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89 datasets found

  • Data from: Does one model fit all? patterns of beech mortality in natural forests of three European regions

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    The datasets comprise nearly 19’000 trees of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) from unmanaged forests in Switzerland, Germany / Lower Saxony and Ukraine. Tree death was...

    Last updated: November 17, 2023

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    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest-inventory
    • forest-reserves
    • mortality-models
    • primeval-forests
    • tree-mortality
  • Nuclear microsatellite markers for Trichopria drosophilae, parasitoid wasp on Drosophila suzukii

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    Nuclear microsatellite markers and genotype data for Trichopria ddrosophilae

    This data set comprises (i) the characteristics of a set of 21 species-specific nuclear...

    Last updated: November 24, 2023

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    • biological-control
    • drosophila-suzukii
    • multilocus-genotypes
    • nuclear-microsatellite-markers
    • population-genetics
    • simple-sequence-repeats
    • switzerland
    • trichopria-drosophilae
  • Pfynwald 2019 - Dendrochronological and tree-ring isotope dataset

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    Data from a 17-year-long irrigation experiment (Pfynwald, Switzerland) in a naturally dry forest dominated by 100-year-old pine trees (Pinus sylvestris). This dataset includes...

    Last updated: March 5, 2024

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    • dendrochronology
    • isotopes
    • pfynwald
    • pinus-sylvestris
    • scots-pine
    • tree-rings
    • tree-ring-cellulose
  • Amphibian observation and pond data (Aargau, Switzerland)

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    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

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    • amphibians
    • connectivity
    • conservation
    • landscape
    • occupancy-models
    • wetlands
  • ATLFISHREF A 12S mitochondrial reference dataset for metabarcoding Atlantic Fishes frequently caught during scientific surveys in the Bay of Biscay

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    The global biodiversity crisis driven by anthropogenic pressures significantly threatens marine ecosystems functioning. The rate of climate change and the impacts of anthropogenic...

    Last updated: December 2, 2024

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    • 12s
    • actinopterygii
    • atlantic-ocean
    • barcoding
    • environmental-dna
    • mitochondrial-dna
    • teleo-primers
  • Calibration data for empirical mortality models of 18 European tree species

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    The dataset comprises > 90 000 records from inventories in 54 strict forest reserves in...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • empirical-mortality-models
    • forest-reserves
    • inventory-data
    • tree-growth
    • tree-mortality
  • Number of avalanche fatalities per hydrological year in Switzerland since 1936-1937

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    Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This dataset contains the statistics on the number of avalanche fatalities per hydrological year in Switzerland. The data...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • avalanche-accident-statistics
    • avalanche-accidents
    • avalanche-fatalities
    • fatalities-in-or-around-buildings
    • fatalities-in-settlements
    • fatalities-in-terrain-close-to-ski-areas
    • fatalities-in-the-backcountry
    • fatalities-on-transportation-corridors
  • Number of avalanche fatalities per calendar year in Switzerland since 1937

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    Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This dataset contains the statistics on the number of avalanche fatalities per calendar year in Switzerland. The data...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • avalanche-accident-statistics
    • avalanche-fatalities
    • fatalities-in-or-around-buildings
    • fatalities-in-settlements
    • fatalities-in-terrain-close-to-ski-areas
    • fatalities-in-the-backcountry
    • fatalities-on-transportation-corridors
  • Fatal avalanche accidents in Switzerland since 1995-1996

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    Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore. This data collection contains information concerning all accidents by snow avalanches causing at least one fatality in...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • avalanche-accident-statistics
    • avalanche-accidents
    • avalanche-fatalities
    • number-of-caught-persons
    • number-of-dead-persons
  • LWF-Tea bag sites

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    Decomposition of plant litter is a key process for the transfer of carbon and nutrients in ecosystems. Carbon contained in the decaying biomass is released to the atmosphere as...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • carbon
    • decomposition
    • forest
    • green-tea
    • litter
    • modeling
    • roiboos
    • tea-bag
    • verification
  • Forecast avalanche danger level European Alps 2011 - 2015

