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6 datasets found

  • Randomised trial reveals a mismatch between preferences for and hormonal responses to anthropogenic light colour temperatures

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data related to the field experiment of the WP3 (social impacts) of the ALANeX project. This project is a collaboration between the Swiss Federal Institute...

    Last updated: December 4, 2025

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    • XLS
    • artificial-lighting
    • field-data
    • stress
    • urban-landscape
    • well-being
  • Greenland shrubs and microclimate

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    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • SERVICE
    • accessible-shrub-forest
    • arctic
    • climate
    • field-data
    • sdm
    • validation
  • Repetitive trajectory testing in Tschamut 2014

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    Education, culture and sport

    In summer 2014, 6 rock blocks between 20 and 80kg have been thrown in total 111 times down a slope at the Swiss Oberalppass close to the village Tschamut. The slope was mainly...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • experiment
    • experiments
    • field-data
    • field-test
    • field-tests
    • mass-movements
    • natural-hazards
    • rockfall
    • trajectory
  • Rockfall gallery testing Parde 2016

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    Education, culture and sport

    Five full-scale field tests were conducted with concrete blocks weighting between 800 and 3200 kg being dropped onto the roof of a gallery structure made from reinforced concrete....

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • experiment
    • experiments
    • field-data
    • field-test
    • field-tests
    • impact-testing
    • mass-movements
    • natural-hazard
    • rockfall
    • rockfall-experiments
  • 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