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Total water reserves of the snow cover [mio m3] for Wägital catchment, Switzerland, for reference date April 1. Data is separated in 2 elevation zones 900m-1500m asl and 1500m-2300m asl. Time period 1943-2023, status 2023-04-17.

Funded currently or in the past by:

- Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss in the context of GCOS Switzerland
- Meteodat GmbH
- Institute of Geography, University of Zurich
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
- Institute of Geography, ETH Zurich (IAC ETH Zurich)
- AG Kraftwerk Wägital (AXPO and EWZ)

See also https://www.meteodat.ch/waegital.html

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envidat

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: Snow water equivalent for reference date April 1 for Wägital catchment, starting 1943


en: ecosystem-services climate-change-adaptation nature-based-solutions resilience discrete-choice

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en: DIVES CE raw data

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en: Raw data obtained from a choice experiment on the insurance value of forests

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en: DIVES data description

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en: Description of the raw data variables

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en: DIVES questionnaire

en: English translation of the original survey questionnaire

en: We present stated preference data for improved forest management measures from seven Swiss municipalities in the Cantons of Grisons and Valais. The data was collected between October 2019 and February 2020 using an online questionnaire. We invited 10289 households to participate and received 939 responses. The online questionnaire consisted of two main parts: (i) an online choice experiment and (ii) questions on the sociodemographic characteristics of the responding households. The choice experiment confronted households with twelve consecutive choice tasks. Each choice task consisted of three options with a varying degree of avalanche and rock fall risk reduction due to improved forest management. The options further differed with respect to the way the costs for the improved forest management are allocated and the way they are calculated. We additionally provided each of the options with a cost attribute, allowing for the calculation of willingness to pay measures. At the end of the choice experiment we asked five de-briefing questions and eight attitudinal questions. Additionally, we asked the responding households to state their willingness to take risks. The sociodemographic characteristics collected in the second part of the questionnaire allow for an analysis of the impact they have on the choices we observed in the first part of the questionnaire.

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fr: EnviDat: le portail de données environnementales

de: EnviDat: das Umwelt-Datenportal

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

it: EnviDat: il portale dei dati ambientali

fr: EnviDat est le portail de données du WSL; il offre un accès uniformisé et réglementé aux données de surveillance et de recherche en matière d’environnement. Ce portail est capable d’héberger et de publier des ensembles de données précieuses et uniques, qui sont partagées aux quatre coins de la planète. Ce faisant, EnviDat favorise la recherche et contribue à l’avancement des sciences environnementales.

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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en: Stated preference data on the insurance value of forests in Switzerland


title_for_slug: stand-density-sdi

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en:
The Stand Density Index (SDI) is a general measure for the density of a stocking and is based on the number of stems/ha and the average diameter of the tally trees on the sample plot.

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: time-series switzerland studibach alptal groundwater

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Groundwater time series of the monitoring network in the Studibach (C7) catchment, Alptal, Switzerland published in
Rinderer M., van Meerveld I, McGlynn B. (2019): From points to patterns – Assessing runoff source area dynamics and hydrological connectivity using time series clustering. Water Resources Research, doi: 2018WR023886R

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en: Groundwater time series between 2010 and 2014 of the distributed monitoring system in the Studibach (C7), Alptal, Switzerland. Data published in Rinderer M., van Meerveld I, McGlynn B. (2019): From points to patterns – Assessing runoff source area dynamics and hydrological connectivity using time series clustering. Water Resources Research, doi: 2018WR023886R

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en: Groundwater time series Studibach (Rinderer et al., 2019, WRR)


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en: Backward Trajectories

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en: The trajectories are started from surface up to 5000 m altitude, with an equidistant vertical spacing of 200 m, and calculated 120 h backward in time. As long as the trajectories stay in the COSMO1 domain (essentially the Alpine region), as run operationally at MeteoSwiss, the COSMO analysis wind fields are used. When the trajectories leave this domain, they are extended further backward in time based on ECMWF analysis data. The following fields are traced along the trajectories: longitude, latitude, geopotential height, pressure, specific humidity, temperature and surface topography. Furthermore, it is indicated for each trajectory time instance on which model data, COSMO or ECMWF, the trajectory time is based. Finally, the trajectories are started every hour in the specified time period, and positions and fields are available every 10 min. Each day is saved as a separate file. The last 8 digits of the file names indicate the starting date of the trajectories.

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en: Backward trajectories were calculated from two positions: Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.85361, LAT: 46.83551) and Weissfluhjoch (LON: 9.80646 LAT: 46.83304) for the time period February 2 until March 27 2019 using COSMO or ECMWF, respectively.

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envidat

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: Backward  Trajectories


en: swiss-forest-lab soil-solution-chemistry long-term-monitoring long-term-forest-ecosystem-research wdb

en: Data request

en:
Since 1997 soil solution samplers are installed in certain plots of the Intercantonal Forest Observation Program *[Intercantonal Forest Observation Program](https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/interkantonale-walddauerbeobachtung-wdb)*. There solution is analysed monthly at the moment (2023) in 46 Swiss forest sites. The sites cover a uniquely broad range of Swiss forest soils, with gradients in elevation (290-1870 m), precipitation (915-2211 mm), base saturation averaged over the top 40 cm (6-100%) and total N deposition (10-81 kg ha⁻¹a⁻¹).
For each site and soil depth, eight soil solution samplers (ceramic suction cup) are installed in the topsoil and five in the subsoil. Actual depths varied according to soil condition but a frequent sampling design is 20, 50 and 80 cm. Following the monthly sampling of the soil solution, the samples from the same location and from the same depth are pooled. Monthly data about following chemical soil solution indicators are measured:

 * pH and conductivity
 * Anions: Cl⁻, NO₃⁻, SO₂⁻
 * Kations: Ca²⁺, Mg²⁺, K⁺, Na⁺, Mn²⁺, NH4⁺, Altot, Alorg
 * DOC

More information about the analytical methods and results can be found in *[Braun & Tresch (2020)](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227530)*.
The long-term measurements of the soil solution provide the basis for revealing changes in forest soil quality. The chemical composition of the soil solution allows comparison and assessment of internationally agreed critical values and criteria on acid-base status (indicators: BC/Al ratio, pH value, N concentrations in the soil solution) as well as the leaching of N, Al and basic cations.

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en: Soil solution monitoring of the Intercantonal Forest Observation Program


maintainer: Ueli Reber

en: text-corpus biodiversity policy-analysis bgb policy-documents environmental--policy switzerland

en: Replication files

en:
 Introduction

The ZIP file contains all data and code to replicate the analyses reported in the following paper.

Reber, U., Fischer, M., Ingold, K., Kienast, F., Hersperger, A. M., Grütter, R., & Benz, R. (2022). Integrating biodiversity: A longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics. *Policy Sciences*. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-022-09456-4](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-022-09456-4)

If you use any of the material included in this repository, please refer to the paper. If you use (parts of) the text corpus, please also refer to the sources used for its compilation listed below. The content of the texts may not be changed.

 Data folder

The data folder contains the following files.

* _corpus.parquet_: Text corpus of Swiss policy documents
* _dict_de.csv_: Biodiversity dictionary (German)
* _dict_fr.csv_: Biodiversity dictionary (French)
* _dict_it.csv_: Biodiversity dictionary (Italian)
* _topic_labels.csv_: labels/codes for policy sectors
* _topics.csv_: labels/codes for policy sectors

The corpus and the dictionary were compiled by the authors specifically for this project. The labels/codes for policy sectors are based on the [coding scheme](http://ws-old.parlament.ch/affairs/topics) of the Swiss Parliament.

 Text corpus

The text corpus consists of 439,984 Swiss policy documents in German, French, and Italian from 1999 to 2018. The corpus was compiled from the following source between 2020-10-01 and 2021-01-31.

* Transcripts and parliamentary businesses (e.g. questions, motions, parliamentary initiatives) via the [Web Services (WS)](https://www.parlament.ch/de/%C3%BCber-das-parlament/fakten-und-zahlen/open-data-web-services) provided by the Swiss Parliament
* The official compilation of federal legislation ("Amtliche Sammlung", AS) via [opendata.swiss](https://opendata.swiss/de/dataset/official-compilation-of-federal-legislation-bs-as-1947-2018) provided by the Swiss Federal Archives (SFA)
* The federal gazette ("Bundesblatt") via [fedlex.admin.ch](https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/de/fga/index)
* Decisions of federal courts via [entscheidsuche.ch (ES)](https://entscheidsuche.ch/)

The corpus is stored in a single data frame to use with R saved as [PARQUET](https://parquet.apache.org/) file (corpus.parquet). The data frame has the following structure.

* _text_id_: Unique identifier for each text (source information as prefix, e.g. "t_")
* _doc_type_: Document type (see coding scheme below)
* _branch_: Government branche (1 legislative, 2 executive, 3 judicative)
* _stage_: Stage of policy process (1 drafting, 2 introduction, 3 interpretation)
* _year_: Year of publication
* _topic_: Policy sector (coding scheme in separate file in data folder)
* _lang_: Language (de, fr, it)
* _text_: Text

The following list contains the coding scheme for the doc_type variable.

