EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
Datasets from EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal (586)
trophiCH v1 - a food web for Switzerland
Environmental pressures on species can cascade within food webs and even extend beyond individual ecosystems to interconnected systems at large spatial scales. To facilitate the explorati...
UAS based snow depth maps Brämabüel, Davos, CH
This snow depth map was generated 14 January 2015, close to peak of winter accumulation, applying Unmanned Aerial System digital surface models with a spatial resolution of 10 cm. The cov...
UAV-derived Digital Surface Models and orthoimages for three alpine glaciers
UAV-derived DSMs and orthoimages Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveys were conducted between 2015 and 2016 on the Sankt Annafirn, Findelen- and Griesgletscher, situated in the Swiss Alp...
Unconfined compression experiments and 3D CT images of spherical model snow and RG snow samples
For the investigation of microstructural and mechanical properties of snow unconfined compression experiments and 3D computed tomography (CT) imaging were performed on sintered rounded gr...
Understanding snow saltation parameterizations - Reproducibility
This dataset includes the necessary files to reproduce the results presented in Melo et al. (2024): - code version used in the simulations (also available at the institutional [GitLab rep...
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...
Urban bird predation on artificial caterpillars
We established our study sites in the cities of Basel, Lugano and Zurich, and their peri-urban forests. We characterised urban tree cover of each city using a rectangular grid with square...
Urban bird predation on horse chestnut leaf miner Cameraria ohridella in three Swiss cities
We established our study sites in the cities of Basel, Lugano and Zurich. We characterised urban tree cover of each city using a rectangular grid with squares of 100x100 m. Within each sq...
Urban birds point counts data
The study area included the cities of Basel, Lugano and Zurich. The sampling design reflected four main city districts related to four categories of tree cover (Figure 1): 1) industrial/c...
Validating and improving the critical crack length in SNOWPACK
To validate the critical crack length as implemented in the snow cover model SNOWPACK, PST experiments were conducted for three winter seasons (2015-2017) at two field site above Davos, S...
Validation Data for Rockfall Simulations with Geometric Roughness Model
This dataset contains all necessary data to reproduce the validation simulations performed in the linked manuscript. The validation data includes: - 2 cm DEM of the study site Weissfluhj...
Vegetation Height Model LiDAR NFI
Countrywide **vegetation height models (VHM)** were generated for Switzerland based on LiDAR data acquired in the framework of the **swissSURFACE3D** campaign (swisstopo). To derive vege...
Vegetation Height Model Sentinel NFI
Countrywide vegetation height models (VHM) were generated for Switzerland based on Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery and the digital terrain model (DTM) swissALTI3D from the Swiss Federal Off...
Vertebrate and plant taxa recovered from 10 catchments in Vaud using an eDNA-metabarcoding approach
This dataset contains the results of a five-day field excursion which the extent to which eDNA sampling can capture the diversity of a region with highly heterogeneous habitat patches acr...
Visp, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards
High quality meteorological data are needed for long-term forest ecosystem research, particularly in the light of global change. The long-term data series published here comprises almost ...
Vordemwald, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1996 onwards
High quality meteorological data are needed for long-term forest ecosystem research, particularly in the light of global change. The long-term data series published here comprises almost ...
Wasserschloss Europas
*english description below Die Schweiz als „Wasserschloss Europas“ ist eine etablierte Bezeichnung im öffentlichen Diskurs, die sich im Laufe der Zeit zu einer identitätsstiftenden Metaph...
Water isotope signatures in Swiss forest ecosystems in 2021 and 2022
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 the ve...
Water-use strategies of temperate tree species
This dataset represents the data shown in the Figures 2 - 7 of Walthert et al. (2024): Coordination between degree of isohydricity and depth of root water uptake in temperate tree species...
Weather Station Davos Wolfgang
The dataset contains weather parameters measured at Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577).
Weather Station Klosters
A weather station (Lufft WS600) measured meteorological parameters at Klosters (LON: 9.880413, LAT: 46.869019). Detailed information on the specifications can be found [here](https://www....
Weissfluhjoch dataset for ESM-SnowMIP
This Weissfluhjoch dataset is a processed version of the Weissfluhjoch dataset version 6 from https://doi.org/10.16904/6. This dataset was specially created for the ESM-SnowMIP project. ...
WFJ_DailySMP - High-Resolution Snow Stratigraphy at Weissfluhjoch -- Davos 2015-ongoing
The WFJ_DailySMP dataset contains daily SnowMicroPen (SMP) measurements conducted throughout the winter seasons 2015-2025 (ongoing) at the Weissfluhjoch research site, Davos, Switzerland....
WFJ_ICE_LAYERS: Multi-instrument data for monitoring deep ice layer formation in an alpine snowpack
The WFJ_ICE_LAYERS dataset contains multi-instrument snowpack measurements at high temporal resolution, which enable to monitor the formation of deep ice layers due to preferential water ...