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93 datasets found

  • High resolution global standardized drought indices

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset consists of the standardized precipitation (SPI) and the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) index with a 30 arcsec (~1km) horizontal resolution....

    Last updated: January 28, 2025

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    • XLS
    • chelsa
    • drought
    • extreme-events
    • megadrought
    • multi-year-drought
    • potential-evapotranspiration
    • precipitation
  • Data Konzeptionelles Systemmodell

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This folder contains documents relevant to the project step Konzeptionelles Systemmodell. It specifically contains the following documents:

    1. 0201_Konzeptionelles...

    Last updated: February 3, 2025

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    • PDF
    • climate-change
    • landscape-change
    • policy-action
    • qualitative-research
    • scenarios
  • Tree measurements 2002-2016 from the long-term irrigation experiment Pfynwald, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    To study the performance of mature Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) under chronic drought conditions in comparison to their immediate physiological response to drought release, a...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • crown-condition
    • dbh
    • diameter-at-breast-height
    • drought
    • forest
    • irrigation
    • lwf
    • scots-pine
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • tree
    • tree-species
  • DISCHMEX - Impact of extreme land-surface heterogeneity on micrometeorology over spring snow-cover

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains eddy-covariance measurements in the ablation period of 2014-2016. Measurements were taken from two turbulence towers over a long-lasting snow patch, which are...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • XLS
    • PNG
    • dischmex
    • eddy-covariance-measurements
    • patchy-snow-covers
    • snow-patch
    • turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes
  • Ecosystem coupling and multifunctionality - exclosure experiment

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data on which the following publication below is based.

    Paper Citation:

    Risch AC, Ochoa-Hueso R, van der Putten WH, Bump JK, Busse MD, Frey B,...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • ecosystem-coupling
    • ecosystem-functions
    • ecosystem-multifunctionality
    • exclusion
    • grassland
    • grazing
    • invertebrates
    • subalpine
    • swiss-national-park
    • vertebrates
  • DISCHMEX - Meteorological measurements

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    Education, culture and sport

    Meteorological measurements recorded in the Dischma valley from 2014-2016. In 2014 and 2015 we used 11 mobile weather stations from sensorscope to record meteorological parameter...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • XLS
    • dischma
    • dischmex
    • meteo-station
    • meteorological-data
    • meteorological-measurements
  • Soil respiration - exclosure experiment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Location of data collection The Swiss National Park (SNP) is located in the southeastern part of Switzerland, and covers an area of 170 km2, 50 km2 of which is forested, 33 km2 is...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • grassland
    • grazing
    • soil-respiration
    • subalpine
    • ungulates
  • Shading by Trees and Fractional Snow Cover Control the Subcanopy Radiation Budget

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set consists of incoming and outgoing short- and longwave radiation as well as sunlit-snow-view-fraction as described in the JGR-Atmospheres paper "Shading by trees and...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • XLS
    • TXT
    • forest
    • fractional-snow
    • longwave-radiation
    • shading
    • shortwave-radiation
  • European Snow Booklet – an Inventory of Snow Measurements in Europe

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The European Snow Booklet (ESB) is a book of reference for snow measurements that has been produced through collaboration with many European snow practitioners and snow scientists...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

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    • cost-action-es1404-harmosnow
    • depth-of-snowfall
    • harmonisation-of-snow-measurements
    • snow-depth
    • snow-measurement-methods
    • spatial-distribution-of-snow-observations-in-europe
    • water-equivalent-of-the-snow-cover
  • Escalating effects of multiple perturbations on soil functionality

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    Education, culture and sport

    Soil chemical and biological properties of soils affected by 10 different perturbations related with global change, applied individually or in combination. Greenhouse experiment....

