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5 datasets found

  • 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
    • honeybees
    • gardens
    • zurich
    • pollinator-experiment
    • resource-availability
    • urban-biodiversity
    • wild-bees
    • urban-ecosystems
    • bettergardens
    • city4bees
    • urbanization
    • beekeeping
  • 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

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    • climate
    • elevation-gradient
    • switzerland
    • wild-bee
    • biodiversity
    • predictive-modelling
    • protected-areas
    • resource-availability
    • community-indices
    • functional-diversity
    • urbanization
    • hymenoptera
    • anthophila
    • beta-diversity
  • 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
    • remote-sensing
    • sustainability
    • pollination
    • honeybees
    • urbanization
    • urban-biodiversity
  • Land use projections and services for Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data and scripts of publication:

    Madleina Gerecke, Oskar Hagen, Janine Bolliger, Anna M. Hersperger, Felix Kienast, Bronwyn Price, Loïc Pellissier (2019) Assessing potential...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • ZIP
    • modeling
    • urbanization
    • land-use-change
    • statistical-model
    • landscape-services
    • switzerland
    • land-use
  • Ecological properties of urban ecosystems. Biodiversity dataset of Zurich

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Richness, site occurrence and abundance data of bees, beetles, birds, hoverflies, net-wingeds, true bugs, snails, spiders, milipides, wasps collected in the city of Zurich using...

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

    • TXT
    • arthropods
    • urban-ecology
    • spiders
    • urbanization
    • snails
    • species-richness-models
    • sdms
    • species-abundance-distributions
    • diversity
    • insects
    • birds