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

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)


lwf-lageren-long-term-research-site

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

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

state: active

type: dataset

en: LWF plot Lägeren. Photo: Peter Waldner, 2019

format: SERVICE

en:
![alt text](https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/b763c4e1-2de3-4e8f-9bb7-2ca533624060/resource/b6e747c6-7a85-43e0-958b-3522f370bbad/download/lwf_laegeren.jpg "LWF Lägeren")

This research site is located on the southern slope of the Lägern, which forms the eastern most part of the Jura mountains, within a managed mixed deciduous forest. The forest is highly diverse, dominated by beech, but also including ash, maple, spruce and fir trees. Eddy covariance flux measurements were started in April 2004. The site was part of the international CarboEurope IP network and currently part of the following national networks:

* National Air Pollution Monitoring Network ([NABEL](https://www.empa.ch/web/s503/nabel))
* [TreeNet](https://treenet.info/switzerland/laegeren): The biological drought and growth indicator network
* Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research ([LWF](https://www.wsl.ch/en/forest/forest-development-and-monitoring/long-term-forest-ecosystem-research-lwf/sites/laegeren.html))
* [Swiss FluxNet](https://www.swissfluxnet.ethz.ch/index.php/sites/ch-lae-laegeren/site-info-ch-lae/)

The site measurements are jointly run by the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology ([EMPA](https://www.empa.ch)), the groups [Grassland Sciences](https://www.gl.ethz.ch) and [Land-Climate Dynamics](https://iac.ethz.ch/group/land-climate-dynamics.html) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, the unit [Soil Science & Biogeochemistry](https://www.geo.uzh.ch/en/units/2b.html) from the University of Zurich, and the Swiss Federal Research Institute ([WSL](https://www.wsl.ch)).

LWF Plot Lägeren

- Community: Wettingen / canton AG
- Date of installation: 1.05.2012
- Size of the plot: 1.34 ha
- Altitude: 643 - 718 m
- Mean slope: 37 %
- Geology (in German): Kettenjura; Jura: Malm, Molassehangschutt
- Soil types (WSL) : calcareous brown soil, chromic luvisol, mixed rendzina
- Woodland association after Ellenberg and Klötzli's classification (1972): Galio odoratio-Fagetum typicum bis - Pulmonario-Fagetum typicum
- Main tree species: fagus sylvatica
- Management system: high forest
- Silvicultural system: forest reserve
- Top-height diameter (quadratic average diameter of the 100 thickest trees per ha): 72.18 cm
- Number of trees BHD >= 12 cm (2011): 503
- Maximum tree age: picea abies: 120-170 years, fagus sylvatica: ca. 150 years

forest

display_name: forest

infrastructure

display_name: infrastructure

lwf

display_name: lwf

meteorological-data

display_name: meteorological-data

meteorological-measurements

display_name: meteorological-measurements

plot

display_name: plot

swiss-fluxnet

display_name: swiss-fluxnet

swiss-forest-lab

display_name: swiss-forest-lab

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: LWF Lägeren long-term research site


automatic-classification-of-avalanches

maintainer: Alec van Herwijnen

title_for_slug: automatic-classification-of-avalanches

en: localization seismic machine-learning avalanche monitoring

en:
This tar file contains classification results for two seismic geophone arrays deployed above Davos, Switzerland. The of the first array located at the Dischma Valley was used to automatically identify all seismic events produced by avalanches, whereas the classification perfomed at the second array located at the Wannengrat field site was used to identify airplanes and earthquakes.
Furthermore, this tar file also contains the median back-azimuth of all classified events at the Dischma field site.

mimetype: application/x-tar

en: This dataset contains the classification and localization results obtained during the automatic classification of avalanches during the winter season 2017.

avalanche

display_name: avalanche

localization

display_name: localization

machine-learning

display_name: machine-learning

monitoring

display_name: monitoring

seismic

display_name: seismic

en: Automatic Classification of Avalanches


maintainer: EnviDat Support

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

en: DATA ACCESS

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

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

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

gemstock

display_name: gemstock

longwave-radiation

display_name: longwave-radiation

meteo-station

display_name: meteo-station

shortwave-radiation

display_name: shortwave-radiation

snow-height

display_name: snow-height

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


salvage-logging-due-to-wind

title_for_slug: salvage-logging-due-to-wind

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

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

altitudinal-vegetation-zone

display_name: altitudinal-vegetation-zone

canton

display_name: canton

salvage-logging-due-to-wind-star

display_name: salvage-logging-due-to-wind-star

en: Salvage logging due to wind*


espon-digiplan

title_for_slug: espon-digiplan

en: geoportal transparency spatial-planning innovation digitalisation efficiency

en: Questionnaire Digiplan Task 2 CH_D

en: This document contains the questionnaire, which was used for the expert interviews in the context of Digiplan Task 2. The questionnaire was adapted to the context of the country or the to the context of the interviewee in some interviews. Therefore, some additional questions were asked or some questions were skipped.

en: Germany 2020 all transcripts Digiplan Task 2

en: All transcripts are written in German.

en: Metadata of the written transcripts

en: Additional information (position of expert, date of the interviews) on the transcripts can be found in this document.