* 101: Federal gazette // Draft for public consultation ("Vernehmlassungsverfahren")
* 102: Federal gazette // Explanation of draft for parliament ("Botschaft")
* 103: Federal gazette // Strategy, action plan
* 104: Federal gazette // Federal council decree ("Bundesratsbeschluss")
* 105: Federal gazette // (Simple) Federal decree ("(Einfacher) Bundesbeschluss")
* 106: Federal gazette // General decree ("Allgemeinverfügung")
* 107: Federal gazette // Treaty ("Übereinkommen")
* 108: Federal gazette // Treaty ("Abkommen")
* 109: Federal gazette // Draft for parliament ("Entwurf")
* 110: Federal gazette // Report ("Bericht")
* 111: Federal gazette // Report of parliamentary comission ("Bericht")
* 112: Federal gazette // Report of federal council ("Bericht")
* 201: Parl. businesses // Submitted text
* 202: Parl. businesses // Reason text
* 203: Parl. businesses // Federal council response
* 204: Parl. businesses // Initial situation
* 205: Parl. businesses // Proceedings
* 301: Parl. transcripts // Speech of MP
* 302: Parl. transcripts // Speech of federal council
* 401: Federal legislation // Legal text of the official compilation (law, ordinances, etc.)
* 501: Court decisions // Federal Supreme Court
* 502: Court decisions // Federal Criminal Court
* 503: Court decisions // Federal Administrative Court

 Code folder

The code folder contains all R code for the analyses. The files are numbered chronologically.

* _1_classifier_training.R_: Training of classifiers for classification of policy sectors
* _2_classifier_application.R_: Classification of documents in corpus
* _3_dictionary_application.R_: Biodiversity indexing of documents in corpus
* _4_stm_truncation.R_: Truncation of indexed documents to keep only relevant parts
* _5_stm_translation.R_: Translation of FR and IT documents to DE
* _6_stm_model.R_: Preprocesssing and structural topic model
* _7_plots.R_: Plots and numbers as included in the paper

The code/functions folder contains custom functions used in the scripts, e.g. to support topic model interpretation.

Package versions and setup details are noted in the code files.

 Contact

Please direct any questions to Ueli Reber (ueli.reber@eawag.ch).

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en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Replication files for "Integrating biodiversity: A longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics"


en: national-dishes latent-semantic-analysis food-taste-similarity agro-food-trade food-preferences

en: information on ingredients of national dishes

en: shows information of ingredients of all national dishes of 171 countries and their names

en: National dishes, migration data and data for bilateral food trade flows

en:
The data include information on national dishes, migration data and data for bilateral food
trade flows for 5 years as well as importer and exporter GDP, population, distance between
most populated cities, bilateral information on Preferential Trade Agreements, common
official primary langauge, common colonizer post-1945, colonial relationship for overall
171 countries. The final data set contains 145,350 observations (29,070 country pairs for
5 years)

en: dyadic food similarity measures, pairwise similarity and dissimilarity (chord diagram)

en:
The figures show the distribution of two dyadic food tastes similarity measures on the base of
the national dishes: (i) the Manhattan distance and the (ii) latent semantic analysis. The chord diagram
shows the results for country pairs with most and less similarity on basis of the LSA-approach.

en: The data described in this article were collected daily over the period 4 June 2018 to 23 August 2018 and contains information of several data sources. The database includes information on national recipes and their ingredients for 171 countries, measures for food taste similarities between all 171 countries as well as bilateral migration and agro-food trade data for 5 years. The database can be used for analyzing e.g., the relation between food preferences and international trade or food preferences and health outcomes (e.g., obesity) across countries.

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en: Data of national dishes, their similarity and trade flows


en: landslide-early-warning soil-water-content soil-moisture soil-water-matrix-potential soil-temperature

en: In-situ soil moisture measurements, Langnau i E, 2021-2022

en:
Volumetric soil water content (m3 m-3), soil water potential (mbar) and soil temperatures (oC) measured in two profiles and four depths each. Meteorological variables, such as air temperature or precipitation can be received from MeteoSwiss.
Time intervall: 1 hour. Measurement period: June 2021-Dec 2022.
Location: flat terrain, meadow (measurement site of MeteoSwiss)
For a detailed description of site, soil and vegetation: see attached document.

en: In-situ soil moisture measurements, Wasen i.E., flat location, 2019-2022

en:
Volumetric soil water content (m3 m-3), soil water potential (mbar) and soil temperatures (oC) measured in two profiles and four depths each, and two additional soil temperature measurements (oC), air temperature (oC) and precipitation (mm). Time intervall: 1 hour. Measurement period: April 2019-Dec 2022.
Location: flat terrain, meadow
For a detailed description of site, soil and vegetation: see attached document.

en: In-situ soil moisture measurements, Ranflüh, 2021-2022

en:
Volumetric soil water content (m3 m-3), soil water potential (mbar) and soil temperatures (oC) measured in two profiles and four depths each, as well as air temperature (oC) and precipitation (mm). Time intervall: 1 hour. Measurement period: April 2021-Dec 2022.
Location: hillslope, meadow
For a detailed description of site, soil and vegetation: see attached document.

en: In-situ soil moisture measurements, Wasen i.E., steep slope, 2019-2022

en:
Volumetric soil water content (m3 m-3), soil water potential (mbar) and soil temperatures (oC) measured in two profiles and four depths each, and two additional soil temperature measurements (oC), air temperature (oC) and precipitation (mm). Time intervall: 1 hour. Measurement period: April 2019-Dec 2022.
Location: steep hillslope, meadow
For a detailed description of site, soil and vegetation: see attached document.

en: Detailed description of soil moisture measurment sites, soil properties and sensor installations (in German)

en: In-situ soil moisture measurements, Trub, 2021-2022

en:
Volumetric soil water content (m3 m-3), soil water potential (mbar) and soil temperatures (oC) measured in two profiles and four depths each, as well as air temperature (oC) and precipitation (mm). Time intervall: 1 hour. Measurement period: April 2021-Dec 2022.
Location: slope, meadow
For a detailed description of site, soil and vegetation: see attached document.

en: In-situ soil moisture measurements, Napf, 2021-2022

en:
Volumetric soil water content (m3 m-3), soil water potential (mbar) and soil temperatures (oC) measured in two profiles and four depths each. Meteorological variables such as air temperature or precipitation can be received from MeteoSwiss.
Time intervall: 1 hour.
Measurement period: June 2021-Dec 2022.
Location: flat terrain, meadow (official MeteoSwiss station)
For a detailed description of site, soil and vegetation: see attached document.

en: In the context of landslide early warning research, soil moisture (e.g. volumetric soil water content and soil water potential) has been measured at six locations in the Napf-region (Emmental, central Switzerland) since April 2019. Here, we provide the hourly mean values of all sensors from all 6 locations after a comprehensive data control, filtering and aggregation (from 10-min to 1-hour values). A sub-set of these data (for the locations Wasen i.E.) has previously been published in envidat.ch at https://www.doi.org/10.16904/envidat.369 applying the same data post-processing method. The dataset is complemented with meteorological data (locally measured air temperature and precipitation) as well as soil temperature. A detailed description of the sites and measurement installations can be found in a separate report (attached with the data).

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envidat

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: In-situ soil moisture measurements Napf-region 2019-2022


en: strategic-projects urban-transformations strategic-spatial-planning europe large-scale-urban-development-projects land-use-change land-use-transformations spatial-planning

en: QCA data set large-scale urban development projects

en: Please refer to the sections: 3. The data set lsUDPs: 3.1 Selection of cases and data collection; 3.2 Data management and operationalization in the Metadata for further details on this resource.

en: QCA R script large-scale urban development projects Europe

en:
For the set up of this R script, we used the “QCA” (Duşa, 2019) and “SetMethods” (Oana and Schneider, 2018) R packages.

The following further resources were also used:
Dusa, A. (2019). QCA with R: A comprehensive resource. Springer: Berlin.
Schneider, C. Q., & Wagemann, C. (2012). Set-theoretic methods for the social sciences. A guide to qualitative comparative analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thomann, E., Oana, I.-E., & Wittwer, S. (2018). Performing fuzzy- and crisp set QCA with R. A user-oriented beginner's guide. Retrieved from http://www.evathomann.com/links/qca-r-manual

en:
Table of Content: 1. General context of the data set "lsUDPs" ; 2. Background and aims of the study using the data set lsUDPs; 3. The data set lsUDPs: 3.1 Selection of cases and data collection; 3.2 Data management and operationalisation

1. General context of the data set "lsUDPs"
The data set "lsUDPs" has been generated as part of the CONCUR research project (https://www.wsl.ch/en/projects/concur.html) led by Dr. Anna M. Hersperger and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (ERC TBS Consolidator Grant (ID: BSCGIO 157789) for the period 2016-2020. The CONCUR research project is interdisciplinary and aims to develop a scientific basis for adequately integrating spatial policies (in this case, strategic spatial plans) into quantitative land-change modelling approaches at the urban regional level. The first stage (2016-2017) of the CONCUR project focussed on 21 urban regions in Western Europe. The urban regions were selected through a multi-stage strategy for empirical research (see Hersperger, A. M., Grădinaru, S., Oliveira, E., Pagliarin, S., & Palka, G. (2019). Understanding strategic spatial planning to effectively guide development of urban regions. Cities, 94, 96–105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.05.032 ).

