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3 datasets found

  • 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
  • Bats in beaver systems

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains processed bat acoustic data collected to evaluate the ecological impacts of beaver-engineered ponds on bat species richness, activity, and feeding activity....

    Last updated: November 10, 2025

    • TXT
    • XLS
    • CSV
    • OCTET
    • beaver
    • castor
    • chiroptera
    • deadwood
    • ecosystem-engineer
    • flying-arthropods
    • habitat-heterogeneity
    • nature-conservation
    • wetland
  • Phytodiversity is associated with habitat heterogeneity from Eurasia to Hengduan

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This research data is used to re includes 1 km resolution seed plant species range maps for the Hengduan mountain region (southwest China), elevation information for each species,...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • habitat-heterogeneity
    • hengduan-mountains
    • hypervolume
    • model-residuals
    • phytodiversity