21st century projections of dry- and wet-snow avalanche activity
This data set includes 21st century projections of dry- and wet-snow avalanche activity for seven sites in the Swiss Alps as well as the downscaled climate scenarios and SNOWPACK configur...
A dataset of 40000 trees with section-wise measured stem diameter and length and volume of branches from across Switzerland
The data presented here were prepared for publication in form of a data paper. The dataset presents an update of the information in Didion M, Herold A, Vulovic Z, Nitzsche J, Stillhard J ...
A grain-size driven transition in the deformation mechanism in slow snow compression
We conducted consecutive loading-relaxation experiments at low strain rates to study the viscoplastic behavior of the intact ice matrix in snow. The experiments were conducted using a mic...
Above- and below-ground herbivore communities along elevation
Despite the common role of above- and below-ground herbivore communities in mediating ecosystem functioning, our understanding of the variation of species communities along natural gradie...
ALS-based snow depth and canopy height maps from flights in 2017 (Grisons, CH and Grand Mesa, CO)
This dataset includes snow depth, canopy height and terrain elevation maps of forest stands in the Grisons (CH) and at Grand Mesa (CO,USA) derived from airborne lidar. Data were acquired ...
Angle of repose experiments with natural and spherical snow
Angle of repose experiments were performed with different snow types at temperatures between -2 and -40°C. They were used to examine granular snow dynamics on the grain-scale with focus ...
Application of CRISPR-Dx and metabarcoding to catchment-level eDNA for terrestrial mammal detection
General description Data associated with the publication "CRISPR-Dx and metabarcoding perform similarly for monitoring mammals with eDNA on the catchment level in high-alpine ecosystems"....
Assessing ecosystem state with environmental DNA of aquatic insects
Data associated to the publication "Environmental DNA sequences from aquatic insects indicate freshwater ecosystem state" Authors: Flurin Leugger, Martina Lüthi, Meret Jucker, Virginie M...
Avalanche fatalities in the European Alps (1969/1970 - 2014/2015)
During the last 45 years, about 100 people lost their lives in avalanches in the European Alps each year. Avalanche fatalities in settlements and on transportation corridors have consider...
Bats in beaver systems
This dataset contains processed bat acoustic data collected to evaluate the ecological impacts of beaver-engineered ponds on bat species richness, activity, and feeding activity. It inclu...
Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) dataset
The Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) dataset includes values for 65 biological and ecological traits and 25 bioclimatic variables for all 1816 bryophytes included in the European Red Lis...
Capillary rise rise experiments in snow using neutron radiography
This dataset consists of data related to capillary rise experiments performed with neutron radiography. There are 4 videos of capillary rise experiments as well as the files used to perfo...
Carabid beetles in forests
Carabidae data from all historic up to the recent projects (21.10.2019) of WSL, collected with various methods in forests of different types. Version 2 ('FIDO_global_extract 2019-11-22_18...
Carbon balance under dual droughts: Disentangling the effects of soil and atmospheric moisture on tree sink and source dynamics in European forests.
Atmospheric drought (high vapor pressure deficit, VPD) and soil drought frequently co-occur, yet plants respond to these stressors through partially distinct physiological pathways, poten...
Compilation of normalized crack propagation speeds
Compilation of normalized crack-propagation speeds (expressed as a fraction of the slab shear-wave speed). The dataset contains crack-propagation speeds from DEM simulations (79 flat and ...
Daily cycles in solar flux, snowmelt, transpiration, groundwater, and streamflow at Sagehen and Independence Creeks, Sierra Nevada, USA
Hydrometerological and ecohydrological time series from Sagehen Creek and Independence Creek, Sierra Nevada, USA, illustrating hydrological responses to daily cycles in snowmelt and evapo...
Data on interaction diversity in urban gardens
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 network...
Data on wild bee taxonomic and functional diversity in Switzerland
Raw data supporting the paper "Countrywide wild bee taxonomic and functional diversity reveal a spatial mismatch between alpha and beta-diversity facets across multiple ecological gradien...
Data set on interfacial supercooling and the precipitation of hydrohalite in frozen NaCl solutions by X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Laboratory experiments are presented on the phase change at the surface of sodium chloride – water mixtures at temperatures between 259 K and 240 K. High selectivity to the upper few nano...
Ecological properties of urban ecosystems. Biodiversity dataset of Zurich
Richness, site occurrence and abundance data of bees, beetles, birds, hoverflies, net-wingeds, true bugs, snails, spiders, milipides, wasps collected in the city of Zurich using different...
eemma.R, an R script for Ensemble End-Member Mixing Analysis
The R script eemma.R, which implements Ensemble End-Member Mixing Analysis (EEMMA) to estimate source fractions in mixtures, exploiting information contained in time-series correlations a...
Energy- and momentum-conserving model of splash entrainment in sand and snow saltation
The files contain the datasets used to produce Figures 2, 3, and 4 of the manuscript ([doi: 10.1002/2016GL071822](http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071822)). Manuscript Abstract: Despite b...
European Beech tree-ring dataset 1952-2020
This dataset contains the raw ring-width and climate data (1952-2020), as well as the R code to run the model and the model output used in the research article "No future growth enhanceme...
Expedition to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station, 2016/2017
This dataset contains the data acquired during the expedition to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station in December 2016 and January 2017. The dataset consits of meterorological data, drif...