en: phenology budburst hatch spongy-month chilling

en: 3 R-Scripts used for the analyses of the temperature, phenology and performance/preference tests

en: Phenology and performance/preference tests Data

en:
-"Synchronex_Cuttings_Pheno.txt" provides the budburst date ('Stage 2') of each twig of the six studies species in the four different temperature treatments ("ambient", "a+5"=Ambient +5°C, 'Greenhouse-5'= Greenhouse at temperature >5°C, 'Greenhouse_10' = Greenhouse at temperature >10°C); 'Success' give the percentage of buds within the twig that succeeded to reach at least stage 2 during the experiment.

'Synchronex-Gypsy.txt' provides the number of eggs that have hatched at each monitoring date (Day of the year in columns); "DOY_hatch_1" corresponds to the first DOY when at least one egg has hatched; "Replicate_egg_mass" correspond to the egg mass replicate (1 to 5)

'PerformanceTest_GypsyMoth.txt' provides the biomass in mg of the caterpillars fed with fresh leaves of each tested tree species during one week. "Fresh_alive" is the biomass of only the living caterpillars after 1 week and "Freshpermoth" corresponds the weight per living caterpillar (Fresh alive/Nalive)

'PreferenceTest_All_species.txt' provides the total surface of leaf disc of each tested tree species remaining after exposing 5 caterpillars to these leaves during 24H. "Total_area" is the surface of the disc of each species measured after 24h exposed to the spongy moth first instars. For each species 'control' means the surface of the disc after 24H without any exposure to the larvae. 'EatenPercent correspond to the percentage surface loss compared to the control.

en: Temperature data Spongy moth experiment

en:
4 files with hourly temperature recorded at the height of buds in each of the four temperature treatments:
- Winter6: greenhouse where temperature was kept >6°C over winter
- Winter10: greenhouse where temperature was kept >10°C over winter
- OTC_Ambient: Open Top Chamber at Ambient temperature
- OTC_Warm: Open Top Chamber at +3.5°C warmer temperature

en:
The files correspond to the data and R-script used for the analyses of the following paper "Feasting on the ordinary or starving for the exceptional: phenological synchrony between spongy moth and budburst of European trees in a warmer climate" published in Ecology and Evolution by Vitasse et al. 2023.
There are three zip files corresponding to the Temperature data, phenology/preference/performance tests and R-Scripts for the analyses.

Input data:
'Synchrony_Cuttings_Pheno.txt':

budburst

display_name: budburst

chilling

display_name: chilling

hatch

display_name: hatch

phenology

display_name: phenology

spongy-month

display_name: spongy-month

en: Synchrony between spongy moth hatching and leaf phenology of temperate trees


total-basal-area

title_for_slug: total-basal-area

state: active

type: dataset

format: SERVICE

en:
Sum of the stem cross-section areas of all living and dead trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh at a height of 1.3 m (dbh measurement height).

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

altitudinal-vegetation-zone

display_name: altitudinal-vegetation-zone

biogeographical-region

display_name: biogeographical-region

canton

display_name: canton

economic-region

display_name: economic-region

main-tree-species

display_name: main-tree-species

production-region

display_name: production-region

protection-forest-region

display_name: protection-forest-region

total-basal-area

display_name: total-basal-area

educ

fr: Éducation, culture et sport

de: Bildung, Kultur und Sport

en: Education, culture and sport

it: Istruzione, cultura e sport

envidat

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.

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.

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.

political_level: other

wsl

capacity: public

type: organization

approval_status: approved

key: guid

key: uri

value: Envidat Harvester

en: Total basal area


maintainer: Zhao

en: driving-factors urban-land-use austin planning land-dynamics

en: Potential driving factors of urban transformations of Austin over 25 years

media_type: application/zip

format: ZIP

en: In this study, the Austin metropolitan area, Texas, U.S., one of the fastest urban transformations and transformations regions, is selected to test the hypothesis that spatial planning and policies are important factors of urban transformations. Despite ample previous work in understanding the interactions between human and urban form transformation at specific areas, the actual interventions and outcomes of planning and policies (e.g., ‘smart growth’) on urban forms have been poorly measured. In this study, the potential influencing factors of urban transformations of Austin over 25 years were selected and collected.

austin

display_name: austin

driving-factors

display_name: driving-factors

land-dynamics

display_name: land-dynamics

planning

display_name: planning

urban-land-use

display_name: urban-land-use


en: long-term-forest-ecosystem-research lwf icp-forests swiss-forest-lab soil-water-matrix-potential

en: Data Request

en:
Measurement of the soil water availability to plants at 10 LWF plots every 14 days in 5 soil depths (15, 30, 50, 80, 130 cm) with 8 replicates (usually in the IM plot). The range of measurement is from water saturation until-80 kPa.

 Purpose:

The long-term measurement of the soil water availability to plants in the root zone provides useful information about the soil moisture conditions (drought, water saturation, water easily available to plants). The measurement of the soil water suction allows to calibrate the water balance models and to validate the modelled matric potential.

 Manual Citation:

 * Peter Waldispühl, 1997: Installation von Tensiometern auf LWF-Flächen. Langfristige Waldökosystem-Forschung LWF, Birmensdorf, 2 S.

 * Peter Waldispühl, Andreas Rigling, 1997: Vorgehen bei der Ablesung von Teniometern auf LWF-Flächen. Langfristige Waldökosystem-Forschung LWF, Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL, Birmensdorf, 2 S.

 * Peter Waldispühl, 2000: Kurzanleitung für die TensioDB. Langfristige Waldökosystem-Forschung, Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL, Birmensdorf, 12 S. + DB-Schema

 Paper Citation:

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

icp-forests

display_name: icp-forests

long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

display_name: long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

lwf

display_name: lwf

soil-water-matrix-potential

display_name: soil-water-matrix-potential

swiss-forest-lab

display_name: swiss-forest-lab

en: Matric potential (manual suction cups) LWF


maintainer: EnviDat Support

en: swe remote-sensing uas snow snow-depth

en: .tfw file

en: coordinates for the .tif raster

en: HS map Brämabül, 14. April 2015

media_type: image/tiff

en:
10 cm resolution
15 cm accuracy

format: TIFF

mimetype: image/tiff

en:
This snow depth map was generated 14 January 2015, close to peak of winter accumulation, applying Unmanned Aerial System digital surface models with a spatial resolution of 10 cm. The covered area is 285'000 m2 at the top of Brämabüel, 2490 m a.s.l. covering all expositions. Coordinate system: CH1903LV03.

A detailed description is given here:

Bühler, Y., Adams, M. S., Bösch, R., and Stoffel, A.: Mapping snow depth in alpine terrain with unmanned aerial systems (UASs): potential and limitations, The Cryosphere, 10, 1075-1088, 10.5194/tc-10-1075-2016, 2016.

Abstract:
Detailed information on the spatial and temporal distribution, and variability of snow depth (HS) is a crucial input for numerous applications in hydrology, climatology, ecology and avalanche research. Nowadays, snow depth distribution is usually estimated by combining point measurements from weather stations or observers in the field with spatial interpolation algorithms. However, even a dense measurement network is not able to capture the large spatial variability of snow depth in alpine terrain.
Remote sensing methods, such as laser scanning or digital photogrammetry, have recently been successfully applied to map snow depth variability at local and regional scales. However, such data acquisition is costly, if manned airplanes are involved. The effectiveness of ground-based measurements on the other hand, is often hindered by occlusions, due to the complex terrain or acute viewing angles. In this paper, we investigate the application of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), in combination with structure-from-motion photogrammetry, to map snow depth distribution. Such systems have the advantage that they are comparatively cost-effective and can be applied very flexibly to cover also otherwise inaccessible terrain. In this study we map snow depth at two different locations: a) a sheltered location at the bottom of the Flüela valley (1900 m a.s.l.) and b) an exposed location (2500 m a.s.l.) on a peak in the ski resort Jakobshorn, both in the vicinity of Davos, Switzerland. At the first test site, we monitor the ablation on three different dates. We validate the photogrammetric snow depth maps using simultaneously acquired manual snow depth measurements. The resulting snow depth values have a root mean square error (RMSE) better than 0.07 to 0.15 m on meadows and rocks and a RMSE better than 0.30 m on sections covered by bushes or tall grass. This new measurement technology opens the door for efficient, flexible, repeatable and cost effective snow depth monitoring for various applications, investigating the worlds cryosphere.

