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80 datasets found

  • European Snow Booklet – an Inventory of Snow Measurements in Europe

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The European Snow Booklet (ESB) is a book of reference for snow measurements that has been produced through collaboration with many European snow practitioners and snow scientists...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

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    • cost-action-es1404-harmosnow
    • depth-of-snowfall
    • harmonisation-of-snow-measurements
    • snow-depth
    • snow-measurement-methods
    • spatial-distribution-of-snow-observations-in-europe
    • water-equivalent-of-the-snow-cover
  • MadCrypto – Bryophyte and macrolichen diversity in laurel forests of Madeira

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes species lists of bryophytes and macrolichens (presence/absence) sampled on the forest floor and on trees in disturbed and undisturbed plots along elevation...

    Last updated: February 26, 2025

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    • biodiversity
    • bryophyte
    • bryophyte-life-strategy
    • climate-change
    • climate-change-impact
    • disturbance
    • elevational-gradient
    • endemic
    • endemic-species
    • functional-taxonomic-group
    • functional-taxonomic-groups
    • lichen
    • lichen-growth-form
    • lichen-growthform
    • liverwort
    • madeira-island
    • moss
    • photobiont
  • Data on bryophyte diversity and treatment factors in the PaNDiv experiment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset was used to analyse effects of different biodiversity and functional group treatments, fertilizer and fungicide applications as well as weeding of vascular plants on...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • biodiversity-experiment
    • biomass
    • bryophytes
    • functional-traits
    • fungicide
    • grassland
    • moss
    • nitrogen
    • pandiv
    • species-richness
  • Daten Bryolich-Projekt Moose und Flechten in Gärten

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Im Rahmen des Bryolich-Projekts “Moose und Flechten in Gärten” wurden möglichst vollständige Artenlisten von Moosen und Flechten in 26 bzw. 7 Gärten um Wohnhäuser erstellt. In 5...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • bryolich
    • bryophytes
    • diversitat
    • flechten
    • garten
    • lichens
    • moose
  • Schynige Platte Alpine Botanical Garden land-use experiment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset was used for the publication "Boch, Blaser, Föhr, Küchler, Fischer (2024) Haymaking complemented by moderate disturbances can sustain and restore species-rich alpine...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • biodiversity
    • disturbance
    • grassland-management
    • land-use-abandonment
    • vascular-plant
  • Water isotope signatures in Swiss forest ecosystems in 2021 and 2022

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The isotope composition of different forest water pools was analyzed at 10 sites of the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research programme in 2021 and 2022. The sampling was done during...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • PNG
    • forest-ecosystems
    • soil-solution
    • water-budget
    • water-isotopes
    • xylem-water
  • CH-Kleinstwasserkraftwerke - ein schweizweiter Datensatz zu Kleinstwasserkraftwerken

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In der Schweiz werden Wasserkraftanlagen (WKA) mit einer Leistung von mehr als 300 kW systematisch erfasst und in der nationalen Wasserkraftstatistik (WASTA) zusammengetragen. Die...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • datensatz
    • kleinstwasserkraftwerke
    • schweiz
    • speed2zero
    • wasserkraft
  • Fetzer_Khibiny_Treeline_NPcycling

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data on soil nutrients and charcteristics, tree and understory biomass, foliage nutrients, mineralogy, soil temperature and moisture along an elevation gradient from boreal forest...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • biomass-dynamics
    • climate-change
    • plant-community
    • plant-traits
    • soil-nutrients
    • treeline-ecosystems
  • Sample plot inventory data form the Parc Naturel du Jorat

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The Jorat is one of the largest continously forested areas in the Swiss Plateau. On a forested area of 778 ha, the Parc Naturel du Jorat (PNJ), a periurban parc, has been...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • beech
    • forest-in
    • forest-reserves
    • swiss-plateau
    • temperate-forests
  • Soil organic carbon stock of an afforestation sequence on a subalpine pasture

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set provides soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, and stable carbon isotope (13C) values of mineral soil (0-45cm), organic horizons (Oi, Oe, Oa), and root biomass of an...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • XLS
    • afforestation
    • belowground-biomass
    • isotopes
    • picea-abies
    • subalpine
  • Raw data - Artificial night light intensity modulates herbivory and phytochemistry in European beech

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Raw data on plant morphological traits, phytochemistry and herbivory that were analyzed in the study entitled: Artificial night light intensity modulates herbivory and...

