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593 datasets found

  • Tree-ring laser ablation data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the values of several chemical elements (Mg, Al, Si, S, K, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Sr, Tl, Pb, Bi) measured in the latewood of tree rings of...

    Last updated: March 31, 2023

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    • air-pollution
    • dendrochronology
    • tree-rings
    • dendrochemistry
    • laser-ablation
  • Long-term treeline research dataset at Stillberg, Davos

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Important This EnviDat entry is outdated. The most recent, usable version of the data can be found under the new EnviDat entry "Long-term afforestation experiment at the Alpine...

    Last updated: April 28, 2023

    • GDB
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    • mountain-forest
    • afforestation
    • long-term-experiment
    • treeline
    • stillberg
  • Forest Reserves Monitoring in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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
  • From Plans to Land Change: Dynamics of Urban Regions. Book of Abstracts

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Book of abstracts from the virtual conference "From Plans to Land Change: Dynamics of Urban Regions"

    Cities and urban regions are among the most dynamic land-use systems in the...

    Last updated: May 18, 2021

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    • urban-landscape
    • concur
    • land-change
    • landscape-planning
    • urban-planning
  • Antarctic sea-ice freshwater fluxes associated with freezing, transport, and melting

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set provides estimates of annual fresh water fluxes related to sea-ice formation from ocean freezing and snow-ice formation, sea-ice melting, lateral transport of sea ice...

    Last updated: May 9, 2022

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    • sea-ice
    • southern-ocean
    • freezing
    • salinity
    • forcing
    • polar
    • sea-ice-divergence
    • salt
    • transport
    • satellite
    • melting
    • mass-balance
    • cryospheric-science
    • freshwater-flux
    • antartic
    • sea-ice-volume
    • physical-oceanography
    • climate-change
  • Impact des événements météorologiques extrêmes sur l'économie forestière suisse: le point de vue des scieries

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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
  • Jussy, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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
  • Data of national dishes, their similarity and trade flows

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data described in this article were collected daily over the period 4 June 2018 to 23 August 2018 and contains information of several data sources. The database includes...

    Last updated: January 25, 2022

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    • agro-food-trade
    • food-preferences
    • national-dishes
    • latent-semantic-analysis
    • food-taste-similarity
  • Grassland restoration: nematodes and plant communities

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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
  • How do stability corrections perform in the stable boundary layer over snow?

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We used five different atmospheric turbulence datasets from four test sites, with these sites showing differences in their topographical characteristics. We chose one typical...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • snow
    • turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes
    • atmosphere
    • atmospheric-turbulence
    • stable-boundary-layer
  • Symptoms of O3 injuries LWF

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Measuring air pollutants in forests is important for evaluating the risk for vegetation in areas not covered by conventional air quality monitoring networks. Ozone-induced symptoms...

    Last updated: September 3, 2021

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    • ground-vegetation
    • long-term-forest-ecosystem-research
    • symptoms-of-visible-injuries
    • ozone
    • icp-forests
    • ambient-air-quality
    • swiss-forest-lab
  • Accessibility of the Swiss forest for economic wood extraction (2021)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Two raster maps (10m resolution) of: I) the most suitable extraction method for wood in the Swiss forest, and II) the overall suitability of the Swiss forest for economic wood...

    Last updated: February 2, 2023

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    • timber-transport
    • switzerland
    • forest-roads
    • wood-harvesting
    • forest-accessibility
    • forest
    • wood-extraction
    • economic-efficiency
  • Large wood event database

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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
  • Number of avalanche fatalities per hydrological year in Switzerland since 1936-1937

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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
  • 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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    • urbanization
    • beta-diversity
    • biodiversity
    • hymenoptera
    • anthophila
    • community-indices
    • climate
    • resource-availability
    • protected-areas
    • switzerland
    • functional-diversity
    • elevation-gradient
    • predictive-modelling
    • wild-bee
  • Swiss FluxNet Site Lägeren

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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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    • forest
    • swiss-fluxnet
    • meteorological-measurements
    • flux
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • greenhouse-gas
    • eddy-covariance
  • Tree-ring data of European beech with premature leaf discoloration in 2018 and beech with normal leaf fall

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Tree-ring data and tree location from 470 European beech trees (Fagus sylvatica L.) located in the northern part of Switzerland. 278 trees showed drought-induced premature leaf...

    Last updated: August 2, 2023

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    • beech
    • drought
    • dieback
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • switzerland
    • tree-ring
    • forest
  • Preferential deposition of snow and dust over hills: governing processes and relevant scales

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Preferential deposition of snow and dust over complex terrain is responsible for a wide range of environmental processes, and accounts for a significant source of uncertainty in...

    Last updated: October 25, 2019

    • ZIP
    • turbulence
    • particles
    • deposition
    • hill
    • snow
    • atmosphere
    • dust
  • Bats and nocturnal insects in urban green areas

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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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    • TXT
    • nocturnal-fauna
    • flying-arthropods
    • chiroptera
    • zurich
    • paris
    • urban-biodiversity
    • antwerp
    • urbanisation
  • Elk and bison carcasses in Yellowstone, USA

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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