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9 datasets found

  • Factors slowing down upward shifts of trees’ upper elevation limits

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    Species range limits are expected to be dramatically altered under future climate change and many species are predicted to shift their distribution upslope to track their suitable...

    Last updated: June 13, 2020

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    • sdm
    • treeline
    • treemig
    • mountain-forest
    • climate-change-impact
  • Phytodiversity is associated with habitat heterogeneity from Eurasia to Hengduan

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    This research data is used to re includes 1 km resolution seed plant species range maps for the Hengduan mountain region (southwest China), elevation information for each species,...

    Last updated: July 27, 2023

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    • hypervolume
    • model-residuals
    • hengduan-mountains
    • phytodiversity
    • habitat-heterogeneity
  • Snow water equivalent measurements with low-cost GNSS receivers along a steep elevation gradient in the East-ern Swiss Alps

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    This database contains GNSS derived snow water equivalent (SWE), liquid water content (LWC), and snow height (HS) and reference data collected during the two winter 2018-2020 at 4...

    Last updated: December 22, 2021

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    • liquid-water-content
    • gps
    • snow
    • gnss
    • swe
    • lwc
    • snow-water-equivalent
  • Stumps as a dead wood resource in forests - data based on the Swiss National Forest Inventory

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    Based on the detailed tree stump inventory implemented in the Swiss NFI5 (https://www.lfi.ch/lfi/lfi.php), a study was conducted to obtain an accurate assessment of the stumps pool...

    Last updated: August 10, 2022

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    • biomass
    • national-forest-inventory
    • protection-forest
    • volume
    • biodiversity
    • carbon
  • Effects of canopy disturbance on Swiss forests

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    The files refer to the data used in Scherrer et al. (2021) "Canopy disturbances catalyse tree species shifts in Swiss forests" in Ecosystems.

    The two data files contain...

    Last updated: April 20, 2021

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    • disturbance
    • vegetation-shift
    • national-forest-inventory
    • tree-recruitment
    • insect-outbreaks
    • switzerland
    • pinus-sylvestris
    • windthrow
    • castanea-sativa
    • drought
    • picea-abies
  • Individual tree TLS point clouds for tree volume estimation

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    Dataset This dataset is based on terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data acquired during winter 2020/2021 in leaf-off conditions, with a Leica BLK 360 instrument following a...

    Last updated: August 30, 2023

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    • biomass
    • single-tree
    • tree-volume
    • lidar
    • terrestiral-laserscanning
    • forest-inventory
  • Simulated and observed prevalence of dispersal-related traits in tropical reef fish assemblages worldwide

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data and R codes (R Development Core Team, https://www.R-project.org) used in the following publication: Donati GFA, Parravicini V, Leprieur F, Hagen O,...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

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    • TXT
    • traits
    • reef-fish
    • dispersal
    • biodiversity
    • ecology
  • FACE: Stillberg CO2 enrichment and soil warming study

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    Background information

    High elevation ecosystems are important in research about environmental change because shifts in climate associated with anthropogenic greenhouse gas...

    Last updated: September 8, 2023

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    • vegetation
    • soil-temperature
    • carbon-dioxide
    • stillberg
    • climate-change
    • experiment
  • Forecast avalanche danger level European Alps 2011 - 2015

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    This dataset contains the data used in the publication by Techel et al., 2018 Spatial consistency and bias in avalanche forecasts - a case study in the European Alps (Nat Haz...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • ZIP
    • avalanche-forecast
    • snow
    • warning-regions
    • danger-level
    • european-alps