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Study sites and experimental design
We collected data from 23 sites that are part of the Nutrient Network Global Research Cooperative (NutNet, https://nutnet.umn.edu/). The mean annual air temperature (MAT) across these sites ranged from -4 to 22°C, mean annual precipitation (MAP) from 252 to 1592 mm, and elevations from 6 to 4261 m above sea level (Fig 1a, Supplementary Table S1), hence cover a wide range of climatic conditions under which grasslands occur (Fig 1b). Soil organic C concentrations ranged between 0.8 to 7.8%, soil total N concentrations between 0.1 and 0.6%, and the soil C:N ratio between 9.1 and 21.5. Soil clay content spanned from 3.0 to 35%, and soil pH from 3.4 to 7.6 (Supplementary Table S2).
At each site, the effects of nutrient addition and herbivore exclusion were tested via a randomized-block design (Borer et al., 2014). Three blocks with 10 treatment plots each were established at each site, except for the site at bldr.us (only two blocks). Each of these 10 plots was randomly assigned to a nutrient or fencing treatment. An individual plot was 5 x 5 m, divided into four 2.5 x 2.5 m subplots. Each subplot was further divided into four 1 x 1 m square sampling plots, one of which was set aside for soil sampling (Borer et al., 2014). Plots were separated by at least 1 m wide walkways. We collected soil samples from four different treatments for this study: (i) untreated control plots (Control), (ii) herbivore exclusion plots (Fence), (iii) plots fertilized with N, P, K, plus nine essential macro and micronutrients (NPK), and (iv) plots with simultaneous fertilizer addition and herbivore exclusion (NPK+Fence). The experiments were established at different times in the past, with years of treatment different among sites (2 – 9 years since start of treatment; Supplementary Table S1). For the nutrient additions, all sites applied 10 g N m-2 each year as time-release urea; 10 g P m-2 yr-1 as triple-super phosphate; 10 g K m-2 yr-1 as potassium sulfate. A micro-nutrient mix (Fe, S, Mg, Mn, Cu, Zn, B, Mo, Ca) was applied at 100 g m-2 together with K in the first year of treatments but not thereafter.
We excluded large vertebrate herbivores (Fence) by fencing two plots, one with and one without NPK additions, within each block. The fences excluded all aboveground mammalian herbivores with a body mass of over 50 g (Borer et al., 2014). At most sites, the fences were 180 cm high, and the fence contained a wire mesh (1 cm holes) for the bottom 90 cm with a 30 cm outward-facing flange stapled to the ground to exclude burrowing animals. Climbing and subterranean animals may potentially still access these plots (Borer et al., 2014). For slight modifications in fence design at a few sites see Supplementary Table S3. Most sites only had wild herbivores, although four sites were also grazed by domestic animals (Supplementary Table S1).

Collection of soil samples, soil microbial respiration, microbial biomass, and other soil properties
Each of the 23 sites received a package containing identical material from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland to be used for sampling (Risch et al., 2015; Risch et al., 2019). We collected two soil cores of 5 cm diameter and 12 cm depth in each sampling plot and composited them to measure MR, MBC, and soil chemical properties (see below). An additional sample (5 x 12 cm) was collected to assess soil physical properties. This sample remained within a steel sampling core after collection and both ends were tightly closed with plastic caps to avoid disturbance. All soils were shipped cooled to the laboratory at (Location will be disclosed after manuscript acceptance) within a few days after collection. Soils were sampled roughly 6 weeks prior to peak biomass at each site during 2015 and 2016.
To assess MR (CO2 production) in a laboratory incubation experiment we weighed duplicate soil samples (8 g dry soil equivalent) into 50-ml Falcon tubes. No additional substrate (glucose, sugar) was added to these samples. We adjusted the soil moisture of each sample to 60% field capacity. We then placed a 15 ml plastic test tube (Semadeni 1701A) containing 7.25 ml 0.05 M NaOH over each soil sample. The test tube was fixed with a plastic rod so that it was not in contact with the soil sample. The Falcon tubes were then sealed with a screw cap and placed in an incubator under completely dark conditions at 20°C. The CO2 produced by microbial respiration was absorbed by the 0.05 M NaOH. For five weeks we measured the decrease in conductivity within the 0.05 M NaOH solution on a weekly basis with a Multimeter WTW Multi 3410 (WTW GmbH, Germany) and replaced the 0.05 M NaOH with fresh solution. We included Falcon tubes without soil samples in each incubation run as blanks to test if tubes were tight and no CO2 could enter or escape. We calibrated the relationship between conductivity reduction and NaOH absorbed as follows: 400 ml 0.05 M NaOH was placed in a beaker and its conductivity was measured with the multimeter. While stirring, air containing CO2 was blown into the solution for approximately one minute, which reacts with NaOH to form Na2CO3. After this process, conductivity was measured again. We then transferred 7.25 ml of the solution into a smaller beaker and added 1 ml of 0.1 M BaCl2 to precipitate Na2CO3 and then titrated the solution with 0.05 M HCl to determine the remaining NaOH. We then repeated these steps with the remaining solution a total of nine times and plotted the conductivities (y-axis) against the NaOH consumed (x-axis, Supplementary Fig S1). This regression line was used to infer the consumption of NaOH from the conductivity reduction in the incubation experiments and to calculate CO2 evolution during incubation. In addition, we determined the optimum concentration for the NaOH solution in series of preliminary experiments, so that the concentration was not too high to become insensitive, but also not too low so that not all NaOH reacts during incubation. We then calculated MR (mg CO2-C kg dry soil-1 h-1) as total amount of CO2 released over the 5 weeks divided by the duration of the entire incubation in hrs.
Soil microbial biomass carbon (MBC; mg C kg soil-1 ) was measured at the beginning of the experiment by measuring the maximal respiratory response to the addition of glucose solution (4 mg glucose per g soil dry weight dissolved in distilled water; substrate-induced respiration method) on approximately 5.5 g of soil (J. P. E. Anderson & Domsch, 1978; Nico Eisenhauer et al., 2018; Scheu, 1992). For this purpose we used an O2-micro-compensation apparatus (Scheu, 1992). More specifically, substrate-induced respiration was calculated from the respiratory response to D-glucose for 10 hr at 20°C. Glucose was added according to preliminary studies to saturate the catabolic enzymes of microorganisms (4 mg g soil-1 dissolved in 400 ml deionized water). The mean of the lowest three readings within the first 10 hrs (between the initial peak caused by disturbing the soil and the peak caused by microbial growth) was taken as maximum initial respiratory response (MIRR; ml O2 kg soil-1 h-1) and microbial biomass (mg C kg soil-1) was calculated as 38 x MIRR (Beck et al., 1997; Cesarz et al., 2022; Thakur et al., 2015).
The rest of the composited sample was dried at 65°C for 48 h, ground and sieved (2 mm mesh) to assess the soil pH, mineral soil total C and N and C:N ratio, and mineral soil organic C (Risch et al., 2019). The undisturbed sample was used to assess water holding capacity (WHC), bulk density (BD), and soil texture [sand, silt, clay; methods in (Risch et al., 2019)]. We used the percentage of sand and clay as an indicator of soil texture in this study. MAT (°C), MAP (mm) and temperature of the wettest quarter (°C) were obtained from www.worldclim.com (Fick & Hijmans, 2017; Hijmans, Cameron, Parra, Jones, & Jarvis, 2005). These variables were selected as they were found to be drivers of soil nutrient processes across these sites in earlier studies (Risch et al., 2020; Risch et al., 2019). Mean annual soil temperatures (MAST; °C) for the 0 to 5 cm soil layer were obtained for each site from the SoilTemp maps (J. Lembrechts et al., 2021; J. J. Lembrechts et al., 2022), global gridded modelled products of soil bioclimatic variables for the 1979-2013 period at a 1-km² resolution, based on CHELSA, ERA5 and in-situ soil temperature measurements.
Numerical calculations and statistical analyses
We calculated MMQ as MR/MBC. We corrected this measure using the average soil temperature of each site (MMQsoil). This temperature correction is necessary as incubation temperatures are usually much higher than site mean annual soil temperatures (see Xu et al. 2017). MMQsoil = MMQ x Q10(MAST – 20)/10, where Q10 was assumed to be 2 (Xu et al. 2017). See Supplementary Fig S2 for comparison of air and soil temperatures across the 23 sites as well as the incubation temperature.
Some of the explanatory variables (clay, soil organic C, C:N ratio) were skewed and were thus log-transformed prior to analyses. All continuous explanatory variables were centred and scaled to have a mean of zero and variance of one. To avoid collinearity between them we filtered them using correlation analysis (Supplementary Fig S3). From the variables that were strongly correlated (Pearson’s |r| > 0.70) (Dormann et al., 2013), we selected the ones that allowed us to minimize the number of variables (Supplementary Fig S3). Specifically, soil total N concentration, soil total C concentration, soil sand content and soil bulk density were dropped from the dataset. We then assessed how these edaphoclimatic variables are related to MMQ across our global grasslands.
For this, we used linear mixed effects models (LMMs) fitted by maximum likelihood with the lme function in the nlme package (version 3.1-153) (Pinheiro, Bates, DebRoy, & Sarkar, 2021) in R version 3.6.3. (R Core Team, 2019). We used treatment as a fixed effect and plot nested in site as random effects to assess treatment differences in MMQsoil, as well as MR, and MBC. The number of years since the treatment started was included as a fixed effect in all the initial models but was not significant and therefore not retained in the models. To assess how differences in MMQsoil were affected by environmental factors (soil, climatic properties) we again used LMMs. Soil and climatic properties were included as fixed effects and plot nested in site as random effects. We did not include interactions between environmental variables. We then used the MuMin package (Barton, 2018) (version 1.42.1) to select the best models that explained the most variation based on Akaike’s information criterion (AIC; model.avg function). We used the corrected AIC (AICc) to account for our small sample size and selected the top models that fell within 4 AICc units (delta AICc < 4) (Burnham & Anderson, 2002; Johnson & Omland, 2004). We present all our top models rather than model averages. Conditional averages are provided in the Supplementary material.
Based on findings from analyses described above and the literature, we developed a conceptual model of direct and indirect relationships between both edaphoclimatic variables and experimental treatments (Supplement Figure S4) to obtain a more holistic approach in understanding how these properties affect MMQsoil. We had data from 23 sites with 272 observations. We tested this model using structural equation modelling based on a d-sep approach (Lefcheck, 2016; Shipley, 2009). We considered those environmental drivers that were included in our top LMMs, namely temperature of the wettest quarter (T.q.wet), soil pH, water holding capacity (WHC) and soil organic C (organic C; Supplementary Figure S4). These factors were allowed to directly affect MMQsoil, and via their interactions with treatments. In addition, treatments were allowed to directly affect MMQsoil. Treatments were included as dummy variables in the model. We tested our conceptual model (Supplementary Fig S4) using the piecewiseSEM package (version 2.0.2; Lefcheck, 2016) in R 3.4.0, in which a structured set of linear models are fitted individually. This approach allowed us to account for the nested experimental design, and overcome some of the limitations of standard structural equation models, such as small sample sizes (Lefcheck, 2016; Shipley, 2009). We used the lme function of the nlme package to model response variables, including site as a random factor. Good fit of the SEM was assumed when Fisher’s C values were non-significant (p > 0.05). For all significant interactions between soil or climate variables and treatments detected in the SEMs, we calculated treatment effect sizes, i.e., the differences in MMQsoil between Control and treatments as log response ratios (LRR) and plotted these values against the climate or soil factors. The LRR were defined as log(Control/Treatment), where treatment was either Fence, NPK or NPK+Fence. To assess which of the LRR-climate or soil property relationships were significant we again used LMMs, in which soil and climatic properties were included as fixed effects and plot nested in site as random effects.