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • drought
    • heatwave
    • land-use
    • pesticide
    • soil
    • soil-biodiversity
    • soil-nutrients
  • MadCrypto – Bryophyte and macrolichen diversity in laurel forests of Madeira

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes species lists of bryophytes and macrolichens (presence/absence) sampled on the forest floor and on trees in disturbed and undisturbed plots along elevation...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

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    • biodiversity
    • bryophyte
    • bryophyte-life-strategy
    • climate-change
    • climate-change-impact
    • disturbance
    • elevational-gradient
    • endemic
    • endemic-species
    • functional-taxonomic-group
    • functional-taxonomic-groups
    • lichen
    • lichen-growth-form
    • lichen-growthform
    • liverwort
    • madeira-island
    • moss
    • photobiont
  • Data on bryophyte diversity and treatment factors in the PaNDiv experiment

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset was used to analyse effects of different biodiversity and functional group treatments, fertilizer and fungicide applications as well as weeding of vascular plants on...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • biodiversity-experiment
    • biomass
    • bryophytes
    • functional-traits
    • fungicide
    • grassland
    • moss
    • nitrogen
    • pandiv
    • species-richness
  • Daten Bryolich-Projekt Moose und Flechten in Gärten

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Im Rahmen des Bryolich-Projekts “Moose und Flechten in Gärten” wurden möglichst vollständige Artenlisten von Moosen und Flechten in 26 bzw. 7 Gärten um Wohnhäuser erstellt. In 5...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • bryolich
    • bryophytes
    • diversitat
    • flechten
    • garten
    • lichens
    • moose
  • Schynige Platte Alpine Botanical Garden land-use experiment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset was used for the publication "Boch, Blaser, Föhr, Küchler, Fischer (2024) Haymaking complemented by moderate disturbances can sustain and restore species-rich alpine...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • biodiversity
    • disturbance
    • grassland-management
    • land-use-abandonment
    • vascular-plant
  • Water isotope signatures in Swiss forest ecosystems in 2021 and 2022

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    Education, culture and sport

    The isotope composition of different forest water pools was analyzed at 10 sites of the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research programme in 2021 and 2022. The sampling was done during...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • PNG
    • forest-ecosystems
    • soil-solution
    • water-budget
    • water-isotopes
    • xylem-water
  • CH-Kleinstwasserkraftwerke - ein schweizweiter Datensatz zu Kleinstwasserkraftwerken

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In der Schweiz werden Wasserkraftanlagen (WKA) mit einer Leistung von mehr als 300 kW systematisch erfasst und in der nationalen Wasserkraftstatistik (WASTA) zusammengetragen. Die...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • datensatz
    • kleinstwasserkraftwerke
    • schweiz
    • speed2zero
    • wasserkraft
  • Nutrient sustainability in beech forests

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    With this study, our aim was to estimate the nutrient fluxes relevant for assessing nutrient sustainability as accurately as possible and to calculate nutrient balances for...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • beech
    • mass-balance
    • nutrient
    • soil
    • sustainability
  • Fetzer_Khibiny_Treeline_NPcycling

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data on soil nutrients and charcteristics, tree and understory biomass, foliage nutrients, mineralogy, soil temperature and moisture along an elevation gradient from boreal forest...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • biomass-dynamics
    • climate-change
    • plant-community
    • plant-traits
    • soil-nutrients
    • treeline-ecosystems
  • Sample plot inventory data form the Parc Naturel du Jorat

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The Jorat is one of the largest continously forested areas in the Swiss Plateau. On a forested area of 778 ha, the Parc Naturel du Jorat (PNJ), a periurban parc, has been...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • PDF
    • beech
    • forest-in
    • forest-reserves
    • swiss-plateau
    • temperate-forests
  • Soil organic carbon stock of an afforestation sequence on a subalpine pasture

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set provides soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, and stable carbon isotope (13C) values of mineral soil (0-45cm), organic horizons (Oi, Oe, Oa), and root biomass of an...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • afforestation
    • belowground-biomass
    • isotopes
    • picea-abies
    • subalpine