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472 datasets found

  • Vertebrate and plant taxa recovered from 10 catchments in Vaud using an eDNA-metabarcoding approach

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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: May 26, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • biodiversity-assessment
    • biomonitoring
    • dna-metabarcoding
    • environmental-dna
    • spatial-ecology
  • trophiCH v1 - a food web for Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Environmental pressures on species can cascade within food webs and even extend beyond individual ecosystems to interconnected systems at large spatial scales. To facilitate the...

    Last updated: May 26, 2025

    • ZIP
    • food-webs
    • invertebarates
    • metaweb
    • switzerland
    • trophic-networks
    • vascular-plants
    • vertebrates
  • Dataset on Cosmo-1 based Energy Potential in Swiss Alps

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset consist of simulated hourly power production from an Enercon E82 Turbine at 100 m hub-height. It describes the hourly power output a 1MW turbine would produce in each...

    Last updated: June 2, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • cosmo-1
    • es2050
    • mountain-wind-potential
    • topography
    • wind-energy
  • Multiple realizations of daily snow water equivalent, surface water input and liquid precipitation projections for mid- and late-century

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains for three variables (snow water equivalent, surface water input and liquid precipitation) 50 realizations of current and future climate periods for two time...

    Last updated: June 2, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • climate-change-impact
    • cryosphere
    • natural-climate-variability
    • rain-on-snow
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • uncertainty
  • Present and future multifaceted plant diversity, uniqueness and conservation in the European Alps

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains extensive data for the European Alps:

    • Observations of ~3,500 plant species
    • Climate (1-km), soil (100-m) and land cover predictors (1km); current...

    Last updated: June 2, 2025

    • GeoTIFF
    • beta-diversity
    • conservation
    • european-alps
    • functional-diversity
    • global-change
    • land-use-change
    • migclim
    • phylogenetic-diversity
    • plants
    • species-distribution-models
    • taxonomic-diversity
    • zonation
  • Field-based eDNA analysis to detect the threatened and elusive African manatee

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data associated to the publication "Rapid field-based detection of a threatened and elusive species with environmental DNA and CRISPR-Dx"
    Authors:
    Flurin Leugger,...

    Last updated: June 16, 2025

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • african-manatee
    • biodiversity-monitoring
    • crispr-cas
    • crispr-dx
    • edna
    • environmental-dna
    • field-based-protocol
    • qpcr
    • threatened-species
  • Advancing sustainable LED solutions to mitigate light-pollution impacts on arthropods

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Raw data and R Code to do all the analysis performed for the paper "Advancing sustainable LED solutions to mitigate light-pollution impacts on arthropods". Including data for both...

    Last updated: June 16, 2025

    • CSV
    • OCTET
    • alan
    • artificial-lighting
    • ecosystem-services
    • outdoor-lighting
    • sustainability
  • ALAN Spongy Moth Laboratory Experiment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data and Code for ALAN Spongy Moth lab experiment In this repository you will find all the raw datasets used for the data analysis performed in our paper about the impacts of...

    Last updated: June 16, 2025

    • CSV
    • OCTET
    • alan
    • insect-development
    • lab-experiment
    • light-pollution
    • spongy-moth
  • gbif.range - An R package to generate species range maps based on ecoregions and a user-friendly GBIF wrapper

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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: June 24, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • accepted-name
    • conservation
    • ecoregions
    • filtering
    • flags
    • gbif
    • hard-limit
    • landsca
    • large-scale
    • occurrence-records
    • r-package
    • range-maps
    • species-distribution
    • species-observations
    • synonyms
    • taxonomy
  • Evaluating the predictive performance of human avalanche forecasts and model predictions in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set was used in the analysis by Techel et al. **Can model-based avalanche forecasts match the discriminatory skill of human danger level forecasts? A comparison from...