remote-sensing

display_name: remote-sensing

snow

display_name: snow

snow-depth

display_name: snow-depth

swe

display_name: swe

uas

display_name: uas

en: UAS based snow depth maps Brämabüel, Davos, CH


lwf-lantsch-long-term-research-site

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

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

en: LWF plot Lantsch. Photo: Raphael Siegrist, 2003

en:
![alt text](https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/9e5d6c82-26ac-4818-9458-1ac7c8574bb0/resource/c26169dc-db58-4e69-bc74-9513dbf7bccc/download/lwf_lantsch.jpg "LWF Lantsch")

LWF Plot Lantsch

- Community: Lantsch / canton GR
- Date of installation: 15 September 1997
- Size of the plot: n.d.
- Altitude: 1458-1490 m
- Mean slope: 16%
- Geology (in German): Ostalpin. Gehängeschutt aus mesozoischen Schiefern, Dolomiten und Kalken
- Soil types (WSL) : n.d.
- Woodland association after EK72: 65: Erico-Pinetum silvestris
- Main tree species: Picea abies
- Management system: high forest
- Top-height diameter (quadratic average diameter of the 100 thickest trees per ha): 40.1 cm
- Number of trees BHD >= 12 cm (2011): 709
- Maximum tree age: n.d.

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

forest

display_name: forest

infrastructure

display_name: infrastructure

meteorological-data

display_name: meteorological-data

meteorological-measurements

display_name: meteorological-measurements

plot

display_name: plot

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: LWF Lantsch long-term research site


en: alpine-regions delta-change temporal-downscaling imis climate-change-scenarios switzerland quantile-mapping meteoswiss

en: Data Access

en:
In fall 2019, a new set of climate change scenarios has been released for
Switzerland, the CH2018 dataset (www.climate-scenarios.ch). The data are
provided at daily resolution. We produced from the CH2018 dataset a new
set of climate change scenarios temporally downscaled at hourly resolution.
In addition, we extended this dataset integrating the meteorological stations
from the Inter-Cantonal Measurement and Information System (IMIS) network,
an alpine network of automatic meteorological stations operated by the WSL
Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF.

The extension to the IMIS network is obtained using a Quantile Mapping approach
in order to perform a spatial transfer of the CH2018 scenarios from the location
of the MeteoSwiss stations to the location of the IMIS stations. The temporal
downscaling is performed using an enhanced Delta-Change approach. This approach
is based on objective criteria for assessing the quality of the determined delta
and downscaled time series. In addition, this method also fixes a flaw of common
quantile mapping methods (such as used in the CH2018 dataset for spatial downscaling)
related to the decrease of correlation between different variables. The idea behind
the delta change approach is to take the main seasonal signal (and mean) from
climate change scenarios at daily resolution and to map it to a historical time series
at hourly resolution in order to modify the historical time series. The obtained time
series exhibit the same seasonal signal as the original climate change time series,
while it keeps the sub-daily cycle from the historical time series.

The applied methods (Quantile Mapping and Delta-Change) have limitations in
correctly representing statistically extreme events and changes in the frequency
of discontinuous events such as precipitation. In addition, the sub-daily cycle in
the data is inherited from the historical time series, so there is no information
of the climate change signal in this sub-daily cycle. A careful reading of the paper
accompanying the dataset is necessary to understand the limitations and scope of
application of this new dataset.

This material is distributed under CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode).

alpine-regions

display_name: alpine-regions

climate-change-scenarios

display_name: climate-change-scenarios

delta-change

display_name: delta-change

imis

display_name: imis

meteoswiss

display_name: meteoswiss

quantile-mapping

display_name: quantile-mapping

switzerland

display_name: switzerland

temporal-downscaling

display_name: temporal-downscaling

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: Dataset for: Climate change scenarios at hourly time-step over Switzerland from an enhanced temporal downscaling approach


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

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.

dry-grassland

display_name: dry-grassland

ecological-indicator-value

display_name: ecological-indicator-value

fen

display_name: fen

flood-plain

display_name: flood-plain

inter-observer-difference

display_name: inter-observer-difference

long-term-biodiversity-monitoring

display_name: long-term-biodiversity-monitoring

observer-error

display_name: observer-error

pseudoturnover

display_name: pseudoturnover

raised-bog

display_name: raised-bog

vegetation-survey

display_name: vegetation-survey

en: Observer-driven pseudoturnover in vegetation surveys


experimental-rockfall-trilogy-of-surava

title_for_slug: experimental-rockfall-trilogy-of-surava

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

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: 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: GNSS-deposition points of all experimental runs

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

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: Standing trees after forest management intervention

media_type: text/plain

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

format: TXT

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

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: 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

display_name: acceleration

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

en: Experimental rockfall trilogy of Surava


en: time-series insect-decline long-term switzerland biodiversity

en: Input data - species list and trophic guilds

media_type: text/csv

en: List of found species and associated trophic guild

format: CSV

en: Body size lookup-table

en: Formicidae

en: Climate data

en: Climate data of the respective sampling years

en: Aculeata

en: Data extract from WSL Fauna Database containing arthropod species and abundance data from 1987, 1997, 2019

en: R code

en: R code for data editing

en: Species incidence per year

en: Total abundance of species per year

en: Capture data with size and mass

en: Complete capture data including body sizes and biomass values

en: Araneae

en: Syrphidae

en: Species number and abundances per trap

en: Sum of species and abundances listed per trap

en: Fused catching data 1987, 1997, 2019

en: Complete dataset of species and abundances per year an trap

en: SQL query executed on WSL Fauna Database to retrieve the data

en: Additional climate data on climate trend

en: R code for data analyses

en: Coleoptera

en: Neuropteroidae

en: Master thesis of Regula Gygax, 1999, at University of Zürich

en: The study is comparing in 1997 the trapping efficiency of a newly developed combination trap with traditional window traps and yellow pan traps. Study locations in the Limpach valley matched with a subset from a larger study, which was conducted in 1987.

en:
Recent publications about declines in arthropod biomass, abundance and species diversity
raise concerns and call for measures. Agricultural intensification is likely one cause for the negative trends. But rare long-term arthropod surveys conceal trends in arthropod communities in agricultural land. Here, we report about a standardized sampling of arthropod fauna in a Swiss agricultural landscape, repeated over 32 years (1987, 1997 and 2019). We sampled 8 sites covering 4 semi-natural and agricultural habitat types. Four trap types were used to capture a wide range of flying and ground dwelling arthropods between May and July. Over the three sampling periods, 58’255 specimens of 1’343 species were analysed. Mean arthropod biomass, abundance and species richness per trap was significantly higher in 2019 than in prior years and gamma diversity of the study area was highest in 2019. Biomass and abundance increased stronger in the flight traps than in the pitfall traps. The implementation of agri-environmental schemes has improved habitat quality since 1993, while landscape composition and pesticide and fertilizer use remained stable over the study period, both contributing to the findings. The results of this study contrast with outcomes of comparable investigations and highlight the importance of further long-term investigations on arthropod dynamics.

Data are provided on request to contact person against bilateral agreement.

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: Arthropod biomass, abundance and species richness trends over 32 years in the agricultural Limpach valley, Switzerland


lwf-beatenberg-long-term-research-site

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

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

en: Beatenberg Meteorological Data LWF

en: LWF Plot Beatenberg. Foto: Peter Waldner, 2009

en:
![alt text](https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/7310b935-757f-4f27-b202-9f433c9882ab/resource/555b1a19-aff3-40be-9d6d-fea9967d5691/download/lwf_beatenberg.jpg "LWF Beatenberg")

LWF plot Beatenberg

- Community: Beatenberg / canton BE
- Date of installation: 25 September 1996
- Size of the plot: 2 ha
- Altitude: 1490-1532 m
- Mean slope: 66%
- Geology (in German): Helvetikum, Tertiär, Eozän; Hohgantsandstein
- Provisional soil type (WSL) : Gleyic Podzols
- Woodland association after EK72: 57: Sphagno-Piceetum calamagrostietosum villosae
- Main tree species: Picea abies
- Management system: high forest
- Silvicultural system: selection
- Top-height diameter (quadratic average diameter of the 100 thickest trees per ha): 46.4 cm
- Number of trees BHD >= 12 cm (2011): 851
- Maximum tree age: Picea abies 190-210 yr

