Sample plot inventory data form the Parc Naturel du Jorat
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 established in 2...
Schynige Platte Alpine Botanical Garden land-use experiment
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 to subal...
Shared Socioeconomic Pathways for Switzerland (SSP-CH): qualitative data for scenario development
This dataset comprises qualitative data for the development of the five Swiss Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP-CH) up to the year 2100. First, it comprises projections of 22 socioeconom...
Short-term Drainage Density Dynamics Dataset for the Erlenbach Catchment
The dataset contains time series of water levels, precipitation measured in the two sub-catchments of the Erlenbach catchment and its vicinity during summer and autumn 2021, as well as fl...
Snow depth, canopy structure and meterorological datasets from the Davos area, Switzerland, Winters 2012/13-2014/15, used for high-resolution forest snow modelling
This dataset contains all snow, canopy and meteorological data presented and used in the publication: Mazzotti, G., Essery, R., Moeser, D. & Jonas T. (2020) 'Resolving spatial variability...
Snow Drift Station - Flowcapt
The FlowCapt is an ultra-robust instrument measuring solid particle acoustic mass - flux intensities (g m&8254; &178; s&8254; &185;) and wind speeds (m s&8254; &185;). It was deployed at ...
Snow Drift Station - Snow and Air Data
Snow and air data was monitored at Gotschnagrat (LON: 46.859 LAT: 9.849) by an infrarot radiometer (Campbell SI-111) for snow temperature (°C), a snow height sensor (Lufft SHM-31) for sno...
Soil microbial diversity and multifunctionality across European biomes
The diversity and network complexity of prokaryotic and fungal communities and their relationships with soil multifunctionality (SMF) – an integrative index for C-, N- and P-cycling funct...
Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands
This dataset contains all data on which the following publication below is based. Paper Citation: Risch, A. C.; Zimmermann, S.; Ochoa-Hueso, R.; Schütz, M.; Frey, B.; Firn, J. L.; Fay, P....
Soil organic carbon stock of an afforestation sequence on a subalpine pasture
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 afforest...
Soil property maps for the Swiss forest
We used 2071 forest soil profiles to model a wide range of soil properties for the forested area of Switzerland. The spatial prediction is based on the principle of «digital soil mapping»...
Soil respiration - exclosure experiment
Location of data collection The Swiss National Park (SNP) is located in the southeastern part of Switzerland, and covers an area of 170 km2, 50 km2 of which is forested, 33 km2 is occupie...
Spatial factors shape taxonomic and functional beta-diversity in water-filled tree holes in different biogeographical regions
These datasets and code support research on the community assemblage of aquatic macroinvertebrates in ephemeral microhabitats, specifically water-filled tree holes (WTH), in three biogeog...
Spatial modelling of ecological indicator values
Ecologically meaningful predictors are often neglected in plant distribution studies, resulting in incomplete niche quantification and low predictive power of species distribution models ...
Stable isotope data from 73 tree and shrub species in a common garden in Basel Switzerland
This dataset contains hydrogen and carbon isotope data from 73 tree and shrub species grown in a common garden (Kannenfeldpark) in Basel, Switzerland. Leaf and twig samples were collected...
Steigerwald_Artificial_Dendrotelms
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 forest patc...
Survey data and R code for a choice experiment on ethical chocolate consumption and supply-chain governance in Switzerland
This repository contains anonymised survey data, choice experiment material, and R code from a multilingual online survey of chocolate consumers in Switzerland conducted in June 2024. The...
Survey data on public support for forest restoration in Europe based on evidence from Sweden and Spain
This dataset accompanies the article Factors influencing public support for forest restoration in Europe: Evidence from Sweden and Spain, published in the journal Ecosystems and People. I...
Swiss Canopy Crane II research site
 This research sit...
SwissLichens - Distribution of lichens in Switzerland
This dataset provides distribution data of lichens in Switzerland of the National Data and Information Centre, called Swiss Lichens. SwissLichens is a partner of InfoSpecies, the network ...
The usage of landscape ecological concepts in the planning literature
Table of content: 1. Frequency of early concepts; 2. Frequency of additional concepts; 3. Use of any early concept; 4. Use of any additional concept, 5. Planning steps; 6. Protocol. The p...
TRAMM project - experimental hydrological and hydrogeological dataset of a landslide prone hillslope. Rufiberg, Switzerland
Rufiberg is a pre-alpine meadow site in Switzerland where shallow landslides have been observed after past intense rain storms. In order to assess the triggering mechanisms of these lands...
Tree measurements 2002-2016 from the long-term irrigation experiment Pfynwald, Switzerland
To study the performance of mature Scots pine (_Pinus sylvestris_ L.) under chronic drought conditions in comparison to their immediate physiological response to drought release, a contro...
Urban bird capture data with prey species and fungal community
We captured birds in urban parks and peri-urban forests in the cities of Lugano and Zurich. The urban sites were located in an urban forest (Lugano) and in a cemetery (Zurich), and the bi...