The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research is concerned with the use, development and protection of natural and urban spaces. The focus of our research is on solving problems to do with the responsible use of landscapes and forests and a prudent approach to natural hazards, especially those common in mountainous countries. WSL occupies a leading position internationally in these research areas. We also provide groundwork for sustainable environmental policies in Switzerland.

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5 datasets found

  • 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

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    • honeybees
    • urban-biodiversity
    • pollination
    • urbanization
    • sustainability
    • remote-sensing
  • 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: August 12, 2024

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    • wildbees
    • urban-beekeeping
    • diversity-distributions
    • hymenoptera
    • urban-ecology
    • insects
  • 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

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    • urbanization
    • resource-availability
    • urban-biodiversity
    • bettergardens
    • urban-ecosystems
    • zurich
    • beekeeping
    • wild-bees
    • honeybees
    • gardens
    • city4bees
    • pollinator-experiment
  • intratrait

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set was used to test whether species specialized to high elevations or with narrow elevational ranges show more conservative (i.e. less variable) trait responses across...

    Last updated: September 26, 2022

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    • climate-change
    • elevation-range
    • plant-traits
    • cold-adapted-plants
    • elevation-gradient
    • neighbour-interactions
  • Soil and stem xylem water isotope data from two pan-European sampling campaigns

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Here, we present a comprehensive isotope dataset of soil and stem xylem water collected during two pan-European sampling campaigns in spring and summer 2023. The dataset includes...

    Last updated: September 19, 2024

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    • xylem-water
    • hydrology
    • oxygen-isotopes
    • forest
    • isotopes
    • spruce
    • cryogenic-extraction
    • soil-water
    • picea-abies
    • europe
    • water-isotopes
    • critical-zone
    • ecohydrology
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • hydrogen-isotopes
    • beech