en: Switzerland 2020 all transcripts Digiplan Task 2

en: The dataset as a part of the international project ESPON Digiplan. The aim of this international project is to assess the extent, organisation and financing of digitisation of plan data as well as the use of these data in ESPON member countries. As a part of the in-depth case study, 7 virtual expert interviews in Switzerland and 5 virtual expert interviews in Germany were conducted with experts on the topic of digitisation of plan data. The documents contain the transcripts of the interviews. The transcripts aim to capture the content of the interviews, which is why voice raising and lowering, as well as pauses in the interview, were not specifically recorded. The interviews were conducted in German, therefore the transcripts are also in German.

digitalisation

display_name: digitalisation

efficiency

display_name: efficiency

geoportal

display_name: geoportal

innovation

display_name: innovation

spatial-planning

display_name: spatial-planning

transparency

display_name: transparency

en: ESPON Digiplan


en: drosophila-suzukii switzerland simple-sequence-repeats multilocus-genotypes nuclear-microsatellite-markers biological-control trichopria-drosophilae population-genetics

media_type: text/csv

en: Multilocus genotypes (biallelic coding for 21 nuclear microsatellites) of Trichopria drosophilae described in Gugerli et al. Agrarforschung Schweiz 2019. Missing data denoted as '999'. Population codes (PopNo) are the following: 1, Vezia; 3, Contone ; 5, Davesco; 6, Corteglia; 7, Mezzana; 8, Stabio; 9, Gordola; 10, Sementina; 12, Brusata di Novazzano; 14, Monteggio; 16, Giubiasco; 17, ComoBP; 18, VD; 19, Weil_D; 20, Dossenheim; 21, BioPlanet_Como. Coordinates (CoordCH_E, CoordCH_N) refer to the Swiss coordinates system CH1903.

format: CSV

mimetype: text/csv

en: Table comprising all pertinent information for multiplex PCRs of species-specific nuclear microsatellite makers for Trichopria drosophilae, comprising all 21 newly developed markers, details on full sequences with GenBank accession numbers, primer sequences (including labeling and pig-tails), and repeat motives. PCRs with respective annealing temperatures (AnnealingTemp) refer to Type-It Multiplex PCR Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany).

en:
 Nuclear microsatellite markers and genotype data for _Trichopria ddrosophilae_

This data set comprises (i) the characteristics of a set of 21 species-specific nuclear microsatellites for PCR amplification in _Trichopria drosophilae_ (ii) and genotype data for samples collected in southern Switzerland (Canton of Ticino), with few reference samples from Canton of Vaud, southern Germany, and northern Italy (lab-reared population).
Markers were developed by Ecogenics GmbH, Balgach (Switzerland), using MiSeq Nano 2x250 v2 format (on a mix of 10 individuals). Multiplex PCR assays for multilocus genotyping were established by Ecological Genetics (WSL Birmensdorf), and population genetic analyses are found in Gugerli et al., Agrarforschung Schweiz 2019.

biological-control

display_name: biological-control

drosophila-suzukii

display_name: drosophila-suzukii

multilocus-genotypes

display_name: multilocus-genotypes

nuclear-microsatellite-markers

display_name: nuclear-microsatellite-markers

population-genetics

display_name: population-genetics

simple-sequence-repeats

display_name: simple-sequence-repeats

switzerland

display_name: switzerland

trichopria-drosophilae

display_name: trichopria-drosophilae

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: Nuclear microsatellite markers for Trichopria drosophilae, parasitoid wasp on Drosophila suzukii


en: avalanche snowpack avalanche-forecast snow snow-stability-evaluation

en: README

media_type: text/plain

en: README file explaining data structure and content

format: TXT

mimetype: text/plain

en: Stability tests

media_type: application/zip

en: Stability tests including csv-files with CT, ECT and PST experiments for each year and each field site.

format: ZIP

mimetype: application/zip

en: Extracted data

en: Extracted data contain validation and results published in Richter et al. (2019).

en: Manually observed snow profiles

en: Manually observed snow profiles as csv-files containing depth [cm], thickness [cm], density [kg m-3], hand hardness, first grain type, second grain type, first grain size [mm], and second grain size [mm] of each layer.

en: SNOWPACK simulations

en: This dataset contains all SNOWPACK simulations, including input files, setup and output files.

en:
To validate the critical crack length as implemented in the snow cover model SNOWPACK, PST experiments were conducted for three winter seasons (2015-2017) at two field site above Davos, Switzerland. This dataset contains manually observed snow profiles and stability tests. Furthermore, corresponding SNOWPACK simulations are included.
These data were analyzed and results were published in Richter et al. (2019).

Please refer to the Readme file for further details on the data.

