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6 datasets found

  • Nanoplastics in forests: Exploring the effects of nanoplastics on forest soils and tree physiology (NanoPlast)

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    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
    • nanoplastic
    • forest-trees
    • uptake
    • polystyrene
  • Phosphorus and nitrogen leaching from beech forest soils

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data on dissolved organic and inorganic phosphorus and nitrogen concentrations in leachates and their corresponding fluxes from the litter layer, the Oe/Oa horizon, and the A...

    Last updated: July 14, 2021

    • XLS
    • nitrogen
    • zero-tension-lysimeters
    • phosphorus
    • nutrient-fluxes
    • dissolved-organic-phosphorus
    • fertilization
    • soil-temperature
    • seasons
    • forest-topsoil
    • beech
  • IceCube_microCT_Snow_grainsize

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    Education, culture and sport

    The specific surface area (SSA) of different snow types were measured with the IceCube instrument and the Scanco Medical microCT 40. In addition, the snow particles created during...

    Last updated: February 19, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • specific-surface-area
    • snow
    • icecube
    • microct
    • intercomparison
  • 3D_Snow_Models

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains several snow models in the Standard Tesselated Geometry File Format (stl) for 3D visualization, printing and additive manufacturing. Different snow types are...

    Last updated: January 5, 2023

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • 3d-model
    • new-snow
    • weak-layer
    • rounded-snow
    • snow-cast
    • snow
    • 3d-print
    • depth-hoar
  • The usage of landscape ecological concepts in the planning literature

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    Education, culture and sport

    Table of content: 1. Frequency of early concepts; 2. Frequency of additional concepts; 3. Use of any early concept; 4. Use of any additional concept, 5. Planning steps; 6....

    Last updated: October 25, 2021

    • CSV
    • XLS
    • landscape-services
    • decision-making
    • literature-review
    • sense-of-place
    • socio-ecological-system
    • multifunctionality
    • landscape-planning
    • resilience
    • planning
    • green-infrastructure
    • pdfsearch
    • landscape-perception
    • ecosystem-services
    • landscape-ecology
  • RoRCC

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset "RoRCC" consists of simulation-based results on climate change impacts on Alpine RoR power production; it is based on 21 Swiss RoR power plants, with a total production...

    Last updated: August 11, 2022

    • XLS
    • environmental-flow
    • run-of-river-power-plants
    • climate-change
    • hydropower
    • design-discharge