2. Background and aims of the study using the data set lsUDPs
As part of the CONCUR project, a specific task was to examine the relationship between strategic spatial plans and the formulation and implementation (i.e. urban land change) of large-scale urban development projects in Western Europe.
Strategic urban projects are typically large-scale, prominent urban transformations implemented locally with the aim to stimulate urban growth, for instance in the form of urban renewals of deprived neighborhoods, waterfront renewals and transport infrastructures. While strategic urban projects are referred to in the literature with multiple terms, in the CONCOR project we call them large-scale urban development projects (lsUDPs).
Previous studies acknowledged both local and supra-local (or structural) factors impacting the context-specific implementation of lsUDPs. Local governance factors, such as institutional capacity, coordination among public and private actors and political leadership, intertwine with supra-local conditions, such as state re-scaling processes and devolution of state competencies in spatial planning, de-industrialisation and increasing social inequality. Hence, in implementing lsUDPs, multi-scalar factors act in combination.
Because the formulation and implementation of lsUDPs require multi-scalar coordination among coalitions of public and private actors over an extended period of time, they are generally linked to strategic spatial plans (SSPs). Strategic spatial plans convey collective visions and horizons of action negotiated among public and private actors at the local and/or regional level to steer future urban development, and can contain legally binding dispositions, but also indicative guidelines.
The key question remains as to what extent large-scale urban development projects and strategic spatial plans can be regarded as aligned. By alignment, or “concordance”, we mean that strategic projects are formulated and implemented as part of the strategic planning process (“high concordance”), or that the strategic role of projects is reconfirmed in (subsequent) strategic plans (“moderate concordance”). Lack of concordance is found when lsUDPs have been limitedly (or not at all) acknowledged in strategic spatial plans.
We assume that certain local and supra-local factors, characterising the development of the projects, foster (but not strictly “cause”) the degree of alignment between lsUPDs and SSPs. In this study, we empirically examine how, and to what extent, the concordance between 38 European large-scale urban development projects and strategic plans (outcome: CONCOR) has been enabled by five multi-scalar factors (or conditions): (i) the role of the national state (STATE), (ii) the role of (inter)national private actors (PRIVATE), (iii) the occurrence of supra-regional external events (EVENTS), (iv) the degree of transport connectivity (TRANSP), and (v) local resistance from civil society (RESIST). We adopted a (multi-data) case-based qualitative strategy for empirical research and applied the formalised procedure of within- and cross-case comparison offered by fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis appropriate for the goal of this study. Based on set theory, QCA formally integrates contextual sensitivity to case specificities (within-case knowledge) with systematic comparative analysis (across-case knowledge).
The research question the data set has been created to reply to is the following: which conditions, and combinations of conditions, enable the concordance between large-scale urban development projects and strategic spatial plans?
The conditions (“independent variables”) considered are. STATE: the set of large-scale urban projects characterized by a high degree of state intervention and support in their formulation and implementation, PRIVATE: the set of large-scale urban projects characterized by a high degree of involvement of (inter)national private actors in their formulation and implementation, EVENTS: the set of large-scale strategic projects whose formulation and implementation have been strongly affected by unforeseen international events and/or global trends, TRANSP: the set of large-scale strategic projects with a high degree of road and/or transit connectivity, and RESIST: set of large-scale strategic projects whose realization has been characterized by resistances that have substantially delayed or modified the project implementation.
The outcome (“dependent variable”) under analysis is CONCOR: the set of large-scale urban projects having a high degree of concordance/alignment/integration with strategic spatial plans

3. The data set lsUDPs

   3.1 Selection of cases and data collection
To generate the current data set on large-scale urban development projects in European urban regions (data set "lsUDPs"), we identified 35 large-scale urban development projects in a sample of the 21 Western urban regions considered in the CONCUR project (see supra, Hersperger et al. 2019): Amsterdam, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Lyon, Manchester, Milan, Stockholm, Stuttgart. The criteria we followed to identify the 35 large-scale urban development projects are: geographical location, size (large-scale), site (located either in the city core or in the larger urban region) and urban function (e.g. housing, transportation infrastructures, service and knowledge economic functions). Employing these criteria facilitated the selection of diverse large-scale urban development projects while still ensuring sufficient comparability.
In 2016, we performed 47 in-depth interviews with experts in urban and regional planning and large-scale strategic projects and infrastructure (i.e. academics and practitioners) about the formulation, implementation and development (1990s–2010s) of each project in each of the 9 selected urban regions. On average, each interviewee answered questions on 3.1 large-scale urban development projects. Three cases were subdivided into two cases because a clear differentiation between specific implementation stages was identified by the interviewees (expansion of the Barcelona airport, cases “bcn_airport80-90” and “bcn_airport00-16”; realisation of Lyon Part-Dieu, cases “lyo_partdieu70-90” and “lyo_partdieu00-16”; MediaCityUK, cases “man_salfordquays80-00” and “man_mediacityuk00-16”). Therefore, from the initial 35 cases, the final number of analysed cases in the lsUDPs dataset is 38.

    3.2 The data set lsUDPs: Data management and operationalisation
Interviews were fully transcribed and analysed through MAXQDA (version 12.3, VERBI GmbH, Berlin, Germany), and intercoder agreement was evaluated on a sample of nine interviews. We also compiled “synthetic case descriptions” (SCD) for each case (totalling more than 160 SCDs) to spot potential inconsistencies among interviewees’ accounts and to facilitate completion of the “calibration table” for each case (see below). An online expert survey distributed to the interviewees (response rate 78%) helped systematise the information collected during the interviews. We also consulted both academic and gray literature on the case studies to check for possible ambiguity and inconsistencies in the interview data, and to solve discrepancies between our assigned set membership scores and questionnaire values. Site visits were also carried out to retrieve additional information on the selected cases.
For each case (i.e. each of the 38 selected large-scale urban development projects), we operationalised each condition (i.e. STATE, PRIVATE, EVENTS, TRANSP, RESIST) and the outcome (CONCOR) in terms of sets, for subsequent application of Qualitative Comparative Analysis. This process is called “calibration”; we used a number of indicators for each condition to qualitatively assess each large-scale project across the conditions. The case-based qualitative assessment was then transformed into fuzzy-set membership values. Fuzzy-set membership values range from 0 to 1, and should be conceived as “fundamentally interpretative tools” that “operationalize theoretical concepts in a way that enhances the dialogue between ideas and evidence” (Ragin 2000:162, in “Fuzzy-set Social Science”. Chicago: University Press). We employed a four-value fuzzy-set scale (0, 0.33, 0.67, 1) to “quantify” into set membership scores the individual histories of cases retrieved from interview data. Only the condition TRANSP was calibrated as a crisp-set (0, 1).
The translation of qualitative case-based information into numerical fuzzy-set membership values was iteratively performed by populating a calibration table following standard practices recently emerged in QCA when dealing with qualitative (interview) data.

europe

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land-use-change

display_name: land-use-change

land-use-transformations

display_name: land-use-transformations

large-scale-urban-development-projects

display_name: large-scale-urban-development-projects

spatial-planning

display_name: spatial-planning

strategic-projects

display_name: strategic-projects

strategic-spatial-planning

display_name: strategic-spatial-planning

urban-transformations

display_name: urban-transformations

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

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en: lsUDPS Large-scale urban development projects in European urban regions


en: records-database swissfungi fungi-conservation biodiversity fungi national-data-center

en: Data extract 20191122

en: Each record consists of the record ID, species name (Taxon_ID,Latin name, German- French- and Italian name if available), information of the location (Swiss coordinates, precision of the coordinates, elevation above sea level, municipality and canton), the date of observation, the person that has found the fungus (leg.), the person that has identified the fungus (det), the functional group that the fungus belongs to, as well as information on the conservation status of the species (red list status, conservation priority status, status in the [Nature and Cultural Heritage Act](https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19660144/index.html) (Nature_Cultural_Heritage_Act)). Furthermore, data on the habitat according to Delarze (Delarze, R., Gonseth, Y., Galland, P., Lebensräume der Schweiz, Ott Verlag, Thun, ISBN 3-7225-6749-1) and substrate is given.

en:
This dataset provides distribution data of fungi in Switzerland of the National Data and Information Centre, called [SwissFungi](https://swissfungi.wsl.ch/en/index.html). SwissFungi is a partner of [InfoSpecies](https://www.infospecies.ch/de/), the network of Swiss data and information centres for [fauna](http://www.cscf.ch/cscf/de/home.html), [flora](https://www.infoflora.ch/en/) and [fungi](https://swissfungi.wsl.ch/en/index.html). One of its main objectives is to document the spatial and temporal distribution of species in Switzerland.

