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65 datasets found

  • Ecosystem coupling and multifunctionality - exclosure experiment

    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 AC, Ochoa-Hueso R, van der Putten WH, Bump JK, Busse MD, Frey B,...

    Last updated: September 8, 2020

    • XLS
    • ecosystem-multifunctionality
    • grassland
    • ecosystem-functions
    • grazing
    • subalpine
    • invertebrates
    • exclusion
    • swiss-national-park
    • vertebrates
    • ecosystem-coupling
  • Water availability of Swiss forests during the 2015 and 2018 droughts

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The Swiss forests' water availability during the 2015 and 2018 droughts was modelled by implementing the mechanistic Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere-Transport (SVAT) model LWF-Brook90...

    Last updated: July 5, 2022

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    • ZIP
    • XLS
    • root-water-uptake
    • plant-available-water-storage-capacity
    • european-summer-drought
    • physiological-drought
    • water-balance
  • Wetlands of the canton of Zürich (Switzerland): Data on species richness and recent and historic area and connectivity of 55 fens

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes data on species richness of vascular plants and bryophytes in 55 wetlands of the canton of Zürich (Switzerland) as well as recent and historic data on the...

    Last updated: December 13, 2019

    • XLS
    • nature-conservation
    • bryophytes
    • habitat-fragmentation
    • vascular-plants
    • habitat-area
    • extinction-debt
    • species-richness
    • wetlands
  • Plutonium-239+240 and sediment yield data for a small catchment in Southern Italy

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Quantifying the rates of soil redistribution worldwide poses a significant challenge, which has been addressed using various methods such as direct sediment measurements, models,...

    Last updated: June 19, 2023

    • CSV
    • XLS
    • tracking
    • fallout-radionuclides
    • soil-erosion
    • sediment-transport
    • soil-degradation
  • SwissLichens - Distribution of lichens in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset provides distribution data of lichens in Switzerland of the National Data and Information Centre, called Swiss Lichens. SwissLichens is a partner of InfoSpecies, the...

    Last updated: December 2, 2019

    • XLS
    • lichen-distribution
    • lichen
    • switzerland
    • swisslichens
    • biodiversity
    • national-data-centre
    • lichen-conservation
  • Tree measurements 2002-2016 from the long-term irrigation experiment Pfynwald, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    To study the performance of mature Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) under chronic drought conditions in comparison to their immediate physiological response to drought release, a...

    Last updated: October 29, 2020

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    • XLS
    • scots-pine
    • lwf
    • diameter-at-breast-height
    • tree-species
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • drought
    • tree
    • irrigation
    • forest
    • dbh
    • crown-condition
  • Drought alters C footprint of trees in soil: tracking the spatio-temporal fate of 13C labelled assimilates in the soil

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data from pulse-labelling experiment with 100-year old trees of a naturally dry pine forest exposed to a 15-year-long irrigation experiment. Canopies of 10 trees were labelled for...

    Last updated: February 12, 2021

    • XLS
    • forest
    • rhizosphere
    • pfynwald
    • allocation
    • soil
    • drought
    • microbial-biomass
  • Intraannual d18O measurements of Larix decidua from the Loetschental 2012/2013

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This file contains isotopic and environmental data from seven individuals of Larix decidua, sampled at two sites located at an elevation of 1300 meters above sea level in the...

    Last updated: September 7, 2023

    • XLS
    • CSV
    • tree-rings
    • loetschental
    • water-isotopes
    • larix-decidua
    • oxygen-isotopes
  • Impact of non-native tree species in Europe on soil properties and biodiversity: a review

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Compiled data on the impacts of seven important NNTs (Acacia dealbata, Ailanthus altissima, Eucalyptus globulus, Prunus serotina, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus rubra, Robinia...

    Last updated: October 21, 2022

    • XLS
    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • biodiversity
    • biogeography
    • soil-impacts
    • pairwise-stand-comparisons
    • forest-management
  • Daily data of the volumes, solutes and isotopes in snowpack outflow measured at three locations in the southern Alp catchment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data contain volumes, solutes and isotopes of snowpack outflow measured by a snowmelt lysimeter system at three locations in the southern Alp catchment, situated Central...

    Last updated: August 25, 2021

    • XLS
    • solutes
    • stable-water-isotopes
    • snowmelt-rate
    • snowmelt-lysimeter
    • snowpack-outflow
  • European Snow Booklet – an Inventory of Snow Measurements in Europe

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    Education, culture and sport

    The European Snow Booklet (ESB) is a book of reference for snow measurements that has been produced through collaboration with many European snow practitioners and snow scientists...

