology
  • Snow Drift Station - Snow and Air Data

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    Snow and air data was monitored at Gotschnagrat (LON: 46.859 LAT: 9.849) by an infrarot radiometer (Campbell SI-111) for snow temperature (°C), a snow height sensor (Lufft SHM-31)...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

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    • temperature
    • raclets
    • snow
    • snow-height
    • snow-temperature
    • snow-depth
  • 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...

    Last updated: November 9, 2022

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    • niche-models
    • generalized-linear-models
    • mammals
    • amphibians
    • species-distribution-models
    • climate-variablity
    • chelsa
    • reptiles
    • generalized-additive-models
    • interannual-climate-variability
    • sdm
    • range-maps
    • iucn
    • random-forests
  • Data Broedlin CNP

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    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

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    • drying-rewetting
    • forest
    • dissolved-organic-matter
    • carbon
    • soil
    • nitrogen
    • stoichiometry
    • mineralization
    • phosphorus
  • G-TREE: Global Treeline Range Expansion Experiment Davos, Switzerland

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    Background information Climate change-induced range expansion of treeline populations depends on their successful recruitment, which requires dispersal of viable seeds followed by...

    Last updated: September 10, 2023

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    • seedling-recruitment
    • treeline
    • g-tree
    • larix-decidua
    • picea-abies
    • climate-change
    • forest
    • swiss-alps
    • stillberg
  • Automatic detection of avalanches

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    This dataset contains the results obtained by an automatic classification using hidden Markov models of a continuous seismic dataset. To avoid long computational times, we reduced...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

    • ZIP
    • hidden-markov-model
    • seismic
    • monitoring
    • snow
    • avalanche-activity
  • FACE: Stillberg CO2 enrichment and soil warming study

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    Background information

    High elevation ecosystems are important in research about environmental change because shifts in climate associated with anthropogenic greenhouse gas...

    Last updated: September 8, 2023

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    • climate-change
    • stillberg
    • carbon-dioxide
    • experiment
    • vegetation
    • soil-temperature
  • 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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    • solutes
    • snowmelt-lysimeter
    • snowmelt-rate
    • snowpack-outflow
    • stable-water-isotopes
  • Larval food composition of four wild bee species in five European cities

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    Urbanization poses threats and opportunities for the biodiversity of wild bees. A main gap relates to the food preferences of wild bees in urban ecosystems, which usually harbour...

    Last updated: February 10, 2023

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    • paris
    • osmia-bicornis
    • osmia-cornuta
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • plant-pollinator-interactions
    • urban-ecology
    • hylaeus-communis
    • cavity-nesting-bees
    • poznan
    • antwerp
    • tartu
    • chelostoma-florisomne
    • zurich
    • trap-nest
  • Number of natural hazard fatalities per year in Switzerland since 1946

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    This dataset contains the number of fatalities due to flood, debris flow, landslide, rockfall, windstorm, lightning, ice avalanche, earthquake and other processes like roof...

    Last updated: October 7, 2022

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    • earthquake-fatalities
    • rockfall-fatalities
    • lightning-fatalities
    • debris-flow-fatalities
    • natural-hazard-fatalities
    • flood-fatalities
    • windstorm-fatalities
    • ice-avalanche-fatalities
    • landslide-fatalities
  • 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...

    Last updated: October 29, 2020

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    • ZIP
    • avalanche
    • snowpack
    • snow-stability-evaluation
    • avalanche-forecast
    • snow
  • Stand inventory data from the 10‐ha forest research plot in Uholka, Ukraine

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    In 2000, a permanent forest plot of 10 ha has been established in the core zone of the primeval beech forest of Uholka. All living and dead trees with a diameter at breast height...

    Last updated: March 25, 2020

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    • primeval-beech-forest
    • long-term-data-sets
    • stand-inventory-data
    • forest-structure
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest
    • forest-dynamics
    • carpathian-biosphere-reserve
    • dem
    • permanent-forest-plot-data