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65 datasets found

  • Impact des événements météorologiques extrêmes sur l'économie forestière suisse: le point de vue des scieries

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    Extreme events impact on the Swiss forest economy: the sawmill perspective

    Supplementary Information This survey aimed at answering three main questions: (i) What are the Swiss...

    Last updated: June 7, 2022

    • XLS
    • bois-endommage
    • scieries
    • wet-storage
    • stockage-humide
    • chablis
    • sawmills
    • wood-market
    • wind-disturbance
    • damaged-wood
    • marche-du-bois
  • Grassland restoration: nematodes and plant communities

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    This dataset contains all data on which the following publication below is based.

    Paper Citation:

    Resch, M.C., Schütz, M., Graf, U., Wagenaar, R., van der Putten, W.H., Risch,...

    Last updated: October 19, 2021

    • XLS
    • long-term-experiment
    • vegetation
    • topsoil-removal
    • nematodes
    • grassland
    • diversity
    • restoration
  • Large wood event database

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    In the context of the WoodFlow project (https://woodflow.wsl.ch), an extensive database was developed which documents recruited and transported quantities of large wood (woody...

    Last updated: December 9, 2021

    • XLS
    • dead-wood
    • natural-hazards
    • geomorphology
    • empirical-data
    • mountain-stream
    • wood-transport
    • large-wood
    • flood
    • event-analysis
  • Elk and bison carcasses in Yellowstone, USA

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    This dataset contains all data on which the following publication below is based.

    Paper Citation:

    Risch, A.C., Frossard, A., Schütz, M., Frey, B., Morris, A.W., Bump, J.K....

    Last updated: June 10, 2020

    • XLS
    • detritus
    • bacteria
    • decomposition
    • wolf
    • soil-biodiversity
    • yellowstone
    • biogeochemical-cycling
    • carrion
    • fungi
    • carcass
  • Stress thresholds of mature European beech trees

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    This data set contains the data presented in the figures 1-6 in Walthert et al. (2020): From the comfort zone to crown dieback: sequence of physiological stress thresholds in...

    Last updated: August 27, 2020

    • XLS
    • leaf-water-potential
    • transpiration
    • permanent-wilting-point
    • soil-water-uptake
    • native-embolism
    • stable-isotopes
    • stress-thresholds
    • stem-shrinking
    • crown-dieback
    • xylem-vulnerability
    • dendrometer
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • soil-water-potential
    • tree-water-deficit
    • drought-stress
    • early-defoliation
    • stem-growth
  • 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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    • XLS
    • protection-forest
    • extreme-events
    • drought
    • forest-fire
    • bark-beetles
    • compound-events
    • natural-hazards
    • protective-effect
  • Snow depth, canopy structure and meterorological datasets from the Davos area, Switzerland, Winters 2012/13-2014/15, used for high-resolution forest snow modelling

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    This dataset contains all snow, canopy and meteorological data presented and used in the publication: Mazzotti, G., Essery, R., Moeser, D. & Jonas T. (2020) 'Resolving spatial...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • forest-structure
    • forest-snow
    • snow-distribution
    • snow-modelling
    • snow-energy-balance
  • Snow Drift Station - Flowcapt

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    The FlowCapt is an ultra-robust instrument measuring solid particle acoustic mass - flux intensities (g m‾ ² s‾ ¹) and wind speeds (m s‾ ¹). It was...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • XLS
    • snow-blowing
    • acoustic-mass-flux
    • wind-speed
    • flowcapt
    • snowdrift
    • raclets
  • Herb layer biomass in Swiss forests

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    The purpose of this project was to develop a model to estimate herb layer biomass and carbon stock based on the categorical cover estimate on each NFI sample plot. To this end,...