These data are the basis of the following publication:
Richter, B., Schweizer, J., Rotach, M. W., and van Herwijnen, A.: Validating modeled critical crack length for crack propagation in the snow cover model SNOWPACK, The Cryosphere, 13, 3353–3366, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3353-2019, 2019.

avalanche

display_name: avalanche

avalanche-forecast

display_name: avalanche-forecast

snow

display_name: snow

snow-stability-evaluation

display_name: snow-stability-evaluation

snowpack

display_name: snowpack

en: Validating and improving the critical crack length in SNOWPACK


data-analysis-toolkits

title_for_slug: data-analysis-toolkits

en: statistics uncertainty hypothesis-testing bayesian-inference data-analysis error-propagation

en: Toolkit 12: weighted averages and their uncertainties

media_type: application/pdf

en: There are two different ways to calculate the uncertainty of a weighted average. Software packages often don't tell you which one they are reporting, and the resulting errors can be huge.

format: PDF

mimetype: application/pdf

en: Toolkit 5: uncertainty analysis and error propagation

en: Gaussian error propagation, monte carlo methods, and first-order, second-moment error propagation

en: Toolkit 7: hypothesis testing, significance, and power

en: An overview of basic concepts -- and common pitfalls -- in statistical hypothesis testing, statistical significance, and power analysis

en: Toolkit 4: confidence intervals

en: Toolkit 3: tools for transforming data

en: The ladder of powers and a few other cool transformations

en: Toolkit 11: serial correlation

en: Tools for detecting and correcting for serial correlation in analyses of time series

en: Toolkit 8: Hodges-Lehmann estimators

en: A quick introduction to Hodges-Lehmann estimators (nonparametric measures of effect size)

en: Toolkit 10: linear regression

en: An overview of the math, logic, and pitfalls of ordinary least-squares linear regression

en: Toolkit 9: Experimentwise error rates and statistical fishing expeditions

en: Statistical fishing expeditions, and how to avoid being misled by them

en: Toolkit 2: quantifying data distributions using descriptive statistics

en: Toolkit 1: graphically displaying data distributions

en: toolkit 6: averaging in nonlinear functions

en: The average of a nonlinear function will not equal the function evaluated at its average inputs (the mean of the function will differ from from the function of the mean). This toolkit shows how to estimate that averaging bias.

en:
These are condensed notes covering selected key points in data analysis and statistics. They were developed by James Kirchner for the course "Analysis of Environmental Data" at Berkeley in the 1990's and 2000's. They are not intended to be comprehensive, and thus are not a substitute for a good textbook or a good education!

License: These notes are released by James Kirchner under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

bayesian-inference

display_name: bayesian-inference

data-analysis

display_name: data-analysis

error-propagation

display_name: error-propagation

hypothesis-testing

display_name: hypothesis-testing

statistics

display_name: statistics

uncertainty

display_name: uncertainty

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

en: Data analysis toolkits


maintainer: Franziska Gerber

en: static-data wrf landuse topography cryowrf cosmo-wrf

en: Static data for WRF - Soiltype bottom

en: Static data for WRF - Soiltype top

en: Documentation

en: Documentation of the dataset

en: Static data for WRF - Landuse

en: Example namelist.wps to use with the 1s static data

en:
Example GEOGRID.TBL to use with the 1s static data;
Note about naming:
* 121 -> 1-2-1 topography smoothing applied to dataset
* 1 -> one smoothing cycle applied to the data (needs to be changed depending on the chosen resolution to avoid too steep slope angles)

en: Static data for WRF - Topography

en: Static input data (topography, landuse and soiltype) for the WRF preprocessing system WPS is provided for Switzerland and its neighboring countries between 45-49 N and 4-12 E. The data is provided at a resolution of 1 s. Topography is based on the Aster dataset, while landuse is extracted from the Corine landuse dataset. Soil type is set to silty clay loam for the entire domain. This static input data is valid for WRF and CRYOWRF.

cosmo-wrf

display_name: cosmo-wrf

cryowrf

display_name: cryowrf

landuse

display_name: landuse

static-data

display_name: static-data

topography

display_name: topography

wrf

display_name: wrf

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: High resolution static data for WRF over Switzerland


en: univoltine predators ips-typographus bivoltine antagonists spruce scolytinae parasitoids

en: Bark beetle infestation spots

en: see ReadMe

en: In an expanding bark beetle (Ips typographus) infestation spot emergence traps were installed on the stems of newly infested spruce trees capturing all emerging insects during several consecutive years. Two locations were sampled on elavations with univoltine and bivoltine generations, respectively. Bark beetles and their insect predators and parasitoids were identified to species level by specialists.

antagonists

display_name: antagonists

bivoltine

display_name: bivoltine

ips-typographus

display_name: ips-typographus

parasitoids

display_name: parasitoids

predators

display_name: predators

scolytinae

display_name: scolytinae

spruce

display_name: spruce

univoltine

display_name: univoltine

en: Emergence dynamics of natural enemies of spruce bark beetles


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

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

format: XLS

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

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

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

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

bois-endommage

display_name: bois-endommage

chablis

display_name: chablis

damaged-wood

display_name: damaged-wood

marche-du-bois

display_name: marche-du-bois

sawmills

display_name: sawmills

scieries

display_name: scieries

stockage-humide

display_name: stockage-humide

wet-storage

display_name: wet-storage

wind-disturbance

display_name: wind-disturbance

wood-market

display_name: wood-market

educ

en: Education, culture and sport


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

en: Fatal avalanche accidents in Switzerland since 1970

en:
**When using this data, please consider and adhere to the associated [Terms of Use](https://www.slf.ch/en/services-and-products/data-and-monitoring/slf-data-service.html)**.

This data collection contains information concerning all known accidents by snow avalanches in Switzerland with at least one person involved (caught). The data set commences on 01/10/1970. After the completion of a hydrological year, the new data is added.