The SwissFungi database currently contains more than 670'000 geo-referenced fungi observations, distributed throughout Switzerland. The oldest observations date back to 1770. A large portion of the records are from the last two decades of the last century to the present day. The database is continuously updated with new fungi records. The data have been validated and originate from national inventories, from research projects, from floristic observations by volunteers as well as from private and public herbaria and from the literature.

The data from the distribution atlas of fungi in Switzerland are available for research and practice (nature conservation projects, environmental impact assessments etc.) and can be obtained via an [application form](https://www.infospecies.ch/de/assets/content/documents/Formular_Datenanfrage20190625.pdf). Please note the tariffs for data requests and submit your request directly to the [InfoSpecies](https://www.infospecies.ch/de/) office. Applications are usually answered within two working weeks. Details on the use of data are regulated in the current guidelines of the national data centers. Please note that the data center SwissFungi is not able to verify all incoming fungal records completely for a correct identification or coordinate errors and therefore cannot guarantee the correctness of the information.

License under [InfoSpecies](https://www.infospecies.ch/de/). Data is free of charge for research projects and available on request.

biodiversity

display_name: biodiversity

fungi

display_name: fungi

fungi-conservation

display_name: fungi-conservation

national-data-center

display_name: national-data-center

records-database

display_name: records-database

swissfungi

display_name: swissfungi

en: SwissFungi - Records Database for the Fungi of Switzerland


forest-type-nfi

title_for_slug: forest-type-nfi

en: remote-sensing forest-type forest-inventory forest nfi

en: 2016 Forest Type

en: Data 'Forest Type NFI 2016' available on request (lars.waser@wsl.ch).

format: GeoTIFF

en: Thumbnail

en: Wall-to-Wall Tree Type Mapping from Countrywide Airborne Remote Sensing Surveys

en: 2018 Forest Type (current)

en:
This dataset presents a remote sensing-based approach for a countrywide mapping of the Dominant Leave Type (DLT) with the two classes broadleaved and coniferous in Switzerland. The spatial resolution is 10 m with the fraction of the class broadleaved. The classification approach incorporates a random forest classifier, explanatory variables from freely available Copernicus multispectral Sentinel-2, multi-temporal Sentinel-1 data and a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) based on Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) (SwissAlti3D) data. The models were calibrated using digitized training polygons and independently validated data from the National Forest Inventory (NFI). Whereas high model overall accuracies (0.97) and kappa (0.96) were achieved, the comparison of the tree type map with independent NFI data revealed deviations in mixed stands.

Data 'Forest Type NFI 2018' available on request (lars.waser@wsl.ch).

en:
Two versions of the data are currently available: 2018 and 2016.

The 2018 version presents a remote sensing-based approach for a countrywide mapping of the dominant leave type (DLT) with the two classes broadleaved and coniferous in Switzerland. The spatial resolution is 10 m with the fraction of the class broadleaf. The classification approach incorporates a random forest classifier, explanatory variables from multispectral Sentinel-2, multi-temporal Sentinel-1 data and a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) from Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data. The models were calibrated using digitized training polygons and independently validated data from the National Forest Inventory (NFI). Whereas high model overall accuracies (0.97) and kappa (0.96) were achieved, the comparison of the tree type map with independent NFI data revealed deviations in mixed stands.

In the 2016 version (3 m spatial resolution), the classification approach incorporates a random forest classifier, explanatory variables from multispectral aerial imagery and a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) from Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data, digitized training polygons and independent validation data from the National Forest Inventory (NFI). Whereas high model overall accuracies (0.99) and kappa (0.98) were achieved, the comparison of the tree type map with independent NFI data revealed significant deviations that are related to underestimations of broadleaved trees (median of 3.17%).

forest

display_name: forest

forest-inventory

display_name: forest-inventory

forest-type

display_name: forest-type

nfi

display_name: nfi

remote-sensing

display_name: remote-sensing

en: Forest Type NFI


en: number-of-dead-persons number-of-caught-persons avalanche-accidents avalanche-fatalities avalanche-accident-statistics

en: Fatal avalanche accidents in Switzerland since 1995-1996

mimetype: text/csv

en:
Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore.
This data collection contains information concerning all accidents by snow avalanches causing at least one fatality in Switzerland. The data set commences on 01/10/1995. After the completion of a hydrological year, the new data is added.
The following information is provided:
 * avalanche identifier
 * date of the accident
 * accuracy of the date in range of days before and after
 * canton
 * name of the locality
 * start zone of the avalanche
  * coordinates (Swiss coordinate system, approximately in middle of start zone)
  * accuracy of the coordinates in meters
 * elevation (in meteres above sea level, app. in middle of start zone)
 * slope aspect (main orientation of start zone)
 * slope inclination (in degree, steepest point within start zone)
 * number of dead persons
 * number of caught persons
 * number of fully buried persons
 * forecasted avalanche danger level
 * activity/location of the accident party at the time of the incident

avalanche-accident-statistics

display_name: avalanche-accident-statistics

avalanche-accidents

display_name: avalanche-accidents

avalanche-fatalities

display_name: avalanche-fatalities

number-of-caught-persons

display_name: number-of-caught-persons

number-of-dead-persons

display_name: number-of-dead-persons

educ

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envidat

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: sustainable-economy atree forest-clearances circular-economy bioeconomy green-economy

en:
The data consistes of three colums as described below and the rows contain all the forest clearance requests and decisions between 2001 and 2017:

First column

The ID of the forest clearance request, which is also contained in the related dataset available from FOEN

Second column

The sustainable economy content class of a forest clearance request: G = green economy, C = circular economy, GB = green and bioeconomy, GC = green and circular economy, GCB = green and circular bioeconomy. If a cell is empty, the content was not codable as "sustainable economy" related.

Third column

The type of infrastructure project: if based on the description of the forest clearnce request it was necessary to change the field "type of infrastructure", so the clearance could be attributed to the correct class, this is indicated in this third column.

en: The Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) is responsible for granting exemptions for forest clearances that in principle are prohibited in Switzerland. Initiators of infrastructure projects have to submit an examption approval request to the cantonal forest administration which has to inform the FOEN. The FOEN thus administers a dataset of forest clearance requests and approval decisions that can be requested there. This dataset contains information on a coding of the content of all the forest clearance requests between 2001 and 2017, that elicits whether the reason for the clearance can be attributed to "sustainable economy" objectives such as "green economy", "bioeconomy" and "circular economy".

atree

display_name: atree

bioeconomy

display_name: bioeconomy

circular-economy

display_name: circular-economy

forest-clearances

display_name: forest-clearances

green-economy

display_name: green-economy

sustainable-economy

display_name: sustainable-economy

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Content coding of exemption approval decisions for forest clearances


en: meteo-station ground-temperature climate-change-impact depth-of-snowfall swiss-alps

en: GenPSUm

en:
GenPSUm contains Files to get the complete precipitation set:

1. MeteoData.ini: Ini file for MeteoIO to get the met. input data. It has to be run two times, to get prec. Data from Imis 	stations and from ANETZ regressions.

2 GenPSUM.ini: Inifile for Snowpack (in research mode), to get winter precipitation calculated by snowpack out of the snow hight measurements.
	In:_sno contain the soil profils for the station
	In_met contains the meterological input data. It's from the data base and MeteoData.ini is used to get it.

3. The folder R_programms contains the R sripts to generate the precipitation data set, it reads in IMIS, ANETZ and SNOWPACK precipi and makes one complet data set out of it. (it contains the function- script plus a script to use the function)

en: Precipitation datasets

en:
This folder contains 16 ideal precipitation data sets for IMIS stations.

*Updated documentation 24 August 2020:*

1. Datasets have been filtered for unphysical values using a MeteoIO min/max tool, however spikes still exist that pass this filter yet appear to be outliers, no further manual filtering was applied.
2. Data prior to 2009 can have large data gaps in certain stations. This is documented in the accompanying publication and was not used for simulations.
3. GUT2 was erroneously filtered during summer periods. This does not affect published snow modelling results but summer (Jun-Oct) values of 8.25 should not be used and filtered prior to use. This affects 4759 summer values or 1.2% of the time-series.

en: R-Script

en: The Folder R- Script contains, the R files to create the Climate Change input and the Data for the WFJ- Modeling.

en: SNOWPACK climate change simulation files

en: This folder contains SNOWPACK INI-files for snowpack, soil profiles, and input data for climate change modeling.

en:
This dataset includes all data and simulation files presented in the publication: Bender et al. 2020. Changes in climatology, snow cover and ground temperatures at high alpine locations, DOI: 10.3389/feart.2020.00100.

