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414 datasets found

  • Trends in background mortality in unmanaged forests across Europe over the last century

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    Education, culture and sport

    These datasets and script document the analyses and the plot generation for the article **“Trends in background mortality in unmanaged forests across Europe over the last...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • OCTET
    • ecological-niche
    • forest
    • forest-dynamics
    • forest-inventory
    • mortality-rate
    • temperate-forests
    • tree-mortality
  • Environmental DNA Freshwater Colombia Magdalena 2022

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    Education, culture and sport

    Monitoring of vertebrates of the lower Magdalena river through eDNA metabarcoding

    The Magdalena River basin harbors a large biodiversity of vertebrates, with numerous endemic...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • colombia
    • edna
    • fish
    • magdalena
    • metabarcoding
    • teleo
    • vert01
  • Compilation of normalized crack propagation speeds

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    Education, culture and sport

    Compilation of normalized crack-propagation speeds (expressed as a fraction of the slab shear-wave speed).

    The dataset contains crack-propagation speeds from DEM simulations (79...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • TXT
    • OCTET
    • crack-propagation
    • crack-speed
    • dry-snow-avalanche
    • field-data
    • numerical-simulations
    • weak-layer
  • Psychophysiological effects of walking in forests and urban built environments with disparate road traffic noise exposure

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    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data related to the field experiments of the RESTORE project. This project is a collaboration between the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • PDF
    • OCTET
    • ZIP
    • field-data
    • forest
    • restoration
    • traffic-noise
    • urban-landscape
  • Application of CRISPR-Dx and metabarcoding to catchment-level eDNA for terrestrial mammal detection

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    Education, culture and sport

    General description

    Data associated with the publication "CRISPR-Dx and metabarcoding perform similarly for monitoring mammals with eDNA on the catchment level in high-alpine...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • catchment
    • crispr-dx
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • edna
    • mammals
    • metabarcoding
    • national-park
  • Robot-aided measurement of insect diversity on vegetation using environmental DNA

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    Education, culture and sport

    Traditional methods of biodiversity monitoring are often logistically challenging, time-consuming, require experienced experts on species identification and sometimes include...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • drone
    • edna
    • ins16s
    • insect
    • minion
    • switzerland
  • Metabarcoding of urban and forest bird faecal samples

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    Education, culture and sport

    We captured birds in urban parks and peri-urban forests in the cities of Lugano, Zurich (Switzerland) and Napoli (Italy). The urban sites were located in urban forests (Lugano,...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • ZIP
    • arthropoda
    • birds
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • trophic-networks
    • urban-biodiversity
  • Overland and topsoil interflow time series from the Studibach - summer 2022

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset comprises the time series of overland flow (OF) and topsoil interflow (TIF) discharges from 14 small runoff plots (1 x 3 m) over 27 rainfall events in 2022 across the...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • XLS
    • alptal
    • land
    • overland-flow
    • plot
    • rainfall
    • runoff
    • studibach
    • time-series
    • topsoil-interflow
  • Modified TypoCH reference list of diagnostic species for the classification of vegetation types in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    The TypoCH scoring system (Eggenberg & Bornand 2023), which is widely used in Switzerland, provides good results as classification method for vegetation types based on Delarze et...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • PDF
    • CSV
    • character-species
    • diagnostic-species
    • phytosociology
    • typoch
    • vegetation-classification
    • vegetation-type
  • Soil microbial diversity and multifunctionality across European biomes

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    Education, culture and sport

    The diversity and network complexity of prokaryotic and fungal communities and their relationships with soil multifunctionality (SMF) – an integrative index for C-, N- and...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • XLS
    • fungi
    • latitudinal-gradient
    • microbial-biodiversity
    • prokaryotes
    • soil-microbiome
    • soil-mulitfunctionality
  • Urban bird capture data with prey species and fungal community

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    Education, culture and sport

    We captured birds in urban parks and peri-urban forests in the cities of Lugano and Zurich. The urban sites were located in an urban forest (Lugano) and in a cemetery (Zurich), and...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • XLS
    • biodiversity
    • birds
    • fungal-pathogen
    • fungi
    • insects
    • urban
    • urban-biodiversity
    • urban-ecology
  • Urban bird predation on artificial caterpillars