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    This dataset contains the data used in the publication by Techel et al., 2018 Spatial consistency and bias in avalanche forecasts - a case study in the European Alps (Nat Haz...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • avalanche-forecast
    • danger-level
    • european-alps
    • snow
    • warning-regions
  • Hydrochemical Data Collected during Spring-Fall 2022 in the Haute-Mentue Catchment

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    The dataset contains hydrochemical data collected from spring to fall 2022 in the Haute-Mentue catchment, Switzerland. This hydrochemical data includes solute concentrations and...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • catchment
    • catchment-data
    • groundwater
    • hydrogen-isotopes
    • oxygen-isotopes
    • solutes
    • stream-water
  • Hydrochemical Data Collected during Spring-Fall 2021 in the Erlenbach Catchment

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    The dataset contains hydrochemical data collected from spring to fall 2021 in the Erlenbach catchment, Switzerland. This hydrochemical data includes solute concentrations and...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • catchment
    • catchment-data
    • erlenbach
    • groundwater
    • hydrogen-isotopes
    • oxygen-isotopes
    • precipitation
    • solutes
    • stream-water
  • Short-term Drainage Density Dynamics Dataset for the Haute-Mentue Catchment

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    The dataset contains time series of water levels, precipitation measured in the two sub-catchments of the Haute-Mentue catchment and its vicinity during summer and autumn 2022, as...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • catchment
    • catchment-data
    • channel
    • drainage
    • drainage-network
    • dynamics
    • precipitation
    • water-level
  • Data on the diet of urban and rural bumblebees

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    Data on the diet of urban and rural bumblebees individuals, Bombus lapidarius and Bombus pascuorum, collected in Switzerland (cantons Bern, Basel and Zürich) obtained using...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • basel
    • bees
    • bern
    • bombus-lapidarius
    • bombus-pasquorum
    • bumblebees
    • dietary-patterns
    • foraging-behaviour
    • lad-use-chages
    • macronutrients
    • nutrient-intake
    • pollen-metabarcoding
    • rural
    • urban
    • zurich
  • Quantitative Wood Anatomy and Maximum Latewood Density from Yamal peninsula

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    Data (Quantitative Wood Anatomy, Maximum Latewood Density, Volumetric Density, holo-cellulose-to-wood-ratio) used in the manuscript "New Prospects for Temperature Reconstructions...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • mxd
    • paleoclimate
    • temperature-reconstruction
    • tree-ring
    • wood-anatomy
  • Tree species profiles from Sentinel-2 time series

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    Tree species profiles from Sentinel-2 time series We obtained tree species-specific Sentinel-2 time series for the years 2019 and 2020. The Sentinel-2 time series originated from...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • remote-sensing
    • sentinel-2
    • switzerland
    • time-series
    • tree-species
  • Nuclear microsatellite genotypes of Pinus cembra

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    The dataset contains individual genotypes at 11 nuclear microsatellite markers of samples of Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra). Samples were collected in 12 natural and presumably...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • afforestation
    • genetic-structure
    • molecular-markers
    • pinus-cembra
    • reproductive-matieral
  • Nuclear microsatellite genotypes of the butterfly Melanargia galathea

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    Individual genotypes assessed at six nuclear microsatellite loci (two alleles per locus) for individuals of the butterfly Melanargia galathea (Marbled white) that were collected...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • conservation-genetics
    • genetic-diversity
    • genetic-structure
    • melanargia-galathea
    • monitoring
  • Spatio-temporal soil and local snow monitoring in a glide-snow avalanche prone slope above Davos Switzerland

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    This dataset consists of spatio-temporal soil measurements and local snow measurements which were recorded to investigate glide-snow avalanche release in the Seewer Berg slope...

    Last updated: March 25, 2025

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    • avalanche
    • avalanche-activity
    • glide-snow-avalanche
    • snow-profile
    • soil-moisture