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107 datasets found

  • Forest Reserves Monitoring in Switzerland

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    Long term monitoring of natural forests provides insights into ecological processes shaping forests without human intervention. To study natural forest dynamics, the former chair...

    Last updated: March 25, 2020

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    • natural-forest-dynamics
    • permanent-plot
    • switzerland
    • forest-reserves
    • long-term-monitoring
  • Jussy, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

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    High quality meteorological data are needed for long-term forest ecosystem research, particularly in the light of global change. The long-term data series published here comprises...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

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    • wind-speed
    • relative-humidity
    • meteo
    • meteorology
    • par
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • long-term
    • climate-change
    • temperature
    • precipitation
  • Number of avalanche fatalities per hydrological year in Switzerland since 1936-1937

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    Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This dataset contains the statistics on the number of avalanche fatalities per hydrological year in Switzerland. The data...

    Last updated: June 14, 2023

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    • fatalities-on-transportation-corridors
    • fatalities-in-settlements
    • fatalities-in-the-backcountry
    • fatalities-in-or-around-buildings
    • avalanche-fatalities
    • avalanche-accidents
    • fatalities-in-terrain-close-to-ski-areas
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
  • Bats and nocturnal insects in urban green areas

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    Animal biodiversity in cities is generally expected to be uniformly reduced, but recent studies show that this is modulated by the composition and configuration of Urban Green...

    Last updated: December 6, 2021

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    • nocturnal-fauna
    • flying-arthropods
    • chiroptera
    • zurich
    • paris
    • urban-biodiversity
    • antwerp
    • urbanisation
  • Neunkirch, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

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    High quality meteorological data are needed for long-term forest ecosystem research, particularly in the light of global change. The long-term data series published here comprises...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

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    • precipitation
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • climate-change
    • meteo
    • par
    • meteorology
    • relative-humidity
    • long-term
    • wind-speed
    • temperature
  • Nuclear microsatellite markers for Trichopria drosophilae, parasitoid wasp on Drosophila suzukii

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    Nuclear microsatellite markers and genotype data for Trichopria ddrosophilae

    This data set comprises (i) the characteristics of a set of 21 species-specific nuclear...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • multilocus-genotypes
    • biological-control
    • simple-sequence-repeats
    • trichopria-drosophilae
    • population-genetics
    • drosophila-suzukii
    • nuclear-microsatellite-markers
    • switzerland
  • CCN, hygroscopicity, predicted cloud droplet numbers Weissfluhjoch

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    Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) data: A Droplet Measurement Technologies (DMT) single-column continuous-flow streamwise thermal gradient chamber (CFSTGC; Roberts and Nenes, 2005)...

    Last updated: December 17, 2020

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    • hygroscopicity
    • supersaturation
    • sigma-w
    • cloud-modeling
    • raclets
    • dmt-ccn-chamber
    • cloud-droplets
    • ccn
    • weissfluhjoch
  • Literature data of sound speed in snow

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    This dataset contains literature data for snow density and frequency dependency of speed of sound waves in snow. The data were either available as tabular data in the original...

    Last updated: January 22, 2021

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    • literature
    • wave-speed
    • frequency
    • sound-speed
    • density
    • snow
  • 'Latent reserves' within the Swiss NFI

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    The files refer to the data used in Portier et al. "‘Latent reserves’: a hidden treasure in National Forest Inventories" (2020) Journal of Ecology.

    'Latent reserves' are...

    Last updated: February 4, 2021

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    • switzerland
    • national-forest-inventory
    • forest-reserves
    • tree-mortality
    • near-natural-forest
  • Aerosol Data Weissfluhjoch

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    Aerosol properties were measured between February 8 and March 31 2019 at the measurement site Weissfluhjoch (LON: 9.806475, LAT: 46.832964). Optical and aerodynamic particle...

    Last updated: March 6, 2022

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    • particles
    • inp
    • aerosol
    • ice-nucleation
    • raclets
    • linda
  • intratrait

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    This data set was used to test whether species specialized to high elevations or with narrow elevational ranges show more conservative (i.e. less variable) trait responses across...

    Last updated: September 26, 2022

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    • elevation-range
    • plant-traits
    • climate-change
    • neighbour-interactions
    • cold-adapted-plants
    • elevation-gradient
  • Fatal avalanche accidents in Switzerland since 1936/37

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    When using this data, please consider and adhere to the associated Terms of Use.

    This...

    Last updated: June 16, 2023

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    • number-of-caught-persons
    • number-of-dead-persons
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
    • avalanche-accidents
    • avalanche-fatalities
  • Weather Station Davos Wolfgang

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    The dataset contains weather parameters measured at Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577).

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

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    • relative-humidity
    • pressure
    • raclets
    • weather
    • temperature
  • Grassland restoration: insects and insect traits

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    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

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    • insects
    • topsoil-removal
    • long-term-experiment
    • restoration
    • diversity
    • functional-traits
    • grassland
    • functional-diversity
  • Calibration data for empirical mortality models of 18 European tree species

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    The dataset comprises > 90 000 records from inventories in 54 strict forest reserves in...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

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    • tree-growth
    • inventory-data
    • empirical-mortality-models
    • forest-reserves
    • tree-mortality
  • Snow climate indicators derived from parallel manual snow measurements

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    Data set consisting of snow climate indicators derived from parallel manual snow measurements in Switzerland.

    Last updated: February 4, 2022

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    • snow-onset-and-disappearance-dates
    • parallel-measurements
    • snow-height
    • snow-depth
    • climate-indicators
  • Torymus sinensis local and regional early population dynamics in the Insubrian and Piedmont regions

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    This dataset contains the population evolution of a pest and its biocontrol agent in terms of presence proportion at gall level and absolute number of insects.

    The study area...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • southern-switzerland
    • castanea-sativa
    • biological-control
    • pest-invasion
    • torymus-sinensis
    • population-evolution
    • dryocosmus-kuriphilus
  • Weather, snowpack and danger ratings data for automated avalanche danger level predictions

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    Each set includes the meteorological variables (resampled 24-hour averages) and the profile variables extracted from the simulated profiles for each of the weather stations of the...

    Last updated: April 13, 2023

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    • avalanche-forcasting
    • avalanche
    • machine-learning
    • avalanche-danger-level
    • numerical-avalanche-forecasting
  • Factors slowing down upward shifts of trees’ upper elevation limits

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    Species range limits are expected to be dramatically altered under future climate change and many species are predicted to shift their distribution upslope to track their suitable...

    Last updated: June 13, 2020

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    • ZIP
    • sdm
    • treeline
    • treemig
    • mountain-forest
    • climate-change-impact
  • Napf soil wetness monitoring data

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    The dataset contains the soil wetness monitoring data from the publication Wicki et al. (2022). It was collected in Wasen i.E. (Napf area, Switzerland). The monitoring data is...

    Last updated: January 28, 2023

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    • matric-potential
    • soil-moisture
    • monitoring
    • landslide-early-warning
    • shallow-landslides