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32 datasets found

  • Forest Reserves Monitoring in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Long term monitoring of natural forests provides insights into ecological processes shaping forests without human intervention. To study natural forest dynamics, the former chair...

    Last updated: March 25, 2020

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    • natural-forest-dynamics
    • permanent-plot
    • switzerland
    • forest-reserves
    • long-term-monitoring
  • Accessibility of the Swiss forest for economic wood extraction (2021)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Two raster maps (10m resolution) of: I) the most suitable extraction method for wood in the Swiss forest, and II) the overall suitability of the Swiss forest for economic wood...

    Last updated: February 2, 2023

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    • timber-transport
    • switzerland
    • forest-roads
    • wood-harvesting
    • forest-accessibility
    • forest
    • wood-extraction
    • economic-efficiency
  • Data on wild bee taxonomic and functional diversity in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Raw data supporting the paper "Countrywide wild bee taxonomic and functional diversity reveal a spatial mismatch between alpha and beta-diversity facets across multiple ecological...

    Last updated: January 19, 2023

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    • urbanization
    • beta-diversity
    • biodiversity
    • hymenoptera
    • anthophila
    • community-indices
    • climate
    • resource-availability
    • protected-areas
    • switzerland
    • functional-diversity
    • elevation-gradient
    • predictive-modelling
    • wild-bee
  • Tree-ring data of European beech with premature leaf discoloration in 2018 and beech with normal leaf fall

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Tree-ring data and tree location from 470 European beech trees (Fagus sylvatica L.) located in the northern part of Switzerland. 278 trees showed drought-induced premature leaf...

    Last updated: August 2, 2023

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    • beech
    • drought
    • dieback
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • switzerland
    • tree-ring
    • forest
  • Nuclear microsatellite markers for Trichopria drosophilae, parasitoid wasp on Drosophila suzukii

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    Nuclear microsatellite markers and genotype data for Trichopria ddrosophilae

    This data set comprises (i) the characteristics of a set of 21 species-specific nuclear...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • multilocus-genotypes
    • biological-control
    • simple-sequence-repeats
    • trichopria-drosophilae
    • population-genetics
    • drosophila-suzukii
    • nuclear-microsatellite-markers
    • switzerland
  • History of wetlands in Switzerland since 1850

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Naturally, large parts of the Swiss Plateau are characterised by wetlands and meandering rivers. That this is no longer the case today is the result of centuries of efforts to...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • wetlands
    • switzerland
    • environmental---history
    • ecology
    • environmental--policy
    • historical-carthography
  • 'Latent reserves' within the Swiss NFI

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The files refer to the data used in Portier et al. "‘Latent reserves’: a hidden treasure in National Forest Inventories" (2020) Journal of Ecology.

    'Latent reserves' are...

    Last updated: February 4, 2021

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    • switzerland
    • national-forest-inventory
    • forest-reserves
    • tree-mortality
    • near-natural-forest
  • Spatial modelling of ecological indicator values

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

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    • ZIP
    • soil-ph
    • plants
    • ecological-maps
    • soil-mapping
    • ecological-indicator-values
    • switzerland
    • landolt
    • soil-moisture
  • Cropland and grassland map of Switzerland based on Sentinel-2 data

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    Education, culture and sport

    We developed a map of cropland and grassland allocation for Switzerland based on several indices dominantly derived from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery captured over multiple growing...

    Last updated: March 29, 2021

    • GeoTIFF
    • TIFF
    • SERVICE
    • remote-sensing
    • sentinel-2
    • vegetation-indices
    • machine-learning
    • grassland
    • phenology
    • switzerland
    • agriculture
    • cropland
    • habitat
  • Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios for Graubunden

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This is the simulation dataset from "Response of snow cover and runoff to climate change in high Alpine catchments of Eastern Switzerland", M. Bavay, T. Grünewald, M. Lehning,...