This includes:

* meteorological forcing,
* climate change timeries and
* simulation files together with
* snow depth
* ground temperature

Please refer to the following publication for further details which should be cited when using this dataset:

Bender et al. 2020. Changes in climatology, snow cover and ground temperatures at high alpine locations, DOI: 10.3389/feart.2020.00100.

climate-change-impact

display_name: climate-change-impact

depth-of-snowfall

display_name: depth-of-snowfall

ground-temperature

display_name: ground-temperature

meteo-station

display_name: meteo-station

swiss-alps

display_name: swiss-alps

en: Changes in climatology, snow cover and ground temperatures at high alpine locations in Switzerland (Bender et al. 2020)


experimental-rockfall-trilogy-of-surava

title_for_slug: experimental-rockfall-trilogy-of-surava

en: lying-deadwood forest gyroscope rockfall deposition-points in-situ acceleration gnss induced-rockfall

en: In situ sensor data original forest

en: Matlab structure of all used StoneNode sensors which were several times released into the original forest state.

en: In situ sensor data cleared area

en: Matlab structure of all used StoneNode sensors which were several times released into the cleared forest state.

en: ReleasePoint

en: Zipped shape file of releasepoint used in RAMMS::ROCKFALL Simulations. Slightly shiftet from originally measured in DNSS Position, as this position was on the flat forest road.

en: StoneNode Data Analysis Surava

en: Matlab script to detect frontal impacts (FI) on opposing objects within the in situ gathered StoneNode gyroscopic data of the Surava rockfall trilogy.

en: In situ sensor data deadwood

en: Matlab structure of each In situ StoneNode sensor installed in different rocks and several released through the Deadwood forest state.

en: Zipped shapefile of the measured and in RAMMS::ROCKFALL used trees for the original (ORG) forest state.

en: Standing trees after forest management intervention

en: Used DEM of the site, based on the LiDAR Pointcloud

en: GNSS-deposition points of all experimental runs

en: Deposition points of all three forest states: original (ORG), deadwood (DW) and cleared deadwod (CLR)

en: We performed an experimental trilogy of induced rockfall experiments in a spruce stand in Surava (CH) within (i) the original forest, (ii) after a logging job, resulting in lying deadwood and (iii) the cleared, deadwwod-free state. The three experimental set-ups allow quantifying the deadwood effect on overall rockfall risk for the same forest (slope, species) in three different conditions.

acceleration

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deposition-points

display_name: deposition-points

forest

display_name: forest

gnss

display_name: gnss

gyroscope

display_name: gyroscope

in-situ

display_name: in-situ

induced-rockfall

display_name: induced-rockfall

lying-deadwood

display_name: lying-deadwood

rockfall

display_name: rockfall

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

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: Experimental rockfall trilogy of Surava


en:
Dry weight (mass) of branches with a diameter of at least 7 cm from living trees and shrubs starting at 12cm dbh.

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

display_name: accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest

biogeographical-region

display_name: biogeographical-region

canton

display_name: canton

conifers-broadleaves

display_name: conifers-broadleaves

economic-region

display_name: economic-region

production-region

display_name: production-region

protection-forest-region

display_name: protection-forest-region

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Mass of merchantable branches of live trees


en: cmip5 orographic-precipitation climate-change air-temperature precipitation-amount

en: Download Server

en:
Predicting future climatic conditions at high spatial resolution is essential for many applications in science. Here we present data for monthly time series of precipitation and minimum and maximum temperature for four downscaled global circulation models. We used model output statistics in combination with mechanistic downscaling (the CHELSA algorithm) to calculate mean monthly maximum and minimum temperatures, as well as monthly precipitation sums at ~5km spatial resolution globally for the years 1850-2100. We validated the performance of the downscaling algorithm by comparing model output with observed climates for the years 1950-2069.

CHELSA_cmip5_ts is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) license.

air-temperature

display_name: air-temperature

climate-change

display_name: climate-change

orographic-precipitation

display_name: orographic-precipitation

precipitation-amount

display_name: precipitation-amount

en: High resolution monthly precipitation and temperature timeseries for the period 2006-2100


maintainer: Stephanie Mayer

en: snow-stratigraphy rutschblock snow-profiles failure-layer snowpack-simulation snowpack snow-instability

en: SWISS data set: Properties of observed snow profiles and simulated failure layers

en: For each profile pair from the SWISS data set, this file contains one row with information on the observed snow stability and all extracted features describing the simulated failure layers. Please note that only those profile pairs which fulfilled the similarity criteria (column similarity_obs_sim = 1, 121 profiles) were used to validate the RF model. The content of the columns is explained in Table 1 of the ReadMe file.

en: DAV data set: Properties of observed snow profiles and simulated failure layers

en:
For each profile pair from the DAV data set, this file contains one row with information on the observed snow stability and all extracted features describing the simulated failure layers. The content of the columns is explained in Table 1 of the ReadMe file. Only those profile pairs which fulfilled predefined similarity criteria (column
"similarity_obs_sim" = 1) and which belonged to the stability classes "stable" and "unstable" (column "stability_class"
= 0 or 1) were used to train the RF model. Please note that for each of the two snow profiles with RB score 7 (profile
IDs 7228 and 9526), three additional layers were included in this data set to obtain a balanced set of training data (73
unstable and 73 stable profiles).

en: Observed snow profiles

en: Observed snow stratigraphy in form of one *.csv-file per snow profile from the DAV and SWISS data sets (in respective subfolders). Each file is named after the profile ID which allows identifying the corresponding simulated profile in the "simulated_profiles" folder. One row corresponds to one observed snow layer. The content of the columns is described in Table 2 of the ReadMe file.

en: ReadMe

en: ReadMe file explaining data structure and content

en: Simulated snow profiles

en: Simulated snow stratigraphy in form of one *.csv-file per snow profile from the DAV and SWISS data sets (in respective subfolders). Each file is named after the profile ID which allows identifying the corresponding observed profile in the "observed_profiles" folder. One row corresponds to one simulated snow layer. The content of the columns 1-7 is described in Table 3 of the ReadMe file. The remaining columns (8-31) contain all features that were used in the development of the RF model and are described in Table 1 of the ReadMe file.

en:
This data set includes information on all observed and simulated snow profiles that were used to train and validate the
random forest model described in Mayer et al. (2022). The RF model was trained to assess snow instability from simulated snow stratigraphy. The data set contains observed snow profiles from the region of Davos (DAV subset, 512 profiles) and from all over Switzerland (SWISS subset, 230 profiles). For each observed snow profile, there is a corresponding simulated profile which was obtained using meteorological input data for the numerical snow cover model SNOWPACK. The information on the observed snow profile contains a Rutschblock test result including the depth of the failure interface. As part of the study described in Mayer et al. (2022), each observed snow profile was manually compared to its simulated counterpart and the simulated layer corresponding to the Rutschblock failure layer was identified.

The data are provided in the following form: one file each per observed and simulated snow profile (2x512 files DAV, 2x230 files SWISS), two files (1 file DAV, 1 file SWISS) containing the observed information on snow instability, the allocation between observed and simulated failure layer, and all features extracted from the simulated weak layers that were used to develop the RF model.

failure-layer

display_name: failure-layer

rutschblock

display_name: rutschblock

snow-instability

display_name: snow-instability

snow-profiles

display_name: snow-profiles

snow-stratigraphy

display_name: snow-stratigraphy

snowpack

display_name: snowpack

snowpack-simulation

display_name: snowpack-simulation

en: Observed and simulated snow profile data


intratrait

maintainer: Christian Rixen

title_for_slug: intratrait

en: neighbour-interactions climate-change cold-adapted-plants plant-traits elevation-gradient elevation-range

en: Plant trait data along elevation gradients on mountains

en:
This data set was used to test whether species specialized to high elevations or with narrow elevational ranges show more conservative (i.e. less variable) trait responses across their elevational distribution, or in response to neighbours, than species from lower elevations or with wider elevational ranges. We did so by studying intraspecific trait variation of 66 species along 40 elevational gradients in four countries (Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, China) in both hemispheres. As an indication of potential neighbour interactions that could drive trait variation, we also analysed plant species’ height ratio, its height relative to its nearest neighbour.
The following traits and parameters were measured and are available in this data set:
As an indication of plant stature, we measured vegetative and generative height, where vegetative height was distance from soil to highest vegetative leaf and generative height was distance to the highest point on the reproductive shoot. As a measure of reproductive investment, we noted the presence of flowers on the randomly chosen individuals (see below). As a measure of individual and genet basal area, we measured individual plant and patch diameters, in two dimensions (along the largest diameter and perpendicular to it). In clonal plant species, plant diameter was equivalent to an individual rosette, whereas patch diameter referred to the whole genet and could represent the size of a tuft, tussock or cushion. For genera with more singular growth forms (e.g., some Gentiana species) plant and patch diameter were the same. The two diameter measurements were made at right angles, allowing estimates of patch and plant areas to be calculated as an ellipse (i.e., area = 0.5 a 0.5 b Π). All traits were measured on ten randomly selected individuals per site. Flower count data was considered in a binary fashion on a per individual basis (because for some species individuals only produce one flower when flowering) so that the presence or absence of flower(s) was a nominal value between 0 and 10 for each species at each site. We then collected at least three leaves (up to 30 for small and light leaves) from each of the first three individuals selected from each species for determination of leaf dry matter content (LDMC) and specific leaf area (SLA). For calculations of LDMC and SLA, fresh leaves were scanned on a flatbed scanner to determine leaf area. Leaves were then weighed on a balance to a precision of +/- 0.001g, prior to being air dried and reweighed with a balance to a precision of +/- 0.0001g. LDMC was calculated by dividing dry leaf mass by fresh leaf mass. SLA was calculated by dividing leaf area by dry leaf mass. Additionally, within an area of 10 cm diameter around the target individual, we determined the tallest neighbouring species and measured its vegetative and generative height, and estimated the percent cover of the target species, other vegetation, rock, and bare soil.
For more details see Rixen et al. 2022, Journal of Ecology.

