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32 datasets found

  • Soil and stem xylem water isotope data from two pan-European sampling campaigns

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    Education, culture and sport

    Here, we present a comprehensive isotope dataset of soil and stem xylem water collected during two pan-European sampling campaigns in spring and summer 2023. The dataset includes...

    Last updated: September 23, 2025

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    • beech
    • critical-zone
    • cryogenic-extraction
    • ecohydrology
    • europe
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest
    • hydrogen-isotopes
    • hydrology
    • isotopes
    • oxygen-isotopes
    • picea-abies
    • soil-water
    • spruce
    • water-isotopes
    • xylem-water
  • Trends in background mortality in unmanaged forests across Europe over the last century

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    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

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    • ecological-niche
    • forest
    • forest-dynamics
    • forest-inventory
    • mortality-rate
    • temperate-forests
    • tree-mortality
  • 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

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    • OCTET
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    • field-data
    • forest
    • restoration
    • traffic-noise
    • urban-landscape
  • Steigerwald_Artificial_Dendrotelms

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset comprises environmental and insect larval data from 24 artificial dendrotelms (water-filled tree holes) created in beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) in six old-growth...

    Last updated: October 29, 2025

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    • body-size
    • dendrotelms
    • diversity
    • european-beech
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest
    • germany
    • insects
    • invertebrates
    • metacommunity
    • old-growth-islands
    • steigerwald
    • stepping-stones
    • trems
    • water-filled-tree-holes
  • Stand inventory data from the 10‐ha forest research plot in Uholka, Ukraine

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    In 2000, a permanent forest plot of 10 ha has been established in the core zone of the primeval beech forest of Uholka. All living and dead trees with a diameter at breast height...

    Last updated: October 29, 2025

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    • carpathian-biosphere-reserve
    • dem
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest
    • forest-dynamics
    • forest-structure
    • long-term-data-sets
    • permanent-forest-plot-data
    • primeval-beech-forest
    • stand-inventory-data
  • Forest monitoring to assess forest functioning under air pollution and climate change. Proceedings. FORECOMON 2021 - the 9th forest ecosystem monitoring conference. 7–9 June 2021, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

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    Forest monitoring to assess forest functioning under air pollution and climate change. Proceedings. FORECOMON 2021 - the 9th forest ecosystem monitoring conference. 7-9 June 2021,...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

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    • air-pollution
    • forest
    • long-term-monitoring
    • long-term-forest-ecosystem-research
    • monitoring
  • Swiss FluxNet Site Davos

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    The Swiss FluxNet Site Davos is a managed subalpine evergreen forest, located on the Seehorn mountain near Davos in the Swiss Alps. The site is dominated by Norway spruce. The...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

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    • CSV
    • eddy-covariance
    • flux
    • forest
    • greenhouse-gas
    • icos
    • meteorological-measurements
    • swiss-fluxnet
    • swiss-forest-lab
  • Vegetation Height Model Sentinel NFI

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    Education, culture and sport

    Countrywide vegetation height models (VHM) were generated for Switzerland based on Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery and the digital terrain model (DTM) swissALTI3D from the Swiss...

    Last updated: November 5, 2025

    • TIFF
    • cnn
    • forest
    • nfi
    • remote-sensing
    • sentinel-2
    • switzerland
    • vegetation-height
  • Forest Canopy Layer Code

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    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

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    • forest
    • forest-management
    • itd
    • lidar
    • mountain-forest
    • protective-forest
    • vhm
  • Gao_Drought resistance and resilience of rhizosphere communities_13C-PLFA

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data of 13C-pulselabeling experiments in a young beech model ecosystem and a mature pine forest exposed to drought and rewetting. Data include microclimate during the experiment,...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

    • XLS
    • biogeochemical-cycling
    • c13-labeling
    • drought
    • forest
    • microbial-biomass
    • plfa
  • Case study applications demonstrating the use and potential of the TreeMig framework v1

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    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

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    • bioclimatic-variables
    • climate-change
    • example-applications
    • forest
    • forest-dynamics
    • forest-management
    • land-use
    • r-package
    • spatial-modelling
    • species-migration
    • treemig
  • Sentinel-2 Vegetation Height Model Armenia

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    Education, culture and sport

    Countrywide vegetation height models (VHM) were generated for Armenia based on Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery within the framework of the FORACCA project. “The Forest Restoration...

    Last updated: November 25, 2025

    • TIFF
    • armenia
    • cnn
    • foracca
    • forest
    • remote-sensing
    • sentinel-2
    • vegetation-height