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29 datasets found

  • Phosphorus and nitrogen leaching from beech forest soils

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data on dissolved organic and inorganic phosphorus and nitrogen concentrations in leachates and their corresponding fluxes from the litter layer, the Oe/Oa horizon, and the A...

    Last updated: July 14, 2021

    • XLS
    • dissolved-organic-phosphorus
    • fertilization
    • beech
    • seasons
    • zero-tension-lysimeters
    • nitrogen
    • forest-topsoil
    • nutrient-fluxes
    • phosphorus
    • soil-temperature
  • Potential driving factors of urban transformations of Austin over 25 years

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In this study, the Austin metropolitan area, Texas, U.S., one of the fastest urban transformations and transformations regions, is selected to test the hypothesis that spatial...

    Last updated: December 22, 2022

    • ZIP
    • planning
    • austin
    • driving-factors
    • urban-land-use
    • land-dynamics
  • Nanoplastics in forests: Exploring the effects of nanoplastics on forest soils and tree physiology (NanoPlast)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The fate of plastic in the environment is of global concern, because its production recently has increased strongly and it accumulates in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems....

    Last updated: June 14, 2023

    • XLS
    • uptake
    • polystyrene
    • forest-trees
    • nanoplastic
    • 13c-labelling
  • RoRCC

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset "RoRCC" consists of simulation-based results on climate change impacts on Alpine RoR power production; it is based on 21 Swiss RoR power plants, with a total production...

    Last updated: August 11, 2022

    • XLS
    • environmental-flow
    • hydropower
    • climate-change
    • run-of-river-power-plants
    • design-discharge
  • IceCube_microCT_Snow_grainsize

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The specific surface area (SSA) of different snow types were measured with the IceCube instrument and the Scanco Medical microCT 40. In addition, the snow particles created during...

    Last updated: February 19, 2023

    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • intercomparison
    • icecube
    • microct
    • specific-surface-area
    • snow
  • CHELSA-BIOCLIM+ A novel set of global climate-related predictors at kilometre-resolution

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A multitude of physical and biological processes on which ecosystems and human societies depend are governed by climatic conditions. Understanding how these processes are altered...

    Last updated: September 21, 2022

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • solar-radiation
    • precipitation
    • growing-degree-days
    • relative-humidity
    • temperature
    • growing-season-length
    • soil-water-balance
  • Niche partitioning between wild bees and honeybees

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • pollinator-experiment
    • urbanization
    • bettergardens
    • urban-ecosystems
    • city4bees
    • beekeeping
    • wild-bees
    • gardens
    • honeybees
    • resource-availability
    • urban-biodiversity
    • zurich
  • Meteorology and snow transport at S17 near Syowa, Antarctica, in austral summer 2018/2019

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains measurement and simulation data. The measurements characterize the standard meteorology, turbulence, and snow transport at the S17 site near Syowa Station in...

    Last updated: August 13, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • turbulence
    • antarctica
    • meteorological-data
    • blowing-snow
    • large-eddy-simulations
    • drifting-snow
    • eddy-covariance-measurements
    • micro-rain-radar
    • mass-flux
  • EnviDat Supports Open Science

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The article "EnviDat Supports Open Science" originally appeared in WSLintern No. 3 (2020), page 14-15 and it is republished here with permission from the WSLintern editorial team....

    Last updated: April 20, 2021

    • PDF
    • envidat
    • open-science
    • juypter-notebooks
    • research-data-management
    • wsl
  • Challenging the sustainability of urban beekeeping: evidence from Swiss cities

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • sustainability
    • pollination
    • honeybees
    • urban-biodiversity
    • urbanization
    • remote-sensing
  • Open Science Support at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. The EnviDat Concept

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This poster was originally created for the swissuniversities Open Science Action Plan: Kick-Off Forum, and showed to the audience on 17.10.2019. It illustrates how the...

    Last updated: April 23, 2021

    • PDF
    • open-science
    • reproducibility
    • hpc
    • jupyter-notebooks
    • open-data
    • research-data-management
    • open-source
  • Data on wild bee taxonomic and functional diversity in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • SERVICE
    • biodiversity
    • climate
    • anthophila
    • elevation-gradient
    • resource-availability
    • beta-diversity
    • predictive-modelling
    • wild-bee
    • protected-areas
    • urbanization
    • functional-diversity
    • switzerland
    • hymenoptera
    • community-indices
  • Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present the CHELSA (Climatologies at high...

    Last updated: September 10, 2021

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • climate-change
    • climatology
    • climate
    • bioclim
    • climate-layers
    • free-climate-data
    • precipitation
    • temperature
  • The usage of landscape ecological concepts in the planning literature

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Table of content: 1. Frequency of early concepts; 2. Frequency of additional concepts; 3. Use of any early concept; 4. Use of any additional concept, 5. Planning steps; 6....

    Last updated: October 25, 2021

    • XLS
    • CSV
    • resilience
    • landscape-ecology
    • landscape-services
    • literature-review
    • decision-making
    • green-infrastructure
    • multifunctionality
    • sense-of-place
    • pdfsearch
    • socio-ecological-system
    • landscape-perception
    • planning
    • landscape-planning
    • ecosystem-services
  • Non-Binary Environmental Archive Data (NEAD) format

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Acknowledgement: The NEAD format includes NetCDF metadata and is proudly inspired by both SMET and NetCDF formats. NEAD is designed as a long-term data preservation and exchange...

    Last updated: February 28, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • HTML
    • metadata-convention
    • meteorological-data-format
    • research-data-management
    • nead
    • csv
  • Causal effect of MFOZ

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Title: Closer to causality: How effective is spatial planning in governing built-up land expansion in Fujian Province, China?

    Research objective: The Major Function Oriented Zone...

    Last updated: February 14, 2022

    • ZIP
    • the-major-function-oriented-zone
    • fujian-province
    • built-up-land-change
    • selection-bias
    • causality
    • propensity-score-matching
  • Larval food composition of four wild bee species in five European cities

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • CSV
    • hylaeus-communis
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • cavity-nesting-bees
    • urban-ecology
    • trap-nest
    • antwerp
    • osmia-bicornis
    • chelostoma-florisomne
    • tartu
    • zurich
    • osmia-cornuta
    • poznan
    • paris
    • plant-pollinator-interactions
  • MOSAIC Snow on Sea Ice Data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data accompanying David Wagners' Dissertation. Covers model results and various input from ALPINE3D and SNOWPACK adjusted for sea ice during MOSAiC.

    Last updated: March 12, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • drifting-and-blowing-snow
    • snow-distribution
    • surface-mass-balance
    • arctic-sea-ice
    • spatial-variability
  • Tree-ring laser ablation data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the values of several chemical elements (Mg, Al, Si, S, K, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Sr, Tl, Pb, Bi) measured in the latewood of tree rings of...

    Last updated: March 31, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • laser-ablation
    • dendrochronology
    • tree-rings
    • air-pollution
    • dendrochemistry
  • Causal effect of LUP

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Title: Does zoning contain built-up land expansion? Causal evidence from Zhangzhou City, China.

    Research objective: Built-up land zoning is an imporatant policy measure of land...

    Last updated: February 14, 2022

    • ZIP
    • annual-effect
    • land-use-change
    • land-use-planning
    • plan-evaluation
    • psm-did