cold-adapted-plants

display_name: cold-adapted-plants

elevation-gradient

display_name: elevation-gradient

elevation-range

display_name: elevation-range

neighbour-interactions

display_name: neighbour-interactions

plant-traits

display_name: plant-traits

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

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: intratrait


en: airplane uas terrestrial snow-water-equivalent snow-depth satellite photogrammetry

en: Snow depth map UAS (eBee+), Schürlialp, Davos, Switzerland

media_type: image/tiff

en:
Resolution: 0.9 m
Coordinate system: LV95 LHN95

format: TIFF

en: Snow depth map airplane (Ultracam Eagle M3), Dischma valley, Davos, Switzerland

en:
Resolution: 0.5 m
Coordinate system: LV95 LHN95

en: Manual and snow pole measurements, Schürlialp, Davos, Switzerland

en: This text file contains the average value for each manual snow depth measurements and the measured value of the snow pole measurements. The coordinates are in the horizontal Swiss coordinate system LV95. These values are used as reference measurement for comparison 1 as descriped in the paper.

en: Snow depth map satellite (Pléiades), Schürlialp, Davos, Switzerland

en:
Resolution: 2 m
Coordinate system: LV95 LHN95
© CNES 2018, Distribution Airbus DS

en: Snow depth map airplane (Ultracam Eagle M3), Schürilalp, Davos, Switzerland

en:
Resolution: 0.11 m
Coordinate system: LV95 LHN95

en: Snow depth map terrestrial (Canon EOS 750D), Schürlialp, Davos, Switzerland

en:
Resolution 0.11 m
Coordinate system: LV95 LHN95

en: Snow depth map satellite (Pléiades), Dischma valley, Davos, Switzerland

en:
This data set contains the produced snow depth maps as well as the reference data set (manual and snow pole measurements) from our paper "Intercomparison of photogrammetric platforms for spatially continuous snow depth mapping".

Abstract. Snow depth has traditionally been estimated based on point measurements collected either manually or at automated weather stations. Point measurements, though, do not represent the high spatial variability of snow depths present in alpine terrain. Photogrammetric mapping techniques have progressed in recent years and are capable of accurately mapping snow depth in a spatially continuous manner, over larger areas, and at various spatial resolutions. However, the strengths and weaknesses associated with specific platforms and photogrammetric techniques, as well as the accuracy of the photogrammetric performance on snow surfaces have not yet been sufficiently investigated. Therefore, industry-standard photogrammetric platforms, including high-resolution satellites (Pléiades), airplane (Ultracam Eagle M3), Unmanned Aerial System (eBee+ with S.O.D.A. camera) and terrestrial (single lens reflex camera, Canon EOS 750D), were tested for snow depth mapping in the alpine Dischma valley (Switzerland) in spring 2018. Imagery was acquired with airborne and space-borne platforms over the entire valley, while Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and terrestrial photogrammetric imagery was acquired over a subset of the valley. For independent validation of the photogrammetric products, snow depth was measured by probing, as well as using remote observations of fixed snow poles.

When comparing snow depth maps with manual and snow pole measurements the root mean square error (RMSE) values and the normalized median deviation (NMAD) values were 0.52 m and 0.47 m respectively for the satellite snow depth map, 0.17 m and 0.17 m for the airplane snow depth map, 0.16 m and 0.11 m for the UAS snow depth map. The area covered by the terrestrial snow depth map only intersected with 4 manual measurements and did not generate statistically relevant measurements. When using the UAS snow depth map as a reference surface, the RMSE and NMAD values were 0.44 m and 0.38 m for the satellite snow depth map, 0.12 m and 0.11 m for the airplane snow depth map, 0.21 and 0.19 m for the terrestrial snow depth map. When compared to the airplane dataset over a large part of the Dischma valley (40 km2), the snow depth map from the satellite yielded a RMSE value of 0.92 m and a NMAD value of 0.65 m. This study provides comparative measurements between photogrammetric platforms to evaluate their specific advantages and disadvantages for operational, spatially continuous snow depth mapping in alpine terrain over both small and large geographic areas.

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en: Photogrammetric snow depth maps from satellite-, airplane-, UAS and terrestrial platforms from the Davos region (Switzerland)


photogrammetric-drone-data-dorfberg

maintainer: Yves Bühler

title_for_slug: photogrammetric-drone-data-dorfberg

en: drone-data dsm photogrammetry snow snow-depth-mapping orthophoto uav snow-distribution

en: Data Access

en:
- 3cm-resolution Orthophoto
- 10cm-resolution DSM
- 10cm-resolution snow depth raster
- original RGB images
- Agisoft Metashape Report

All products are also available as a cloud optimized geotiff.

en: The data was collected with a Wingtra Gen II drone and a Sony RX1R II sensor. In total, 10 flights were conducted at different dates, both in summer and winter. A DSM, an orthophoto, a snow depth raster and the original drone images from every flight are available at a high resolution (10cm and 3cm, respectively).

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snow

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snow-depth-mapping

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snow-distribution

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uav

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educ

en: Education, culture and sport

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: Photogrammetric Drone Data Dorfberg


biomass-of-total-dead-wood

title_for_slug: biomass-of-total-dead-wood

en:
Dry weight (mass) of all deadwood. This consists of the standing dead trees and shrubs starting at 12cm dbh and the lying deadwood starting at 7cm in diameter.

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-total-dead-wood

display_name: biomass-of-total-dead-wood

canton

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economic-region

display_name: economic-region

ownership

display_name: ownership

production-region

display_name: production-region

protection-forest-region

display_name: protection-forest-region

en: Biomass of total dead wood


en: icp-forests ozone swiss-forest-lab long-term-forest-ecosystem-research ambient-air-quality

en: Data Request

en:
Measuring air pollutants in forests is important for evaluating the risk for vegetation in areas not covered by conventional air quality monitoring networks. Ozone measurements are carried out at LWF, applying the harmonized methodologies from UNECE/ICP Forests and running under the 1999 Gothenburg Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone. Data are also collected on ozone-induced visible symptoms and other ecosystem properties such as tree growth, nutrition, and biodiversity, as well as climate. This makes this long-term monitoring data series essential for impact assessment and air pollution modelling.

 Purpose:

Ozone risk assessment: Continuous measurements of ozone concentrations

 Manual Citation:

 * Schaub M, Calatayud V, Ferretti M, Brunialti G, Lövblad G, Krause G, Sanz MJ, 2016: Part XV: Monitoring of Air Quality. 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, 11 p. + Annex [http://icp-forests.net/page/icp-forests-manual](http://icp-forests.net/page/icp-forests-manual)

 Paper Citation:

 * Schaub M, Häni M, Calatayud V, Ferretti M, Gottardini E (2018) ICP Forests Brief No 3 - Ozone concentrations are decreasing but exposure remains high in European forests. Programme Co-ordinating Centre of ICP Forests, Thu¨nen Institute of Forest Ecosystems. [doi: 10.3220/ICP1525258743000](https://icp-forests.org/pdf/ICPForestsBriefNo2.pdf)

 * Cailleret M, Ferretti M, Gessler A, Rigling A, Schaub M (2018) Ozone effects on European forest growth – towards an integrative approach. Journal of Ecology. [doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12941](https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12941)

 * Calatayud V and Schaub M (2013) Methods for Measuring Gaseous Air Pollutants in Forests. In: Marco Ferretti and Richard Fischer (Eds). Forest Monitoring: Methods for Terrestrial Investigations in Europe with an Overview of North America and Asia, Vol 12, DENS, UK: Elsevier, 2013, pp. 375-384. [doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-098222-9.00019-4](https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-098222-9.00019-4)

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icp-forests

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long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

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ozone

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swiss-forest-lab

display_name: swiss-forest-lab

en: Continuous measurement of O3 LWF


maintainer: Jürg Schweizer

en: avalanche-activity danger-level snow-avalanche avalanche-forcasting avalanche-size

en: Readme

en: The Readme file contains the description of the two data files.

mimetype: application/pdf

en: Avalanche activity data

en: This data file includes data on the avalanche activity per day aggregated from the avalanche data.

en: Snow avalanche data

en: This data file includes data on the avalanches mapped in the region of Davos.

en:
These data include all avalanches that were mapped in the region of Davos, Switzerland during the winters 1998-1999 to 2018-2019 (21 years), in total 13,918 avalanches, and the corresponding forecast danger level valid on the day of avalanche occurrence, 3533 days and danger ratings in total.

