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5 datasets found

  • Present and future multifaceted plant diversity, uniqueness and conservation in the European Alps

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains extensive data for the European Alps:

    • Observations of ~3,500 plant species
    • Climate (1-km), soil (100-m) and land cover predictors (1km); current...

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

    • GeoTIFF
    • taxonomic-diversity
    • functional-diversity
    • species-distribution-models
    • beta-diversity
    • conservation
    • plants
    • zonation
    • migclim
    • land-use-change
    • european-alps
    • phylogenetic-diversity
    • global-change
  • Resolution in species distribution models shapes spatial patterns of plant multifaceted diversity

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset comprises a large array of ecological data for the European Alps:

    (1) Current soil and climate predictors at various resolutions. (2) GBIF observations of the...

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

    • ZIP
    • functional-diversity
    • soil
    • phylogenetic-diversity
    • climate
    • grain-size
    • taxonomic-diversity
    • ecological-indicator-values
  • The origin of urban communities: from the regional species pool to community assemblages in city

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Carabid beetle and wild bee occurrences in the city of Zurich, Switzerland.

    Dataset available upon request (An agreement between the data provider and the data recipient is...

    Last updated: February 28, 2023

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • environmental-heterogeneity
    • species-composition
    • functional-diversity
    • niche
    • composition
    • niche-breadth
    • allotment
    • urban-ecology
    • functional-traits
    • urbanization
    • bettergardens
    • garden
    • allotments
    • trait
    • species
    • gardens
    • bettergarden
    • wild-bees
    • wild-bee
    • diversity
    • functional
    • ground-beetles
    • community-assembly
    • ecology
    • ground-beetle
  • Grassland restoration: insects and insect traits

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • CSV
    • functional-diversity
    • long-term-experiment
    • topsoil-removal
    • functional-traits
    • diversity
    • restoration
    • insects
    • grassland
  • 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
    • climate
    • beta-diversity
    • urbanization
    • switzerland
    • biodiversity
    • community-indices
    • protected-areas
    • resource-availability
    • elevation-gradient
    • anthophila
    • wild-bee
    • predictive-modelling
    • functional-diversity
    • hymenoptera