    Last updated: November 12, 2019

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    • snow
    • climate-change
    • switzerland
    • alpine3d-simulations
    • graubunden
  • Restoration of the lowland raised bog Hagenmoos (Switzerland): Data on vegetation, ecological indicator values and species richness from 1989 until 2020

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes data from three vegetation surveys in a restored raised bog (Hagenmoos) in the lowland of the canton of Zürich (Switzerland). The bog Hagenmoos was restored...

    Last updated: March 16, 2021

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    • raised-bog
    • indicator-values
    • peat
    • nature-conservation
    • switzerland
    • sphagnum
    • vegetation
    • restoration
  • Stability tests, avalanche observations, Switzerland, Norway

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    Education, culture and sport

    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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    • extended-column-test
    • norway
    • switzerland
    • avalanche-danger
    • avalanche-observations
    • rutschblock-test
  • SwissLichens - Distribution of lichens in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset provides distribution data of lichens in Switzerland of the National Data and Information Centre, called Swiss Lichens. SwissLichens is a partner of InfoSpecies, the...

    Last updated: December 2, 2019

    • XLS
    • lichen-distribution
    • lichen
    • switzerland
    • swisslichens
    • biodiversity
    • national-data-centre
    • lichen-conservation
  • Groundwater time series Studibach (Rinderer et al., 2019, WRR)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Groundwater time series between 2010 and 2014 of the distributed monitoring system in the Studibach (C7), Alptal, Switzerland. Data published in Rinderer M., van Meerveld I,...

    Last updated: February 4, 2021

    • TXT
    • switzerland
    • alptal
    • time-series
    • studibach
    • groundwater
  • How is avalanche danger described in textual descriptions in avalanche forecasts in Switzerland?

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data set contains the danger descriptions (German) of the avalanche forecasts published at 5 pm between 27-Nov-2012 and 13-Feb-2020.

    Last updated: January 12, 2022

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    • consistency
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-bulletin
    • switzerland
    • danger-description
    • avalanche-danger
    • avalanche-forecast
  • Production de biogaz à partir d’engrais de ferme en Suisse

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    L'objectif de ce livre blanc est de fournir aux décideurs, aux administrations et aux parties prenantes les résultats de recherche les plus récents afin de promouvoir l'utilisation...

    Last updated: January 7, 2022

    • PDF
    • review
    • bioenergy
    • switzerland
    • manure
    • biogas
  • Biogas aus Hofdünger in der Schweiz

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Ziel dieses Whitepapers ist es, Entscheidungsträgern, Verwaltungen und Stakeholdern die aktuellsten Forschungsergebnisse zur Verfügung zu stellen, um die optimale Nutzung von...

    Last updated: January 7, 2022

    • PDF
    • review
    • bioenergy
    • switzerland
    • manure
    • biogas
  • Lake_climate_change_scenarios_CH2018

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset "Lake_climate_change_scenarios_CH2018" provides simulation-based climate change impact scenarios for perialpine lakes in Switzerland. These transient future scenarios...

    Last updated: September 5, 2023

    • XLS
    • lake-level-regulation
    • switzerland
    • hydrologic-and-hydrodynamic-modelling
    • climate-change
    • perialpine-lakes
  • Mean insect occupancy 1970–2020

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    Education, culture and sport

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

    Paper Citation:

    Neff, F., Korner-Nievergelt, F., Rey, E., Albrecht, M., Bollmann, K.,...

    Last updated: December 12, 2022

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    • butterflies
    • insects
    • insect-decline
    • occupancy-models
    • switzerland
    • infospecies
    • elevation
    • biogeographical-region
  • Energy Cooperatives in Switzerland: Survey Results // Energiegenossenschaften in der Schweiz: Befragungsergebnisse

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Topic of Survey The data at hand on energy cooperatives in Switzerland were collected in 2016 as part of the project "Collective financing of renewable energy projects in...

    Last updated: March 1, 2023

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    • community-energy
    • energy-cooperatives
    • cooperatives
    • renewable-energy
    • switzerland