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  • SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 24 January 2018

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    Education, culture and sport

    Outlines of 18'737 avalanches mapped from SPOT6 satellite data over the Swiss Alps on 24 January 2018. The outlines have different attributes described in the data example key...

    Last updated: April 20, 2023

    • SHP
    • snow
    • hazard-mapping
    • natural-hazard
    • avalanche
    • satellite
  • Environmental constraints on tree growth

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    Education, culture and sport

    Seasonal variation in environmental constraints (vapor pressure deficit – VPD, air temperature, and soil moisture) on tree growth for the potential distribution range of seven...

    Last updated: December 7, 2020

    • ZIP
    • drought
    • 3-pg
    • growth-limitation
    • vpd
    • climate-change
    • tree-rings
  • Plant-mediated effects of heavy metals and acid rain on feeding aphids and caterpillars

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    In controlled model forest ecosystems young trees were exposed to heavy metals in the soil and to acid precipitation. On spruce trees Lymantria monacha caterpillars and Cinara...

    Last updated: May 10, 2022

    • ZIP
    • willow
    • pterocomma-pilosum
    • spruce
    • phenols
    • cinara-pilicornis
    • lymantria-monacha
  • Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. and Orientus ishidae (Matsumura, 1902) share phytoplasma genotypes linked to the “Flavescence dorée” epidemics

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    Flavescence dorée (FD) is a grapevine disease caused by associated phytoplasmas (FDp), which are epidemically spread by their main vector Scaphoideus titanus. The possible roles of...

    Last updated: April 29, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • switzerland
    • ticino
    • orientus-ishidae
    • alnus-glutinosa
    • map-genotype
    • scaphoideus-titanus
    • phytoplasma
    • 16srv
    • flavescence-doree
    • alternative-vector
  • Factors influencing teenagers' forest visit frequency

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data results from a questionnaire survey conducted at 8 schools in the cantons Zurich, Aargau and St. Gallen. Respondents aged 13-22 years. The aim of the survey was to gain...

    Last updated: January 31, 2022

    • PDF
    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • childhood
    • recreational-activities
    • forest
    • teenagers
    • adolescents
  • Wintertime UAV-based land surface albedo data over forested environments

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data-set contains Land Surface Albedo (LSA) data obtained via a UAV sytem with up and downlooking shortwave radiation sensors, as described in the JGR-Atmospheres paper...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • albedo
    • uav
    • forest-snow
    • climate
    • snow-modelling
  • LWF Beatenberg long-term research site

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    Education, culture and sport

    alt text

    LWF...

    Last updated: November 5, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • meteorological-measurements
    • meteorological-data
    • forest
    • plot
    • lwf
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • infrastructure
  • 3D_Snow_Models

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains several snow models in the Standard Tesselated Geometry File Format (stl) for 3D visualization, printing and additive manufacturing. Different snow types are...

    Last updated: January 5, 2023

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • weak-layer
    • new-snow
    • 3d-print
    • 3d-model
    • snow-cast
    • depth-hoar
    • rounded-snow
    • snow
  • Forest canopy structure data for radiation and snow modelling (CH/FIN)

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains forest canopy structure data acquired in a spruce forest at Laret, Switzerland, and a pine forest at Sodankylä, Finland. Data include:

    • Hemispherical...

    Last updated: August 23, 2021

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • forest-canopy
    • upscaling
    • energy-balance
    • snow-modelling
    • mass-balance
  • Yield*

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    Education, culture and sport

    Volume of stemwood with bark of all trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh cut between two inventories. *In the calculation no D7/tree height data were used. The values calculated...

    Last updated: April 11, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • lower-higher-altitudinal-zones
    • canton
    • 14-x-14-km-grid
    • net-increment-star
    • altitude-400-m-classes
    • potential-cost-for-timber-harvesting
    • avalanches-silvaprotect
    • nfi2-nfi3
    • altitudinal-vegetation-zone
    • grid-nfi4-2009-2013
    • nfi3-nfi4b
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi2-nfi3-nfi4
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi1-nfi2-nfi3-nfi4
    • protection-forest-perimeter-silvaprotect
    • forest-district-as-of-2013
    • 56-classes
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi3-nfi4
    • ownership
    • processes-in-channels-silvaprotect
    • conifers-broadleaves
    • landslide-mudflow-silvaprotect
    • rockfall-silvaprotect
    • yield-star
    • stage-of-stand-development
    • tree-species-woody-species
    • main-tree-species
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi2-nfi3
    • forest-type-12-classes
  • FORHYCS v. 1.0.0 model code

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    Education, culture and sport

    Model code, technical documentation and auxiliary files for the dynamic ecohydrological model FORHYCS (FORests and HYdrology under Climate change in Switzerland). FORHYCS combines...