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    Education, culture and sport

    We established our study sites in the cities of Basel, Lugano and Zurich, and their peri-urban forests. We characterised urban tree cover of each city using a rectangular grid with...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • XLS
    • biodiversity
    • biodiversity-experiment
    • birds
    • insect-herbivores
    • periurban
    • pest-invasion
    • urban
    • urban-biodiversity
    • urban-ecology
  • Urban bird predation on horse chestnut leaf miner Cameraria ohridella in three Swiss cities

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    Education, culture and sport

    We established our study sites in the cities of Basel, Lugano and Zurich. We characterised urban tree cover of each city using a rectangular grid with squares of 100x100 m. Within...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • XLS
    • biodiversity
    • birds
    • insect-herbivores
    • insects
    • larvae
    • plant-insect-interaction
    • urban-biodiversity
    • urban-ecology
  • Urban birds point counts data

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    Education, culture and sport

    The study area included the cities of Basel, Lugano and Zurich. The sampling design reflected four main city districts related to four categories of tree cover (Figure 1): 1)...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • XLS
    • biodiversity
    • birds
    • environmental-gradients
    • periurban
    • spatially-distributed-sampling
    • urban
  • Steigerwald_Artificial_Dendrotelms

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset comprises environmental and insect larval data from 24 artificial dendrotelms (water-filled tree holes) created in beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) in six old-growth...

    Last updated: October 29, 2025

    • XLS
    • body-size
    • dendrotelms
    • diversity
    • european-beech
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest
    • germany
    • insects
    • invertebrates
    • metacommunity
    • old-growth-islands
    • steigerwald
    • stepping-stones
    • trems
    • water-filled-tree-holes
  • Three-dimensional debris flow simulation tool debrisInterMixing

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    Education, culture and sport

    Here debrisInterMixing until version 7 is provided for download. Further versions as well as installation instructions and tutorials and discussion forums (mostly in german) can be...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • barrier-impact-simulation
    • dberisintermixing
    • debris-flow
    • finite-volumes
    • hangmuren
    • interfoam
    • murgang
    • natural-hazard
    • shallow-landslide
  • Stand inventory data from the 10‐ha forest research plot in Uholka, Ukraine

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    Education, culture and sport

    In 2000, a permanent forest plot of 10 ha has been established in the core zone of the primeval beech forest of Uholka. All living and dead trees with a diameter at breast height...

    Last updated: October 29, 2025

    • ZIP
    • carpathian-biosphere-reserve
    • dem
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest
    • forest-dynamics
    • forest-structure
    • long-term-data-sets
    • permanent-forest-plot-data
    • primeval-beech-forest
    • stand-inventory-data
  • Greater observer expertise leads to higher liverwort species richness in bryophyte surveys

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains bryophyte species count data and information about the observers bryophyte expertise for 2950 relevés conducted from 2011 to 2023 on 10-m2 plots in a...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • CSV
    • biodiversity-monitoring
    • cover
    • fen
    • liverworts
    • mosses
    • observer-bias
    • raised-bog
    • sphagnum
    • vegetation-survey
  • Forest monitoring to assess forest functioning under air pollution and climate change. Proceedings. FORECOMON 2021 - the 9th forest ecosystem monitoring conference. 7–9 June 2021, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Forest monitoring to assess forest functioning under air pollution and climate change. Proceedings. FORECOMON 2021 - the 9th forest ecosystem monitoring conference. 7-9 June 2021,...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • PDF
    • air-pollution
    • forest
    • long-term-monitoring
    • long-term-forest-ecosystem-research
    • monitoring
  • Compressive stick slip and snow-micro-quakes

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    Education, culture and sport

    When snow is compressed with a certain speed, micro-snowquakes are triggered in the porous structure of bonded crystals. The present dataset covers uniaxial compression experiments...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • CSV
    • compression-experiments
    • microstructure
    • snow
    • snow-mechanics
    • x-ray-tomography