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261 datasets found

  • Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data on which the following publication below is based.

    Paper Citation:

    Risch, A. C.; Zimmermann, S.; Ochoa-Hueso, R.; Schütz, M.; Frey, B.; Firn, J....

    Last updated: August 13, 2020

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    • soil
    • grassland
    • soil-chemistry
    • soil-biology
    • mineralization
    • nutrient-network
    • global
    • worldwide
  • Nationalpark, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards

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    High quality meteorological data are needed for long-term forest ecosystem research, particularly in the light of global change. The long-term data series published here comprises...

    Last updated: December 3, 2019

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    • precipitation
    • temperature
    • long-term
    • meteo
    • climate-change
    • relative-humidity
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • par
    • wind-speed
    • meteorology
  • Energy- and momentum-conserving model of splash entrainment in sand and snow saltation

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    The files contain the datasets used to produce Figures 2, 3, and 4 of the manuscript (doi: 10.1002/2016GL071822).

    Manuscript...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • erosion
    • model
    • snow
    • mars
    • sediment-transport
  • Torymus sinensis local and regional early population dynamics in the Insubrian and Piedmont regions

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    This dataset contains the population evolution of a pest and its biocontrol agent in terms of presence proportion at gall level and absolute number of insects.

    The study area...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • biological-control
    • castanea-sativa
    • torymus-sinensis
    • southern-switzerland
    • population-evolution
    • pest-invasion
    • dryocosmus-kuriphilus
  • Synchrony between spongy moth hatching and leaf phenology of temperate trees

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    The files correspond to the data and R-script used for the analyses of the following paper "Feasting on the ordinary or starving for the exceptional: phenological synchrony between...

    Last updated: July 11, 2023

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    • chilling
    • hatch
    • budburst
    • spongy-month
    • phenology
  • Angle of repose experiments with natural and spherical snow

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    Angle of repose experiments were performed with different snow types at temperatures between -2 and -40°C. They were used to examine granular snow dynamics on the grain-scale with...

    Last updated: April 22, 2020

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    • discrete-element-modelling
    • angle-of-repose
    • grain-shape
    • granular-snow
    • fast-sintering
  • gbif.range - An R package to generate species range maps based on ecoregions and a user-friendly GBIF wrapper

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    Although species range may be obtained using expert maps or modeling methods, expert data is often species-limited and statistical models need more technical expertise as well as...

    Last updated: August 8, 2023

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    • ZIP
    • species-observations
    • accepted-name
    • hard-limit
    • gbif
    • occurrence-records
    • filtering
    • synonyms
    • ecoregions
    • landsca
    • species-distribution
    • taxonomy
    • flags
    • large-scale
    • conservation
    • range-maps
    • r-package
  • Number of natural hazard fatalities per year in Switzerland since 1946

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    This dataset contains the number of fatalities due to flood, debris flow, landslide, rockfall, windstorm, lightning, ice avalanche, earthquake and other processes like roof...

    Last updated: October 7, 2022

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    • debris-flow-fatalities
    • lightning-fatalities
    • windstorm-fatalities
    • flood-fatalities
    • rockfall-fatalities
    • ice-avalanche-fatalities
    • natural-hazard-fatalities
    • landslide-fatalities
    • earthquake-fatalities
  • Amphibian observation and pond data (Aargau, Switzerland)

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    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

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    • XLS
    • landscape
    • amphibians
    • occupancy-models
    • conservation
    • wetlands
  • Impact of non-native tree species in Europe on soil properties and biodiversity: a review

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    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

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    • SERVICE
    • biodiversity
    • biogeography
    • pairwise-stand-comparisons
    • soil-impacts
    • forest-management
  • Disdrometer Data Davos Wolfgang

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    The dataset contains information on precipitation amount and type for Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) from February 8 to March 19 2019. It includes: characteristics...

    Last updated: March 27, 2020

    • ZIP
    • precipitation
    • disdrometer
    • davos
    • raclets
    • fall-velocity
  • Raw data-Publication cross-resistance in ash - New Phytologist

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    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

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    • fraxinus
    • intraspecific-variation
    • cross-resistance
    • defense-chemistry
    • ash-dieback
    • emerald-ash-borer
    • invasive-species
  • Nuclear microsatellite markers for Trichopria drosophilae, parasitoid wasp on Drosophila suzukii

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    Nuclear microsatellite markers and genotype data for Trichopria ddrosophilae

    This data set comprises (i) the characteristics of a set of 21 species-specific nuclear...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • trichopria-drosophilae
    • biological-control
    • simple-sequence-repeats
    • drosophila-suzukii
    • switzerland
    • multilocus-genotypes
    • population-genetics
    • nuclear-microsatellite-markers
  • Digitizing historical plague

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    We present newly digitized data on 6,929 plague outbreaks that occurred between 1347 and 1900 AD across Europe. The data base on an inventory initially published 1976. For...

    Last updated: October 1, 2020

    • ZIP
    • bubonic-plague
    • plague-mapping
    • historical-plague
    • black-death
    • plague-outbreaks
    • yersinia-pestis
    • plague-inventory
    • palaeo-epidemiology
  • Schänis, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1998 onwards

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    High quality meteorological data are needed for long-term forest ecosystem research, particularly in the light of global change. The long-term data series published here comprises...

    Last updated: November 25, 2019

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    • temperature
    • meteo
    • climate-change
    • long-term
    • par
    • wind-speed
    • meteorology
    • relative-humidity
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • precipitation
  • Hydro-meteorological simulations for the period 1981-2018 for Switzerland

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    The dataset provides simulated 1) precipitation, 2) discharge, 3) soil moisture, and 4) low-flow simulations for 307 medium-sized catchments in Switzerland for the period...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • drought-2018
    • precipitation
    • soil-moisture
    • hydrological-simulations
    • discharge
    • prevah
    • low-flow
  • Fatal avalanche accidents in Switzerland since 1995-1996

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    Education, culture and sport

    Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This data collection contains information concerning all accidents by snow avalanches causing at least one fatality in...

    Last updated: June 14, 2023

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    • number-of-caught-persons
    • avalanche-accidents
    • avalanche-accident-statistics
    • avalanche-fatalities
    • number-of-dead-persons
  • Vertebrate and plant taxa recovered from 10 catchments in Vaud using an eDNA-metabarcoding approach

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    This dataset contains the results of a five-day field excursion which the extent to which eDNA sampling can capture the diversity of a region with highly heterogeneous habitat...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

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    • dna-metabarcoding
    • biodiversity-assessment
    • spatial-ecology
    • biomonitoring
    • environmental-dna
  • TRAMM project Ruedlingen experimental landslide dataset, Switzerland

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    A landslide testsite dataset related to pore water pressure perturbations on the stability of unsaturated silty sand slopes leading to the initiation and propagation of the shear...

    Last updated: October 31, 2019

    • ZIP
    • pressure-perturbations
    • pore-water
    • landslides
    • tramm
    • cces
    • landslide-testsite
  • Production de biogaz à partir d’engrais de ferme en Suisse

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    Education, culture and sport

    L'objectif de ce livre blanc est de fournir aux décideurs, aux administrations et aux parties prenantes les résultats de recherche les plus récents afin de promouvoir l'utilisation...

    Last updated: January 7, 2022

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    • bioenergy
    • manure
    • review
    • biogas
    • switzerland