    Last updated: June 19, 2021

    • XLS
    • HTML
    • PDF
    • snow-measurement-methods
    • snow-depth
    • harmonisation-of-snow-measurements
    • spatial-distribution-of-snow-observations-in-europe
    • cost-action-es1404-harmosnow
    • depth-of-snowfall
    • water-equivalent-of-the-snow-cover
  • Anthropogenic change and soil net N mineralization

    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 Anita C., Zimmermann, Stefan, Moser, Barbara, Schütz, Martin, Hagedorn,...

    Last updated: August 20, 2020

    • XLS
    • herbivore
    • nutrient-network
    • mineralization
    • global-change
    • fertilization
    • soil
    • nitrification
    • nitrogen
    • climate
    • grassland
    • ammonification
  • Raw data-Publication cross-resistance in ash - New Phytologist

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    What are the research data files about: Raw data on perfomance (dry weight, development and mortality) of emerald ash borer larvae used in published bioassays. Raw data on ash...

    Last updated: May 23, 2023

    • XLS
    • ash-dieback
    • fraxinus
    • emerald-ash-borer
    • invasive-species
    • intraspecific-variation
    • defense-chemistry
    • cross-resistance
  • 2013-2020 gas exchange at Pfynwald

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Gas exchange was measured on control, irrigated and irrigation-stop trees at the irrigation experiment Pfynwald, during the years 2013, 2014, 2016-2020. The measurement campaigns...

    Last updated: August 13, 2021

    • CSV
    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • pinus-sylvestris
    • acclimation
    • drought
    • fluorescence
    • photosynthesis
    • gas-exchange
    • vpd
  • Amphibian observation and pond data (Aargau, Switzerland)

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    Education, culture and sport

    In the canton of Aargau, hundreds of new ponds have been constructed since the 1990s to benefit declining amphibian populations. This dataset consists of monitoring data for all 12...

    Last updated: September 21, 2023

    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • HTML
    • PDF
    • landscape
    • occupancy-models
    • amphibians
    • wetlands
    • conservation
  • Nanoplastics in forests: Exploring the effects of nanoplastics on forest soils and tree physiology (NanoPlast)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The fate of plastic in the environment is of global concern, because its production recently has increased strongly and it accumulates in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems....

    Last updated: June 14, 2023

    • XLS
    • polystyrene
    • uptake
    • nanoplastic
    • forest-trees
    • 13c-labelling
  • TRAMM project - experimental hydrological and hydrogeological dataset of a landslide prone hillslope. Rufiberg, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Rufiberg is a pre-alpine meadow site in Switzerland where shallow landslides have been observed after past intense rain storms. In order to assess the triggering mechanisms of...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • XLS
    • soil-moisture-water-content
    • hydrology
    • meadow
    • water-table
    • landslides
  • Data-set for prediction of natural dry-snow avalanche activity and avalanche size using physics-based snowpack simulations

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data set contained in this repository was used in the analysis by Mayer et al. (2023): Mayer, S. I., Techel, F., Schweizer, J., and van Herwijnen, A.: Prediction of natural...

    Last updated: August 2, 2023

    • XLS
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-size
    • snowpack-model
    • machine-learning
    • natural-avalanches
  • The usage of landscape ecological concepts in the planning literature

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Table of content: 1. Frequency of early concepts; 2. Frequency of additional concepts; 3. Use of any early concept; 4. Use of any additional concept, 5. Planning steps; 6....

    Last updated: October 25, 2021

    • CSV
    • XLS
    • ecosystem-services
    • socio-ecological-system
    • landscape-perception
    • landscape-services
    • resilience
    • literature-review
    • green-infrastructure
    • pdfsearch
    • landscape-ecology
    • landscape-planning
    • multifunctionality
    • decision-making
    • planning
    • sense-of-place
  • MadCrypto – Bryophyte and macrolichen diversity in laurel forests of Madeira

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes species lists of bryophytes and macrolichens (presence/absence) sampled on the forest floor and on trees in disturbed and undisturbed plots along elevation...

    Last updated: May 5, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • XLS
    • bryophyte
    • lichen
    • madeira-island
    • biodiversity
    • endemic
    • bryophyte-life-strategy
    • lichen-growthform
    • liverwort
    • climate-change
    • lichen-growth-form
    • photobiont
    • elevational-gradient
    • disturbance
    • functional-taxonomic-groups
    • moss
    • functional-taxonomic-group
    • climate-change-impact
    • endemic-species