The following information is provided:

 * avalanche identifier
 * date of the accident
 * accuracy of the date in range of days before and after
 * canton
 * municipality
 * start zone point latitude
 * start zone point longitude
 * start zone point accuracy (in meters)
 * start zone point elevation (in meteres above sea level)
 * slope aspect (main orientation of start zone)
 * slope inclination (in degree, steepest point within start zone)
 * forecasted avalanche danger level 1 (first danger)
 * forecasted avalanche danger level 2 (second danger)
 * accident within the core zone (most dangerous aspect and elevation as mentioned in the forecast)
 * number of dead persons
 * number of caught persons
 * number of fully buried persons
 * activity/location of the accident party at the time of the incident

avalanche-accident-statistics

display_name: avalanche-accident-statistics

avalanche-accidents

display_name: avalanche-accidents

avalanche-fatalities

display_name: avalanche-fatalities

number-of-caught-persons

display_name: number-of-caught-persons

number-of-dead-persons

display_name: number-of-dead-persons

en: Avalanche accidents in Switzerland since 1970/71


large-wood-event-database

title_for_slug: large-wood-event-database

en: dead-wood natural-hazards geomorphology empirical-data event-analysis wood-transport flood mountain-stream large-wood

en: large wood event database

en: In the context of the WoodFlow project (https://woodflow.wsl.ch), an extensive database was developed which documents recruited and transported quantities of large wood (woody debris) together with the associated catchment and flood-specific parameters. Transported large wood volumes were related to catchment area, forest cover, stream length, peak discharge, runoff volume, sediment load, and precipitation. The dataset covers flood events mostly from Switzerland, but also from other alpine catchments in Germany, Italy France and Japan.

dead-wood

display_name: dead-wood

empirical-data

display_name: empirical-data

event-analysis

display_name: event-analysis

flood

display_name: flood

geomorphology

display_name: geomorphology

large-wood

display_name: large-wood

mountain-stream

display_name: mountain-stream

natural-hazards

display_name: natural-hazards

wood-transport

display_name: wood-transport

en: Large wood event database


lwf-lens-long-term-research-site

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

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

en: Lens Meteorological Data LWF

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

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

LWF Plot Lens

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

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

forest

display_name: forest

infrastructure

display_name: infrastructure

lwf

display_name: lwf

meteorological-data

display_name: meteorological-data

meteorological-measurements

display_name: meteorological-measurements

plot

display_name: plot

swiss-forest-lab

display_name: swiss-forest-lab

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: LWF Lens long-term research site


massimo

title_for_slug: massimo

en: nfi timber-harvesting massimo forest model biomass swiss-forest-lab forest-management tree-growth

en: Flowchart

media_type: image/png

format: PNG

en:
MASSIMO is a distance-independent individual-tree simulator that represents demographic processes (regeneration, growth and mortality) with empirical models that have been parameterized with data from the Swiss NFI. Tree regeneration, growth and mortality are simulated on the regular grid of sample plots of the Swiss NFI, which allows for statistically representative simulations of forest development.

![alt text](https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/8fd996d1-aa7e-41b1-ae6d-1192582c62cc/resource/a12e2cfd-da45-4faf-8291-446c5763ac3c/download/massimo2swissforlab.png)

biomass

display_name: biomass

forest-management

display_name: forest-management

massimo

display_name: massimo

model

display_name: model

nfi

display_name: nfi

timber-harvesting

display_name: timber-harvesting

tree-growth

display_name: tree-growth

en: MASSIMO


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

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

en: Volume of bole wood (HG 2010)


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

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

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


lwf-tea-bag-sites

maintainer: Marcus Schaub

title_for_slug: lwf-tea-bag-sites

en: roiboos tea-bag carbon verification forest modeling litter decomposition green-tea

en: Site Information

en: Descriptive information on sites

en:
Decomposition of plant litter is a key process for the transfer of carbon and nutrients in ecosystems. Carbon contained in the decaying biomass is released to the atmosphere as respired CO2, and may contribute to global warming. Litterbag studies have been used to improve our knowledge of the drivers of litter decomposition, but they lack comparability because litter quality is plant species-specific. The use of commercial tea bags as a standard substrate was suggested in order to harmonize studies, where green tea and rooibos represent more labile and more recalcitrant C compounds as surrogates of local litter.
The tea bag approach was implemented on eight sites of the Swiss long-term Forest Ecosystem Research (LWF) network (https://www.wsl.ch/LWF). This allowed us to take advantage from the existing infrastructure and data from a previous litterbag study with local litter. In Beatenberg and Schaenis, additional elevation transects were established (1200-1800 m and 540-1150 m, respectively) to examine particularly the effect of temperature on decomposition. In Pfynwald (https://www.wsl.ch/de/ueber-die-wsl/versuchsanlagen-und-labors/flaechen-im-wald/pfynwald.html) and Salgesch, infrastructure of running projects was used to examine the effect of drought and understory removal, respectively. In Novaggio, tea bags were incubated in summer and winter to study the effect of seasonality particularly precipitation. Tea bags are collected after 3, 12, 24, and 36 months; for the two time-shifted experiments additionally after 6 and 9 months.
The study has two primary objectives. Firstly, it contributes to TeaComposition initiative (http://teacomposition.org/) which aims at investigating long-term litter decomposition and its key drivers at present as well as under different future climate scenarios using a common protocol and standard litter (tea) across nine terrestrial biomes. Secondly, the data are used to further develop decomposition models such as Yasso (http://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/yasso) which is used by several countries, including Switzerland to estimate the annual carbon fluxes in dead wood, litter, and soil for reporting in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol.

