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25 datasets found

  • SwissRad10 Hourly light availability maps at 10 m resolution over Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    The SwissRad10 dataset contains light availability maps at 10 m and hourly resolution across an entire annual cycle with wall-to-wall coverage across the whole of Switzerland....

    Last updated: December 9, 2025

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    • forests
    • lidar
    • light-availability
    • radiation-transfer
    • shortwave-radiation
    • sky-view-fraction
    • solar-energy
    • solar-irradiance
    • terrain
    • transmissivity
  • Land use/cover dynamics in Austin metropolitan area since 1992

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    Education, culture and sport

    The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper Zhao C, Weng Q, Hersperger A M. Characterizing the 3-D urban morphology transformation to understand urban-form...

    Last updated: February 7, 2022

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    • austin
    • land-dynamics
    • land-use
    • landscape
    • urban-morphology
  • Niche partitioning between wild bees and honeybees

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    Education, culture and sport

    Cities are socio-ecological systems that filter and select species, thus establishing unique species assemblages and biotic interactions. Urban ecosystems can host richer wild bee...

    Last updated: February 10, 2023

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    • beekeeping
    • bettergardens
    • city4bees
    • gardens
    • honeybees
    • pollinator-experiment
    • resource-availability
    • urban-biodiversity
    • urban-ecosystems
    • urbanization
    • wild-bees
    • zurich
  • Challenging the sustainability of urban beekeeping: evidence from Swiss cities

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data on: (1) (Dataset 1) spatial distribution of urban beekeeping (number of hives and number of beekeeping locations) in 14 Swiss cities (Geneva, Lausanne, Biel, Neuchatel, Basel,...

    Last updated: August 12, 2024

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    • honeybees
    • pollination
    • remote-sensing
    • sustainability
    • urban-biodiversity
    • urbanization
  • Data on wild bee taxonomic and functional diversity in Switzerland

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    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: February 26, 2025

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