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

infrastructure

display_name: infrastructure

lwf

display_name: lwf

meteorological-data

display_name: meteorological-data

meteorological-measurements

display_name: meteorological-measurements

plot

display_name: plot

swiss-forest-lab

display_name: swiss-forest-lab

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: LWF Beatenberg long-term research site


en: natural-forest-dynamics forest-inventory forest-reserves fagus-sylvatica sihlwald

en: Standing living trees 1981 - 2017

en: Contains data on standing, living trees with a DBH >= 8 cm.

en: Standing dead trees 2017

en: Contains data on standing dead trees with a DBH >= 7 cm.

en: Lying deadwood 2017

en: Contains data on lying deadwood assessed on 3 transects.

en: Standing dead trees 2003 - 2017

en: Contains data on standing dead trees with a DBH >= 8 cm.

en: Regeneration 2017

en: Data on regeneration inventory 2017 (living trees between 10 cm height and DBH < 7 cm)

en: Standing living trees 2017

en: Contains data on standing, living trees with a DBH >= 7 cm.

en: Data Description

media_type: application/pdf

en: Describes the available tables

format: PDF

en:
 Supplementary Data Sample Plot Inventory Sihlwald

The Sihlwald is one of the largest contiguous beech forests in the Swiss Plateau region. In the year 2000, timber harvesting was abandoned. Since 2007 the forest has been under strict protection as a natural forest reserve on an area of 1098 ha and since 2008 as a cantonal nature and landscape conservation area (SVO Sihlwald). Since 2010, it carries the national label ‘Nature discovery park’ (‘Naturerlebnispark’). As part of the national monitoring in nature forest reserves, a sampling inventory (calipering threshold of 7 cm) with 226 plots on an area of 917 ha was carried out in the Sihlwald in autumn and early winter 2017. The aim was to describe the state and development of the forest structure and make comparisons with earlier sampling inventories in the same area from 1981, 1989 and 2003.
This dataset contains supplementary tables for the publication by Brändli et al. (2020). The metadata file describes the structure of the tables.

fagus-sylvatica

display_name: fagus-sylvatica

forest-inventory

display_name: forest-inventory

forest-reserves

display_name: forest-reserves

natural-forest-dynamics

display_name: natural-forest-dynamics

sihlwald

display_name: sihlwald


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

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

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: SwissFungi - Records Database for the Fungi of Switzerland


en:
Wood volume of the trunk without bark or branches at least 7 cm in diameter (limit for coarse wool) of all trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh, based on the stem-form function according to Kaufmann (2001). The definition of the assortment is based on the 2010 edition of the Trading Practices (Handelsgebräuchen Ausgabe 2010).

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

main-tree-species

display_name: main-tree-species

production-region

display_name: production-region

protection-forest-region

display_name: protection-forest-region

type-of-assortment

display_name: type-of-assortment

en: Volume of bole wood (HG 2010)


en: stable-isotopes swiss-forest-lab dendrochronology tree-ring-width dominant-trees long-term-forest-ecosystem-research icp-forests

en: Data Request

en:
Two stem core samples of 10 trees outside the plot of each main species in the plot were taken at breast height (1.3 m above ground) with a SUUNTO corer. Tree ring width and density were determined with the instruments CATRAS and TSAP, the Densitometer DENDRO 2003 and a stereo-microscope. The selected trees included at least 10 pre-dominant or dominant trees.

 Purpose:

N and C stable isotope signals

 Paper Citation:

 * Tomlinson, G., Siegwolf, R.T.W., Buchmann, N., Schleppi, P., Waldner, P., Weber, P., 2014. The mobility of nitrogen across tree-rings of Norway spruce (Picea abies L.) and the effect of extraction method on tree-ring d15N and d13C values. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 28, 1258-1264.

dendrochronology

display_name: dendrochronology

dominant-trees

display_name: dominant-trees

icp-forests

display_name: icp-forests

long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

display_name: long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

stable-isotopes

display_name: stable-isotopes

swiss-forest-lab

display_name: swiss-forest-lab

tree-ring-width

display_name: tree-ring-width

en: Dendrochronological analyses of tree core samples (IsoN) adjacent to LWF sites


en: Data species modelling

en:
This rds file contains a data frame with single-tree and stand data required to reproduce the species composition model:

* 'clnr' refers to the plot number
* 'spec' refers to the main tree species group (12 groups)
* 'ba' refers to the basal area per hectare
* 'nph' refers to the number of stems per hectare
* 'drel' refers to the relative diameter ('drel' = (d - min(d)) / (max(d) - min(d)))
* 'temp' refers to the mean winter temperature (1988-2017, Dec-Feb)
* 'dev' refers to the development stage of the stand (e.g. 'Young growth')
* 'ftyp' refers to the potential climax forest type (e.g. 'Beech' refers to a beech-dominated stand)
* 'str' refers to the stand structure
* 'tillering' indicates whether the observed tree species on the NFI plot correspond to 'ftyp' ('TRUE') or not ('FALSE')
* 'prodreg' refers to the Swiss production region (ecoregion)
* 'fowner' refers to the forest ownership ('Public' or ' Private')

en: Script diameter and species modelling

en: This R script can be used to derive the uni- and bimodal Weibull log-likelihood regression models (in short: uni- and bimodal model), the species composition model and the main results presented in Mey et al. 2021 using data from the fourth Swiss NFI ('data_NFI4_diameter_modelling.rds' and 'data_NFI4_species_modelling.rds') and the R functions stored in 'functions_diameter_modelling.R'.

en: Data Figures 2 and 4

en:
This csv file contains the data required to reproduce Figure 2 and Figure 4.

* 'stand_type' states whether a row corresponds to NFI4 average summary statistics describing a generalised beech-dominated, spruce-dominated or an unspecified forest stand in Switzerland in its unimodal or bimodal form (e.g. 'beech.uni' refers to a generalised unimodal beech-dominated stand)
* 'md' refers to the mean diameter
* 'dq10' refers to the 10% quantile of the diameter
* 'dq90' refers to the 90% quantile of the diameter
* 'spr' refers to the spread between minimal and maximal diameter
* 'nph' refers to the number of stems per hectare
* 'o.qmd' refers to the overstorey quadratic mean diameter
* 'rho.emp' refers to proportion parameter (rho) determined by breakpoint setting
* 'ba' refers to the basal area per hectare
* 'drel' refers to the relative diameter ('drel' = (d - min(d)) / (max(d) - min(d)))
* 'temp' refers to the mean winter temperature (1988-2017, Dec-Feb)
* 'dev' refers to the development stage of the stand (e.g. 'Young growth')
* 'ftyp' refers to the potential climax forest type (e.g. 'Beech' refers to a beech-dominated stand)
* 'str' refers to the stand structure
* 'tillering' indicates whether the observed tree species on the NFI plot correspond to 'ftyp' ('TRUE') or not ('FALSE')
* 'prodreg' refers to the Swiss production region (ecoregion)
* 'fowner' refers to the forest ownership ('Public' or ' Private')

en: Functions diameter modelling

en: This R file contains the functions used to produce the generalised diameter distributions in Mey et al. 2021.

en: Data diameter modelling

en:
This rds file contains a list of 5085 data frames required to reproduce the uni- and bimodal diameter model. Each data frame comprises single-tree diameters ('dbh') and assigned representation factors ('repfa') at a single Swiss NFI4 plot.

* 'dbh' refers to the diameter at breast height (130 cm)
* 'repfa' refers to the representation factor used to scale up to one hectare

en:
The files refer to the data and R code used in Mey et al. "From small forest samples to generalised uni- and bimodal stand descriptions" (2021) _Methods in Ecology and Evolution_.

Generalised stand descriptions are coming from the simultaneous examination of samples that are representative for a specific target area (here, Switzerland) and link available information about forest stand attributes. They combine the modelling of uni- or bimodal diameter distributions and species compositions, i.e. the shares of stems of individual species. Generalised stand descriptions may be used to interpret tree species diversity, regeneration and harvest potentials on a plot-level basis, and to initialise forest models with representative stand data.

The data stored here were derived from the fourth campaigns of the Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI). The raw data from the Swiss NFI can be provided free of charge within the scope of a contractual agreement (http://www.lfi.ch/dienstleist/daten-en.php).

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The file 'Data Figures 2 and 4' is publicly available and contains the data used to produce the Figures 2 and 4 published in the paper.

