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77 datasets found

  • Grassland restoration: insects and insect traits

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

    Last updated: November 8, 2022

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    • functional-diversity
    • topsoil-removal
    • insects
    • grassland
    • long-term-experiment
    • restoration
    • functional-traits
    • diversity
  • Simulated and observed prevalence of dispersal-related traits in tropical reef fish assemblages worldwide

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data and R codes (R Development Core Team, https://www.R-project.org) used in the following publication: Donati GFA, Parravicini V, Leprieur F, Hagen O,...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

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    • dispersal
    • traits
    • biodiversity
    • ecology
    • reef-fish
  • Nitrogen availability under trees exposed to CO2 enrichment (FACE)

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    Data obtained in the free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiment at Hofstetten, NW Switzerland, between 2009 and 2016. This dataset contains analyses of the soil solution throughout...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • picea-abies
    • co2
    • nitrogen
    • soil
    • forest
    • face
  • Observed and simulated snow profile data

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    This data set includes information on all observed and simulated snow profiles that were used to train and validate the random forest model described in Mayer et al. (2022). The RF...

    Last updated: October 21, 2022

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    • snow-stratigraphy
    • failure-layer
    • rutschblock
    • snowpack
    • snowpack-simulation
    • snow-profiles
    • snow-instability
  • Kinetic experiments on the oxidation of bromide by ozone from 289-245 K.

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    The reaction of ozone with bromide in polar regions results in the formation of reactive bromide species with impacts on ozone budget and the oxidative capacity of the lower...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

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    • polar
    • laboratory-study
    • snow
    • arctic
    • cryosphere
    • sea-salt-aerosol
    • antartic
  • 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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    • rutschblock-test
    • avalanche-observations
    • extended-column-test
    • norway
    • switzerland
    • avalanche-danger
  • intratrait

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    This data set was used to test whether species specialized to high elevations or with narrow elevational ranges show more conservative (i.e. less variable) trait responses across...

    Last updated: September 26, 2022

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    • climate-change
    • elevation-range
    • plant-traits
    • neighbour-interactions
    • cold-adapted-plants
    • elevation-gradient
  • Relationship between physical forest characteristics, visual attractiveness and perception of ecosystem services in urban forests

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    Education, culture and sport

    This questionnaire survey was conducted as an online survey and aimed at investigating the relationship between physical forest characteristics, visual attractiveness of forest and...

    Last updated: June 10, 2022

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    • nfi-photos
    • perception-of-ecosystem-services
    • visual-attractiveness
    • adults-and-teenagers
    • online-questionnaire-survey
  • Niche partitioning between wild bees and honeybees

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    Education, culture and sport

    Cities are socio-ecological systems that filter and select species, thus establishing unique species assemblages and biotic interactions. Urban ecosystems can host richer wild bee...

    Last updated: February 10, 2023

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    • urbanization
    • zurich
    • urban-ecosystems
    • pollinator-experiment
    • wild-bees
    • beekeeping
    • honeybees
    • gardens
    • bettergardens
    • urban-biodiversity
    • resource-availability
    • city4bees
  • Profile measurements of snow transport and micrometeorology at Mizuho Station in Antarctica

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data was collected at Mizuho Station (44.315°E, 70.71°S, 2230 m a.s.l.), East Antarctica, from 30 September to 22 November 2000 during the 41st Japanese Antarctic research...

    Last updated: September 12, 2024

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    • blowing-snow
    • drifting-snow
    • meteorological-measurements
    • antarctica
    • atmospheric-turbulence
  • Nuclear microsatellite genotypes of the butterfly Melanargia galathea

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    Individual genotypes assessed at six nuclear microsatellite loci (two alleles per locus) for individuals of the butterfly Melanargia galathea (Marbled white) that were collected...

    Last updated: November 27, 2023

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    • genetic-diversity
    • monitoring
    • genetic-structure
    • melanargia-galathea
    • conservation-genetics
  • Number of avalanche fatalities per hydrological year in Switzerland since 1936-1937

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    Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This dataset contains the statistics on the number of avalanche fatalities per hydrological year in Switzerland. The data...

    Last updated: June 14, 2023

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    • avalanche-accidents
    • fatalities-in-or-around-buildings
    • fatalities-on-transportation-corridors
    • fatalities-in-the-backcountry
    • fatalities-in-settlements
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
    • fatalities-in-terrain-close-to-ski-areas
    • avalanche-fatalities
  • Soil sealing Barcelona and Milan different territorial levels

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    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset description
    This dataset is a recalculation of the Copernicus 2015 high resolution layer (HRL) of imperviousness density data (IMD) at different spatial/territorial...

    Last updated: May 11, 2022

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    • barcelona
    • copernicus
    • soil-sealing
    • milan
    • imperviousness
    • urban-atlas
  • 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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    • swiss-forest-lab
    • temperature
    • meteo
    • meteorology
    • long-term
    • precipitation
    • climate-change
    • par
    • relative-humidity
    • wind-speed
  • Data on interaction diversity in urban gardens

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data supports the paper "Local and landscape factors shape alpha and beta trophic interaction diversity in urban gardens". It provides: (1) the host-natural enemy interaction...

    Last updated: November 5, 2024

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    • urban-ecosystems
    • hymenoptera
    • zurich
    • urbanization
    • management-intensity
    • trap-nest
    • cavity-nesting
    • urban-ecology
    • bees
    • food-webs
    • host-enemy-interactions
    • wasps
  • 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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    • streamflow
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • groundwater
    • alptal
    • runoff
  • GCOS SWE data from 11 stations in Switzerland

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    This dataset contains long-term snow water equivalent and corresponding snow depth data 11 observer sites in Switzerland between 1200 and 2500 m a.s.l. compiled for the Global...

    Last updated: August 5, 2024

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    • snow-height
    • snow
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • gcos
    • snow-profile
  • Ice nucleating particle concentrations active at -15 °C at Weissfluhjoch

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    This dataset contains number concentrations of ice-nucleating particles active at -15 °C observed at Weissfluhjoch during February and March 2019, as well as complementary data...

    Last updated: February 4, 2021

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    • ice-nucleation
    • aerosol
    • clouds
    • backward-trajectories
    • raclets
  • Tree species profiles from Sentinel-2 time series

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    Education, culture and sport

    Tree species profiles from Sentinel-2 time series We obtained tree species-specific Sentinel-2 time series for the years 2019 and 2020. The Sentinel-2 time series originated from...

    Last updated: June 11, 2024

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    • switzerland
    • remote-sensing
    • time-series
    • tree-species
    • sentinel-2
  • Data set on snow instability

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    Education, culture and sport

    These data on snow instability include three data subsets that were analyzed and the results published by Reuter and Schweizer (2018) who suggest a novel framework on how to...

    Last updated: February 2, 2020

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    • weak-layer
    • crack-propagation
    • slab-tensile-support
    • snow-stability-evaluation
    • propgatoin-saw-test
    • failure-initiation
    • snow-avalanche
    • avalanche-forcasting
    • rutschblock
    • slab