This avalanche activity data set was analysed and results published by Schweizer et al. (2020). They found that the
number of avalanches per day strongly increased with increasing danger level, but avalanche size was poorly related to avalanche danger level.

The data are provided in two files: the first includes the avalanche data (13,918 records); the second includes the avalanche activity per day (3533 records).
Please refer to the Read-me file for further details on the data.

These data are the basis of the following publication:
Schweizer, J., Mitterer, C., Techel, F., Stoffel, A. and Reuter, B., 2020. On the relation between avalanche occurrence and avalanche danger level. The Cryosphere, 14, 737-750, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-737-2020.

avalanche-activity

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avalanche-forcasting

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avalanche-size

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danger-level

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snow-avalanche

display_name: snow-avalanche

en: Snow avalanche data Davos, Switzerland, 1999-2019


maintainer: Lisa Hülsmann

en: forest-inventory primeval-forests mortality-models fagus-sylvatica tree-mortality forest-reserves

en: Ukrainian data

en:
READ ME for

Hülsmann L, Bugmann H, Commarmot B, Meyer P, Zimmermann S, Brang P
Data from: Does one model fit all? Patterns of beech mortality in natural forests of three European regions.
Ecological Applications http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.h4s6t

Forest inventory data of beech for the development of individual-tree mortality models from strict forests reserves in Switzerland, Germany and Ukraine.

The data package provides the files
CH_reduced: inventory data of the reduced dataset from Switzerland that was used to assess the influence of additional environmental and stand characteristics on beech mortality
CH: inventory data from strict forest reserves in Switzerland
DE: inventory data from strict forest reserves in Germany
UA: inventory data from a primeval beech forest in Ukraine

A set of three consecutive inventories was used to generate records for the calibration of mortality models based on trees that were alive in the first and second inventory and either dead or alive in the third inventory.
Diameter at breast height: dbh (mm)
Annual relative basal area increment: relBAI (), calculated based on the first and the second dbh measurement as the compound annual growth rate of the trees basal area (Bigler and Bugmann 2004)
Status of the tree: y, 0 = alive, 1 = dead
Length of the mortality period: dt (years)

Additional environmental and stand characteristics were derived for the reduced Swiss dataset.
Note the varying seasonal level of the covariates considering the entire year, the growing season from April to September (G) and the winter month January to March (W).
All climatic covariates were calculated for both the ‘growth’ (2) and the ‘mortality’ period (3). The stand covariates were derived for the second inventory of each record (2).

Mean diameter at breast height: dbh.mean.2 (mm)
Interquartile range of diameter at breast height: dbh.IQR.2 (mm)
Median diameter at breast height: dbh.median.2 (mm)
Basal area per hectare: BA.2 (m2 ha-1)
Number of trees per hectare: N.2 (ha-1)
pH-value: pH ()
Available water capacity in the soil: AWC (mm)
Mean annual precipitation sum: P.2, P.3 (mm)
Mean precipitation sum during growing season: PG.2, PG.3 (mm)
Mean annual air temperature: mT.2, mT.3 (°C)
Mean air temperature during growing season: mTG.2, mTG.3 (°C)
Mean air temperature during winter months: mTW.2, mTW.3 (°C)
Mean growing degree-days: GDD.2, GDD.3 ()
Mean number of months during growing season with water deficit: mDEFdurG.2, mDEFdurG.3 ()
Mean annual maximum water deficit: mDEFmax.2, mDEFmax.3 (mm)
Overall maximum of the annual maximum water deficit: maxDEFmax.2, maxDEFmax.3 (mm)
Mean of cumulative water deficit during growing season: mDEFcumG.2, mDEFcumG.3 (mm)
Overall maximum of cumulative water deficitduring growing season: maxDEFcumG.2, maxDEFcumG.3 (mm)
Percentage of years with at least one month water deficit: percDEF.2, percDEF.3 (%)

en: Swiss data full

en: Swiss data reduced

en: German data

en:
The datasets comprise nearly 19’000 trees of European beech (_Fagus sylvatica_ L.) from unmanaged forests in Switzerland, Germany / Lower Saxony and Ukraine. Tree death was modelled as a function of size and growth, i.e., stem diameter (DBH) and relative basal area increment (relBAI). To explain the spatial and temporal variability in mortality patterns, we considered a large set of environmental and stand characteristics.

 Inventory data
The strict forest reserves in Switzerland and Germany had been established in the period of 1961-1975 and 1971-1974, respectively. Every reserve included up to 10 permanent plots ranging from 0.09 to 1.8 ha in size, with slightly irregular re-measurement intervals. Permanent plots with pure or mixed beech stands were selected from the reserves of both networks. Reserves with considerable wind disturbance during the monitored intervals were excluded from the analysis. In addition to data from the Swiss and German reserves, data from a 10 ha plot in the primeval beech forest Uholka in Western Ukraine including three remeasurements were used. The inventory data provide diameter measurements at breast height (dbh) for revisited trees with a diameter of more than 4, 7 and 6 cm for Switzerland, Germany and Ukraine, respectively.

 Mortality predictors
A set of three consecutive inventories was used to generate records for the calibration of mortality models based on trees that were alive in the first and second inventory and either dead or alive in the third inventory. As an explanatory variable, the annual relative basal area increment (relBAI) was calculated based on the first and the second dbh measurement as the compound annual growth rate of the trees basal area. Tree dbh in the second inventory was used in addition to relBAI to model tree status (alive or dead) of the third inventory.

To increase the generality of the mortality models, we selected environmental variables that are known to have a considerable influence on growth and mortality of beech. We emphasized the effects of water availability using a large set of drought characteristics that were calculated based on the local site water balance. We also related beech mortality to soil pH, temperature, precipitation and growing degree-days. Additionally, we considered stand characteristics that reflect the development stage, competition and structure of the forests.

 Further information
For further information, refer to Hülsmann _et al_. (2016) Does one model fit all? patterns of beech mortality in natural forests of three European regions. _Ecological Applications_.

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tree-mortality

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educ

en: Education, culture and sport

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: Data from: Does one model fit all? patterns of beech mortality in natural forests of three European regions


en: fen inter-observer-difference raised-bog pseudoturnover dry-grassland flood-plain vegetation-survey long-term-biodiversity-monitoring observer-error ecological-indicator-value

en: Boch et al. 2022 Applied Vegetation Science - Raw species list and file used for lmer

en: The dataset was used for the paper Boch S, Küchler H, Küchler M, Bedolla A, Ecker KT, Graf UH, Moser T, Holderegger R, Bergamini A (2022) Observer-driven pseudoturnover in vegetation monitoring is context dependent but does not affect ecological inference. Applied Vegetation Science.

en:
This dataset was used to analyze the inter-observer error (i.e. pseudoturnover) in vegetation surveys for the publication Boch S, Küchler H, Küchler M, Bedolla A, Ecker KT, Graf UH, Moser T, Holderegger R, Bergamini A (2022) Observer-driven pseudoturnover in vegetation monitoring is context dependent but does not affect ecological inference. Applied Vegetation Science.
In the framework of the project "Monitoring the effectiveness of habitat conservation in Switzerland", we double-surveyed a total of 224 plots that were marked once in the field and then sampled by two observers independently on the same day. Both observers conducted full vegetation surveys, recording all vascular plant species, their cover, and additional plot information. We then calculated mean ecological indicator values and pseudoturnover.
The excel file contains two sheets:
1) Raw species lists of the 224 plots conducted by two different observers. Woody species are distinguished in three layers: H (herb layer; woody species <0.5 m in height), S (shrub layer; woody species 0.5–3 m in height) and T (tree layer; woody species >3 m in height). "cf." indicates uncertain identification, "aggr." indicates that the plant was identified only to the aggregate level. Cover was estimated for each species using a modified Braun-Blanquet scale (r ≙ <0.1%, + ≙ 0.1% to <1%, 1 ≙ 1% to <5%, 2 ≙ 5% to <25%, 3 ≙ 25% to <50%, 4 ≙ 50% to <75%, 5 ≙ 75% to <100%).
2) File used for the linear mixed effects model.

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ecological-indicator-value

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fen

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flood-plain

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inter-observer-difference

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long-term-biodiversity-monitoring

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observer-error

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pseudoturnover

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raised-bog

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vegetation-survey

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en: Observer-driven pseudoturnover in vegetation surveys


forest-area-by-forest-function

title_for_slug: forest-area-by-forest-function

en: biogeographical-region forest-function production-region ownership forest-area-by-forest-function protection-forest-region accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest terrestrial-grid-nfi3 nfi4b canton nfi3 economic-region forest grid-nfi4-2009-2013 forest-area

en:
The forest area refers to all areas classified as forest according to NFI’s forest definition. The forest definition includes shrub forest.  For each forest function (including no special forest function) identified in the survey of the forestry services, the size of the associated forest area is displayed. One forest region may fulfil several different forest functions and may thus contribute to the forest area for several forest functions.