The files 'Data diameter modelling' and 'Data species modelling' contain all the data required to reproduce the diameter and species model building. The access to these two files is restricted as they contain raw data from the fourth Swiss NFI, submitted to the Swiss law and only accessible upon contractual agreement.

The files 'Script diameter and species modelling' and 'Functions diameter modelling' are publicly available and provide the R code used to derive the generalised stand descriptions from the Swiss NFI data.

forest-model-initialisation

display_name: forest-model-initialisation

forest-stand-description

display_name: forest-stand-description

national-forest-inventory

display_name: national-forest-inventory

small-forest-samples

display_name: small-forest-samples

tree-species-composition

display_name: tree-species-composition

weibull-function

display_name: weibull-function

en: Generalised stand descriptions in Switzerland


en: swiss-forest-lab tree-growth long-term-forest-ecosystem-research stem-diameter icp-forests

en:
Continuous stem radius measurements to investigate carbon balance and water relations of trees

 Purpose:

Assessment of growth and water related stem changes

stem-diameter

display_name: stem-diameter

tree-growth

display_name: tree-growth

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: Automated point dendrometer measurements at LWF sites


biomass-of-lying-dead-trees

title_for_slug: biomass-of-lying-dead-trees

en:
Dry weight (mass) of dead, lying trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh. This consists of the tree parts: roots, stemwood and also, depending on the degree of decomposition of the stem, the branch coarse wood.

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

biomass-of-lying-dead-trees

display_name: biomass-of-lying-dead-trees

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

en: Biomass of lying dead trees


maintainer: Anita C. Risch

en: grassland native-plant non-native-plant herbivory weed-management

en: Correction: Data file native and non-native plant interactions in Australian grasslands

en:
taxa tab:	list and overview of all the recorded species

* family:                 family of the plant

* genus:                genus of the plant

* species:                plant species name

* origin:                indicates whether the plant is native to Australia or not (non-native)

* common name:	        common name of the plant species

* functional group:	        functional group of the plant species: forb, graminoid, fern, tree

* functional group detailed:	gives more detail about the type of graminoid and forb: legume, forb (non-leguminous),
                        grass, sedge, rush, fern, tree

* lifeform:                annual or perennial lifeform (species which can have both of these lifeforms where
                        considered as annuals)

plot tab:	list of species found in each plot and their cover (%)

* sampling.session:        provides information about the sampling time:
                        May2020 = data that was collected in May 2020
                        Nov2020 = data that was collected in November 2020

* farm.name:	            name of the farms where the sampling took place:
                        SF = farm of the Southern group
                        NF = farm of the Northern group
                        numbers 1-3 = randomly allocated to the Southern group of farms
                        numbers 4-6 = randomly allocated to the Northern group of farms

* site.type:	                KG: Kangaroo grass dominated site
                        ALG: ALG+KG site (Kangarooo grass and African lovegrass co-dominated site)

* plot.no:                plot number: 9-12

* scientific.name:	        scientific name of the plant species found in a certain plot

* functional group:	        indicates whether the species found is a tree, forb, graminoid or fern

* functional group detailed:	indicates whether the species found is a tree, legume, forb (non-leguminous),
                        grass, sedge, rush, fern

* lifeform:                specifies the lifeform of the species: annual or perennial lifeform
                        (species which can have both of these lifeforms where considered as annuals)

corrections tab:	Detailed description of corrections made in plot.data tab

format: XLS

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

Paper Citation:

_Schlierenzauer, C., Risch, A.C., Schütz, M., Firn, J. 2021. Non-native Eragrostis curvula reduces plant species diversity in pastures of South-eastern Australia even when native Themeda triandra remains co-dominant. Plants 10, 596._

Please cite this paper together with the citation for the datafile.

Study area
The study was conducted in the lowland grassy woodlands of the Bega Valley Region, which is located in the south-east corner of New South Wales, Australia. Embedded between the Pacific Ocean and the Australian Alps, the lowland grassy woodlands are mostly located on granitic substrates and reach elevations of roughly 500 m above sea level. Typically, these grassy woodlands receive less precipitation (mean annual precipitation between 700-1100 mm) compared to the more elevated areas that surround them (NSW Government - Office of Environment and Heritage 2017).
The vegetation is dominated by an open tree canopy layer consisting of Eucalyptus tereticornis Sm, Angophora floribunda Sm. (Sweet) and a range of other eucalypt species. Sometimes shrub or small trees are also present, whereas grasses and forbs form the ground-cover. In areas without intensive agricultural history, this layer is dominated by perennial, tussock grasses such as Themeda triandra Forssk, Microlaena stipoides R.Br (Weeping Grass), Eragrostis leptostachya Steud. (Paddock Lovegrass) and Echinopogon ovatus P.Beauv (Forest Hedgehog Grass). The remaining inter-tussock spaces are occupied by a diversity of growth-restricted grasses and herbaceous forbs (NSW - Department of Planing, Industries and Environment 2019; NSW Government - Office of Environment and Heritage 2017).
Clearing, pasture sowing, fertilizer application and livestock grazing resulted in a dramatic decrease in the extent of these natural woodlands, with less than five percent within conservation reserves and overall, with only about 20% of their original extent in New South Wales still existing (Tozer et al. 2010). The remaining areas outside of reserves are threatened by altered fire frequencies, habitat clearing, livestock grazing and especially by non-native plant invasion, particularly Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees. For this reason, the grassy woodlands are listed as an endangered ecological community in the NSW state legislation. Additionally, they are considered as critically endangered by the Commonwealth of Australia (Threatened Species Scientific Committee (TSSC) 2013).

Experimental design and sampling
The study was conducted on six farms and in each of them two sites were chosen, representing a paired design. One of the sites at each farm is dominated by native Themeda triandra, the other one co-dominated by non-native Eragrostis curvula and Themeda triandra. All farms are within a radius of approximately 10 km from the town Candelo. Three of the farms are located North (36°40’ to 36°42’ S and 149°38’ to 149°42’ E) and three of them are located South (36°51’ to 36°49’ S and 149°38’ to 149°42’ E) of Candelo.
Non-native herbivores (mainly cattle, sheep and rabbits) and native herbivorous marsupials (mainly kangaroos, wallabies and wombats) are present in the area of these sites. On each site, data was collected within four plots (each 1 x 1 m) in May and November 2020. All plant species found within a plot were recorded and their relative abundance was estimated.

References
NSW - Department of Planing, Industries and Environment. 2019. “Lowland Grassy Woodland in the South East Corner Bioregion - Endangered Ecological Community Listing.” https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/threatened-species/nsw-threatened-species-scientific-committee/determinations/final-determinations/2004-2007/lowland-grassy-woodland-south-east-corner-bioregion-endangered-ecological-community-l (February 18, 2021).
NSW Government - Office of Environment and Heritage. 2017. “Lowland Grassy Woodland in the South East Corner Bioregion - Profile.” https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=20070 (January 31, 2021).
Threatened Species Scientific Committee (TSSC). 2013. Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) Conservation Advice for Lowland Grassy Woodland in the South East Corner Bioregion. http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/communities/pubs/82-conservation-advice.pdf.
Tozer, Mark et al. 2010. “Native Vegetation of Southeast NSW: A Revised Classification and Map for the Coast and Eastern Tablelands.” Cunninghamia : a journal of plant ecology for eastern Australia 11(3): 359–406.

grassland

display_name: grassland

herbivory

display_name: herbivory

native-plant

display_name: native-plant

non-native-plant

display_name: non-native-plant

weed-management

display_name: weed-management

en: Native and no-native plant interactions in Australian grasslands


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

en: R scripts for all analyses

en: Variable description_20220411.csv

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

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

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

chiroptera

display_name: chiroptera

echolocation

display_name: echolocation

forest-management

display_name: forest-management

habitat-modelling

display_name: habitat-modelling

vegetation-structure

display_name: vegetation-structure

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


maintainer: Francesco Comola

en: sediment wind cohesion sand saltation snow

en: Output of the model simulations

en: Model results on granular splash and saltation process of sand and snow particles

mimetype: application/zip

en:
The wind-driven saltation of sand and snow shapes dunes and ripples, generates dust emission, and erodes the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet. Here, we use a model based on the discrete element method to simulate grain-flow interactions and study the effect of particle cohesion on saltation dynamics.

The data contains the model output of granular splash simulations and saltation simulations. Granular splash, the main particle entrainment process in saltation, occurs upon impact of saltating particles with the granular bed. We performed Monte Carlo simulations of granular splash for loose sand grains and for cohesive ice grains. The analysis indicate that different values of cohesion have significant effects not on the number of splashed grains, on the ejection velocity, and the rebound velocity.

