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14 datasets found

  • Monitoring of ash trees as part of the Intercantonal Forest Observation Programme

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    Education, culture and sport

    In 2013, the Institute for Applied Plant Biology (IAP) started a monitoring programme to study the development and the spatial variation of the ash dieback disease with the aim to...

    Last updated: June 3, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • monitoring
    • iap
    • forest
    • fraxinus
    • ash-dieback
  • Shading by Trees and Fractional Snow Cover Control the Subcanopy Radiation Budget

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set consists of incoming and outgoing short- and longwave radiation as well as sunlit-snow-view-fraction as described in the JGR-Atmospheres paper "Shading by trees and...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • TXT
    • XLS
    • shading
    • forest
    • fractional-snow
    • longwave-radiation
    • shortwave-radiation
  • Factors influencing teenagers' forest visit frequency

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data results from a questionnaire survey conducted at 8 schools in the cantons Zurich, Aargau and St. Gallen. Respondents aged 13-22 years. The aim of the survey was to gain...

    Last updated: January 31, 2022

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    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • childhood
    • recreational-activities
    • adolescents
    • forest
    • teenagers
  • Nitrogen availability under trees exposed to CO2 enrichment (FACE)

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    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • CSV
    • nitrogen
    • face
    • forest
    • picea-abies
    • soil
    • co2
  • LWF-Tea bag sites

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    Education, culture and sport

    Decomposition of plant litter is a key process for the transfer of carbon and nutrients in ecosystems. Carbon contained in the decaying biomass is released to the atmosphere as...

    Last updated: August 20, 2021

    • CSV
    • carbon
    • modeling
    • roiboos
    • tea-bag
    • verification
    • forest
    • litter
    • decomposition
    • green-tea
  • Vegetation Height Model NFI

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    Education, culture and sport

    A national vegetation height model was calculated for Switzerland using digital aerial images. We used the stereo aerial images acquired by the Federal Office of Topography...

    Last updated: September 12, 2023

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    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • point-cloud
    • 3d
    • photogrammety
    • forest
    • vegetation-height-model
  • Monthly topsoil and near surface microclimate temperature data for Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Climate data matching the scales at which organisms experience climatic conditions are often missing. Yet, such data on microclimatic conditions are required to better understand...

    Last updated: September 26, 2023

    • ZIP
    • ecology
    • statistical-interpolation
    • biodiversity
    • radiation-transfer
    • microclimate
    • forest
    • climate-change
  • Data Broedlin CNP

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    Education, culture and sport

    Mircocosm experiment to identify the individual patterns and controls of C, N, and P mobilization in soils under beech forests. Organic and mineral horizons sampled along a...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • XLS
    • carbon
    • forest
    • mineralization
    • phosphorus
    • dissolved-organic-matter
    • drying-rewetting
    • nitrogen
    • soil
    • stoichiometry
  • Swiss FluxNet Site Lägeren

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    Education, culture and sport

    The Swiss FluxNet Site Lägeren is a managed mixed deciduous mountain forest located on the steep Lägeren mountain (NW of Zurich, Swiss Plateau). The forest is highly diverse,...

    Last updated: August 24, 2023

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    • greenhouse-gas
    • flux
    • meteorological-measurements
    • eddy-covariance
    • forest
    • swiss-fluxnet
    • swiss-forest-lab
  • G-TREE: Global Treeline Range Expansion Experiment Davos, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Background information Climate change-induced range expansion of treeline populations depends on their successful recruitment, which requires dispersal of viable seeds followed by...

    Last updated: September 10, 2023

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • climate-change
    • forest
    • swiss-alps
    • picea-abies
    • g-tree
    • seedling-recruitment
    • larix-decidua
    • stillberg
    • treeline
  • Swiss FluxNet Site Davos

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    Education, culture and sport

    The Swiss FluxNet Site Davos is a managed subalpine evergreen forest, located on the Seehorn mountain near Davos in the Swiss Alps. The site is dominated by Norway spruce. The...

    Last updated: August 24, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • swiss-fluxnet
    • icos
    • forest
    • greenhouse-gas
    • flux
    • meteorological-measurements
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • eddy-covariance
  • Sample Geodata and Software for Demonstrating Geospatial Preprocessing for Forest Accessibility and Wood Harvesting at FOSS4G2019

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains open vector data for railways, forests and power lines, as well an open digital elevation model (DEM) for a small area around a sample forest range in Europe...

    Last updated: December 2, 2019

    • PNG
    • ZIP
    • TIFF
    • SERVICE
    • openstreetmap
    • accessible-forest
    • geoprocessing
    • qgis
    • seilaplan
    • forest
  • Tree measurements 2002-2016 from the long-term irrigation experiment Pfynwald, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • tree-species
    • diameter-at-breast-height
    • crown-condition
    • forest
    • dbh
    • scots-pine
    • tree
    • drought
    • lwf
    • irrigation
  • Stand inventory data from the 10‐ha forest research plot in Uholka, Ukraine

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    Education, culture and sport

    In 2000, a permanent forest plot of 10 ha has been established in the core zone of the primeval beech forest of Uholka. All living and dead trees with a diameter at breast height...

    Last updated: March 25, 2020

    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • permanent-forest-plot-data
    • carpathian-biosphere-reserve
    • forest-structure
    • long-term-data-sets
    • forest-dynamics
    • primeval-beech-forest
    • stand-inventory-data
    • forest
    • dem