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472 datasets found

  • Urban bird predation on artificial caterpillars

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We established our study sites in the cities of Basel, Lugano and Zurich, and their peri-urban forests. We characterised urban tree cover of each city using a rectangular grid with...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • XLS
    • biodiversity
    • biodiversity-experiment
    • birds
    • insect-herbivores
    • periurban
    • pest-invasion
    • urban
    • urban-biodiversity
    • urban-ecology
  • Urban bird predation on horse chestnut leaf miner Cameraria ohridella in three Swiss cities

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We established our study sites in the cities of Basel, Lugano and Zurich. We characterised urban tree cover of each city using a rectangular grid with squares of 100x100 m. Within...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • XLS
    • biodiversity
    • birds
    • insect-herbivores
    • insects
    • larvae
    • plant-insect-interaction
    • urban-biodiversity
    • urban-ecology
  • Urban birds point counts data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The study area included the cities of Basel, Lugano and Zurich. The sampling design reflected four main city districts related to four categories of tree cover (Figure 1): 1)...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • XLS
    • biodiversity
    • birds
    • environmental-gradients
    • periurban
    • spatially-distributed-sampling
    • urban
  • Steigerwald_Artificial_Dendrotelms

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    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

    • XLS
    • body-size
    • dendrotelms
    • diversity
    • european-beech
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest
    • germany
    • insects
    • invertebrates
    • metacommunity
    • old-growth-islands
    • steigerwald
    • stepping-stones
    • trems
    • water-filled-tree-holes
  • Three-dimensional debris flow simulation tool debrisInterMixing

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Here debrisInterMixing until version 7 is provided for download. Further versions as well as installation instructions and tutorials and discussion forums (mostly in german) can be...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • barrier-impact-simulation
    • dberisintermixing
    • debris-flow
    • finite-volumes
    • hangmuren
    • interfoam
    • murgang
    • natural-hazard
    • shallow-landslide
  • Stand inventory data from the 10‐ha forest research plot in Uholka, Ukraine

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • ZIP
    • 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
  • Greater observer expertise leads to higher liverwort species richness in bryophyte surveys

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains bryophyte species count data and information about the observers bryophyte expertise for 2950 relevés conducted from 2011 to 2023 on 10-m2 plots in a...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • CSV
    • biodiversity-monitoring
    • cover
    • fen
    • liverworts
    • mosses
    • observer-bias
    • raised-bog
    • sphagnum
    • vegetation-survey
  • 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

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • PDF
    • air-pollution
    • forest
    • long-term-monitoring
    • long-term-forest-ecosystem-research
    • monitoring
  • Compressive stick slip and snow-micro-quakes

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    When snow is compressed with a certain speed, micro-snowquakes are triggered in the porous structure of bonded crystals. The present dataset covers uniaxial compression experiments...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • CSV
    • compression-experiments
    • microstructure
    • snow
    • snow-mechanics
    • x-ray-tomography
  • Meteorological Time Series Aligned with Projected Temperature Changes

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset provides 50 years of seasonal synthetic hourly time series for five meteorological variables: incoming shortwave radiation, total precipitation, relative humidity,...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • CSV
    • air-temperature
    • climate-change
    • meteo-station
    • precipitation
    • relative-humidity
    • shortwave-radiation
    • speed2zero
    • time-series
    • wind-speed
  • Unconfined compression experiments and 3D CT images of spherical model snow and RG snow samples

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    For the investigation of microstructural and mechanical properties of snow unconfined compression experiments and 3D computed tomography (CT) imaging were performed on sintered...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • 3d-ct-images
    • discrete-element-modelling
    • microstructure
    • snow-mechanics
    • spherical-model-snow
    • unconfined-compression-experiments
  • Global species distributions for mammals, reptiles, and amphibians

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We modelled the global distribution of 730 amphibian, 1276 reptile, and 1961 mammal species globally as a function of current climate at a 0.5° spatial resolution using four...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • TXT
    • amphibians
    • chelsa
    • climate-variablity
    • generalized-additive-models
    • generalized-linear-models
    • interannual-climate-variability
    • iucn
    • mammals
    • niche-models
    • random-forests
    • range-maps
    • reptiles
    • sdm
    • species-distribution-models
  • SwissRad10 Hourly light availability maps at 10 m resolution over Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The SwissRad10 dataset contains light availability maps at 10 m and hourly resolution across an entire annual cycle with wall-to-wall coverage across the whole of Switzerland....

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • forests
    • lidar
    • light-availability
    • radiation-transfer
    • shortwave-radiation
    • sky-view-fraction
    • solar-energy
    • solar-irradiance
    • terrain
    • transmissivity
  • Ramerenwald Close Range Remote Sensing Benchmark

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Close Range Remote Sensing Benchmark for different LiDAR and photogrammetric Sensors in a mixed temperate forest. Benchmarks are needed to evaluate the performance of different...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • ZIP
    • 3d-point-cloud
    • forest-inventory
    • lidar
    • mobile-laser-scanning
    • structure-from-motion
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • terrestrial-photogrammetry
    • unmanned-aerial-vehicle-laser-scanning
  • Seilaplan Tutorial: DTM download with SwissGeoDownloader

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. The plugin ‘Swiss Geo Downloader’, which is available for...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • cable-yarding
    • digital-elevation-model
    • digital-planning
    • geoinformation-system
    • open-source
    • qgis-plugin
    • seilaplan
    • swiss-geo-downloader
    • swiss-geodata
  • Seilaplan Tutorial: Merge DTM tiles

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. In this tutorial video, we show how to merge multiple DTM...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • cable-yarding
    • digital-elevation-model
    • digital-planning
    • geodata-processing
    • geoinformation-system
    • open-source
    • qgis-plugin
    • raster-processing
    • seilaplan
    • swiss-geodata
  • Seilaplan Tutorial: DTM download from swisstopo website

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. As an alternative to using the ‘Swiss Geo Downloader’...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • cable-yarding
    • digital-elevation-model
    • digital-planning
    • geoinformation-software
    • open-source
    • qgis-plugin
    • seilaplan
    • swiss-geodata
    • swisstopo
  • Seilaplan Tutorial: Load WMS layers as background maps

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In order to digitally plan a cable line using the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’, maps with various background information are helpful. In this tutorial we show you how to obtain maps...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • cable-yarding
    • digital-elevation-model
    • digital-planning
    • geoinformation-system
    • open-source
    • qgis-plugin
    • seilaplan
    • swiss-geodata
    • wms-data
  • HYDROpot_integral

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A spatial dataset and tool to simultaneously assess hydropower potential and ecological potential of the Swiss river network (Version 2016)

    Introduction The steadily growing...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • SHP
    • SERVICE
    • decision-making
    • ecosystem-protection
    • gis
    • hydropower
    • integral-water-management
  • Swiss FluxNet Site Davos

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    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

    • SERVICE
    • CSV
    • eddy-covariance
    • flux
    • forest
    • greenhouse-gas
    • icos
    • meteorological-measurements
    • swiss-fluxnet
    • swiss-forest-lab