    Last updated: June 30, 2025

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • avalanche-forecast
    • avalanche-release-probability
    • forecast-models
    • machine-learning
    • spatial-modelling
  • UAV-derived Digital Surface Models and orthoimages for three alpine glaciers

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    UAV-derived DSMs and orthoimages

    Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveys were conducted between 2015 and 2016 on the Sankt Annafirn, Findelen- and Griesgletscher, situated in the...

    Last updated: July 2, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • alps
    • dem
    • drone
    • dsm
    • findelengletscher
    • glacier
    • gletscher
    • griesgletscher
    • orthoimage
    • orthophoto
    • sankt-annafirn
    • uav
  • Monthly topsoil and near surface microclimate temperature data for Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Climate data matching the scales at which organisms experience climatic conditions are often missing. Yet, such data on microclimatic conditions are required to better understand...

    Last updated: July 2, 2025

    • ZIP
    • biodiversity
    • climate-change
    • ecology
    • forest
    • microclimate
    • radiation-transfer
    • statistical-interpolation
  • Vegetation Height Model NFI

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Countrywide vegetation height models (VHM) were generated for Switzerland based on stereo aerial images, acquired by the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo. From the...

    Last updated: July 3, 2025

    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • 3d
    • forest
    • photogrammety
    • point-cloud
    • vegetation-height-model
  • LABES 2 Indicators of the Swiss Landscape Monitoring Program

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The Swiss Landscape Monitoring Program (LABES) records both the physical and the perceived quality of the landscape with about 30 indicators. The surveys of the physical aspects...

    Last updated: July 8, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • ecosystem-services
    • european-landscape-convention
    • landscape
    • landscape-ecology
    • landscape-perception
  • Historical Vegetation Height Model NFI

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The main datasets available are 4 nationwide Digital Surface Models (DSMs) and corresponding Vegetation Height Models (VHMs) with a spatial resolution of 1 m. The...

    Last updated: July 3, 2025

    • GeoTIFF
    • TXT
    • dsm
    • forest
    • historical
    • nfi
    • photogrammetry
    • vhm
  • Vegetation Height Model LiDAR NFI

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Countrywide vegetation height models (VHM) were generated for Switzerland based on LiDAR data acquired in the framework of the swissSURFACE3D campaign (swisstopo). To...

    Last updated: July 3, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • forest
    • nfi
    • point-cloud
    • three-dimensional
    • vegetation
    • vegetation-classification
    • vegetation-height
  • Hydro-CH2018 reservoirs

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset Hydro-CH2018 reservoirs provides estimates of current and future water supply, water demand, and storage volumes for 307 medium-sized catchments in Switzerland. Water...

    Last updated: July 8, 2025

    • ZIP
    • climate-change
    • reservoirs
    • water-demand
    • water-scarcity
    • water-supply
  • Biogeochemical data from a transplantation experiment of monolith soil turfs along an altitudinal gradient to simulate climate change scenarios

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Silvopastoral systems are highly productive and combine long-term wood production with annual provision of forage for livestock. In the Swiss Jura Mountains these systems are a key...

    Last updated: July 10, 2025

    • ZIP
    • biogeochemisty
    • climate-change
    • silvopastoral-systems
    • soil
    • transplantation-experiment
  • MOSAIC Snow on Sea Ice Data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data accompanying David Wagners' Dissertation. Covers model results and various input from ALPINE3D and SNOWPACK adjusted for sea ice during MOSAiC.

    Last updated: July 16, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • arctic-sea-ice
    • drifting-and-blowing-snow
    • snow-distribution
    • spatial-variability
    • surface-mass-balance
  • Reproducibility dataset for CRYOWRF validation

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains data and scripts for "CRYOWRF - a validation and the effect of blowing snow on the Antarctic SMB" (Gerber et al., submitted).

    • Simulation_setup: Namelists...

    Last updated: July 16, 2025

    • ZIP
    • antarctica
    • blowing-snow
    • cryowrf
    • reproducibility
    • surface-mass-balance