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

Paper Citation:

Risch Anita C., Zimmermann, Stefan, Schütz, Martin, Borer, Elizabeth T., Broadbent, Arthur A.D., Caldeira, Maria C., Davies, Kendi F., Eisenhauer, Nico, Eskelinen, Anu, Fay, Philip A., Hagedorn, Frank, Knops, Johannes M.H., Lembrechts, Jonas, J., MacDougall, Andrew S., McCulley, Rebecca L., Melbourne, Brett A., Moore, Joslin L., Power, Sally A., Seabloom, Eric W., Silveira, Maria L., Virtanen, Risto, Yahdjian, Laura, Ochoa-Hueso, Raul (accepted). Drivers of the microbial metabolic quotient across global grasslands. Global Ecology and Biogeography

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The microbial metabolic quotient (MMQ; mg CO2-C mg MBC-1 h-1), defined as the amount of microbial CO2 respired (MR; mg CO2-C kg soil-1 h-1) per unit of microbial biomass C (MBC; mg C kg soil-1), is a key parameter for understanding the microbial regulation of the carbon (C) cycle, including soil C sequestration. Here, we experimentally tested hypotheses about the individual and interactive effects of multiple nutrient addition (NPK+micronutrients) and herbivore exclusion on MR, MBC, and MMQ across 23 sites (5 continents). Our sites encompassed a wide range of edaphoclimatic conditions, thus we assessed which edaphoclimatic variables affected MMQ the most and how they interacted with our treatments. Soils were collected in plots with established experimental treatments. MR was assessed in a five-week laboratory incubation without glucose addition, MBC via substrate-induced respiration. MMQ was calculated as MR/MBC and corrected for soil temperatures (MMQsoil). Using LMMs and SEMs, we analysed how edaphoclimatic characteristics and treatments interactively affected MMQsoil. MMQsoil was higher in locations with higher mean annual temperature, lower water holding capacity, and soil organic C concentration, but did not respond to our treatments across sites as neither MR nor MBC changed. We attributed this relative homeostasis to our treatments to the modulating influence of edaphoclimatic variables. For example, herbivore exclusion, regardless of fertilization, led to greater MMQsoil only at sites with lower soil organic C (<1.7%). Our results pinpoint the main variables related to MMQsoil across grasslands and emphasize the importance of the local edaphoclimatic conditions in controlling the response of the C cycle to anthropogenic stressors. By testing hypotheses about MMQsoil across global edaphoclimatic gradients, this work also helps to align the conflicting results of prior studies.

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en: Amphibian species specific landscape resistance maps.

en: For each amphibian species we used the weighted average Ensemble model suitability map and converted it to a resistance map using an exponential decay function following (Duflot et al., 2018) using the species-specific mpa threshold previously computed (Preau et al., 2020). The function assigns a resistance value of 1,000 when habitat suitability equals zero, and a value of one when habitat suitability is greater than or equal to the binarization threshold. The exponential shape strengthens the barrier effect of less favorable areas.

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Amphibian whole life cycle predictors include 6 variable types:
(1)	Topographic – slope [°]: derived from the Swiss Topographical Landscape model (swissTLM 3D 2015) at 2 m resolution (elevation uncertainty ± 0.5m) and, subsequently, aggregated to a median value;
(2)	Hydrologic: two predictors including nearest distance to water [m] (all water-related objects and rasterized lotic, lentic and reedbeds from the regional cadastral maps – AV: Daten der Amtliche Vermessung) and runoff coefficient [C] (between 0 and 1 relating amount of runoff to amount of precipitation, mapped AV: Daten der Amtliche Vermessung data against literature values for different land covers);
(3)	Edaphic – soil moisture variability (not available): can gathered from the spatial modelling of Ecological Indicator Values in Switzerland (Descombes et al., 2020) and resampled from 100m to 10m;
(4)	Vegetation: we calculated the median and standard deviation of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) from all available cloud free Sentinel-2 pixels available between April and October for the years 2016 to 2019 (Drusch et al., 2012) and the median vegetation height [m] (not available) can gathered from Ginzler and Hobi (2015);
(5)	Land-use derived: includes three predictors, grassland density [grassland/cell] (not available) - can be gathered from Pazur et al. (2021), total grasslands area evaluated using a spatial weight matrix and a 250m neighborhood radius around each cell; urbanization [buildings/cell] – average building density for a 250m neighborhood around each cell based on the AV: Daten der Amtliche Vermessung ; and traffic intensity [vehicles/day] – average daily vehicle count (Nationales Personenverkehrsmodells);
(6)	Movement-ecology related: includes three predictors of proximity – nearest forest distance [m]; nearest rock-gravel and sandy area (RGS) distance [m] and nearest road distance [m] (considering any road type) – all calculated based on the AV: Daten der Amtliche Vermessung maps.

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en: Processed amphibian occurrence data (2017-2019) in the cantons of Aargau and Zürich. The dataset includes information for the following species: _Alytes obstetricans_,_Bombina variegata_, _Bufo bufo_, _Hyla arborea_, _Ichtyosaura alpestris_, _Lissotriton helveticus_, _Lissotriton vulgaris_, _Rana temporaria_, _Salamandra salamandra_, and _Triturus cristatus_.

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en: "Green" landcover refers to lawns and vegetated urban surfaces such as, for example private gardens, public parks, cemeteries, green stripes along roadsides, etc. While "grey" landcover refers to impervious grounds such as roads, troittoirs, other impervious. Binarized maps, 30x30m resolution.

en: The data includes (1) amphibian occurrence data (2017-2019) for ten species across the cantons of Aargau and Zürich gathered from the Coordination Center for the Protection of Amphibians and Reptiles of Switzerland (http://www.karch.ch), (2) amphibian whole-life cycle environmental predictors (i.e. topographic, hydrologic, edaphic, vegetation, land-use derived, movement-ecology related), and (3) local urban "green" and "grey" landcover data which can be used to identify opportunities for Blue-Green Infrastructure (through green or grey transitions) in support of regional landscape connectivity.

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de: EnviDat ist das Datenportal der WSL für einen einheitlichen und verwalteten Zugang zu Umweltdaten aus Monitoring- und Forschungsprojekten. Auf dem Portal können Datensätze gehostet und veröffentlicht werden. Durch die weltweite Bereitstellung einzigartiger und wertvoller Datensätze leistet EnviDat einen Beitrag zur Forschung im Bereich der Umweltwissenschaften.

it: EnviDat è il portale dati del WSL che fornisce un accesso unificato e gestito ai dati di monitoraggio ambientale e di ricerca. Il portale ha la capacità di ospitare e pubblicare serie di dati preziosi e unici che vengono condivisi in tutto il mondo. Così facendo, EnviDat promuove la ricerca e contribuisce al progresso della scienza ambientale.

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Volume of stemwood with bark of all trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh removed from the forest as a result of damage occurring between two inventories, in this case windthrow, and not because of management planning. This theme is derived on the level of a sample plot from the cutting of the sample trees and the salvage cut proportion (according to information from the forester). *In the calculation no D7/tree height data were used. The values calculated like this have not been corrected for bias, but allow for cantons or forest districts a more robust estimation of changes and could thus be better interpreted.

Citation:
 > _Abegg, M.; Brändli, U.-B.; Cioldi, F.; Fischer, C.; Herold-Bonardi, A.; Huber M.; Keller, M.; Meile, R.; Rösler, E.; Speich, S.; Traub, B.; Vidondo, B. (2014). Fourth national forest inventory - result tables and maps on the Internet for the NFI 2009-2013 (NFI4b). [Published online 06.11.2014] Available from World Wide Web http://www.lfi.ch/resultate/ Birmensdorf, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. [doi:10.21258/1057112](https://doi.org/10.21258/1057112)_

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en: The used Orthophoto with a 4 cm resolution, based on the flight survey with the eBee-UAV from the 24 Jan. 2020.

en: The here presented code generates discrete three-dimensional, RAMMS::ROCKFALL readable deadwood log files (.pts-format) of windtrown forests, including the pilling effect due to slightly different throw directions.

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Continuous measurement of soil water content at 15, 50 and 70 cm depth in Visp (3 replications) with TDR soil moisture probes (Tektronix 1502 B) from 2001 until 25.04.2013

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Improve the available data for the calibration or validation of the water balance models, i.e. the determination of the water flux needed for calculating the leaching fluxes.