    Last updated: March 6, 2025

    • XLS
    • alan
    • european-beech
    • insect-herbivores
    • light-pollution
    • phytochemistry
  • Data on Douglas fir seedlings from the DOCH-WO experiment

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data is related to the publication "Non-native Douglas fir seedlings outcompete native Norway spruce, silver fir and Scots pine under dry and nutrient-poor conditions". It...

    Last updated: March 6, 2025

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    • climate-change
    • douglas-fir
    • drought
    • european-beech
    • norway-spruce
  • Longterm hydrological observatory Alptal (central Switzerland)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes 56 years of hydrometeorological measurements from small (first-order) catchments in the pre-alpine valley Alptal. Here we provide daily mean values; values...

    Last updated: March 17, 2025

    • XLS
    • alptal
    • first-order-catchment
    • meteorological-data
    • runoff
    • snow
    • subalpine
  • Native and no-native plant interactions in Australian grasslands

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

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

    Paper Citation:

    _Schlierenzauer, C., Risch, A.C., Schütz, M., Firn, J. 2021. Non-native...

    Last updated: March 25, 2025

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    • grassland
    • herbivory
    • native-plant
    • non-native-plant
    • weed-management
  • In-situ soil moisture measurements Napf-region

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In the context of landslide early warning research, soil moisture (e.g. volumetric soil water content and soil water potential) has been measured at six locations in the...

    Last updated: March 25, 2025

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    • CSV
    • XLS
    • landslide-early-warning
    • soil-moisture
    • soil-temperature
    • soil-water-content
    • soil-water-matrix-potential
  • Swiss-wide survey on restorative places and road traffic noise

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data related to the Swiss-wide survey of the RESTORE project. This project is a collaboration between the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and...

    Last updated: March 28, 2025

    • PDF
    • CSV
    • XLS
    • landscape-perception
    • outdoor-restoration
    • ppgis
    • survey
    • traffic-noise
  • IMIS Phenology Data Since 1998

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Long-term phenological data in alpine regions are often limited to a few locations and thus, little is known about climate-change induced plant phenological shifts above the...

    Last updated: April 9, 2025

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    • OCTET
    • PNG
    • alpine
    • climate
    • grassland
    • imis
    • long-term
    • monitoring
    • phenology
    • snow
    • snowmelt
    • ultrasonic
  • Chicken Creek 10 years

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Structural and functional changes of microbial communities in ephemeral stream sediments and adjacent soils between was assessed in an artificial newly created catchment at 3 and...

    Last updated: April 23, 2025

    • XLS
    • beta-diversity
    • ecosystem-functions
    • microbial-biodiversity
    • microbial-respiration
    • soil-respiration
  • CALISHTO campaign dataset for the publication On the Drivers of Ice Nucleating Particle Diurnal Variability in Eastern Mediterranean Clouds

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains all observational data sets during CALISHTO campaign used for the paper: Gao, K., Vogel, F., Foskinis, R., Vratolis, S., Gini, M. I., Granakis, K.,...

    Last updated: May 20, 2025

    • XLS
    • aerosol-cloud-interactions
    • biological-particles
    • diurnal-variability
    • dust-particles
    • fluorescent-particles
    • ice-nucleation
  • Evaluating the predictive performance of human avalanche forecasts and model predictions in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set was used in the analysis by Techel et al. **Can model-based avalanche forecasts match the discriminatory skill of human danger level forecasts? A comparison from...

    Last updated: June 30, 2025

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • avalanche-forecast
    • avalanche-release-probability
    • forecast-models
    • machine-learning
    • spatial-modelling