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59 datasets found

  • Bats in beaver systems

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains processed bat acoustic data collected to evaluate the ecological impacts of beaver-engineered ponds on bat species richness, activity, and feeding activity....

    Last updated: November 10, 2025

    • TXT
    • XLS
    • CSV
    • OCTET
    • beaver
    • castor
    • chiroptera
    • deadwood
    • ecosystem-engineer
    • flying-arthropods
    • habitat-heterogeneity
    • nature-conservation
    • wetland
  • Distributed Acoustic Sensing Brienz

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), radar detection data used for training and result analysis in the GRL paper titled `Automatic Monitoring of Rock-Slope...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • early-warning
    • landslide
    • machine-learning
    • natural-hazard
    • rockfall
    • seismic
  • CHELSAcerra-daily

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    CHELSA is a mechanistic downscaling model that links large-scale atmospheric conditions with local topographic factors to produce very high-resolution climate data. It includes...

    Last updated: November 21, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • air-temperature
    • climate
    • europe
    • maximum-temperature
    • minimum-temperature
    • reanalysis
  • Wasserschloss Europas

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    *english description below Die Schweiz als „Wasserschloss Europas“ ist eine etablierte Bezeichnung im öffentlichen Diskurs, die sich im Laufe der Zeit zu einer identitätsstiftenden...

    Last updated: December 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • PDF
    • metapher
    • wasserressourcen
    • wasserschloss
    • wasserwirtschaft
    • zeitungsartikelanalyse
  • SwissRad10 Hourly light availability maps at 10 m resolution over Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • SERVICE
    • forests
    • lidar
    • light-availability
    • radiation-transfer
    • shortwave-radiation
    • sky-view-fraction
    • solar-energy
    • solar-irradiance
    • terrain
    • transmissivity
  • Functional Invertebrate Groups - Dataset

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Collected Invertebrate data using pitfall traps at streetlights with different characteristics at three different sites in Switzerland (Birmensdorf, Lägern & Alpthal). LED...

    Last updated: December 10, 2025

    • CSV
    • alan
    • artificial-lighting
    • community-composition
    • functional-groups
    • invertebrates
    • led
    • light-pollution
  • Open Science Support at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. The EnviDat Concept

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This poster was originally created for the swissuniversities Open Science Action Plan: Kick-Off Forum, and showed to the audience on 17.10.2019. It illustrates how the...

    Last updated: April 23, 2021

    • PDF
    • hpc
    • jupyter-notebooks
    • open-data
    • open-science
    • open-source
    • reproducibility
    • research-data-management
  • Land use/cover dynamics in Austin metropolitan area since 1992

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • SERVICE
    • austin
    • land-dynamics
    • land-use
    • landscape
    • urban-morphology
  • Electrodermal Activity (EDA) of Bi-cultural Visitors In Virtual Park Settings

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data on EDA measurements of visitors with different cultural backgrounds in virtual urban park settings. The parks are a Persian garden (Shiraz, Iran) and...

    Last updated: December 14, 2022

    • ZIP
    • electrodermal-activity
    • landscape
    • place-attachment
    • sense-of-place
    • urban-ecology
  • Niche partitioning between wild bees and honeybees

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • beekeeping
    • bettergardens
    • city4bees
    • gardens
    • honeybees
    • pollinator-experiment
    • resource-availability
    • urban-biodiversity
    • urban-ecosystems
    • urbanization
    • wild-bees
    • zurich
  • 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
    • 13c-labelling
    • forest-trees
    • nanoplastic
    • polystyrene
    • uptake
  • Optimizing renewable energy siting in the Swiss landscape

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This study examines the siting scenarios for renewable energy infrastructure (REI) in Switzerland, incorporating the external costs of ecosystem services and, innovatively, social...

    Last updated: February 26, 2024

    • ZIP
    • ecosystem-services
    • energy
    • landscape
    • marxan
    • optimization
    • photovoltaic
    • social-acceptance
    • spatial-planning
    • wind-power
  • Legacy effects of premature defoliation in response to an extreme drought event modulate phytochemical profiles with subtle consequences for leaf herbivory in European beech

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    What are the research data files about: Raw data on various beech (Fagus sylvatica) leaf traits. Beech leaf chemistry (primary and specialized metabolites), leaf damage...

    Last updated: March 7, 2024

    • XLS
    • climate-change
    • drought-legacy
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • herbivory
    • phytochemistry
  • Larval food composition of four wild bee species in five European cities

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Urbanization poses threats and opportunities for the biodiversity of wild bees. A main gap relates to the food preferences of wild bees in urban ecosystems, which usually harbour...

    Last updated: July 16, 2024

    • CSV
    • antwerp
    • cavity-nesting-bees
    • chelostoma-florisomne
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • hylaeus-communis
    • osmia-bicornis
    • osmia-cornuta
    • paris
    • plant-pollinator-interactions
    • poznan
    • tartu
    • trap-nest
    • urban-ecology
    • zurich
  • Challenging the sustainability of urban beekeeping: evidence from Swiss cities

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • honeybees
    • pollination
    • remote-sensing
    • sustainability
    • urban-biodiversity
    • urbanization
  • EnviDat Supports Open Science

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The article "EnviDat Supports Open Science" originally appeared in WSLintern No. 3 (2020), page 14-15 and it is republished here with permission from the WSLintern editorial team....

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • PDF
    • envidat
    • juypter-notebooks
    • open-science
    • research-data-management
    • wsl
  • 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: February 26, 2025

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

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data and code from the perspective paper "When honeybees comes to town" The .r file provides the code to generate the figures. In addition, this repository contains the data for...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • CSV
    • OCTET
    • diversity-distributions
    • hymenoptera
    • insects
    • urban-beekeeping
    • urban-ecology
    • wildbees
  • Nutrient sustainability in beech forests

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    With this study, our aim was to estimate the nutrient fluxes relevant for assessing nutrient sustainability as accurately as possible and to calculate nutrient balances for...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • beech
    • mass-balance
    • nutrient
    • soil
    • sustainability