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This poster was originally created for the swissuniversities Open Science Action Plan: Kick-Off Forum, and showed to the audience on 17.10.2019. It illustrates how the environmental data portal EnviDat provides the tools for fostering Open Science and Reproducibility of scientific research at WSL.

Supporting open science is a highly relevant user requirement for EnviDat and for implementing FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability) principles at dataset level.
EnviDat encourages WSL scientists to complement data publication with a complete description of research methods and the inclusion of the open source software, code or scripts used for processing the dataset or for obtaining the published results. By openly publishing open software (e.g. as Jupyter notebooks) alongside research data sets, researchers can contribute to mitigate reproducibility issues.

EnviDat also promotes and supports, where possible and practical, the publication of software as Jupyter notebooks. Jupyter notebooks provide a solution for improved documentation and interactive execution of open code in a wide range of programming languages (Python, R, Octave/Matlab, Java or Scala). These programming languages are widely used in environmental research at WSL and well supported by the Jupyter-compatible kernels. We have sucessfully interfaced EnviDat-hosted notebooks with the WSL High-Performance Computing (HPC) Linux Cluster through a JupyterHub/JuypterLab beta installation on the HPC cluster implemented in close collaboration with the WSL IT-Services.
For existing software that cannot be easily migrated to Jupyter Notebooks, the Open Science and Reproducibility is assisted by containerisation. We have proven that several Singularity containers can successfully run on WSL's HPC cluster.

Finally, the researchers can upload the data/results complemented by code (e.g. as Jupyter Notebooks, or Singularity containers) and any additional documentation in EnviDat. Consequently, they will receive a DOI for the entire dataset, which they can reference in their science paper in order to publish a more reproducible research.

_License_: This poster is released by WSL and the EnviDat team to the public domain under a Creative Commons 4.0 CC0 "No Rights Reserved" international license. You can reuse this poster in any way you want, for any purposes and without restrictions.

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 A spatial dataset and tool to simultaneously assess hydropower potential and ecological potential of the Swiss river network (Version 2016)

 Introduction
The steadily growing demand for energy and the simultaneous pursuit of decarbonisation are increasing interest in the expansion of renewable energies worldwide. In Switzerland, various funding projects have been launched to promote technologies in the field of renewable energies and their application as quickly as possible. With the introduction of a funding instrument in 2009, the number of projects submitted to produce renewable energies increased rapidly. The applications for small hydropower plants (≤ 10 MW) were correspondingly numerous. However, the assessment of the environmental impact and its comparison with hydropower importance is still not standardized.
To provide a basis for decision-making, a methodology was developed to determine the overall hydropower potential of a region. A detailed assessment of each river reach, and the systematic and holistic assessment of small hydropower projects at a regional scale are combined here. The assessment of a river reach is conducted at the river space (i.e., the river and adjacent areas) and at the surrounding landscape level. The HYDROpot_integral methodology was developed as part of Carol Hemund's dissertation (2012) at the University of Bern. It allows the evaluation of river reaches holistically, regarding ecological, social, economic and cultural criteria. As a second part of the overall project, the theoretical hydropower (or hydraulic) potential was calculated for the entire river network, which complemnets the spatial assessment. In particular, it is possible to classify river reaches into those that are more suitable for hydropower production (=”use”) and those that are more suitable for protection.

 Material and method
The HYDROpot_Integral method was developed and tested on the basis of cantonal and national data (Hirschi et al. 2013). The method relies on 73 geodata sets. This holistic assessment is the key element of the entire assessment procedure. Its aim is to quantify the importance of the ecosystem functions in terms of services. The river network (GWN07) is divided into reaches of about 450m and for each reach two study units are defined. The river space (RS) records the ecosystem functions of the water body and the nearby riparian area. The length of the RS is 315 m on average in Switzerland and a maximum of 450 m, whereas the width is based on the FOEN definition (BWG 2001: 18f) and varies between 7-107 m. The surrounding landscape (SLS) is the second survey unit that records the ecosystem functions of the surrounding area over a range of 21 m to 321 m. The SLS is calculated over three times the RS width. The length of the SLS is identical to the length of the RS. The ecosystem functions are divided into three types: regulating (service A), cultural (service B) and provisioning (service C) functions. Accordingly, the assessment of the functions is divided into three parts and three values are assigned to each river reach. The more functions there are and the greater their performance, the higher these values are and the more important the corresponding functions are. Hence, these values quantify the importance of the ecosystem functions and the ecological, cultural and economic ecosystem services of each river reach. The concatenation of ecosystem services results in a value (ABC) that can occur in 125 different versions due to the chosen five-level value scale; i.e. each digit of the three-digit number sequence can be assigned a value between 1 and 5. Each of the 125 combinations, and thus each river reach, has its own characteristics determined by the assessments of the three function types. To record the suitability, the combinations are ranked according to their ecological, cultural and economic ecosystem services. These rules mean that the combination that is most suitable for hydropower production at minimum cost in terms of ecological and cultural ecosystem services and has a high economic potential is ranked first; rank 125 indicates the highest ecological and cultural ecosystem services and the lowest economic services and is therefore most suitable for protection. A river reach that is excluded from hydropower use due to legislation, a so-called priority reach, is given rank 126 from the outset and specially marked. A more detailed description of the methods can be found in Hirschi et al. 2013 [Link]. The dataset presented here presents the latest state of the HYDROpot_integral methodology applied at the national level. Only national data that is easily accessible was used in the preparation of the dataset. The cantonal data, such as renaturation and revitalization, would have to be requested by each canton individually and was excluded here. The nationwide value synthesis was made with R.
A list of data sources can be found here [link to text file]
A list of all parameters can be downloaded here [link to PDF and text files]

 Dataset description
Data is presented as a single shapefile. It contains the river network and all assessment results obtained with HYDROpot_Integral.

 Changes in the methodology compared to the original method (Hirschi et. al 2013)

 * RS_A11 Ecomorphology: recorded for the whole of Switzerland and zero values equated with NA;
individual cantons such as Zug and St. Gallen have no mapped values according to the modular
concept of the federal government, Valais and Graubünden only the main valleys, Ticino and Fribourg not
completely (BAFU 2009).
 * RS_A14 Renaturation and revitalization data: not centrally available at the time of data collection.
centrally available, therefore values in GR were equated with NA.
 * RS_A15 Dilution ratio at wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) for discharges: Zero values
equal to NA.
 * RS_A20 Water flow: use WASTA (2013) with hydroelectric power plants (> 300 kW) under
Federal control and dams serving hydroelectricity (Dam, as of 2013).
 * RS_C05 Synoptic hazard maps: are cantonally managed at the time of data collection,
Values in GR are marked with a 5 so that the systematics in the decision tree is not affected.
is affected.
 * Water quality (RS_A15, RS_A16, RS_A17, RS_A18, RS_A19): for the evaluation of the function type.
A Nature, it is important whether the median of the five values is less than or equal to 3 in total. This
evaluation is based on the decision tree for evaluating GR (Hirschi et al. 2013:22).
Therefore, an evaluation of the station data is made where critical and possible river segments
with poor quality (median less than 3) exist. Only two longer and one short
sections in Switzerland receive a lower median than 3 for water quality.
 * SLS_B06 Visibility: For 99 percent of the river segments (30,733 of 31,062) in the canton of
Bern (2015 reduced version), the landscape area is considered to be visible. Due to this high number
of sections, a large number of viewpoints in the layer of Swisstopo and
the computation time and computability in ArcGIS, the landscape area is classified as generally viewable
(equal to 1).
16 Method
Additional indicators were added (see Appendix B.2):
 * SLS_A21 Dissection
 * SLS_A22 Forest areas
 * SLS_B03 Hiking trails
 * SLS_B10 Residential and vacation homes
 * SLS_B11 Tourist infrastructure
 * SLS_C01 Landfill
 * SLS_C03 Infrastructure
 * SLS_C05 Industry
 * SLS_C06 Agricultural land
Not to be added, although present to some extent:
 * SLS_B06 Cultural assets of national importance: here, too, the calculability of the visibility analysis is
for the whole of Switzerland is limited
 * SLS_A15 Legally binding protection and land use planning: the individual river sections are not
clearly designated, i.e. no geodata exist
The following data are also not supplemented, as they are cantonal data:
 * SLS_A10 Cantonal nature reserves
 * SLS_A16 Forest reserves
 * SLS_A17 Cantonal inventories and contractually protected areas

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digitizing-historical-plague

maintainer: Christian Ginzler

title_for_slug: digitizing-historical-plague

en: yersinia-pestis plague-inventory plague-mapping palaeo-epidemiology bubonic-plague historical-plague plague-outbreaks black-death

media_type: application/zip

en: We present newly digitized data on 6,929 plague outbreaks that occurred between 1347 and 1900 AD across Europe. The data base on an inventory initially published 1976. For georeferencing the information of Tele Atlas 2009 was used. The coordinates are in the reference systems ETRS89 and WGS84.

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plague-inventory

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plague-mapping

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plague-outbreaks

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en: Digitizing historical plague


maintainer: Nander Wever

en: wind-direction wind-speed precipitation-amount longwave-radiation air-temperature humidity shortwave-radiation snow-ice-temperature snow-depth

en: Version 3

en:
Deprecated version. Release notes:

Bug fix: in version 2, the undercatch correction was not applied correctly

Bug fix: in version 2, snow lysimeter data was missing for extended periods of time

Update: dataset extended to 2016-01-02T00:30

Update: refreshing data originating from MeteoSwiss (particularly precipitation)

en: Version 7 (current)

en:
Release notes:

Bug fix: in previous versions, snow lysimeter data from September 2010 onwards was erroneously reported for UTC+2, instead of UTC+1 (i.e., reported one hour later than should have been).

Update: dataset extended to 2017-07-11T00:30.

en: All versions

en: SNOWPACK ini file (old syntax)

en: This ini-file can be used to run SNOWPACK simulations with the WFJ data set, using version 3.4.0 or higher.

en: Version 1

en:
Deprecated version. Release notes:

First release of dataset.

en: SNOWPACK sno file

en: This sno-file can be used to run SNOWPACK simulations with the WFJ data set, using version 3.4.0 or higher.

en: Version 4

en:
Deprecated version. Release notes:

Update: dataset extended to 2016-09-02T00:30

Update: refreshing data originating from MeteoSwiss (particularly precipitation)

en: Version 6

en:
Deprecated version.