carbon

display_name: carbon

decomposition

display_name: decomposition

forest

display_name: forest

green-tea

display_name: green-tea

litter

display_name: litter

modeling

display_name: modeling

roiboos

display_name: roiboos

tea-bag

display_name: tea-bag

verification

display_name: verification

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: LWF-Tea bag sites


maintainer: Marcia Phillips

en: gemsstock temperature borehole permos permafrost

en: Map of PERMOS borehole network

en: PERMOS DATA POLICY

en: DATASET & PLOTS

en: Data visualiser and download service provided by PERMOS.

en:
Processed ground temperature measurements at the Gemsstock permafrost borehole in canton Uri, Switzerland. The borehole is located at 2940 m asl on a steep (50°) North-West slope (315°). The surface material is bedrock and borehole depth is 40 m. Thermistors used YSI 44008. Year of drilling 2006. This borehole is part of the Swiss Permafrost network, PERMOS (www.permos.ch). Contact phillips@slf.ch for details of processing applied.

Publications

1. A. Haberkorn, M. Phillips, R. Kenner, H. Rhyner, M. Bavay, S.P. Galos, M. Hoelzle. Thermal regime of rock and its relation to snow cover in steep Alpine rock walls: Gemsstock, central Swiss Alps. 2015. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography. Volume 97. Issue 3. 579–597. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geoa.12101. 10.1111/geoa.12101.

2. R. Kenner, M. Phillips, C. Danioth, C. Denier, P. Thee, A. Zgraggen. Investigation of rock and ice loss in a recently deglaciated mountain rock wall using terrestrial laser scanning: Gemsstock, Swiss Alps. 2011. Cold Regions Science and Technology. Volume 67. Issue 3. 157–164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2011.04.006. 10.1016/j.coldregions.2011.04.006.

borehole

display_name: borehole

gemsstock

display_name: gemsstock

permafrost

display_name: permafrost

permos

display_name: permos

temperature

display_name: temperature

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

en: Processed permafrost borehole data (2940 m asl), Gemsstock, Switzerland


en: monitoring long-term-forest-ecosystem-research long-term-monitoring air-pollution forest

en: Deprecated version 1.0

en: First version of the proceedings containing errors. This early version it is kept, for traceability purposes, in conformance with DOI rules.

en: FORECOMON – Proceedings

en: Latest version

en: Link to Proceedings in DORA WSL

en:
Forest monitoring to assess forest functioning under air pollution and climate change. Proceedings.
FORECOMON 2021 - the 9th forest ecosystem monitoring conference.
7-9 June 2021, WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

The goal of FORECOMON 2021 is to highlight the extensive ICP Forests data series on forest growth, phenology and leaf area index, biodiversity and ground vegetation, foliage and litter fall, ambient air quality, deposition, meteorology, soil and crown condition. We combine novel modeling and assessment approaches and integrate long-term trends to assess air pollution and climate effects on European forests and related ecosystem services. Latest results and conclusions from local scale to European scale studies will be presented and discussed.

Copyright © 2021 by WSL, Birmensdorf
The authors are responsible for the content of their contribution.

air-pollution

display_name: air-pollution

long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

display_name: long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

long-term-monitoring

display_name: long-term-monitoring

monitoring

display_name: monitoring

en: Forest monitoring to assess forest functioning under air pollution and climate change. Proceedings. FORECOMON 2021 - the 9th forest ecosystem monitoring conference. 7–9 June 2021, Birmensdorf, Switzerland


ect-and-rb-data-switzerland

title_for_slug: ect-and-rb-data-switzerland

en: stability-test snow-stability ect rutschblock slope-stability

en: data set (update)

en:
This is the same data set as uploaded originally, except for the following three additional columns, which are required to replicate the respective classification of ECT results: *depthCriteriaDecisive_ectStabOrig*, *depthCriteriaDecisive_ectStabWinkler*, *depthCriteriaDecisive_ectStabNew*. These columns have the following values:
- 1 if the depth criteria as defined in the paper was decisive for rating the ECT result with stability class 4
- 0 if the depth of the fracture plane was not decisive for the stability classification

In addition, the stability class has been recoded for:
- *ectStabOrig* from [1, 2] to [1, 4]
- *ectStabWinkler* from [1, 2, 3] --> [1, 2.5, 4]
to be fully in line with the stability classes used in the paper.

en: data set

en:
The data set contains the following information. For details, refer to the publication:
Variables
- unique identifier for the snow pit location (profileID)
- unique identifier for the ECT stability test (stabTestID)
- ECT stability classifications
-- orginal (ectStabOrig)
-- Winkler and Schweizer (ectStabWinkler)
-- new (ectStabNew)
- ECT results
-- lowest number of taps (ectScoreMin) for the decisive propagation
-- propagation
- slope stability information (slopeStability 0 = stable, 1 = unstable)
- RB stability class
- forecast avalanche danger level (forecastDangerLevel)

en: The data set contains the data used in the publication "On snow stability interpretation of Extended Column Test results" by Techel et. al. (2020), published in Natural Hazards Earth System Sciences.

