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89 datasets found

  • Long-term meteorological and snow station at 2090 m a.s.l., Stillberg, Davos, Switzerland (1975 - present)

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    Important This EnviDat entry is outdated. The most recent, usable version of the data can be found under the new EnviDat entry "Long-term meteorological station Stillberg, Davos,...

    Last updated: November 7, 2025

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    • atmospheric-conditions
    • precipitation
    • radiation
    • temperature-profiles
    • wind
  • Forest Canopy Layer

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset provides a LiDAR-based classification of the forest canopy layer for selected Swiss cantons. Combining an area-based and tree-centred approach, forest areas are...

    Last updated: November 11, 2025

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    • forest-canopy
    • forest-management
    • forest-structure
    • lidar
    • mountain-forest
    • nfi
  • Soil measurements of Seewer Berg and Davos

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    The dataset contains measured values of soil liquid water content, matric potential, and soil texture of 40 soil samples in Davos, Switzerland. The measurements were used for...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

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    • alpine
    • glide-snow-avalanche
    • lwc
    • matric-potential
    • measurements
    • soil
    • soil-classification
    • soil-texture
  • Data on interaction diversity in urban gardens

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    The data supports the paper "Local and landscape factors shape alpha and beta trophic interaction diversity in urban gardens". It provides: (1) the host-natural enemy interaction...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

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    • bees
    • cavity-nesting
    • food-webs
    • host-enemy-interactions
    • hymenoptera
    • management-intensity
    • trap-nest
    • urban-ecology
    • urban-ecosystems
    • urbanization
    • wasps
    • zurich
  • Phytodiversity is associated with habitat heterogeneity from Eurasia to Hengduan

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    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

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    • habitat-heterogeneity
    • hengduan-mountains
    • hypervolume
    • model-residuals
    • phytodiversity
  • Illgraben debris-flow characteristics 2023

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    List of key debris flow variables from the WSL Illgraben monitoring station (2023) such as occurrence date and time, peak flow depth, peak flow velocity, total volume and bulk...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

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    • debris-flow
    • force-plate
    • illgraben
    • magnitude
    • monitoring-station
  • On the compressive strength of weak snow layers of depth hoar

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    This repository hosts the experimental data accompanying our publication, “On the compressive strength of weak snow layers of depth hoar,” featured in the Journal of...

    Last updated: November 17, 2025

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    • depth-hoar
    • microstructure
    • slab-avalanche
    • snow
    • snow-mechanics
    • strength
  • The influence of snow microstructure on the compressive mechanical properties of weak snowpack layers

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    Education, culture and sport

    This repository hosts the experimental data accompanying our publication "The influence of snow microstructure on the compressive mechanical properties of weak snowpack layers"...

    Last updated: November 17, 2025

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    • lab-experiment
    • snow
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow-mechanics
    • snow-microstructure
  • Spatial factors shape taxonomic and functional beta-diversity in water-filled tree holes in different biogeographical regions

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    These datasets and code support research on the community assemblage of aquatic macroinvertebrates in ephemeral microhabitats, specifically water-filled tree holes (WTH), in three...

    Last updated: November 26, 2025

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    • beta-diversity
    • community-assembly
    • environmental-factors
    • functional-diversity
    • metacommunity
    • spatial-factors
    • taxonomic-diversity
    • water-filled-tree-holes