Release notes:

- Missing ISWR for 2009-09-30 and 2010-04-30 has been replaced by data from WFJ Gipfel

This dataset is the basis for the Weissfluhjoch dataset in ESM-SnowMIP (doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.16904/16).

en: Undercatch correction

en: This document describes how the undercatch correction for the Weissfluhjoch measurement site was determined.

en: Version 5

en:
Deprecated version. Release notes:

Update: using the incoming and outgoing short- and longwave radiation data from the new processing chain from 2010 onwards, filling also data gaps in pre-2010 data.

Update: dataset extended to 2016-10-04T00:30

Update: refreshing data originating from MeteoSwiss (particularly precipitation)

en: SNOWPACK ini file (new syntax)

en: This ini-file can be used to run SNOWPACK simulations with the WFJ data set, using the new MeteoIO Filter, Generator and Interpolation syntax.

en: Version 2

en:
Deprecated version. Release notes:

Bug fix: in v1, incoming radiation components were taken from WFJ_Gipfel station, instead of WFJ Versuchsfeld.

en:
Dataset of meteorological and snowpack measurements from the automatic weather station at Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland, suitable for driving snowpack models. The dataset contains standard meteorological measurements, and additionally snowpack runoff data from a snow lysimeter. Where possible, data is quality checked and missing data are replaced from backup sensors from the measurement site itself, or (in only a few cases) from the MeteoSwiss weather station at 470 m distance and 150 m above the measurement site.

Publication
Wever, N., Schmid, L., Heilig, A., Eisen, O., Fierz, C., and Lehning, M. Verification of the multi-layer SNOWPACK model with different water transport schemes. 2015. The Cryosphere. Volume 9. 2271-2293. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-2271-2015.

air-temperature

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humidity

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longwave-radiation

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precipitation-amount

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shortwave-radiation

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snow-depth

display_name: snow-depth

snow-ice-temperature

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wind-direction

display_name: wind-direction

wind-speed

display_name: wind-speed

en: WFJ_MOD: Meteorological and snowpack measurements from Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland


biomass-of-live-trees

title_for_slug: biomass-of-live-trees

en:
Dry weight (mass) of living trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh. This consists of the tree parts: roots, stemwood, branch coarse wood, brushwood/twigs and needles/leaves. The correction for bias with the sample Tarif trees may be so drastic that it results in negative values with small numbers of trees.

Citation:
 > _Abegg, M.; Brändli, U.-B.; Cioldi, F.; Fischer, C.; Herold-Bonardi, A.; Huber M.; Keller, M.; Meile, R.; Rösler, E.; Speich, S.; Traub, B.; Vidondo, B. (2014). Fourth national forest inventory - result tables and maps on the Internet for the NFI 2009-2013 (NFI4b). [Published online 06.11.2014] Available from World Wide Web http://www.lfi.ch/resultate/ Birmensdorf, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. [doi:10.21258/1057112](https://doi.org/10.21258/1057112)_

accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest

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biogeographical-region

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biomass-of-live-trees

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canton

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conifers-broadleaves

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economic-region

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production-region

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protection-forest-region

display_name: protection-forest-region

educ

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en: Biomass of live trees


lwf-lens-long-term-research-site

title_for_slug: lwf-lens-long-term-research-site

en: forest swiss-forest-lab meteorological-data infrastructure lwf plot meteorological-measurements

en: Lens Meteorological Data LWF

en: LWF plot Lens. Photo: Freddy Potzinger, 2012

en:
![alt text](https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/87d3ea5a-8d50-446b-9c33-cbe56057f7d3/resource/bf459948-da5a-4b05-9372-83ca5454aeca/download/lwf_lens.jpg "LWF Lens")

LWF Plot Lens

- Community: Lens / canton VS
- Date of installation: 15 March 1996
- Size of the plot: 2 ha
- Altitude: 1033-1093 m
- Mean slope: 75%
- Geology (in German): Untergrund: Penninikum, Ferret-Zone, Trias; sandiger Kalkstein - Oberfläche: Hängeschutt
- Provisional soil type (WSL): Calcaric Cambisol
- Woodland association after EK72: +- 64: Cytiso-Pinetum silvestris
- Main tree species: Pinus sylvestris
- Management system: high forest
- Silvicultural system: unmanaged
- Top-height diameter (quadratic average diameter of the 100 thickest trees per ha): 31.8 cm
- Number of trees BHD >= 12 cm (2011): 2304
- Maximum tree age:150-170 yr

More Information: https://www.wsl.ch/en/forest/forest-development-and-monitoring/long-term-forest-ecosystem-research-lwf/sites/lens.html

forest

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infrastructure

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lwf

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meteorological-measurements

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plot

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swiss-forest-lab

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en: LWF Lens long-term research site


en: snow-density snowmicropen antarctica snow-density-profile microstructure

en: Documentation SnowMicroPen measurements

en: This *.zip archive contains all available documentation of the SnowMicroPen measurements, including the mapping of the SMP measurements in the terrestrial laser scan field at PEA (see documentation for 20161220) and at the Hammarryggen Ice Rise (see documentation for 20190104 and 20190111).

en: List of SnowMicroPen measurements

en: List of all SnowMicroPen measurements, including date and location, and processing status. This list has been generated by the python code (see other resources in this dataset).

en: Jupyter notebook for processing the SnowMicroPen files.

en: SnowMicroPen pts files and processed txt files

en: Zip archive containing the acquired *.pts files (binary files recorded by the SnowMicroPen), and the converted *.txt files using the SMP.ipynb jupyter notebook (see the python code in the other resources in this dataset)

en: Manual snow pits and other snow density measurements

en: Python code exported from the Jupyter notebook for processing the SnowMicroPen files

en: SnowMicroPen (SMP) measurements and manual snowpits from Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. Measurements were taken in the vicinity of the Belgium Princess Elisabeth Station (PEA), in a transect towards the coast, and on the Lokeryggen and Hammarryggen Ice Rises near the coast. Measurements were taken during 3 individual campaigns in the 2016-2017, 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 field seasons.

antarctica

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snow-density

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snow-density-profile

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snowmicropen

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en: SnowMicroPen measurements and manual snowpits from Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica


en: spruce predators bark-beetles pests picea antagonists insects parasitoids

media_type: text/csv

en: See ReadMe file

format: CSV

en:
In 1994 a large area of mountain spruce forest was infested by the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) in the Gandberg forest near Schwanden, canton Glarus, Switzerland (46.99145 N, 9.10768 E, 1300 m a.s.l.). In a perimeter of approx. 13 ha, 50 infested dead spruce trees were selected and labelled in 1994. The trees were randomly distributed across the whole perimeter and attributed to 5 groups of 10 trees of approx. 25-40 cm diameter each. In each of the following 5 years (1995-1999), the trees of one of these groups were cut in early spring and transported by helicopter to a vehicle-accessible road. Of each log, two bolts of 1.5 m length were cut, one from the base and one from the beginning of the crown. The bolts were transported by truck to the institute WSL and exposed in emergence eclectors (metal cabinets of approx. 2.0x0.5x0.5 m) in a greenhouse to let the insects emerge. Each tree was left 2 years in the eclectors to allow insects with more than 1 year development time to emerge. During 2 months in the winter between the two exposure years the bolts were removed from the eclectors and exposed to ambient winter temperatures for chilling. They were then moved back to the eclectors in the greenhouse.
Additionally, 18 living unattacked trees were provided with a pheromone lure in early spring 1995 to induce new bark beetle attack. 10 infested trees were then cut and processed as described above.
The water-filled emergence traps of the eclectors were emptied monthly-bimonthly and the insects were separated to taxonomic groups and eventually identified by specialists. Before disposing the logs, tree age was recorded by tree-ring-counting.

antagonists

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parasitoids

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pests

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picea

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predators

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spruce

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educ

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en: Dynamics of insect natural enemies of bark beetles


lwf-novaggio-long-term-research-site

title_for_slug: lwf-novaggio-long-term-research-site

en: lwf swiss-forest-lab forest meteorological-measurements infrastructure meteorological-data plot

en: Novaggio Meteorological Data LWF

en: LWF plot Novaggio. Photo: Peter Waldner, 2010

en:
![alt text](https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/e87358e9-4beb-487e-af68-66633e9cfc96/resource/91bd053a-61c4-4b20-b0d3-a572c983e647/download/lwf_novaggio.jpg "LWF Novaggio")

LWF Plot Novaggio

- Community: Novaggio / canton TI
- Date of installation: 8.3.95
- Size of the plot: 1.5 ha
- Altitude (m): 902-997
- Mean slope: 68%
- Geology (in German): Untergrund: Südalpin, präpermisches Grundgebirge; Orthogneis, schiefriger Biotitplagioklasgneis - Oberfläche: Quartär; karbonatfreie würmeiszeitliche Moräne
- Provisional soil type (WSL): Kryptopodzole
- Woodland association after EK72: 42: Phyteumo betonicifoliae-Quercetum castanosum
- Main tree species: Quercus cerris
- Management system: former coppice
- Silvicultural system: unmanaged
- Top-height diameter (quadratic average diameter of the 100 thickest trees per ha): 27.0 cm
- Number of trees BHD >= 12 cm (2011): 1130
- Maximum tree age: Castanea sativa 90 yr- Betula pendula 70 yr - Quercus cerris 70 yr

More Information: https://www.wsl.ch/en/forest/forest-development-and-monitoring/long-term-forest-ecosystem-research-lwf/sites/novaggio.html

forest

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en: LWF Novaggio long-term research site


en: disturbance picea-abies insect-outbreaks vegetation-shift castanea-sativa drought pinus-sylvestris switzerland national-forest-inventory tree-recruitment windthrow

en: Species-specific biomass per NFI site

en:
File containing the information about taxa-specific basal area, sapling density and polestage density for the different National Forest Inventory sites during NFI2 (1993-1995) and NFI4 (2009-2017).