In our saltation simulations, we trigger particle movement with a single splash event at the inlet section section and let the system evolve until steady state. Our results show that saltation over cohesive surfaces is difficult to initiate but easy to sustain at low wind speed. The occurrence of transport thus depends on the history of the wind speed, a phenomenon known as hysteresis. We also show that saltation over cohesive surfaces presents higher mass fluxes but requires longer distances to saturate, which increases the size of the smallest stable surface ripples. Our model results have implications for large-scale aeolian processes on Earth and Titan, where sand grains are thought to be very cohesive.

cohesion

display_name: cohesion

saltation

display_name: saltation

sand

display_name: sand

sediment

display_name: sediment

snow

display_name: snow

wind

display_name: wind

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Saltation of cohesive granular materials


en: tree-height forest-inventory long-term-monitoring crown-diameter growth-and-yield switzerland silviculture permanent-plot

en: Meta data

en: Basic information for each plot

en: Data paper

en: Description of plot network, methodology, and data.

en: Tree data

en: Data for each individual tree

en: The EFM network is one of the longest running scientific projects in Switzerland and has been collecting growth and yield data since the late 1880’s. As of 2021, 28 plots had been monitored for at least 100 years and 81 for at least 75 years. The network is used to examine silvicultural treatments across a range of species, climate and edaphic conditions. There are currently 465 plots covering a total area of 148 hectares. Over the > 130-year history of the project, at least another 1000 plots were monitored and then deactivated after they reached their experimental goal (e.g. end of the rotation). The data from all 1480 plots are available for analyses.

crown-diameter

display_name: crown-diameter

forest-inventory

display_name: forest-inventory

growth-and-yield

display_name: growth-and-yield

long-term-monitoring

display_name: long-term-monitoring

permanent-plot

display_name: permanent-plot

silviculture

display_name: silviculture

switzerland

display_name: switzerland

tree-height

display_name: tree-height

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: The Experimental Forest Management network


maintainer: Christoph Marty

en: Aare input

en: Grid input data for the 'Aare' CH2014 simulation.

mimetype: application/x-tar

en: CH2014 REPORT

en:
CH2014-Impacts: Toward Quantitative Scenarios of Climate Change Impacts in Switzerland

The CH2014-Impacts report presents the results of a concerted effort of 15 Swiss research institutions to describe impacts of climate change in Switzerland quantitatively. This dataset contributes to the Crosphere/Snowcover section.

en: Graubunden input

en: Grid input data for the 'Graubunden' CH2014 simulation.

en: Dataset

en: Datasets are grouped under experiment "Aare" and "Graubunden".Data is also made available in netCDF format. A range of tools are available to [read netCDF](http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.html).

en:
 Overview

The CH2014-Impacts initiative is a concerted national effort to describe impacts of climate change in Switzerland quantitatively, drawing on the scientific resources available in Switzerland today. The initiative links the recently developed Swiss Climate Change Scenarios CH2011 with an evolving base of quantitative impact models. The use of a common climate data set across disciplines and research groups sets a high standard of consistency and comparability of results. Impact studies explore the wide range of climatic changes in temperature and precipitation projected in CH2011 for the 21st century, which vary with the assumed global level of greenhouse gases, the time horizon, the underlying climate model, and the geographical region within Switzerland. The differences among climate projections are considered using three greenhouse gas scenarios, three future time periods in the 21st century, and three climate uncertainty levels (Figure 1). Impacts are shown with respect to the reference period 1980-2009 of CH2011, and add to any impacts that have already emerged as a result of earlier climate change.

 Experimental Setup

Future snow cover changes are simulated with the physics-based model Alpine3D (Lehning et al., 2006). It is applied to two regions: The canton of Graubünden and the Aare catchment. These domains are modeled with a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) with a resolution of 200 m × 200 m. This defines the simulation grid that has to be filled with land cover data and downscaled meteorological input data for each cell for the time period of interest at hourly resolution. The reference data set consists of automatic weather station data. All meteorological input parameters are spatially interpolated to the simulation grid. The reference period comprises only thirteen years (1999–2012), because the number of available high elevation weather stations for earlier times is not sufficient to achieve unbiased distribution of the observations with elevation. The model uses projected temperature and precipitation changes for all greenhouse gas scenarios (A1B, A2, and RCP3PD) and CH2011 time periods (2035, 2060, and 2085).

 Data

Snow cover changes are projected to be relatively small in the near term (2035) (Figure 5.1 top), in particular at higher elevations above 2000 m asl. As shown by Bavay et al. (2013) the spread in projected snow cover for this period is greater between different climate model chains (Chapter 3) than between the reference period and the model chain exhibiting the most moderate change. In the 2085 period much larger changes with the potential to fundamentally transform the snow dominated alpine area become apparent (Figure 5.1 bottom). These changes include a shortening of the snow season by 5–9 weeks for the A1B scenario. This is roughly equivalent to an elevation shift of 400–800 m. The slight increase of winter precipitation and therefore snow fall projected in the CH2011 scenarios (with high associated uncertainty) can no longer compensate for the effect of increasing winter temperatures even at high elevations. In terms of Snow Water Equivalents (SWE), the projected reduction is up to two thirds toward the end of the century (2085). A continuous snow cover will be restricted to a shorter time period and/or to regions at increasingly high elevation. In Bern, for example, the number of days per year with at least 5 cm snow depth will decrease by 90% from now 20 days to only 2 days on average.

climate-change

display_name: climate-change

snow-depth

display_name: snow-depth

snow-water-equivalent

display_name: snow-water-equivalent

en: Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios CH2014


deadwood-generator

title_for_slug: deadwood-generator

en: ramms rockfall lying-deadwood windthrow piled-up-logs

format: GeoTIFF

en: Authomatic Deadwood Generator (ADG)

en: Complete ADG, including the calling script explaining the parameters to use, a sample DEM and a corresponding sample tree file, and sample outputs. All files are zipped together. Input DEM needs to be a .TIF file while the script uses python 3 and has several dependencies to the rasterio-python package (https://rasterio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).

en: Zipped Folder containing the shape files (.shp) of the mapped trees, their bases, the control area and the used rock release areas for both windthrow areas W1 and W2.

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

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

lying-deadwood

display_name: lying-deadwood

piled-up-logs

display_name: piled-up-logs

ramms

display_name: ramms

rockfall

display_name: rockfall

windthrow

display_name: windthrow

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Deadwood Generator


en: snow-cover-modeling source-code snow-depth hysteresis subgrid-topography snow-water-equivalent

en: Seasonal fractional snow-covered area algorithm

en: Release Version 1 from https://gitlabext.wsl.ch/snow-models/fractional-snow-covered-area

en:
This is the source code for computing the seasonal fractional snow-covered area. It is written in Fortran 90. The code reads snow depth (HS) and snow water equivalent (SWE) data from the provided example file HS_SWE.txt and writes the computed fractional snow-covered area (fSCA) to a file fSCA.txt.

The current version can be found in the WSL/SLF Gitlab repository:
https://gitlabext.wsl.ch/snow-models/fractional-snow-covered-area

hysteresis

display_name: hysteresis

snow-cover-modeling

display_name: snow-cover-modeling

source-code

display_name: source-code

subgrid-topography

display_name: subgrid-topography

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: infectious-disease conflict-resolution ontology-authoring meaning-negotiation disease-control

en:
 OWL files in RDF/XML
developed using Protégé 5.2
 Administrative ontology (appl:administrative) in ALCRIF
ontology-administrative.owl
 Epidemiology ontology (appl:epidemiology) in SRIF
ontology-epidemiology.owl
 Merged ontology (undecidable)
ontology-merged.owl
 Merged ontology (decidable, without transitivity of appl:epidemiology#partOf)
ontology-merged-functionality.owl
 Merged ontology (decidable, without functionality of appl:administrative#partOf and disjointness of roles in the administrative ontology)
ontology-merged-transitivity.owl

en:
Ontologies used for the case study in the publication.
Creative Commons (CC) license: CC BY-NC-SA <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/>

conflict-resolution

display_name: conflict-resolution

disease-control

display_name: disease-control

infectious-disease

display_name: infectious-disease

meaning-negotiation

display_name: meaning-negotiation

ontology-authoring

display_name: ontology-authoring


en: litter-decomposition stable-isotopes soil--fractions soil-organic-matter-dynamics non-exchangeable-hydrogen bayesian-mixing-models

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

Paper Citation:
Guidi, C., Lehmann, M.M., Meusburger, K., Saurer, M., Vitali, V., Peter, M., Brunner, I., Hagedorn, F. (accepted). Tracing sources and turnover of soil organic matter in a long-term irrigated dry forest using a novel hydrogen isotope approach. Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

Please cite this paper together with the citation for the datafile.

