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80 datasets found

  • Raw data-Publication cross-resistance in ash - New Phytologist

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    Education, culture and sport

    What are the research data files about: Raw data on perfomance (dry weight, development and mortality) of emerald ash borer larvae used in published bioassays. Raw data on ash...

    Last updated: May 23, 2023

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    • ash-dieback
    • cross-resistance
    • defense-chemistry
    • emerald-ash-borer
    • fraxinus
    • intraspecific-variation
    • invasive-species
  • Data-set for prediction of natural dry-snow avalanche activity and avalanche size using physics-based snowpack simulations

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data set contained in this repository was used in the analysis by Mayer et al. (2023): Mayer, S. I., Techel, F., Schweizer, J., and van Herwijnen, A.: Prediction of natural...

    Last updated: August 2, 2023

    • XLS
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-size
    • machine-learning
    • natural-avalanches
    • snowpack-model
  • Lake climate change scenarios CH2018

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset "Lake_climate_change_scenarios_CH2018" provides simulation-based climate change impact scenarios for perialpine lakes in Switzerland. These transient future scenarios...

    Last updated: November 9, 2023

    • XLS
    • climate-change
    • hydrologic-and-hydrodynamic-modelling
    • lake-level-regulation
    • perialpine-lakes
    • switzerland
  • Beetle communities reared from beech branches and associated forest and environmental variables

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    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
  • Resurveyed vegetation releves of beech forests in the Swiss Jura Mountains

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset comprised 254 historical (1937 – 1948) and resurveyed (2019 – 2022) vegetation relevés of beech-dominated forests sites in the Swiss Jura mountains. The data contains...

    Last updated: February 21, 2024

    • XLS
    • air-pollution
    • climate-change
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest
    • forest-management
    • ground-vegetation
  • Soil property maps for the Swiss forest

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    Education, culture and sport

    We used 2071 forest soil profiles to model a wide range of soil properties for the forested area of Switzerland. The spatial prediction is based on the principle of «digital soil...

    Last updated: February 26, 2024

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • dsm
    • forest
    • soc
    • soil
    • soil-depth
    • soil-ph
    • soil-properties
    • soil-texture
    • switzerland
  • Information on soil based on the soil dependency of the FOEN red list species

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    Education, culture and sport

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

    Paper Citation: Frey B., Maurer C., Schneider K. (2023) Informationen zum Boden anhand der...

    Last updated: March 7, 2024

    • XLS
    • conservation
    • database
    • eco-fauna
    • ecosystem-protection
    • fauna
    • fungi
    • info-fauna
    • lichens
    • red-list
    • soil-biodiversity
    • soil-dependency
    • soil-organisms
    • soil-quality
  • Water-use strategies of temperate tree species

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset represents the data shown in the Figures 2 - 7 of Walthert et al. (2024): Coordination between degree of isohydricity and depth of root water uptake in temperate tree...

    Last updated: July 4, 2024

    • XLS
    • anisohydric
    • root-distribution
    • stomatal-stringency
    • water-potential
    • water-use-strategy
  • Dataset for the publication Drivers of Droplet Formation in East Mediterranean Orographic Clouds

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    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains the datasets that were used for used for the paper:: Drivers of Droplet Formation in East Mediterranean Orographic Clouds, EGUsphere,...

    Last updated: September 4, 2024

    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • aerosol
    • ccn
    • cloud-droplets
    • hac2
    • hygroscopicity
  • Re-analyzed regional avalanche danger levels in Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    The data set contains the re-analyzed (or quality-checked) regional avalanche danger levels (D_QC) for Switzerland.

    D_QC relates to dry-snow avalanche conditions only. Measuring...

    Last updated: August 26, 2024

    • XLS
    • avalanche-bulletin
    • avalanche-danger-level
    • avalanche-forecast
    • avalanche-forecasting
    • verification
  • Amphibian observation and pond data (Aargau, Switzerland)

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    Education, culture and sport

    In the canton of Aargau, hundreds of new ponds have been constructed since the 1990s to benefit declining amphibian populations. This dataset consists of monitoring data for all 12...

    Last updated: September 24, 2024

    • PDF
    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • XLS
    • OCTET
    • amphibians
    • connectivity
    • conservation
    • landscape
    • occupancy-models
    • wetlands
  • Short-term Drainage Density Dynamics Dataset for the Erlenbach Catchment

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains time series of water levels, precipitation measured in the two sub-catchments of the Erlenbach catchment and its vicinity during summer and autumn 2021, as...

    Last updated: October 30, 2024

    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • catchment
    • catchment-data
    • channel
    • data
    • dataset
    • drainage
    • drainage-network
    • dynamics
    • erlenbach
    • precipitation
    • water-level
  • High resolution global standardized drought indices

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    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

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

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    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

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

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    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

    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • 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

    • ZIP
    • 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

    • XLS
    • 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

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

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    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

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

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    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