INVNR = Information on which National Forest Inventory
CLNR = Number of site in the National Forest Inventory
Species = Information on the species
BA = basal area per hectare
Sapling = Sapling (< 4 cm DBH) density as stems per hectare
Polestage = Polestage (DBH 4 - 11.9 cm) density as stems per hectare

en: R-Scripts for Figures and Data tables

en:
This archive contains the R-Scripts to reproduce the Figures 2-4, S1-S4 and the data tables S4-S10 in the associated publication.

Scherrer, D., Ascoli, D., Conedera, M., Fischer, C., Maringer, J., Moser, B., . . . T., W. (2021). Canopy disturbances catalyse tree species shifts in Swiss forests. Ecosystems, in revision.

en: ReadMe

en: A detailed description of the data.

en: Site Information

en:
File containing the information on parameters of the 5521 National forest inventory sites recorded during the NFI2 and NFI4.

CLNR = Number of site in the National Forest Inventory
INVNR = Information on which National Forest Inventory
Elevation = Elevation above sea level
Perc_Conifers = Proportional contribution of Conifer species to the total basal area of a site
DominantTreeSp = Dominant tree taxa of a site as defined by maximum basal area contribution
DMGTYP = Type of damage observed between NFI2 and NFI4 (up to four observations possible)
DMGYEAR = In case a DMGTYPE event was observed here is the corresponding year marked.
BioReg = Biogeographic region of the site
Ggrob = NaiS site type (Potential natural forest vegetation of a site)
DisturbanceType = Type of disturbance recorded on the site between NFI2 and NFI4.

en:
The files refer to the data used in Scherrer et al. (2021) "Canopy disturbances catalyse tree species shifts in Swiss forests" in _Ecosystems_.

The two data files contain information about site factors (e.g. disturbance events, dominant tree species, elevation) and species-specific biomass of 5521 plots of the Swiss National Forest Inventory visited during the second (NFI2 1993-1995) and fourth (NFI4 2009-2017) inventory.
In addition, we provide all the R-scripts necessary to reproduce the Figures and data tables of the related publication.

For more detailed information about the data files please check the ReadMe.docx file.

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disturbance

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drought

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insect-outbreaks

display_name: insect-outbreaks

national-forest-inventory

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picea-abies

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pinus-sylvestris

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switzerland

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tree-recruitment

display_name: tree-recruitment

vegetation-shift

display_name: vegetation-shift

windthrow

display_name: windthrow

en: Effects of canopy disturbance on Swiss forests


modeling-snow-failure-with-dem

maintainer: EnviDat Support

title_for_slug: modeling-snow-failure-with-dem

en: discrete-element-modelling snow-failure snow-micro-mechanics snow snow-avalanche

en: Dataset

en: The zip file contains the data underlying the figures presented in Bobillier et al. (2019). The figures can be reproduced with the python file, which is also provided.

en: Read-me

en: The read-me file contains a description of all the data provided in the zip file.

en: Python file

en: Python file to reproduce the figures in Bobillier et al. (2019)

mimetype: text/x-python

en: This data set includes the modeling results described in the research article by Bobiller et al. (2020). All the figures in the article can be reproduced with the data provided.

discrete-element-modelling

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snow

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snow-avalanche

display_name: snow-avalanche

snow-failure

display_name: snow-failure

snow-micro-mechanics

display_name: snow-micro-mechanics

educ

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en: Modeling snow failure with DEM


napf-soil-wetness-monitoring-data

title_for_slug: napf-soil-wetness-monitoring-data

en: matric-potential landslide-early-warning soil-moisture shallow-landslides monitoring

en: Napf soil wetness monitoring data

en:
Soil wetness monitoring data (soil moisture, matric potential) and additional time series (air temperature, precipitation, ground temperature).
Quality-controlled and aggregated to hourly values.

en:
The dataset contains the soil wetness monitoring data from the publication Wicki et al. (2022). It was collected in Wasen i.E. (Napf area, Switzerland).
The monitoring data is quality-controlled and aggregated to hourly values and it is provided for the study period 2019-04-05 to 2022-04-30.

The following information is contained (by column):

* Timestamp (UTC+1 time zone)
* Site: Slope (47.02486 N, 7.81960 E), Flat (47.02302 N, 7.81760 E)
* Sensor type
* Measure: VWC = volumetric water content [m3 m-3], MP = matric potential [hPa], TEMP = temperature [°C], PREC = precipitation [mm]
* Sensor number (per site each sensor is provided a unique identifier)
* Installation depth [m]
* Homogenization flag: If the data is considered homogeneous, it is given the flag 1, else the flag 0 is given
* Sensor value
* Normalized value: Normalization was conducted for VWC (saturation) and MP values

Wicki, A., Lehmann, P., Hauck, C., and Stähli, M.: Impact of topography on in-situ soil wetness measurements for regional landslide early warning – a case study from the Swiss Alpine Foreland, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2022-211, in review, 2022.

landslide-early-warning

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matric-potential

display_name: matric-potential

monitoring

display_name: monitoring

shallow-landslides

display_name: shallow-landslides

soil-moisture

display_name: soil-moisture


maintainer: Jana von Freyberg

en: stable-water-isotope precipitation stream-water catchment hydrology alptal

en:
Version 2 of the dataset contains additional information on:
- line-conditioned (lc) excess
- precipitation sample volumes
- isotope data quality

media_type: text/plain

en: Single comma-separated txt-file with daily data of stable water isotopes measured in streamwater and precipitation in the Swiss Alptal catchment and two of its tributaries (Erlenbach and Vogelbach), as well as daily data of key hydrometeorological variables from the Alptal valley

format: TXT

en: Data Set Documentation: alptal_Isotopes_daily_2015-2019_v2

en: Documentations contains meta data of the data columns and information about the study catchments.

en: This dataset contains four years of daily measurements of the natural isotopic composition (2H, 18O) of precipitation and stream water at the Alp catchment (area 47 km2) in Central Switzerland and two of its tributaries (0.73 km2 and 1.55 km2). In addition, the dataset contains daily measurements of key hydrometeorological variables.

alptal

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catchment

display_name: catchment

hydrology

display_name: hydrology

precipitation

display_name: precipitation

stable-water-isotope

display_name: stable-water-isotope

stream-water

display_name: stream-water

en: Four years of daily stable water isotope data in stream water and precipitation from three Swiss catchments


title_for_slug: yield-of-live-bole-wood

en:
Volume of stemwood at least 7 cm in diameter (limit for coarse wood) without the bark and stump that were living trees or shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh in the pre-inventory and were cut between two inventories.

Citation:
 > _Abegg, M.; Brändli, U.-B.; Cioldi, F.; Fischer, C.; Herold-Bonardi, A.; Huber M.; Keller, M.; Meile, R.; Rösler, E.; Speich, S.; Traub, B.; Vidondo, B. (2014). Fourth national forest inventory - result tables and maps on the Internet for the NFI 2009-2013 (NFI4b). [Published online 06.11.2014] Available from World Wide Web http://www.lfi.ch/resultate/ Birmensdorf, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. [doi:10.21258/1057112](https://doi.org/10.21258/1057112)_

biogeographical-region

display_name: biogeographical-region

conifers-broadleaves

display_name: conifers-broadleaves

economic-region

display_name: economic-region

main-type-of-harvest

display_name: main-type-of-harvest

ownership

display_name: ownership

potential-cost-for-timber-harvesting

display_name: potential-cost-for-timber-harvesting

production-region

display_name: production-region

protection-forest-region

display_name: protection-forest-region

yield-of-live-bole-wood

display_name: yield-of-live-bole-wood

en: Yield of live bole wood


tree-ring-laser-ablation-data

maintainer: Paula Ballikaya

title_for_slug: tree-ring-laser-ablation-data

en: air-pollution tree-rings dendrochronology laser-ablation dendrochemistry

en: Laser ablation data

en:
This dataset contains the values of several chemical elements (Mg, Al, Si, S, K, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Sr, Tl, Pb, Bi) measured in the latewood of tree rings of Mongolian oak from Harbin, China, at a 5-year resolution. Due to the lack of a suitable reference material for wood, absolute concentration was not calculated, and the ratio between the chemical element and 13C was taken as proxy for the element signal.

In Harbin, one of the largest cities and most important industrial centers in northeastern China, air quality monitoring systems were built only by the end of 2015 to meet the national requirements. Thus, dendrochemical analyses could be used as a tool to complement for the lack of air quality data over longer periods of time, allowing for the reconstruction of the temporal trend of trace metals. Our main scopes were to: (a) assess the chemical composition of Quercus mongolica Fisch. ex Ledeb. tree rings from Harbin using a recently developed system of laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), (b) identify the main chemical elements which
derived from air pollution and may be used as indicators over the period 1965–2020 in Harbin, while excluding those that were controlled by physiological processes in the tree, and (c) reconstruct the history of pollution in Harbin by comparing the tree-ring chemical composition of recent decades with that of previous decades, in trees growing in the highly polluted city of Harbin and in trees growing in a control site 90 km away from major pollution sources.

Briefly, the temporal trend of some elements was influenced by physiological factors, by environmental factors such as pollution, or influenced by both. Mg, K, Zn, Cu, Ni, Pb, As, Sr and Tl showed changes in pollution levels over time.

air-pollution

display_name: air-pollution

dendrochemistry

display_name: dendrochemistry

dendrochronology

display_name: dendrochronology

laser-ablation

display_name: laser-ablation

tree-rings

display_name: tree-rings

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

en: Tree-ring laser ablation data


maintainer: James W. Kirchner

en: irfnnhsr system-identification deconvolution nonlinear-deconvolution de-mixing greens-function irf impulse-response-function arma-noise transfer-function time-series-analysis

en: Benchmark demonstration scripts and results

en: README file for IRFnnhs.R and benchmark demonstration scripts

en: Impulse Response Function script

en:
The R script IRFnnhs.R, which efficiently estimates impulse response functions for environmental systems that are nonlinear, nonstationary, or heterogeneous, based on their input and output time series.