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

display_name: biogeographical-region

canton

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economic-region

display_name: economic-region

forest

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forest-area

display_name: forest-area

forest-area-by-forest-function

display_name: forest-area-by-forest-function

forest-function

display_name: forest-function

ownership

display_name: ownership

production-region

display_name: production-region

protection-forest-region

display_name: protection-forest-region

en: Forest area by forest function


maintainer: Leo Gallus Bont

en: qgis-plugin swiss-geodata geoinformation-software digital-planning cable-yarding seilaplan digital-elevation-model swisstopo open-source

en: Herunterladen des DHM von swisstopo Website

en: View video on youtube!

en:
In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. As an alternative to using the ‘Swiss Geo Downloader’ plugin, the DTM can be obtained directly from Swisstopo. In this tutorial we explain step by step how to download the necessary DTM from the Swisstopo Website, and how to use it in QGIS for the digital planning of a cable line using the plugin ‘Seilaplan’. Please note that the tutorial language is German!

Link to the elevation model on the swisstopo website: https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/de/geodata/height/alti3d.html#technische_details

Link to the rope map website: https://seilaplan.wsl.ch

********************

Für die Verwendung des QGIS Plugins Seilaplan zur digitalen Seillinienplanung ist ein digitales Höhenmodell (DHM) nötig. Als Alternative zum Swiss Geo Downloader erklären wir in diesem Tutorial Schritt für Schritt, wie man das nötige Höhenmodell von der Swisstopo Webseite herunterladen und in QGIS zur Seillinienplanung verwenden kann.

Link zum Höhenmodell auf der swisstopo Webseite: https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/de/geodata/height/alti3d.html#technische_details

Link zur Seilaplan-Website: https://seilaplan.wsl.ch

cable-yarding

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digital-elevation-model

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digital-planning

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open-source

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qgis-plugin

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seilaplan

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swisstopo

display_name: swisstopo

en: Seilaplan Tutorial: DTM download from swisstopo website


young-forest-with-browsing-damage

title_for_slug: young-forest-with-browsing-damage

en:
Number of regeneration trees where browsing of the shoots from the previous year was recorded in NFI’s regeneration survey.

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)_

altitudinal-vegetation-zone

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avalanches-silvaprotect

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biogeographical-region

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canton

display_name: canton

economic-region

display_name: economic-region

landslide-mudflow-silvaprotect

display_name: landslide-mudflow-silvaprotect

main-tree-species-in-young-forest

display_name: main-tree-species-in-young-forest

processes-in-channels-silvaprotect

display_name: processes-in-channels-silvaprotect

rockfall-silvaprotect

display_name: rockfall-silvaprotect

stem-count-of-young-forest

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total-number

display_name: total-number

young-forest-with-browsing-damage

display_name: young-forest-with-browsing-damage

young-plants

display_name: young-plants

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

en: Young forest with browsing damage


seilaplan

title_for_slug: seilaplan

en: steep-terrain-harvesting cable-planning cable-yarding qgis python catenary-load-path software

en: Seilaplan QGis Plugin v2.0

en:
Cable-based technologies have been a backbone for harvesting on steep slopes. The layout of a single cable road is challenging because one must identify intermediate support locations and heights that guarantee structural safety and operational efficiency while minimizing set-up and dismantling costs. Seilaplan optimizes the layout of a cable road by
Seilaplan stands for Cable Road Layout Planner. Seilaplan is able to calculate the optimal rope line layout (position and height of the supports) between defined start and end coordinates on the basis of a digital elevation model (DEM).
The program is designed for Central European conditions and is designed on the basis of a fixed suspension rope anchored at both ends. For the calculation of the properties of the load path curve an iterative method is used, which was described by Zweifel (1960) and was developed especially for standing skylines. When testing the feasibility of the cable line, care is taken that 1) the maximum permissible stresses in the skyline are not exceeded, 2) there is a minimum distance between the load path and the ground and 3) when using a gravitational system, there is a minimum inclination in the load path. The solution is selected which has a minimum number of supports in the first priority and minimizes the support height in the second priority.
The newly developed method calculates the load path curve and the forces occurring in it more accurately than tools available on the market to date (status 2019) and is able to determine the optimum position and height of the intermediate supports.
The reason for the more accurate results of the new tool is the assumption that the skyline is anchored at both end points. Forest cable yarders used in Europe have a skyline that is fixed at both ends. The behaviour of fixed-anchored suspension ropes is very difficult to describe mathematically and cannot be solved analytically. For this reason, simplified linearized assumptions have so far been used in the forestry sector, which corresponds to the behaviour of a weight-tensioned suspension rope and is known as the Pestal method (1961). Weight-tensioned suspension ropes are used for passenger transport.
For the calculation of the load path curve we use an iterative method, which was described by Zweifel (1960) and developed especially for fixed anchored suspension ropes. This makes mathematics much more demanding, but leads to more accurate and realistic results. Since there are no current models which describe the installation costs with adequate accuracy, the solution sought is the one which has a minimum number of supports in the first priority and minimises the support height in the second priority (Figure 2). The presented method is the first one, which starts from a fixed anchored supporting rope and identifies the mathematically optimal column layout at the same time. In contrast to methods that assume a weight-tensioned suspension rope, this approach achieves more realistic solutions with longer spans and lower support heights, which ultimately leads to lower installation costs. Background information on rope mechanics and calculation methods is documented in Bont and Heinimann (2012).

License: GNU, General Public License, Version 2 or newer.

Literature:
Bont, L., & Heinimann, H. R. (2012). Optimum geometric layout of a single cable road. European journal of forest research, 131(5), 1439-1448.

cable-planning

display_name: cable-planning

cable-yarding

display_name: cable-yarding

catenary-load-path

display_name: catenary-load-path

python

display_name: python

qgis

display_name: qgis

software

display_name: software

steep-terrain-harvesting

display_name: steep-terrain-harvesting

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: Seilaplan


meteorological-measurements-lwf

title_for_slug: meteorological-measurements-lwf

en: swiss-forest-lab icp-forests long-term-forest-ecosystem-research lwf meteorological-measurements

en: Data Request

en:
Continuous measurement of air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, global radiation, photosynthetic active radiation, UVB radiation, and precipation in an open field very close to the LWF plot as well as air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, photosynthetic active radiation, and precipitation in the forest below the canopy.

 Purpose:

Recording meteorological conditions

 Manual Citation:

 * Martine Rebetez, Gustav Schneiter, 1997: Meteorologie. In: Brang P. (ed.) Aufnahmeanleitung LWF. Langfristige Waldökosystem-Forschung LWF, 4 S.

 * Raspe S, Beuker E, Preuhsler T, Bastrup-Birk A, 2016: Part IX: Meteorological Measurements. 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, 14 p. + Annex [http://icp-forests.net/page/icp-forests-manual](http://icp-forests.net/page/icp-forests-manual)

 Paper Citation:

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en: Readme file

en: This file shows data, code, and plots.

en: Data Figure 1

en: Data of published Figure

en: Acetone data

en:
intensity of the acetone-water-cluster and water-cluster (as derived by a chemical ionisation mass spectrometer) with time in the carrier gas downstream of packed bed flow tube holding the snow sample or the by-pass, respectively. Time "0" denotes the time when the mass spectrometer data acquisition was started. When the carrier
gas with acetone was passed via the packed bed flow tube, that is switched from by-pass to pass the snow, acetone concentration in the carrier gas rapidly dropped due to surface adsorption and slowly recovered as the adsorption sites saturate. From this, the surface area can be obtained.

en: Matlab Data

en: All data as Matlab mat file

en: Ozone data

en: Trend of ozone mixing ratio ( _O3mixingRatio_ppb_ with time ( _time_s_ ) as measured downstream of the snow sample during the experiments. Time "0" denotes the time when data acquisition with ozone analyser was started. And, ozone (_nOzone_molec_per_s_ ) loss for each experiment with duration of ozone exposure ( _duration_s_ ) of ozone exposure, as derived from the ozone trends shown above. Time "0" denotes the time when the carrier gas with ozone was passed via the snow sample.

en: Matlab Script to view and plot data

en: data list

en: Lists file names, snow sample properties, and flow settings for each data-set.

en: Earth’s snow cover is very dynamic on diurnal time scales. The changes to the snow structure during this metamorphism have wide ranging impacts such as on avalanche formation and on the capacity of surface snow to exchange trace gases with the atmosphere. Here, we investigate the influence of dry metamorphism, which involves fluxes of water vapor, on the chemical reactivity of bromide in the snow. For this, the heterogeneous reactive loss of ozone at a concentration of 5-6E12 molecules cm-3 is investigated in artificial, shock-frozen snow samples doped with 6.2 uM sodium bromide and with varying metamorphism history. The oxidation of bromide in snow is one reaction initiating polar bromine releases and ozone depletions.

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en: Data set on bromide oxidation by ozone in snow during metamorphism from laboratory study