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472 datasets found

  • Flow and tracer data for overland flow and topsoil interflow during rainfall simulation experiments in the Studibach catchment - Alptal - Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Description: This dataset comprises the time series of overland flow (OF) and topsoil interflow (TIF) discharge, and tracer concentrations during artificial rainfall simulation...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • XLS
    • alptal
    • celerity
    • overland-flow
    • preferential-flow
    • rainfall-simulation
    • runoff-plot
    • studibach
    • topsoil-interflow
    • tracers
    • velocity
  • Priority ranking for the conservation of all European bryophyte species - dataset

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset provides data on the occurrence of 672 European bryophyte species in European countries or territories. All species which are considered threatened or near threatened...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • XLS
    • bryophytes
    • conservation-priority
    • endemic
    • europe
    • range-size
    • rarity
    • red-list
  • Environmental DNA Freshwater Namibia Namibia 2022

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Monitoring terrestrial mammals through eDNA in rivers of northern Namibia

    In 2022, we collected 20 water samples from 10 stations two rivers of Namibia. Samples were taken from...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • bivalves
    • edna
    • eukaryotes
    • metabarcoding
    • namibia
  • A novel approach for bridging the gap between climate change scenarios and avalanche hazard indication mapping

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    To assess the possible consequences of potential changes in snow accumulation and temperature and their impact on avalanche hazard, we introduce a comprehensive multi-step...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • ZIP
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-mapping
    • climate-change
    • hazard
    • new-snow
    • ramms
  • Assessing the impacts of climate change on snow avalanche-induced risk in alpine regions

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    By using hazard scenarios based on CH2018 climate projections and the RAMMS avalanche model, we generated large-scale hazard indication maps for future avalanche hazards. By...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • ZIP
    • avalanche
    • climada
    • climate-change
    • ramms
    • risk
    • snow-avalanche
  • Environmental DNA Marine France Evhoe 2021

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Environmental DNA complements scientific trawling in surveys of marine fish biodiversity (Dataset 2021)

    At the end of October and the beginning of November 2021, we selected 18...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • actinopterygii
    • atlantic-region
    • bay-biscay
    • chondrichthyes
    • edna
    • fish-composition
    • metabarcoding
    • teleo
  • Environmental DNA Freshwater Senegal Casamance 2018

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Monitoring fish diversity through eDNA metabarcoding along the Casamance river

    In 2018, water samples were collected in 13 locations along the Casamance in Senegal. Samples were...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • edna
    • fish
    • metabarcoding
    • senegal
    • teleo
  • Trends in background mortality in unmanaged forests across Europe over the last century

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
  • Modeled and measured fluxes of latent and sensible heat and snow transport at S17 near Syowa in Antarctica

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset supports a related publication (Sigmund et al., 2025) and contains

    • results of four large-eddy simulations (LES) coupled to a Lagrangian model (LM) for snow...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • antarctica
    • blowing-snow
    • drifting-snow
    • large-eddy-simulation
    • parameterization
    • snow-sublimation
    • turbulence
  • Soil microbial diversity and multifunctionality across European biomes

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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
  • Stable isotope data from 73 tree and shrub species in a common garden in Basel Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains hydrogen and carbon isotope data from 73 tree and shrub species grown in a common garden (Kannenfeldpark) in Basel, Switzerland. Leaf and twig samples were...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • XLS
    • carbohydrates
    • common-garden
    • isotopes
    • methoxy-groups
    • tree-species
  • Urban bird capture data with prey species and fungal community

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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