    Last updated: October 28, 2019

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • modeling
    • forest
    • forest-dynamics
    • hydrology
    • climate-change-impact
  • Time series data on dynamic crack propagation in long propagation saw tests

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    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes material and results described in the related research article:

    Bergfeld, B., van Herwijnen A., Bobillier, G., Rosendahl P., Weißgraeber P., Adam V., Dual,...

    Last updated: January 27, 2023

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • dynamic-crack-propagation
    • experiment
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow-mechanics
    • propagation-saw-test
    • crack-propagation
  • ATREE Q-methodology statement sorts on forest clearances offsetting in the forest

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In Novdember 2019 about 19 experts on forest surface protection and forest clearances were invited to a workshop in order to discuss policy design and implementation problems...

    Last updated: February 9, 2022

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • atree
    • forest-clearances
    • q-methodology
    • nature-conservation
    • offsetting
    • reafforestation
  • Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios for Graubunden

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This is the simulation dataset from "Response of snow cover and runoff to climate change in high Alpine catchments of Eastern Switzerland", M. Bavay, T. Grünewald, M. Lehning,...

    Last updated: November 12, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • graubunden
    • snow
    • alpine3d-simulations
    • climate-change
    • switzerland
  • Nitrogen availability under trees exposed to CO2 enrichment (FACE)

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data obtained in the free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiment at Hofstetten, NW Switzerland, between 2009 and 2016. This dataset contains analyses of the soil solution throughout...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • CSV
    • face
    • soil
    • picea-abies
    • co2
    • forest
    • nitrogen
  • Biomass above ground of live trees

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dry weight (mass) of the aboveground parts of living trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh. This consists of the tree parts: stemwood, branch coarse wood, brushwood/twigs and...

    Last updated: April 11, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • canton
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest
    • conifers-broadleaves
    • biomass-above-ground-of-live-trees
    • terrestrial-grid-nfi3
    • nfi4b
    • protection-forest-region
    • economic-region
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi3-nfi4
    • grid-nfi4-2009-2013
    • biogeographical-region
    • nfi3
    • production-region
  • Data and Code on Extreme Inflow and Lowflow Analysis for Alpine Reservoirs

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    Education, culture and sport

    Summary

    • Dataset of daily inflow to Luzzone reservoir in Ticino, Switzerland

    • R scripts used to generate return levels for low reservoir inflow, low precipitation, high...

    Last updated: July 14, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • alpine-precipitation
    • reservoir-inflow
    • low-flow
    • return-periods
    • extreme-values
  • LWF Lantsch long-term research site

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    Education, culture and sport

    alt text

    LWF Plot...

    Last updated: November 5, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • forest
    • plot
    • lwf
    • meteorological-measurements
    • meteorological-data
    • infrastructure
    • swiss-forest-lab
  • Basal area of dead wood NFI1

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    Education, culture and sport

    Sum of stem cross-section areas of all dead trees in a stand at a height of 1.3 m (dbh measurement height) recorded according to the NFI1 method.

    Citation:

    _Abegg, M.;...

    Last updated: April 11, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • production-region
    • altitudinal-vegetation-zone-3-classes
    • terrestrial-grid-nfi1
    • conifers-broadleaves
    • nfi1
    • economic-region
    • ownership
    • canton
    • forest-district-as-of-2013
    • main-tree-species
    • lower-higher-altitudinal-zones
    • tree-state-standing-lying
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest
    • accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest-nfi1-nfi2-nfi3-nfi4
    • grid-nfi4-2009-2013
    • altitudinal-vegetation-zone
    • biogeographical-region
    • protection-forest-region
    • basal-area-of-dead-wood-nfi1
    • primary-forest-function-nfi4-nature-protection
  • Data from: Earth history events shaped the evolution of uneven biodiversity across tropical moist forests

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    Education, culture and sport

    Datasets and R scripts

    
    Dataset_S1.csv: Distribution of species diversity in plant and vertebrate clades. Total clade level diversity and species diversity in...
    

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • mechanistic-modeling
    • plate-tectonics
    • gen3sis
    • pantropical-diversity-disparity
    • paleoclimate