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7 datasets found

  • Impact of non-native tree species in Europe on soil properties and biodiversity: a review

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • XLS
    • biodiversity
    • biogeography
    • forest-management
    • pairwise-stand-comparisons
    • soil-impacts
  • Beetle communities reared from beech branches and associated forest and environmental variables

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data was generated during a landscape experiment performed on 69 plots in Sihlwald forest between 2016 and 2019. Branch bundles of different sizes consisting of beech branches...

    Last updated: November 17, 2023

    • XLS
    • biodiversity
    • colonisation
    • conservation
    • dead-wood
    • forest-management
    • habitat-availability
    • habitat-heterogeneity
    • saproxylic-beetles
    • sloss
  • Resurveyed vegetation releves of beech forests in the Swiss Jura Mountains

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset comprised 254 historical (1937 – 1948) and resurveyed (2019 – 2022) vegetation relevés of beech-dominated forests sites in the Swiss Jura mountains. The data contains...

    Last updated: February 21, 2024

    • XLS
    • air-pollution
    • climate-change
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest
    • forest-management
    • ground-vegetation
  • Forest Canopy Layer Code

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    R script for large-scale mapping of forest canopy layering. The approach combines tree-based and area-based methods, using airborne laser scanning point clouds together with...

    Last updated: November 11, 2025

    • ZIP
    • forest
    • forest-management
    • itd
    • lidar
    • mountain-forest
    • protective-forest
    • vhm
  • Forest Canopy Layer

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset provides a LiDAR-based classification of the forest canopy layer for selected Swiss cantons. Combining an area-based and tree-centred approach, forest areas are...

    Last updated: November 11, 2025

    • TIFF
    • OCTET
    • CSV
    • forest-canopy
    • forest-management
    • forest-structure
    • lidar
    • mountain-forest
    • nfi
  • Case study applications demonstrating the use and potential of the TreeMig framework v1

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The TreeMig framework allows for an easy application of the forest landscape model TreeMig for simulating forest dynamics in space under changing environmental and land use...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • bioclimatic-variables
    • climate-change
    • example-applications
    • forest
    • forest-dynamics
    • forest-management
    • land-use
    • r-package
    • spatial-modelling
    • species-migration
    • treemig
  • Individual Detected Trees

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset provides individual detected trees for selected Swiss Cantons (Appenzell Outer-Rhodes - AR, Grisons - GR, Nidwald - NW, Obwald - OW and St. Gall - SG), including the...

    Last updated: November 14, 2025

    • ZIP
    • development-stage
    • forest-management
    • forest-structure
    • itd
    • mountain-forest
    • nfi