Scripts and results for a series of benchmark tests are also provided, to accompany Kirchner, J.W., Impulse response functions for heterogeneous, nonstationary, and nonlinear systems, estimated by deconvolution and demixing of noisy time series, _Sensors_, 22(9), 3291, https://doi.org/10.3390/s22093291, 2022.

arma-noise

display_name: arma-noise

de-mixing

display_name: de-mixing

deconvolution

display_name: deconvolution

greens-function

display_name: greens-function

impulse-response-function

display_name: impulse-response-function

irf

display_name: irf

irfnnhsr

display_name: irfnnhsr

nonlinear-deconvolution

display_name: nonlinear-deconvolution

system-identification

display_name: system-identification

time-series-analysis

display_name: time-series-analysis

transfer-function

display_name: transfer-function

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: EnviDat is the WSL data portal providing unified and managed access to environmental monitoring and research data. The portal has the capability to host and publish data sets. Through the sharing of unique and high-value data sets worldwide, EnviDat fosters research and contributes to advancing environmental science.

en: Impulse response functions for nonlinear nonstationary and heterogeneous systems


soil-solution-chemistry-lysimeters-lwf

title_for_slug: soil-solution-chemistry-lysimeters-lwf

en: icp-forests swiss-forest-lab soil-solution-chemistry long-term-forest-ecosystem-research lwf

en: Data Request

en:
Fortnightly measurement of the soil solution chemistry in 4 soil depths with zero-tension lysimeter below the litter layer and with tension lysimeters at depths of 15, 50 and 80 cm (8 replicates)

 Purpose:

To characterize the chemical status of the soil solution and to detect trends in soil water quality. To assess the effects of air pollution and climate chnage on soil water quality.

 Manual Citation:

 * Micha Pluess, Daniel Christen, 1999: Kurzanleitung Bodenlösung. Langfristige Waldökosystem-Forschung LWF, Birmensdorf, 2 S.

 * Nieminen TM, De Vos B, Cools N, König N, Fischer R, Iost S, Meesenburg H, Nicolas M, O’Dea P, Cecchini G, Ferretti M, De La Cruz A, Derome K, Lindroos AJ, Graf Pannatier E, 2016: Part XI: Soil Solution Collection and Analysis. In: UNECE ICP Forests Programme Co-ordinating Centre (ed.): Manual on methods and criteria for harmonized sampling, assessment, monitoring and analysis of the effects of air pollution on forests. Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems, Eberswalde, Germany, 20 p. + Annex [http://icp-forests.net/page/icp-forests-manual](http://icp-forests.net/page/icp-forests-manual)

 Paper Citation:

 * Graf Pannatier, E.; Thimonier, A.; Schmitt, M.; Walthert, L.; Waldner, P., 2011: A decade of monitoring at Swiss Long-Term Forest Ecosystem Research (LWF) sites: can we observe trends in atmospheric acid deposition and in soil solution acidity?. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 174, 1-4: 3-30. [doi: 10.1007/s10661-010-1754-3](http://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-010-1754-3)

icp-forests

display_name: icp-forests

long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

display_name: long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

lwf

display_name: lwf

soil-solution-chemistry

display_name: soil-solution-chemistry

swiss-forest-lab

display_name: swiss-forest-lab

en: Soil solution chemistry (lysimeters) LWF


en: land-use-planning consistency strategic-planning bucharest plan-evaluation

en: Plan statements for external consistency analysis: Evidence from Bucharest’s spatial plans

en: In total, 24 files are available with plan statements extracted from 10 spatial plans. Each file is extracted based on the items of the framework for plan external consistency analysis. Data is in Romanian.

en:
The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper Bacău, S., Grădinaru, S. R., & Hersperger, A. M. (2020). Spatial plans as relational data: Using social network analysis to assess consistency among Bucharest’s planning instruments. Land Use Policy, 92.
The goal of this paper was to first develop a theoretical framework for external consistency assessment in spatial plans and then to test the framework with ten spatial plans of the Bucharest (Romania) region. Specifically, the paper has the following workflow: (i) to develop a framework for consistency assessment covering four categories of external consistency; (ii) to extract relevant plan statements from all plans on the four categories; (iii) to assign one-way, symmetrical and contradictory relationships between the extracted plan statements; and (iv) to assess consistencies, inconsistencies and contradictions between plans using directed and valued network analyses. All results were then validated by applying questionnaires to local experts.
The study focuses on a sample consisting of 10 spatial plans of Bucharest that: (1) are currently in force, (2) have spatial implications, (3) involve different administrative levels and (4) come from different planning sectors. The list of the reviewed planning documents can be found in Table 2 of the paper. The framework of consistency assessment contains 24 items, which can be found in Table 1 of the paper. All planning documents were read in respect to all items of the framework in order to extract plan statements used in the analysis. As a result, we provide the plan statement extracted from 10 plans on the 24 items of the framework. All data is in Romanian. The data was discussed qualitatively in the research paper.

bucharest

display_name: bucharest

consistency

display_name: consistency

land-use-planning

display_name: land-use-planning

plan-evaluation

display_name: plan-evaluation

strategic-planning

display_name: strategic-planning


vineyard-plots-in-southern-switzerland

title_for_slug: vineyard-plots-in-southern-switzerland

en: agricultural-land-abandonment urbanisation vineyards land-use-change urban-sprawl

en: Vineyard plots in southern Switzerland between 1989 and 2020

en: Compressed folder (.zip) containing a shapefile (.shp) with 25123 polygons features representing vineyard plots and 146 variables in the attribute table, as well as an Excel file (.xlsx) which provide a short and long description of the same variables.

en: Geospatial vector data (shapefile) representing the cadastral plots in the Canton Ticino and the Moesa region (southern Switzerland) having a part of the surface occupied by vineyards in the years 1989 and/or 2020 according to the corresponding edition of the Swiss national topographic maps in the scale 1:25,000 and to the topographic landscape model of Switzerland swissTLM3D (Federal office of topography Swisstopo). In the attribute table there is many variables which describe the topography of the site, the characteristics of the plots and the evolution of the wine growing area inside the plot between 1989 and 2020. Coordinate system: EPSG:2056 - Swiss CH1903+ / LV95.

agricultural-land-abandonment

display_name: agricultural-land-abandonment

land-use-change

display_name: land-use-change

urban-sprawl

display_name: urban-sprawl

urbanisation

display_name: urbanisation

vineyards

display_name: vineyards

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

en: Vineyard plots in southern Switzerland


en: snow-modeling complex-topography spatial-variability snowmelt hydrological-response

en: Alpine3D output Dischma

en:
 Abstract
Snow and hydrological modeling in alpine environments remains a challenge because of the complexity of the processes complexity affecting the mass and energy balance. This study examines the influence of snowmelt on the hydrological response of a high-alpine catchment of 43.2 km2 in the Swiss Alps during the water year 2014-2015. Based on recent advances in Alpine3D, we examine how modeled snow distributions, and modeled liquid water transport within the snowpack influence runoff dynamics. By combining these results with multi-scale field data (snow lysimeter data, distributed snow depths and streamflow), we demonstrate the added value of a more realistic representation of snow distribution at the onset of melt season. At the site scale, snowpack runoff is well simulated when the snowpack mass balance errors are corrected (R2 = 0.95 vs. R2 = 0.61). At the sub-basin scale, a more heterogeneous snowpack leads to a more rapid runoff pulse originated in the shallower areas while an extended melting period (by more than a month) is caused by slower snowmelt from deeper areas. This result is a marked improvement over results obtained using a less heterogeneous snow distribution (i.e., traditional precipitation interpolation method). Catchment hydrological response is also improved by the more realistic representation of snowpack heterogeneity (Nash coefficient of 0.85 vs. 0.74), even though the calibration process smoothens out the differences.
The added value of a more complex liquid water transport scheme is obvious at the site scale but decreases at the sub-basin and basin scales. Our results highlight not only the importance but also the difficulty of getting a realistic snowpack distribution even in a well-instrumented area and present a model validation from multi-scale experimental datasets.

complex-topography

display_name: complex-topography

hydrological-response

display_name: hydrological-response

snow-modeling

display_name: snow-modeling

snowmelt

display_name: snowmelt

spatial-variability

display_name: spatial-variability

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Influence of slope-scale snowmelt on catchment response simulated with the Alpine3D model


forest-area-by-natural-hazard

title_for_slug: forest-area-by-natural-hazard

en:
For each natural hazard process according to FOEN’s SilvaProtectCH, the size of the forest area affected is given. One forest region may be affected by several different natural hazard processes and may thus contribute to the forest area affected by several different natural hazard processes.

Citation:
 > _Abegg, M.; Brändli, U.-B.; Cioldi, F.; Fischer, C.; Herold-Bonardi, A.; Huber M.; Keller, M.; Meile, R.; Rösler, E.; Speich, S.; Traub, B.; Vidondo, B. (2014). Fourth national forest inventory - result tables and maps on the Internet for the NFI 2009-2013 (NFI4b). [Published online 06.11.2014] Available from World Wide Web http://www.lfi.ch/resultate/ Birmensdorf, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. [doi:10.21258/1057112](https://doi.org/10.21258/1057112)_

biogeographical-region

display_name: biogeographical-region

canton

display_name: canton

economic-region

display_name: economic-region

forest

display_name: forest

forest-area

display_name: forest-area

forest-area-by-natural-hazard

display_name: forest-area-by-natural-hazard

natural-hazard

display_name: natural-hazard

production-region

display_name: production-region

protection-forest-region

display_name: protection-forest-region

en: EnviDat is the WSL data portal providing unified and managed access to environmental monitoring and research data. The portal has the capability to host and publish data sets. Through the sharing of unique and high-value data sets worldwide, EnviDat fosters research and contributes to advancing environmental science.

en: Forest area by natural hazard


en: shortwave-radiation longwave-radiation meteo-station gemstock snow-height

en: DATA ACCESS

en:
Meteo data at Gemsstock [Level 2 dataset](http://models.slf.ch/p/dataset-processing/).