    Last updated: August 20, 2021

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    • PDF
    • sedges
    • grasses
    • shrubs
    • national-forest-inventory
    • biomass
    • ferns
    • herbs
  • DISCHMEX - Meteorological measurements

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    Meteorological measurements recorded in the Dischma valley from 2014-2016. In 2014 and 2015 we used 11 mobile weather stations from sensorscope to record meteorological parameter...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • XLS
    • dischmex
    • meteorological-measurements
    • meteo-station
    • dischma
    • meteorological-data
  • Spatial modelling of ecological indicator values

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    Ecologically meaningful predictors are often neglected in plant distribution studies, resulting in incomplete niche quantification and low predictive power of species distribution...

    Last updated: June 11, 2020

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • soil-ph
    • plants
    • ecological-maps
    • soil-mapping
    • ecological-indicator-values
    • switzerland
    • landolt
    • soil-moisture
  • Long-term recovery of above-and belowground interactions in restored grasslands

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data, on which the following publication below is based.

    Paper Citation:

    _Resch, M.C., Schütz, M., Ochoa-Hueso, R., Buchmann, N., Frey, B., Graf, U.,...

    Last updated: October 20, 2021

    • XLS
    • soil-chemistry
    • fungi
    • soil
    • soil-biodiversity
    • soil-biology
    • plants
    • nematodes
    • bacteria
    • restoration
    • grassland
    • biodiversity
    • topsoil-removal
  • Litterfall and pollen data of three LWF beech plots

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    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • XLS
    • forest
    • heat
    • fruit-abortion
    • mast
    • drought
    • pollen
    • soil-matric-potential
    • litterfall
    • beech
  • Data Broedlin CNP

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    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

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    • carbon
    • phosphorus
    • nitrogen
    • drying-rewetting
    • dissolved-organic-matter
    • stoichiometry
    • soil
    • forest
    • mineralization
  • Soil respiration - exclosure experiment

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    Location of data collection The Swiss National Park (SNP) is located in the southeastern part of Switzerland, and covers an area of 170 km2, 50 km2 of which is forested, 33 km2 is...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

    • XLS
    • grazing
    • grassland
    • ungulates
    • soil-respiration
    • subalpine
  • Base cation dynamics in an Oriental beech forest

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    Throughfall, litterflow and soil solution were sampled during one whole year under five Oriental beech trees in a mixed Hyrcanian beech forest. The amounts of Ca2+, Mg2+, K+ and...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • magnesium
    • calcium
    • fagus-orientalis-lipsky
    • biogeochemical-cycling
    • potassium
  • Restoring grassland multifunctionality

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    Please cite this paper together with the citation for the datafile.

    Resch, M. C., Schütz, M., Buchmann, N., Frey, B., Graf, U., van der Putten, W. H., Zimmermann, S., Risch, A. C....

    Last updated: October 19, 2021

    • XLS
    • nematodes
    • restoration
    • fungi
    • biodiversity
    • plants
    • soil-biodiversity
    • ecosystem-multifunctionality
    • grassland
    • bacteria
    • mineralization
  • Phosphatase leaching

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    Data on phosphomonoesterase activity in forest topsoil leachates and soil extracts as well as P forms in the leachate. Leachate samples were taken in Feb./Mar. and July 2019 with...

    Last updated: July 7, 2021

    • XLS
    • dissolved-organic-phosphorus
    • phoshporus-forms
    • forest-topsoil
    • phosphomonoesterase-activity
    • phosphate
  • Shading by Trees and Fractional Snow Cover Control the Subcanopy Radiation Budget

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    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

    • XLS
    • TXT
    • shading
    • fractional-snow
    • shortwave-radiation
    • forest
    • longwave-radiation
  • Daily data of solute and stable water isotopes in stream water and precipitation in the Alp catchment, Central Switzerland

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    This dataset contain measurements of solute and stable water isotopes in stream water and precipitation in the Alp catchment and two of its tributaries (between 2015 -2018) . The...

    Last updated: August 25, 2021

    • XLS
    • stream-water
    • precipitation
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • spatially-distributed-sampling
    • geochemical-solutes