Data from a 17-year-long irrigation experiment (Pfynwald, Switzerland) in a naturally dry forest dominated by 100-year-old pine trees (Pinus sylvestris).
Data include: (1) Isotopic composition (stable isotope ratios of non-exchangeable hydrogen δ2Hn, carbon δ13C, and nitrogen δ15N) and Hn, C and N concentrations in SOM sources (fresh Pinus sylvestris needles, litter layer, fine roots), bulk SOM (organic layer, 0-2 cm, 2-5 cm, 60-80 cm), particle-size fractions (depths: 0-2 cm, 2-5 cm; cPOM: coarse POM; fPOM: fine POM; MOM: mineral-associated organic matter); (2) Mass loss, δ2Hn values and Hn concentrations of Pinus sylvestris fine roots and needle litter (litter decomposition experiments from Herzog et al. 2019, ISME journal, and Guidi et al. 2022, Global Change Biology); (3) Relative source contribution (foliar litter, fine roots, and mycelia) to bulk SOM and fractions estimated using Bayesian mixing models (R package MixSIAR, version 3.1.12) with irrigation and depth as fixed factors. The models were informed with δ13C, δ15N and δ2Hn values and C, N, and Hn concentrations of foliar litter, roots, and mycelia as input sources. Given the kinetic isotope fractionation occurring during microbial SOM decomposition, the mixing models were informed with isotope fractionation factors, representing the isotope enrichment from sources to soils; (4) Fraction of new organic Hn (Fnew) over the irrigation period, calculated using a simple end-member mixing model according to Balesdent et al. (1987) and mean residence time estimated as MRT = - t / ln (1 - Fnew), with t time in years since irrigation started and assuming single-pool model with first-order kinetics.

bayesian-mixing-models

display_name: bayesian-mixing-models

litter-decomposition

display_name: litter-decomposition

non-exchangeable-hydrogen

display_name: non-exchangeable-hydrogen

soil--fractions

display_name: soil--fractions

soil-organic-matter-dynamics

display_name: soil-organic-matter-dynamics

stable-isotopes

display_name: stable-isotopes

en: Sources and turnover of soil organic matter in Pfynwald irrigation experiment


en: spruce pterocomma-pilosum willow phenols lymantria-monacha cinara-pilicornis

en: Heavy metal insects

en: See ReadMe

en: In controlled model forest ecosystems young trees were exposed to heavy metals in the soil and to acid precipitation. On spruce trees Lymantria monacha caterpillars and Cinara pilicornis aphids and on willow Pterocomma pilosum aphids were reared and monitored. Developmental time and fecundity of L. monacha were recorded and in aphids colony growth was measured.

cinara-pilicornis

display_name: cinara-pilicornis

lymantria-monacha

display_name: lymantria-monacha

phenols

display_name: phenols

pterocomma-pilosum

display_name: pterocomma-pilosum

spruce

display_name: spruce

willow

display_name: willow

en: Plant-mediated effects of heavy metals and acid rain on feeding aphids and caterpillars


en: monitoring national-forest-inventory europe plot-size species-richness biodiversity

en: Mega-plot data from Norway, Spain, Slovakia, Switzerland

en:
The mega-plot data consist in a single .RDS file containing 10 columns, where each row represents a mega-plot:
- "Country": refers to either "Spain", "Norway", "Switzerland" or "Slovakia"
- "Single_plot_size": refers to the size of the plots used in the aggregation process to make the mega-plots. The largest value within each country refers to the orignial plot size of each NFI, while the smaller values within each country refers to the downscaled datasets. The analyses were performed independently for each "Country" and "Single_plot_size", so these should not be analysed together.
- "n_plots": refers to the number of plots aggregated
- "A_megaplot": area of the mega-plots (sum of the area of all the aggregated plots). It equals "Single_plot_size" multiplied by "n_plots".
- "SR": Species richness of the mega-plot
- "Hclim": EH variable, corresponds to the climate heterogeneity value of the mega-plot, based on mean annual temperature and annual precipitation
- "Htopo": EH variable, corresponds to the topographic heterogeneity value of the mega-plot, based on slope and Beers aspect
- "Hsoil": EH variable, corresponds to the soil heterogeneity value of the mega-plot, based on soil pH
- "Hba": EH variable, corresponds to the basal area heterogeneity value of the mega-plot
- "Hres": residual environmental heterogeneity

To fit our models, all EH variables have been standardised. In this dataset, EH variables are provided before standardisation (raw).

en:
The data file refers to the data used in Portier et al. "Plot size matters: towards comparable species richness estimates across plot-based inventories" (2022) *Ecology and Evolution*.

This paper describes a methodoligical framework developed to allow meaningful species richness comparisons across plot-based inventories using different plot sizes. To this end, National Forest Inventory data from Switzerland, Slovakia, Norway and Spain were used. NFI plots were aggregated into mega-plots of larger sizes to build rarefaction curves. The data stored here correspond to the mega-plot level data used in the analyses, including for each country the size of the mega-plots in square meters (A), the corresponding species richness (SR) as well as all enrionmental heterogeneity measures described in the corresponding paper. Mega-plots of country-specific downscaled datasets are also provided.

The raw data from the Swiss NFI can be provided free of charge within the scope of a contractual agreement (http://www.lfi.ch/dienstleist/daten-en.php). Contact details for data requests from all NFIs can be found in the ENFIN website (http://enfin.info/).

biodiversity

display_name: biodiversity

europe

display_name: europe

monitoring

display_name: monitoring

national-forest-inventory

display_name: national-forest-inventory

plot-size

display_name: plot-size

species-richness

display_name: species-richness

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Towards comparable species richness estimates across plot-based inventories - data


en: depth-of-snowfall antarctica gridded-data terrestiral-laserscanning terrestrial-laser-scans

en: Scan from 4 January 2019, 1 mm resolution

en: Scan from 2 January 2019, 1 mm resolution

en: Scan from 11 January 2019, 1 mm resolution

en: Deprecated: Scan from 11 January 2019, 10 cm resolution, version 1

en: This resource is deprecated. It contains erroneous data.

en: Scan from 21 December 2018, 1 mm resolution

en: Scan from 2 January 2019, 10 cm resolution

en: Scan from 27 December 2018, 10 cm resolution

en: Scan from 21 December 2018, 10 cm resolution

en: Scan from 11 January 2019, 10 cm resolution, version 2

en: Scan from 27 December 2018, 1 mm resolution

en: Scan from 4 January 2019, 10 cm resolution

en:
Surface topography maps (spatial extent: 400 m x 400 m) obtained at approximately 300 m from the top of the Hammarryggen Ice Rise in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, using a Riegl VZ-6000 Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS). Scans were obtained on 5 days in the 2018-2019 Austral summer: on December 21 and 27, and January 2, 4 and 11. By using reflectors installed on bamboo poles, scans were registered with respect to the reflectors, such that the difference between two successive scans reveals the spatial patterns of erosion and deposition of snow. On each scan day, we used multiple scan positions to create one combined point cloud. After applying an octree filter on the point cloud, a 3D surface was obtained. For each day, the dataset contains a 1 mm and a 10 cm octree filter resolution file, only including points in a 400 m x 400 m area centered around the scan positions.

Notes:

* All files in the dataset are in the same coordinate system. However, this coordinate system is arbitrary (i.e., not related to any global coordinate system).

* From the installed reflectors, 4 reflectors could be used over the full period. The scan accuracy is generally higher within the area enclosed by the reflectors.

* The scans from January 2 were found to have exhibited small tilt during the scan and are of lesser accuracy.