ect

display_name: ect

rutschblock

display_name: rutschblock

slope-stability

display_name: slope-stability

snow-stability

display_name: snow-stability

stability-test

display_name: stability-test

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: ECT and RB data Switzerland


en: groundwater alptal studibach time-series switzerland

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

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

alptal

display_name: alptal

groundwater

display_name: groundwater

studibach

display_name: studibach

switzerland

display_name: switzerland

time-series

display_name: time-series

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

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


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

en: R-Script

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

en: Precipitation datasets

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

*Updated documentation 24 August 2020:*

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

en: SNOWPACK climate change simulation files

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

en: GenPSUm

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

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

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

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

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

This includes:

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

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

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

climate-change-impact

display_name: climate-change-impact

depth-of-snowfall

display_name: depth-of-snowfall

ground-temperature

display_name: ground-temperature

meteo-station

display_name: meteo-station

swiss-alps

display_name: swiss-alps

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


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

en: Data Request

en:
NO₂ concentrations were measured at 11 LWF plots (1999/2000) with passive samplers (Palmes-type diffusion tubes) during one year. Three samplers per site and period (usually 14 days) were installed in the open area of the LWF plots and, at Beatenberg, Novaggio and Vordemwald, under the forest as well (weather station). In 2014, NO2 concentrations were measured again at 14 plots, using two samplers per site and period (usually 28 days). At Lausanne and Vordemwald, concentrations were also measured below the canopy.

 Purpose:

To assess air concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and, using deposition velocities available from the literature, to quantify the dry deposition of NO2 (alternative method to the throughfall method).

ambient-air-quality

display_name: ambient-air-quality

icp-forests

display_name: icp-forests

long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

display_name: long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

nitrogen-dioxide

display_name: nitrogen-dioxide

swiss-forest-lab

display_name: swiss-forest-lab

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: Passive sampling of NO2 LWF


total-basal-area

title_for_slug: total-basal-area

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

en: Education, culture and sport

en: Total basal area


en: ecohydrology soil-moisture evaporation net-radiation evapotranspiration

en: simple R script to load the data and generate sample plots

en: R data file containing gridded net radiation and soil moisture values

en:
Net radiation (W/m2), variable name: NetRadiation, source: Viviroli et al., 2009, spatial resolution: 500 m,
temporal resolution: daily, year 2004, extent: Switzerland.

Soil moisture saturation (-), variable name: SoilMositure, source: simulations from the hydrological model PREVAH,
Brunner et al., 2019; Speich et al., 2015; Orth et al., 2015; Zappa et al., 2003, spatial resolution: 500 m, temporal
resolution: daily, year 2004, extent: Switzerland.

The R command to load the data:
load(“500m_SM_NetRad_2004_for_HESS_raster.RData”)

en: R data set containing R raster objects with 500m gridded daily modeled soil moisture and net radiation covering Switzerland for the year 2004.

ecohydrology

display_name: ecohydrology

evaporation

display_name: evaporation

evapotranspiration

display_name: evapotranspiration

net-radiation

display_name: net-radiation

soil-moisture

display_name: soil-moisture

en: daily 500m gridded net radiation and soil moisture for Switzerland, 2004


total-timber-volume

title_for_slug: total-timber-volume

en:
Volume of stemwood with bark of all living and dead trees and shrubs (standing and lying) starting at 12 cm dbh. This corresponds to the sum of the volumes of growing stock and deadwood. 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)_

conifers-broadleaves

display_name: conifers-broadleaves

lower-higher-altitudinal-zones

display_name: lower-higher-altitudinal-zones

ownership

display_name: ownership

total-timber-volume

display_name: total-timber-volume

tree-state-alive-dead

display_name: tree-state-alive-dead

tree-status

display_name: tree-status

en: Total timber volume


maintainer: Jonas Stillhard

en: forest long-term-data-sets primeval-beech-forest fagus-sylvatica carpathian-biosphere-reserve stand-inventory-data permanent-forest-plot-data forest-structure forest-dynamics dem

en: Dataset

en: Data description

en: Available online on publishers website

en:
In 2000, a permanent forest plot of 10 ha has been established in the core zone of the primeval beech forest of Uholka.
 All living and dead trees with a diameter at breast height (DBH) ≥ 60 mm were identified to species, DBH measured, stems tagged and mapped.
Since then, the plot has been remeasured in 2005, 2010, and 2015. In total, 4,820 individual trees were measured with 14,116 individual measurements throughout all four inventories.
In spring 2018, an Airborne Laser Scan was carried out, covering the Uholka‐Shyrokyi Luh forest. This data set allows us to derive a high‐resolution digital elevation model (DEM) of the plot area.
The data set allows for important insights into the development and the spatial and temporal dynamics of primeval beech forests.

carpathian-biosphere-reserve

display_name: carpathian-biosphere-reserve

dem

display_name: dem

fagus-sylvatica

display_name: fagus-sylvatica

forest

display_name: forest

forest-dynamics

display_name: forest-dynamics

forest-structure

display_name: forest-structure

long-term-data-sets

display_name: long-term-data-sets

permanent-forest-plot-data

display_name: permanent-forest-plot-data

primeval-beech-forest

display_name: primeval-beech-forest

stand-inventory-data

display_name: stand-inventory-data

en: Stand inventory data from the 10‐ha forest research plot in Uholka, Ukraine


en: cosmo-wrf complex-terrain precipitation-variability snow-precipitation orographic-precipitation

en: StationData

en: Snow depth maps over Dischma valley for 26 January 2016 and 9 March 2016 and snow depth differences between the two dates.

