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106 datasets found

  • Illgraben debris-flow characteristics 2023

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    Education, culture and sport

    List of key debris flow variables from the WSL Illgraben monitoring station (2023) such as occurrence date and time, peak flow depth, peak flow velocity, total volume and bulk...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

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    • debris-flow
    • force-plate
    • illgraben
    • magnitude
    • monitoring-station
  • On the compressive strength of weak snow layers of depth hoar

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    Education, culture and sport

    This repository hosts the experimental data accompanying our publication, “On the compressive strength of weak snow layers of depth hoar,” featured in the Journal of...

    Last updated: November 17, 2025

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    • depth-hoar
    • microstructure
    • slab-avalanche
    • snow
    • snow-mechanics
    • strength
  • The influence of snow microstructure on the compressive mechanical properties of weak snowpack layers

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    This repository hosts the experimental data accompanying our publication "The influence of snow microstructure on the compressive mechanical properties of weak snowpack layers"...

    Last updated: November 17, 2025

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    • lab-experiment
    • snow
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow-mechanics
    • snow-microstructure
  • Spatial factors shape taxonomic and functional beta-diversity in water-filled tree holes in different biogeographical regions

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    Education, culture and sport

    These datasets and code support research on the community assemblage of aquatic macroinvertebrates in ephemeral microhabitats, specifically water-filled tree holes (WTH), in three...

    Last updated: November 26, 2025

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    • beta-diversity
    • community-assembly
    • environmental-factors
    • functional-diversity
    • metacommunity
    • spatial-factors
    • taxonomic-diversity
    • water-filled-tree-holes
  • Functional Invertebrate Groups - Dataset

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    Education, culture and sport

    Collected Invertebrate data using pitfall traps at streetlights with different characteristics at three different sites in Switzerland (Birmensdorf, Lägern & Alpthal). LED...

    Last updated: December 10, 2025

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    • alan
    • artificial-lighting
    • community-composition
    • functional-groups
    • invertebrates
    • led
    • light-pollution
  • Hydraulic stress limits thermal acclimation in trees under chronic drought

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    Plant ecophysiological and associated environmental data for two tree species (Fagus sylvatica and Quercus pubescens) grown for five years in a factorial open-top climate...

    Last updated: December 12, 2025

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    • fagus-sylvatica
    • functional-traits
    • gas-exchange
    • hot-drought
    • hydraulic-safety-margins
    • leaf-scorching
    • quercus-pubescens
    • thermal-safety-margins
    • thermoregulation