* By walking along fixed corridors, disturbance of the snow was limited.

antarctica

display_name: antarctica

depth-of-snowfall

display_name: depth-of-snowfall

gridded-data

display_name: gridded-data

terrestiral-laserscanning

display_name: terrestiral-laserscanning

terrestrial-laser-scans

display_name: terrestrial-laser-scans

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: Terrestrial laser scans on Hammarryggen Ice Rise, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica


en:
Volume of stemwood with bark of all trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh removed from the forest between two inventories due to damage that occurred, in this case windthrow, and not due to silvicultural planning. This theme is derived on the level of a sample plot from the cuttings of the sample trees and the salvage cut proportion (according to information from the forester).  The correction for bias with the sample Tarif trees may be so drastic that it results in negative values with small numbers of trees.

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

altitudinal-vegetation-zone

display_name: altitudinal-vegetation-zone

biogeographical-region

display_name: biogeographical-region

economic-region

display_name: economic-region

production-region

display_name: production-region

protection-forest-region

display_name: protection-forest-region

salvage-logging-due-to-wind

display_name: salvage-logging-due-to-wind

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Salvage logging due to wind


en: dsm uav wingtra photogrammetry drone-data

en: Data Access

en:
- DSM 10cm resolution
- Orthomosaic 3cm resolution
- Agisoft Metashape Processing Report
- original RGB images

All generated products are also available as a cloud optimized geotiff.

en: We conducted four drone flights in Davos Wolfgang Arelen, in 2020/21 and 2022 to obtain data for the generation of DSMs and orthomosaics at a high resolution. The data was processed with the Agisoft Metashape Professional Software.

drone-data

display_name: drone-data

dsm

display_name: dsm

photogrammetry

display_name: photogrammetry

uav

display_name: uav

wingtra

display_name: wingtra

en: Photogrammetric Drone Data Wolfgang Arelen


maintainer: Leo Gallus Bont

en: openstreetmap geoprocessing forest seilaplan accessible-forest qgis

en: Railways vector data (close to the sample forest range)

en: Digitised sample perimeter

en: Juypter Notebook for Data Preparation

en: Juypter Notebook for Data Preparation (online)

en: Forest vector data (for sample forest range)

en: Preview

media_type: image/png

format: PNG

mimetype: image/png

en: DEM (for the area of the sample forest range)

en: Power lines vector data (close to the area of the sample forest range)

en:
This dataset contains open vector data for railways, forests and power lines, as well an open digital elevation model (DEM) for a small area around a sample forest range in Europe (Germany, Upper Bavaria, Kochel Forest Range, some 70 km south of München, at the edge of Bavarian Alps).
The purpose of this dataset is to provide a documented sample dataset in order to demonstrate geospatial preprocessing at FOSS4G2019 based on open data and software. This sample has been produced based on several existing open data sources (detailed below), therefore documenting the sources for obtaining some data needed for computations related to forest accessibility and wood harvesting. For example, they can be used with the open methodology and QGIS plugin [Seilaplan]( https://doi.org/10.16904/envidat.software.1) for optimising the geometric layout cable roads or with additional open software for computing the forest accessibility for wood harvesting.
The vector data (railways, forests and power lines) was extracted from OpenStreetMap (data copyrighted OpenStreetMap contributors and available from https://www.openstreetmap.org). The railways and forests were downloaded and extracted on 18.05.2019 using the open sources QGIS (https://www.qgis.org) with the QuickOSM plugin, while the power lines were downloaded a couple of days later on 23.05.2019.

Additional notes for vector data:
Please note that OpenStreeMap data extracts such as forests, roads and railways (except power lines) can also be downloaded in a GIS friendly format (Shapefile) from http://download.geofabrik.de/ or using the QGIS built-in download function for OpenStreetMap data. The most efficient way to retrieve specific OSM tags (such as power=line) is to use the QuickOSM plugin for QGIS (using the Overpass API - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API) or directly using overpass turbo (https://overpass-turbo.eu/). Finally, the digitised perimeter of the sample forest range is also made available for reproducibility purposes, although any perimeter or area can be digitised freely using the QGIS editing toolbar.

The DEM was originally adapted and modified also with QGIS (https://www.qgis.org) based on the elevation data available from two different sources, by reprojecting and downsampling datasets to 25m then selecting, for each individual raster cell, the elevation value that was closer to the average. These two different elevation sources are:

- Copernicus Land Monitoring Service - EU-DEM v.1.1 (TILE ID E40N20, downloaded from https://land.copernicus.eu/imagery-in-situ/eu-dem/eu-dem-v1.1; this original DEM was produced by the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service “with funding by the European Union” based on SRTM and ASTER GDEM)
- Digitales Geländemodell 50 m Gitterweite (https://opendata.bayern.de/detailansicht/datensatz/digitales-gelaendemodell-50-m-gitterweite/), produced by the Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung – www.geodaten.bayern.de –and downloaded from http://www.geodaten.bayern.de/opendata/DGM50/dgm50_epsg4258.tif

This methodology was chosen as a way of performing a basic quality check, by comparing the EU-DEM v.1.1 derived from globally available DEM data (such as SRTM) with more authoritative data for the randomly selected region, since using authoritative data is preferred (if open and available). For other sample regions, where authoritative open data is not available, such comparisons cannot longer be performed.

Additional notes DEM: a very good DEM open data source for Germany is the open data set collected and resampled by Sonny (sonnyy7@gmail.com) and made available on the Austrian Open Data Portal http://data.opendataportal.at/dataset/dtm-germany. In order to simplify end-to-end reproducibility of the paper planned for FOSS4G2019, we use and distribute an adapted (reprojected and resampled to 25 meters) sample of the above mentioned dataset for the selected forest range.

This sample dataset is accompanied by software in Python, as a Jupiter Notebook that generates harmonized output rasters with the same extent from the input data. The extent is given by the polygon vector dataset (Perimeter). These output rasters, such as obstacles, aspect, slope, forest cover, can serve as input data for later computations related to forest accessibility and wood harvesting questions. The obstacles output is obtained by transforming line vector datasets (railway lines, high voltage power lines) to raster. Aspect and slope are both derived from the sample digital elevation model.

accessible-forest

display_name: accessible-forest

forest

display_name: forest

geoprocessing

display_name: geoprocessing

openstreetmap

display_name: openstreetmap

qgis

display_name: qgis

seilaplan

display_name: seilaplan

en: Sample Geodata and Software for Demonstrating Geospatial Preprocessing for Forest Accessibility and Wood Harvesting at FOSS4G2019


salvage-logging

title_for_slug: salvage-logging

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

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

avalanches-silvaprotect

display_name: avalanches-silvaprotect

canton

display_name: canton

cause-of-salvage-logging

display_name: cause-of-salvage-logging

landslide-mudflow-silvaprotect

display_name: landslide-mudflow-silvaprotect

main-type-of-harvest

display_name: main-type-of-harvest

potential-cost-for-timber-harvesting

display_name: potential-cost-for-timber-harvesting

processes-in-channels-silvaprotect

display_name: processes-in-channels-silvaprotect

rockfall-silvaprotect

display_name: rockfall-silvaprotect

salvage-logging-star

display_name: salvage-logging-star

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: Salvage logging*


snow-drift-station-snow-and-air-data

maintainer: Benjamin Walter

title_for_slug: snow-drift-station-snow-and-air-data

en: snow snow-temperature raclets temperature snow-depth snow-height

en: Snow Depth

en: The snow depth (cm) was measured with a Lufft SHM-31 which was mounted at 1.7 m above ground. The time is given in UTC+1.

en: Snow Surface Temperature

en: The snow surface temperature (°C) was measured with a Campbell SI-111 at 0.7 m above ground. The time is given in UTC+1.

en: Air Temperature

en: The air temperature (°C) was measured with a Campbell CS-215 which was mounted at a height of 2.2 m above ground. The time is given in UTC+1.

en: Relative Humidity

en: The relative humidity (%) was measured with a Campbell CS-215 at a height of 2.2 m above ground. The time is given in UTC+1.

en: Snow and air data was monitored at Gotschnagrat (LON: 46.859 LAT: 9.849) by an infrarot radiometer (Campbell SI-111) for snow temperature (°C), a snow height sensor (Lufft SHM-31) for snow height change (cm) and a temperature and humidity sensor (Campbell CS-215) for air temperature (°C) and relative humidity (%). No filter was applied to the sensors and the smapling frequency was 1 Hz.

raclets

display_name: raclets

snow

display_name: snow

snow-depth

display_name: snow-depth

snow-height

display_name: snow-height

snow-temperature

display_name: snow-temperature

temperature

display_name: temperature

en: Snow Drift Station - Snow and Air Data


en:
Number of stems of dead trees and shrubs (standing and lying) starting at 12 cm recorded according to the NFI1 method. In NFI1 only those dead trees were recorded whose wood could still be exploited. In addition, lying green trees were classified in NFI1 as deadwood.