fields      = timestamp TSS HS VW DW VW_MAX OSWR ISWR ILWR RECORD AUX_VOLTAGE LOGGER_VOLTAGE LW_SENSOR_TEMP VENTILATION_FLAG OLWR

en: Meteorological station at Gemstock (3021 m asl) in Canton Uri. The station includes in/out LW/SW and a snow height sensor.

gemstock

display_name: gemstock

longwave-radiation

display_name: longwave-radiation

meteo-station

display_name: meteo-station

shortwave-radiation

display_name: shortwave-radiation

snow-height

display_name: snow-height

en: GEM2: Meteorological and snow station at Gemsstock (3021 m asl), Canton Uri, Switzerland


en: development-priorities strategic-plans europe spatial-information urban-region

en: Planning intentios

en:
The present dataset is part of the report titled Gradinaru S.R., Hersperger A.M., Schmid F. (2021). Deriving Planning Intentions from written planning documents. Report on CONCUR Project- From plans to land change: how strategic spatial planning contributes to the development of urban regions.
The data corresponds to the data collected as part of the DPI Method for deriving all PIs contained in a plan (open coding) as detailed in section 4 of the report. The method involved reading the plans to break down of information in meaningful discrete “incidents” or planning intentions. To identify the planning intentions, the starting points were represented by a) the structuring of the plans in chapters and sub chapters and b) the themes that the plans addressed. Thus, the collected information was not grouped according to pre-defined categories of planning intentions, but rather put together as a list of intentions as revealed by each plan. As a result, we provide, for each case study, a document (named [Urban region name] PI as defined in the plan) which contains:
	Date when the information was filled in.
	Name of the urban region and analysed strategic spatial plan .
	A list of all planning intentions contained in a plan, with each PI being addresses as follows:
	Name of PI as it appears in the plan
	Translated name of the PI (i.e. short name for easy understanding of the meaning)
	Explanation regarding the meaning of the PI
	Why the PI is considered a priority for the urban region
	Spatial information on the PI (text and cartographic representations).
In total, 14 documents are available, one for each case study. Documents contain up to 20 pages of information extracted from the plans together with explanations and notes taken during plan reading.

development-priorities

display_name: development-priorities

europe

display_name: europe

spatial-information

display_name: spatial-information

strategic-plans

display_name: strategic-plans

urban-region

display_name: urban-region

en: Planning intentions in strategic plans of European urban regions


en: complex-terrain high-resolution cosmo-wrf meteoswiss numerical-simulation

en: COSMO-WRF documentation v1.0

en:
Gerber, Franziska; Sharma, Varun (2018). Running COSMO-WRF on very-high resolution over complex terrain. EnviDat. doi:10.16904/envidat.35

Documentation about the procedure to run COSMO-WRF

en: WRFrun

en: Scripts to run COSMO-WRF simulation (see Section 6 in COSMOWRFdocumentation.pdf)

en: WPSrun

en: Scripts to run the WRF pre-processing (WPS) for COSMO-WRF simulation (see Section 5 in COSMOWRFdocumentation.pdf)

en: StaticData

en:
Scripts to process geographical/static data (see Section 3 in COSMOWRFdocumentation.pdf).
- ascii_to_bin_landuse.f90
- ascii_to_bin_soiltype.f90
- ascii_to_bin_topo_wgs84_ws2sf1.f90
- see_slopes.ncl
- soiltype_writing.py
- toposmooth_wgs84_cosmobound.ncl
- write_geogrid.o

en: MeteorologicalData

en: Scripts to process meteorological data (see Section 2 in COSMOWRFdocumentation.pdf).

en: WPSSetup

en: Scripts that need to be changed to compile WPS (see COSMOWRFdocumentation.pdf, Section 4)

en: Postprocessing

en: Postprocessing scripts to map WRF output on swiss coordinates (see Section 7 in COSMOWRFdocumentation.pdf)

en: This is a technical documentation of the procedure to run the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model over complex alpine terrain using Consortium for Small-Scale Modeling (COSMO) reanalysis by the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss) as initial and boundary conditions (COMSO-WRF). The setup is adapted for very high resolution simulations based on COSMO-2 (2.2 km resolution) reanalysis. This document gives an overview over steps to setup COSMO-WRF and adaptations needed to run COSMO-WRF. Additionally, the calculation of precipitation rate at a horizontal plane and remapping COSMO-WRF output on Swiss coordinates are documented.

complex-terrain

display_name: complex-terrain

cosmo-wrf

display_name: cosmo-wrf

high-resolution

display_name: high-resolution

meteoswiss

display_name: meteoswiss

numerical-simulation

display_name: numerical-simulation

educ

en: Education, culture and sport


en: orography air-temperature precipitation last-glacial-maximum paleo-climate glaciers

en: Data Access via S3

en:
High resolution, downscaled climate model data are used in a wide variety of applications in environmental sciences. Here we present the CHELSA-TraCE21k downscaling algorithm to create global monthly climatologies for temperature and precipitation at 30 arcsec spatial resolution in 100 year time steps for the last 21,000 years. Paleo orography at high spatial resolution and at each timestep is created by combining high resolution information on glacial cover from current and Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) glacier databases with the interpolation of a dynamic ice sheet model (ICE6G) and a coupling to mean annual temperatures from CCSM3-TraCE21k. Based on the reconstructed paleo orography, mean annual temperature and precipitation was downscaled using the CHELSA V1.2 algorithm.

The data is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) license.

en: Technical documentation

en: Technical documentation containing file metadata and variable descriptions.

air-temperature

display_name: air-temperature

glaciers

display_name: glaciers

last-glacial-maximum

display_name: last-glacial-maximum

orography

display_name: orography

paleo-climate

display_name: paleo-climate

precipitation

display_name: precipitation

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: EnviDat is the WSL data portal providing unified and managed access to environmental monitoring and research data. The portal has the capability to host and publish data sets. Through the sharing of unique and high-value data sets worldwide, EnviDat fosters research and contributes to advancing environmental science.

en: CHELSA-TraCE21k: Downscaled transient temperature and precipitation data since the last glacial maximum


en: precipitation soil aridity sdms ground-temperature frost-change-velocity

media_type: image/tiff

en: Frost change frequency modified from CHELSA

format: TIFF

en: Soil pH modified from SoilGrids

en: Soil organic carbon content modified from SoilGrids

en: Precipitation seasonality from CHELSA

en: Mean diurnal range modified from CHELSA

en: Mean annual temperature modified from CHELSA

en: Precipitation of driest quarter modified from CHELSA

en: Soil clay content modified from SoilGrids

en: The dataset contains seven environmental layers (average annual temperature, aridity [annual precipitation divided by annual potential evapotranspiration], frost change frequency, precipitation in the driest quarter, mean diurnal temperature range, and precipitation seasonality) modified from CHELSA (https://chelsa-climate.org/) and three soil layers (soil organic matter content, pH water, and clay content) modified from SoilGrids (https://soilgrids.org/).

aridity

display_name: aridity

frost-change-velocity

display_name: frost-change-velocity

ground-temperature

display_name: ground-temperature

sdms

display_name: sdms

soil

display_name: soil

en: Environmental layers for SDM simulations (GDPlants)


en: wood-market scieries chablis damaged-wood sawmills wind-disturbance marche-du-bois bois-endommage wet-storage stockage-humide

en: Impact des événements météorologiques extrêmes sur l'économie forestière suisse: le point de vue des scieries

format: XLS

en:
Extreme events impact on the Swiss forest economy: the sawmill perspective

Supplementary Information
This survey aimed at answering three main questions: (i) What are the Swiss sawmills challenges and actions taken after a large storm/windthrow?, (ii) How do these challenges and actions vary across sawmill size and location?, and (iii) is adaptation from the sawmills to extreme events possible, with regards to wood type, products and required infrastructure?

Informations supplémentaires
Cette enquête visait à répondre à trois questions principales : (i) Quels sont les défis et les mesures prises par les scieries suisses après une grosse tempête ou un coup de vent ? (ii) Comment ces défis et ces mesures varient-ils selon la taille et l'emplacement de la scierie ? et (iii) l'adaptation des scieries aux événements extrêmes est-elle possible, en ce qui concerne le type de bois, les produits et l'infrastructure requise ?

Ziel dieser Umfrage war die Beantwortung von drei Hauptfragen: (i) Welche
s sind die Herausforderungen und Massnahmen der Schweizer Sägewerke nach einem grossen Sturm/Windwurf?, (ii) Wie unterscheiden sich diese Herausforderungen und Massnahmen je nach Grösse und Standort des Sägewerks? und (iii) Ist eine Anpassung der Sägewerke an Extremereignisse möglich, in Bezug auf Holzart, Produkte und erforderliche Infrastruktur?

bois-endommage

display_name: bois-endommage

chablis

display_name: chablis

damaged-wood

display_name: damaged-wood

marche-du-bois

display_name: marche-du-bois

sawmills

display_name: sawmills

scieries

display_name: scieries

stockage-humide

display_name: stockage-humide

wet-storage

display_name: wet-storage

wind-disturbance

display_name: wind-disturbance

wood-market

display_name: wood-market

educ

en: Education, culture and sport


maintainer: Stephan Zimmermann

en: potassium fagus-orientalis-lipsky biogeochemical-cycling calcium magnesium

en: Concentrations of Ca, Mg, K, and Na in throughfall, litterflow and soil solution of a Hyrcanian forst in Northern Iran

en:
Throughfall, litterflow and soil solution were sampled during one whole year under five Oriental beech trees in a mixed Hyrcanian beech forest. The amounts of Ca2+, Mg2+, K+ and Na+ in these fluxes were calculated based on their concentrations and the sampled volumes, and subsequently compared with the respective fluxes in the rainfall and soil solution of an adjacent forest gap.
In addition six soil profiles, one close to every single tree and one in the forest gap, were analyzed for pH, CaCO3, organic matter and texture.

biogeochemical-cycling

display_name: biogeochemical-cycling

calcium

display_name: calcium

fagus-orientalis-lipsky

display_name: fagus-orientalis-lipsky

magnesium

display_name: magnesium

potassium

display_name: potassium

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: EnviDat is the WSL data portal providing unified and managed access to environmental monitoring and research data. The portal has the capability to host and publish data sets. Through the sharing of unique and high-value data sets worldwide, EnviDat fosters research and contributes to advancing environmental science.