en:
The data presented here corresponds to the publication "Spatial variability in snow precipitation and accumulation in COSMO-WRF simulations and radar estimations over complex terrain" (Gerber et al., 2018a), which investigates the precipitation variability of snow precipitation in the central northern part of the Grisons (CH) and the publication "The importance of near-surface winter precipitation processes in complex alpine terrain" (Gerber et al., 2018b). The dataset contains:

* WRFsimulations: WRF simulation output for simulations with 4x (14x) terrain smoothing with an output timestep of 30 min/5 min and horizontal grid spacings of 1350 m, 450 m, 150 m and 50 m (currently: data available upon request).
* StationData: Meteorological station data of 18 meteorological stations in the central northern part of the Grisons with 30 minute resolution for the period 1 January 2016 till 1 May 2016.
* ADS80data: Photogrammetrically determined snow depth distribution data over the Dischma valley for the 26 January 2016 and 9 March 2016. Snow heights are corrected for buildings, vegetation (> 1m), outliers, and pixles, which are obivously snow-free on the pictures (Bühler et al., 2015). In addition the snow depth differences (snow depth on 9 March 2016 minus snow depth on 26 January 2016) are provided.

For more details about the simulation and observation data, see Gerber et al., 2018 and Gerber and Sharma (2018).

Publications:

Bühler, Y., Marty, M., Egli, L., Veitinger, J., Jonas, T., Thee, P., and Ginzler, C.: Snow depth mapping in high-alpine catchments using digital photogrammetry. Cryosphere, 9, 229–243, doi:10.5194/tc-9-229-2015, 2015.

Gerber, F., Besic, N., Sharma, V., Mott, R., Daniels, M., Gabella, M., Berne, A., Germann, U., and Lehning, M.: Spatial variability in snow precipitation and accumulation in COSMO-WRF simulations and radar estimations over complex terrain, The Cryosphere, 12, 3137–3160, doi:10.5194/tc-12-3137-2018, 2018.

Gerber, F., Mott, R. and Lehning, M.: The importance of near-surface winter precipitation processes in complex alpine terrain, Journal of Hydrometeorology, accepted, 2018.

Gerber, F., and Sharma, V.: Running COSMO-WRF on very-high resolution over complex terrain. Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences CRYOS, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. doi:10.16904/envidat.35, 2018.

complex-terrain

display_name: complex-terrain

cosmo-wrf

display_name: cosmo-wrf

orographic-precipitation

display_name: orographic-precipitation

precipitation-variability

display_name: precipitation-variability

snow-precipitation

display_name: snow-precipitation

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

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

en: DISCHMEX - High-resolution WRF simulations in complex alpine terrain and station measurements


maintainer: Christian G. Sommer

en: wind-packing kinect wind-tunnel snow wind-crust

en: Processing scripts

en: Contains the Matlab- and R-scripts used to process the Kinect data

en: Kinect data

en: Links to the dataset

en: README

en: Describes the dataset in detail

en:
This data sets contains the Microsoft Kinect data from 15 wind tunnel experiments on wind-packing / wind crust formation. These experiments were performed in the winter 2016/17. The Kinect measures distributed snow depth.

The Kinect data is organized per experiment. Each experiment subfolder contains the processed Kinect depth images and some additional files.

Please refer to the README for more details on the data. The processing scripts are available for download as well. The scripts are mainly provided as documentation and would need to be adjusted to be used.

This dataset is the basis of the following publication:

Sommer C.G., Lehning M. & Fierz C. (2018). Wind Tunnel Experiments: Influence of Erosion and Deposition on Wind-Packing of New Snow. Front. Earth Sci. 6:4. doi: 10.3389/feart.2018.00004

kinect

display_name: kinect

snow

display_name: snow

wind-crust

display_name: wind-crust

wind-packing

display_name: wind-packing

wind-tunnel

display_name: wind-tunnel

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

en: Wind crust formation: Microsoft Kinect data


en: nitrogen carbon icp-forests swiss-forest-lab long-term-forest-ecosystem-research deadwood lignin

en: Data Request

en:
Sampling of deadwood for density and chemical analysis during summer 2009

 Purpose:

Determination of N and C pools of deadwood

 Paper Citation:

 * WEGGLER, K.; DOBBERTIN, M.; JÜNGLING, E.; KAUFMANN, E.; THÜRIG, E., 2012. Dead wood volume to dead wood carbon: the issue of conversion factors. European Journal of Forest Research 131, 1423-1438.