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

conifers-broadleaves

display_name: conifers-broadleaves

economic-region

display_name: economic-region

main-tree-species

display_name: main-tree-species

production-region

display_name: production-region

protection-forest-region

display_name: protection-forest-region

en: Stem number of dead wood NFI1


en:
Increment with ingrowth minus the mortality. *In the calculation no D7/tree height data were used. The values calculated like this have not been corrected for bias, but allow for cantons or forest districts a more robust estimation of changes and could thus be better interpreted.

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

altitudinal-vegetation-zone

display_name: altitudinal-vegetation-zone

avalanches-silvaprotect

display_name: avalanches-silvaprotect

canton

display_name: canton

landslide-mudflow-silvaprotect

display_name: landslide-mudflow-silvaprotect

lower-higher-altitudinal-zones

display_name: lower-higher-altitudinal-zones

net-increment-star

display_name: net-increment-star

ownership

display_name: ownership

potential-cost-for-timber-harvesting

display_name: potential-cost-for-timber-harvesting

site-quality

display_name: site-quality

tree-species-woody-species

display_name: tree-species-woody-species

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

en: Net increment*


maintainer: Rebecca Mott

en: dischmex turbulent-sensible-heat-fluxes eddy-covariance-measurements patchy-snow-covers snow-patch

en: Eddy-covariance measurement with an ultrasonic anemometer (CSAT3, Campbell Scientific, Inc.) in 2.2 m.

en: Eddy-covariance measurement with an ultrasonic anemometer (CSAT3, Campbell Scientific Inc.) in 1.7 m on a daily basis.

en: Eddy-covariance measurement with an ultrasonic anemometer (DA-600, Kaijo-Denki) in 0.3 m on a daily basis.

en: Eddy-covariance measurement with an ultrasonic anemometer (CSAT3, Campbell Scientific Inc.) in 3.2 m on a daily basis.

en: Eddy-covariance measurement with an ultrasonic anemometer (R.M. Young Company) in 3.5 m.

en: Eddy-covariance measurement with an ultrasonic anemometer (R.M. Young Company) in 0.7 m.

en: Gletschboden setup

en: Background map based on data © 2014/2016 swisstopo (JD100042)

en: Eddy-covariance measurement with an ultrasonic anemometer (CSAT3, Campbell Scientific, Inc.) in 2.6 m.

en: Eddy-covariance measurement with an ultrasonic anemometer (R.M. Young Company) in 3.3 m.

en: Output explanation

en:
This dataset contains eddy-covariance measurements in the ablation period of 2014-2016. Measurements were taken from two turbulence towers over a long-lasting snow patch, which are 5 m apart from each other (2014 and 2015). The turbulence towers were equipped with two YOUNG ultrasonic anemometers mounted 0.7 m (in 2014) and 3.3 m (in 2015) above snow-free ground, two ultrasonic anemometers (CSAT3, Campbell Scientific, Inc.) mounted at 2.6 m (in 2014) and 2.2 m (in 2015) above snow-free ground and one anemometer (DA-600, Kaijo Denki) mounted at 0.3 m above snow surface.

The measurement setup changed in 2016 and includes a measurement above the snow-free ground in upwind direction (Swiss coordinates: 790191/176689). The measurement tower is equipped with one ultrasonic anemometer (CSAT3, Campbell Scientific, Inc.) in 3.3 m above the snow-free ground. Additionally, one measurement tower is installed above the long-Lasting snow patch and equipped with the same setup as 2015.

Turbulence data were sampled at a frequency of 20 Hz. The processing of the data to quality controlled fluxes has been done with the Biomicrometeorology flux software (Thomas et al., 2009). The program applies plausibility tests and a despiking test after Vickers and Mahrt (1997) on the measured data. The routine further applies a time-lag correction and considers the deployment (e.g. the sonic azimuth). A frequency response correction (Moore, 1986) is done and a three-dimensional rotation is performed. Finally, quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) flags after Foken et al., (2004) are issued and fast Fourier transform power and co-spectra are calculated. The change in snow height is considered in the post-processing for every measurement day. The turbulence data were averaged to 30 minute intervals.

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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: DISCHMEX - Impact of extreme land-surface heterogeneity on micrometeorology over spring snow-cover


area-of-shrub-forest

title_for_slug: area-of-shrub-forest

en:
All plots classified as shrub forest according to the NFI forest definition.

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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area-of-shrub-forest

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en: Education, culture and sport

en: Area of shrub forest


en: reafforestation q-methodology forest-clearances atree nature-conservation offsetting

en: ATREE Q-Methodology Data on Forest Clearances Offsetting

en: The data was collected in a workshop setting and they thus conducted their sorts individually, but not in an interview setting together with the interviewer, but alone but in interaction with other workshop participants. Hence, they had the possibility to discuss in groups or also with a wider number of participants. The independence of the answers is thus not fully guaranteed, however, observation during the workshop suggests that the participants were all sufficiently self-dependent, were able to do the sorts based on their experience and expertise and were not influenced heavily by other perspectives. The data is anonymized insofar, as there are no names of individual participants and not even names of organizations but only of types organizationa. The data should be ready to be analyzed with the "qmethod" package in R (as of Feburary 2021). Please note that this also requires data on the statements which are also included here in Englisch (short version) and German (original version).

en: ATREE Q-Methodology Statements on Forest Clearances Offsetting (short version in English)

en: This is a short version of the 34 statements in English, which might be more convenient for the analysis of the data.

en: ATREE Q-Methodology Statements on Forest Clearances Offsetting (original version in German)

en: These are 34 statements that were given the workshop participants (in German) to be sorted into a normal distribution grid according to the Q-Methodology procedure.

en: In Novdember 2019 about 19 experts on forest surface protection and forest clearances were invited to a workshop in order to discuss policy design and implementation problems regarding the offsetting of forest clearances. In Switzerland such offsetting can be provided under certain circumstances by implementing forest nature conservation measures in the forest instead of providing in-kind compensation, i.e. reafforestation on agricultural land. The workshop included the sorting of 34 statements – that were elaborated beforehand, partially also with help of the participants – according to the "Q-methodology" survey technique (participants arrange given statements about a certain subject into boxes that are normally distributed over a "agree - do not agree" answer scale). The participants included representatives from cantonal and national forest administrations, nature conservation NGOs, forest NGOs, spatial planning NGOs, private counseling enterprises as well as national, cantonal and regional forest owner organizations. The data allows a factor analytical differentiation of actors into groups with distinct positions towards forest clearance compensation as well as a positioning of these groups relative to each statement.

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en: ATREE Q-methodology statement sorts on forest clearances offsetting in the forest


en: permafrost soil-temperature soil phosphorus nitrogen air-temperature elevational-gradient treeline climate biomass latitude

en: Urals: latitudinal decline in treeline biomass and productivity

en:
1. Stand characteristics along 18 elevational gradients in treeline ecotones from the South to Polar Urals
2. Climate data of 5 major regions along the Urals extrapolated from meteo stations (1976.2006)
3. Air and Soil temperatures monitored in situ in the South and Polar Urals
4. Soil data (stone contents, sand fraction, carbon stocks, plant available nitrogen and phosphorus) South, North, Polar Urals
5. Element concentration needles of Larix sibirica (South and Polar Urals)

en:
1. Stand characteristics of treeline ecotone along 18 elevational gradients of the Ural mountains.
2. Extrapolated climate data at treeline using nearby meteo station (1976-2006).
3. Air and soil temperatures measured in situ at treeline in the South and Polar Urals. Soil temperature sensors were placed at 10 cm depth in open areas in between tree clusters but not under tree canopy.
4. Further plot specific information is available upon request.

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permafrost

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phosphorus

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soil-temperature

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amount-of-dead-wood

title_for_slug: amount-of-dead-wood

en:
Wood volume of all deadwood recorded according to the NFI3 method. For standing trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh, the volume of stemwood reduced due to stem breakage is recorded, and for lying deadwood the merchantable wood ( starting at 7 cm in diameter). Heaps of branches are not included.  The correction for bias with the sample Tarif trees may be so drastic that it results in negative values with small numbers of trees.

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

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production-region

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protection-forest-region

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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: Amount of dead wood