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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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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
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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- species-observations
- accepted-name
- hard-limit
- gbif
- occurrence-records
- filtering
- synonyms
- ecoregions
- landsca
- species-distribution
- taxonomy
- flags
- large-scale
- conservation
- range-maps
- r-package
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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- 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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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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- biodiversity
- biogeography
- pairwise-stand-comparisons
- soil-impacts
- forest-management
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
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
RIT2: Meteorological station at Ritigraben borehole site

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Meterological station at the Ritigraben permafrost borehole (RIT_0102) in canton Valais, Switzerland. The station is located at 2690 m asl on...

Last updated: July 15, 2020
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- meteo-station
- ritigraben
- permafrost
- borehole
- permos
Nutrient addition experiment at the Alpine treeline site Stillberg, Switzerland

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Background information

The availability of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) is considered to be a major factor limiting growth and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems globally....

Last updated: April 17, 2023
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- fertilization
- tree-rings
- dwarf-shrubs
- stillberg
- nitrogen-isotope
- treeline
ASRB_WFJVF: Shortwave and longwave radiation measurements (2 min) at the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos

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Incoming and outgoing shortwave and longwave 2 min radiation measurements at the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos, CH. The experimental site at the Weissfluhjoch (WFJ, 46.83 N,...

Last updated: October 25, 2019
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- radiation
- weisfluhjoch
- davos
- longwave-radiation
- shortwave-radiation
Data set on bromide oxidation by ozone in snow during metamorphism from laboratory study

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Earth’s snow cover is very dynamic on diurnal time scales. The changes to the snow structure during this metamorphism have wide ranging impacts such as on avalanche formation and...

Last updated: July 16, 2020
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- interface
- reaction
- snow
- metamorphism
- antarctica
- heterogeneous
- brine
- solution
- laboratory-study
- chemistry
- arctic
- alpine
- ozone
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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- gps
- snow
- liquid-water-content
- lwc
- gnss
- swe
- snow-water-equivalent
Observed and simulated snow profile data

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This data set includes information on all observed and simulated snow profiles that were used to train and validate the random forest model described in Mayer et al. (2022). The RF...

Last updated: October 21, 2022
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- snow-stratigraphy
- snow-profiles
- rutschblock
- snowpack
- snow-instability
- snowpack-simulation
- failure-layer
Vegetation Height Model NFI

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A national vegetation height model was calculated for Switzerland using digital aerial images. We used the stereo aerial images acquired by the Federal Office of Topography...

Last updated: September 12, 2023
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- 3d
- forest
- vegetation-height-model
- photogrammety
- point-cloud
Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate

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This report was prepared as one of the synthesis report chapters of the Hydro-CH2018 project of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). An important feature of snow cover is...

Last updated: May 20, 2020
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- climate-change-impacts
- water-cycle
- snow
- snowfall
- hydrology
An ice oxygen K-edge NEXAFS spectroscopy data set on gas-phase processing

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Data are compiled that have been used to demonstrate the impact of high water partial pressure on X-ray absorption spectra of ice.

Last updated: January 19, 2023
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- chemistry
- laboratory-study
- snow-atmosphere-interactions
- atmosphere
- ice
WFJ_MOD: Meteorological and snowpack measurements from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland

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Dataset of meteorological and snowpack measurements from the automatic weather station at Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland, suitable for driving snowpack models. The dataset...

Last updated: September 13, 2023
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- humidity
- precipitation-amount
- snow-depth
- wind-speed
- snow-ice-temperature
- air-temperature
- shortwave-radiation
- wind-direction
- longwave-radiation
Relationship between physical forest characteristics, visual attractiveness and perception of ecosystem services in urban forests

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This questionnaire survey was conducted as an online survey and aimed at investigating the relationship between physical forest characteristics, visual attractiveness of forest and...

Last updated: June 10, 2022
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- adults-and-teenagers
- online-questionnaire-survey
- nfi-photos
- visual-attractiveness
- perception-of-ecosystem-services
Greenland shrubs and microclimate

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Study Aim

We collected these data to alternatively train and validate high resolution (~ 90 m) Species Distribution Models (SDMs) and Species Abundance Models (SAMs) for _Betula...

Last updated: February 9, 2022
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- arctic
- field-data
- sdm
- climate
- accessible-shrub-forest
- validation
High resolution climate data for Europe

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High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present downscaled climate data for the...

Last updated: June 4, 2021
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- minimum-temperature
- maximum-temperature
- eur11
- air-temperature
- europe
- precipitation
- cordex
- daily-climate

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