en: Base cation dynamics in an Oriental beech forest


en: forest-management echolocation chiroptera vegetation-structure habitat-modelling

en: Variable description_20220411.csv

en: Description of all variables given in the file 'Felddaten_2020-02-14_Guilde.csv'

en: R scripts for all analyses

en: Complete set of field data and LiDAR data including bat activity measurements

en: Habitat shift caused by human impact on vegetation structure poses a great threat to species which are special- ized on unique habitats. Single layered beech forests, the main foraging habitat of Greater Mouse-eared Bats (My- otis myotis), are threatened by recent changes in forest structure. After this species suffered considerable popula- tion losses until the 1970s, their roosts in buildings are strictly protected. However, some populations are still de- clining. Thus, the spatial identification of suitable foraging habitat would be essential to ensure conservation pol- icy. The aim of this study was (a) to verify the relevance of forest structural variables for the activity of M. myotis and (b) to evaluate the potential of LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) in predicting suitable foraging habitat of the species. We systematically sampled bat activity in forests close to 18 maternity roosts in Switzerland and applied a generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) to fit the activity data to forest structure variables recorded in the field and derived from LiDAR. We found that suitable forest foraging habitat is defined by single layered for- est, dense canopy, no shrub layer and a free flight space. Most importantly, this key foraging habitat can be well predicted by airborne LiDAR data. This allows for the first time to create nationwide prediction maps of potential foraging habitats of this species to inform conservation management. This method has a special significance for endangered species with large spatial use, whose key resources are hard to identify and widely distributed across the landscape.

chiroptera

display_name: chiroptera

echolocation

display_name: echolocation

forest-management

display_name: forest-management

habitat-modelling

display_name: habitat-modelling

vegetation-structure

display_name: vegetation-structure

en: LiDAR metrics predict suitable forest foraging areas of endangered Mouse-eared bats (Myotis myotis)


maintainer: Andrin Caviezel

en: sensor-stream stonenode stonenodedata induced-rockfall natural-hazards rockfall rockfall-runout dem rockfall-experiments deposition-points

en: StoneNode v1.0 Data for equipped experimental Runs.

en: Corresponding StoneNode v1.0 data streams belonging to the deposition points.

en: Induced Rockfall Data, Tschamut, GR

en:
 Induced Rockfall Experimental Data, Tschamut, GR, Switzerland

The archive contains site specific geographical data as well as the deposition points of manually induced rockfall by releasing differently shaped boulders with 30–80 kg of mass. Additionally availabe are the StoneNode v1.0 sensor streams for the equipped rocks.

The _OverviewFigures_ file serves as quick representation of the included data. It also contains the overview table for the rock masses in order to set the dimensions accordingly in RAMMS::ROCKFALL.

The archive contains the following folders:
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* DEM: ArcGIS compatible DEM Tschamut_DEM_2m (grid resolution of 2 m) as well as the .asc grid used in RAMMS::ROCKFALL simulations
* _DepositionPoints_: containing two folders _RF Tschamut Frozen_ and _RF Tschamut WET_ containing each a shapefile with the complete deposition data of each series as well as deposition shapfiles for each rock shape.
* _DigitizedRocks_: Digitized point clouds of the used rocks as used for RAMMS::ROCKFALL simulations (.pts files) (dimensions have to be checked).
* _Orthofoto_: Orthophoto of the experimental site obtained via UAV with 5 cm resolution.

en:
 Dataset of an experimental campaign of induced rockfall in Tschamut, Grisons, Switzerland.

The data archive contains site specific geographical data such as DEM and orthophoto as well as the deposition points of manually induced rockfall by releasing differently shaped boulders with 30–80 kg of mass. Additionally available are all the StoneNode data streams for rocks equipped with a sensor. The data set consists of

* Deposition points from two series (wet (27/10/2016) and frozen (08/12/2016) ground)
* Digital Elevation Model (grid resolution 2 m) obtained via UAV
* Orthophoto (5 cm resolution) obtained via UAV
* Digitized rock point clouds (.pts input files for RAMMS::ROCKFALL)
* StoneNode v1.0 raw data stream for equipped rocks.

Further information is found in

* A. Caviezel et al., _Design and Evaluation of a Low-Power Sensor Device for Induced Rockfall Experiments_, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2018, 67, 767-779, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8122020/
* P. Niklaus et al., _StoneNode: A low-power sensor device for induced rockfall experiments_, 2017 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS), 2017, 1-6, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7894081/

dem

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deposition-points

display_name: deposition-points

induced-rockfall

display_name: induced-rockfall

natural-hazards

display_name: natural-hazards

rockfall

display_name: rockfall

rockfall-experiments

display_name: rockfall-experiments

rockfall-runout

display_name: rockfall-runout

sensor-stream

display_name: sensor-stream

stonenode

display_name: stonenode

stonenodedata

display_name: stonenodedata

en: Induced Rockfall Dataset (Small Rock Experimental Campaign), Tschamut, Grisons, Switzerland


en: uav photogrammetry dsm drone-data ground-classification

en: Geodata and Ground Classification Wolfgang Arelen

en: Original RGB images and generated products.

en: We conducted two drone flights with the Wingtra and DJI Phantom 4 RTK drones in Davos Wolfgang Arelen, on 25.08.2021. The data was processed with the Agisoft Metashape Professional Software.The Wingtra point cloud was further processed to derive a ground classification in individual LASTools and Terrasolid workflows.

drone-data

display_name: drone-data

dsm

display_name: dsm

ground-classification

display_name: ground-classification

photogrammetry

display_name: photogrammetry

uav

display_name: uav

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Photogrammetric Drone Data and derived Ground Classification Wolfgang Arelen


lwf-chironico-long-term-research-site

title_for_slug: lwf-chironico-long-term-research-site

en: lwf meteorological-measurements infrastructure plot forest meteorological-data swiss-forest-lab

en: LWF plot Chironico. Photo: Anne Thimonier Rickenmann, 2019

en: Chironico Meteorological Data LWF

en:
![alt text](https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/67e14643-c7f2-4190-ae6e-c8c94f1c5f01/resource/1d23d53f-8572-47eb-b466-88dd8ad244c9/download/lwf_chironico.jpg "LWF Chironico")

LWF Plot Chironico

- Community: Chironico / canton TI
- Date of installation: 29 August 1995
- Size of the plot: 2 ha
- Altitude: 1342-1387 m
- Mean slope: 35%
- Geology (in German): Untergrund: Penninikum; Paragneisse u. Glimmerschiefer - Oberfläche: Quartär; karbonatfreie Moräne, Hängeschutt
- Provisional soil type (WSL) : Distric Cambisol
- Woodland association after EK72: 47: Calamagrostio villosae-Abietetum
- Main tree species: Picea abies
- Management system: high forest
- Silvicultural system: group selection
- Top-height diameter (quadratic average diameter of the 100 thickest trees per ha): 54.1 cm
- Number of trees BHD >= 12 cm (2011): 750
- Maximum tree age: Picea abies: 160-180 yr - Abies alba: 140-160 yr

More Information: https://www.wsl.ch/en/forest/forest-development-and-monitoring/long-term-forest-ecosystem-research-lwf/sites/chironico.html

forest

display_name: forest

infrastructure

display_name: infrastructure

lwf

display_name: lwf

meteorological-data

display_name: meteorological-data

meteorological-measurements

display_name: meteorological-measurements

plot

display_name: plot

swiss-forest-lab

display_name: swiss-forest-lab

en: EnviDat is the WSL data portal providing unified and managed access to environmental monitoring and research data. The portal has the capability to host and publish data sets. Through the sharing of unique and high-value data sets worldwide, EnviDat fosters research and contributes to advancing environmental science.

en: LWF Chironico long-term research site


permanent-vegetation-quadrats-lwf

title_for_slug: permanent-vegetation-quadrats-lwf

en: species-composition swiss-forest-lab ground-vegetation icp-forests long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

en: Data Request

en:
Ground vegetation is an important compartment of the ecosystem in terms of biodiversity and it takes an active part in the general functioning of the ecosystem. It is also a useful bio-indicator of the site conditions and its monitoring may enable the detection of environmental changes. Ground vegetation relevés were carried out repeatedly at 17 LWF plots during in the the period between 1994 and 2011. In 2013, ground vegetation was surveyed at an additional LWF plot (Laegeren). The cover of all plant species occurring in 16 1-m2 quadrats, distributed over the 43 x 43 m intensive monitoring subplot was visually assessed. Seedlings and saplings were also counted and their position within the quadrat was noted in order to assess tree regeneration.

 Purpose:

To assess the species diversity of ground vegetation and detect possible environmental changes using its bio-indicator value.

 Manual Citation:

 * Kull, P., 1997. Kapitel D2. Vegetationsaufnahmen. In: Brang, P. (Ed.), Aufnahmeanleitungen aller Forschungsprojekte auf Flächen der Langfristigen Waldökosystem-Forschung (LWF). Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL, Birmensdorf, pp. 1-9.

 * Canullo R, Starlinger F, Granke O, Fischer R, Aamlid D, 2016: Part VI.1: Assessment of Ground Vegetation. In: UNECE ICP Forests Programme Co-ordinating Centre (ed.): Manual on methods and criteria for harmonized sampling, assessment, monitoring and analysis of the effects of air pollution on forests. Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems, Eberswalde, 12 p. + Annex [http://icp-forests.net/page/icp-forests-manual](http://icp-forests.net/page/icp-forests-manual)

 Paper Citation:

 * Thimonier A, Kull P, Keller W, Moser B, Wohlgemuth T (2011) Ground vegetation monitoring in Swiss forests: comparison of survey methods and implications for trend assessments. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 174: 47-63. [doi: 10.1007/s10661-010-1759-y](http://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-010-1759-y)

ground-vegetation

display_name: ground-vegetation

icp-forests

display_name: icp-forests

long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

display_name: long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

species-composition

display_name: species-composition

en: Permanent vegetation quadrats LWF