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12 datasets found

  • Litterfall and pollen data of three LWF beech plots

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    This dataset contains the parameters used in the statistical analyses for the manuscript SREP-19-40170-T, submitted in Scientific Reports. This study is part of the WSL Drought...

    Last updated: March 5, 2020

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    • fruit-abortion
    • pollen
    • beech
    • mast
    • heat
    • forest
    • soil-matric-potential
    • drought
    • litterfall
  • Drought alters C footprint of trees in soil: tracking the spatio-temporal fate of 13C labelled assimilates in the soil

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    Data from pulse-labelling experiment with 100-year old trees of a naturally dry pine forest exposed to a 15-year-long irrigation experiment. Canopies of 10 trees were labelled for...

    Last updated: February 12, 2021

    • XLS
    • microbial-biomass
    • allocation
    • pfynwald
    • rhizosphere
    • forest
    • drought
    • soil
  • Swiss Canopy Crane II research site

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    Last updated: December 4, 2020

    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • drought
    • forest
    • ecosystem-functions
    • infrastructure
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • climate-change
    • damage-of-tree
  • Effects of canopy disturbance on Swiss forests

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    The files refer to the data used in Scherrer et al. (2021) "Canopy disturbances catalyse tree species shifts in Swiss forests" in Ecosystems.

    The two data files contain...

    Last updated: April 20, 2021

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • pinus-sylvestris
    • windthrow
    • switzerland
    • insect-outbreaks
    • castanea-sativa
    • tree-recruitment
    • vegetation-shift
    • picea-abies
    • national-forest-inventory
    • drought
    • disturbance
  • Root-traits

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    Fine-root traits of Scots pine in response to enhanced soil water availability deriving from long-term irrigation in the Pfynwald

    Data_Fig.1.xlsx Fine-root biomass of the topsoil...

    Last updated: October 25, 2019

    • ZIP
    • belowground-biomass
    • fine-root-traits
    • soil-coring
    • ingrowth-cores
    • drought
  • Tree measurements 2002-2016 from the long-term irrigation experiment Pfynwald, Switzerland

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    To study the performance of mature Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) under chronic drought conditions in comparison to their immediate physiological response to drought release, a...

    Last updated: October 29, 2020

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    • XLS
    • HTML
    • tree-species
    • crown-condition
    • diameter-at-breast-height
    • tree
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • forest
    • drought
    • irrigation
    • dbh
    • lwf
    • scots-pine
  • 2013-2020 gas exchange at Pfynwald

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    Gas exchange was measured on control, irrigated and irrigation-stop trees at the irrigation experiment Pfynwald, during the years 2013, 2014, 2016-2020. The measurement campaigns...

    Last updated: August 13, 2021

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • XLS
    • fluorescence
    • photosynthesis
    • drought
    • pinus-sylvestris
    • vpd
    • acclimation
    • gas-exchange
  • Experts survey protective forest and combined extremes in Val Mesolcina

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    This dataset contains the results of a case study analysing the potential impacts of a compound meteorological extreme event on the protective forest in the Val Mesolcina. These...

    Last updated: October 2, 2023

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    • HTML
    • XLS
    • forest-fire
    • drought
    • bark-beetles
    • protection-forest
    • protective-effect
    • natural-hazards
    • extreme-events
    • compound-events
  • Tree-ring data of European beech with premature leaf discoloration in 2018 and beech with normal leaf fall

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    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

    • SERVICE
    • forest
    • drought
    • switzerland
    • tree-ring
    • beech
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • dieback
  • Environmental constraints on tree growth

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    Seasonal variation in environmental constraints (vapor pressure deficit – VPD, air temperature, and soil moisture) on tree growth for the potential distribution range of seven...

    Last updated: December 7, 2020

    • ZIP
    • climate-change
    • growth-limitation
    • drought
    • 3-pg
    • tree-rings
    • vpd
  • Diversity of ground beetles and spiders as well as cynipid oak gall formation on irrigated and non-irrigated plots in a dry mixed Scots pine forest

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    In the dry Pfynwald forest a long-term experiment of WSL was initiated in 2003 with a set of irrigated and non-irrigated plots. Forest Entomologie WSL made several investigations,...

    Last updated: March 8, 2023

    • ZIP
    • araneae
    • drought
    • pinus-sylvestris
    • carabidae
    • cynipidae
    • gall-wasps
    • quercus-pubescens
  • Soil fauna drives SOC storage in a long-term irrigated dry pine forest

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    Data from a 17-year-long irrigation experiment (Pfynwald, Switzerland) in a naturally dry forest dominated by 100-year-old pine trees (Pinus sylvestris). Data include: (1)...

    Last updated: February 7, 2022

    • XLS
    • pfynwald
    • pinus
    • fauna-data
    • forest
    • litter
    • carbon
    • drought
    • soil