carbon

display_name: carbon

deadwood

display_name: deadwood

icp-forests

display_name: icp-forests

lignin

display_name: lignin

long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

display_name: long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

nitrogen

display_name: nitrogen

swiss-forest-lab

display_name: swiss-forest-lab

en: Deadwood sampling at Sanasilva and LWF sites


maintainer: Tobias Wechsler

en: ecosystem-protection decision-making hydropower gis integral-water-management

format: SHP

en: Indicators

en: The indicators capture supporting ecosystem functions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

decision-making

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ecosystem-protection

display_name: ecosystem-protection

gis

display_name: gis

hydropower

display_name: hydropower

integral-water-management

display_name: integral-water-management

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal


en: snow-hydrology forest-snow forest-canopy meteorological-data snow-modeling

en: Meterorological forcing

en: Mmeteorological forcing data for FSM2 at hourly resolution, corresponding to the location of the 5DF automatic weather station / snow measurement field 5DF. Data is available from 1 Sept 2015 to 21 Aug 2021 (WY 2016-21)

en: Surface data

en: Surface fields for model domain at 2m spatial resolution, including simulation domain, elevation, and canopy structure datasets

en: This dataset contains surface datasets (in particular canopy structure fields) and meteorological input (water years 2016-2021) required to run the snow model FSM2 over the Fluela valley. Land surface datasets are available for a 1.5x2.5km model domain at 2m spatial resolution, meteorological input at hourly resolution is provided for a point and corresponds to the location of the automatic weather station / snow measurement field 5DF in Davos. Corresponding FSM2 simulations are used and analyzed in the publication 'Canopy structure, topography and weather are equally important drivers of small-scale snow cover dynamics in sub-alpine forests' by Mazzotti et al. (submitted to HESSD). This publication should be cited whenever the dataset is used.

forest-canopy

display_name: forest-canopy

forest-snow

display_name: forest-snow

meteorological-data

display_name: meteorological-data

snow-hydrology

display_name: snow-hydrology

snow-modeling

display_name: snow-modeling

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: Input datasets for forest snow modelling in Fluela valley, WY 2016-21


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

en: Species-specific biomass per NFI site

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

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

en: R-Scripts for Figures and Data tables

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

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

en: Site Information

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

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

en: ReadMe

en: A detailed description of the data.

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

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

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

castanea-sativa

display_name: castanea-sativa

disturbance

display_name: disturbance

drought

display_name: drought

insect-outbreaks

display_name: insect-outbreaks

national-forest-inventory

display_name: national-forest-inventory

picea-abies

display_name: picea-abies

pinus-sylvestris

display_name: pinus-sylvestris

switzerland

display_name: switzerland

tree-recruitment

display_name: tree-recruitment

vegetation-shift

display_name: vegetation-shift

windthrow

display_name: windthrow

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

en: Effects of canopy disturbance on Swiss forests


maintainer: Matthias Haeni

en: meteorology wind-speed precipitation meteo temperature relative-humidity climate-change long-term par swiss-forest-lab

en: Site aerial photo (Alpthal)

en: Site aerial photo from the Alpthal forest station. Source: Google. 2016. Site aerial photo from the Alpthal forest station. Retrieved November 11, 2016, from https://www.google.ch/maps

mimetype: image/jpeg

en: Forest station data (ALB)

en: Data plot of the forest station (ALB)

en: Data overview for air temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, PAR, wind speed.

en: High quality meteorological data are needed for long-term forest ecosystem research, particularly in the light of global change. The long-term data series published here comprises almost 20 years of measurements for one meteorological station in Alpthal in Switzerland which is located within a natural coniferous forest (ALB) with Norway spruce (_Picea abies_; 180-230 yrs) as dominant tree species. The meteorological time series are presented in hourly time resolution of air temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and wind speed. Alpthal is part of the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF) established and maintained by the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL.

climate-change

display_name: climate-change

long-term

display_name: long-term

meteo

display_name: meteo

meteorology

display_name: meteorology

par

display_name: par

precipitation

display_name: precipitation

relative-humidity

display_name: relative-humidity

swiss-forest-lab

display_name: swiss-forest-lab

temperature

display_name: temperature

wind-speed

display_name: wind-speed

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Alpthal, Switzerland: Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF), from 1997 onwards


biomass-above-ground-of-live-trees

title_for_slug: biomass-above-ground-of-live-trees

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

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

accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest

display_name: accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest

biogeographical-region

display_name: biogeographical-region

biomass-above-ground-of-live-trees

display_name: biomass-above-ground-of-live-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: 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: Biomass above ground of live trees


maintainer: Loïc Pellissier Pellissier

en: alps elevation functional-traits environmental-gradients plant-herbivore-interactions community-indices herbivores-communities

en: Plant traits

en: Plant functional traits (SLA, LDMC, carbon and nitrogen content, punch strenght; averaged by species)

en: Vegetion surveys

en: Species inventories of plants

en: Orthoptera traits

en: Orthoptera functional traits (incisive mandibular strength averaged by species)

en: Study sites

en: Coordinates and elevation of the study sites

en: Orthoptera surveys

en: Species inventories of Orthoptera

en: Nematode surveys

en: Surveys of soil nematode along elevation

en: Despite the common role of above- and below-ground herbivore communities in mediating ecosystem functioning, our understanding of the variation of species communities along natural gradient is largely strongly biased toward aboveground organisms. This dataset enables to study the variations in assemblages of two dominant groups of herbivores, namely, aboveground orthoptera and belowground nematodes together with their food plants. Herbivores and plant surveys were conducted in 48 natural grasslands along six elevation gradients, selected to span the major macro-climatic and environmental conditions of the Swiss Alps. It compiles herbivores and plant surveys, information on the study sites as well as plant and herbivores functional traits sought to be involved in trophic interactions and to respond to climatic variation along the elevation. Plant functional traits considered are the SLA, the LDMC, the C/N content, the punch strength (i.e. force required to pierce the leave lamina), the mandibular strength for Orthoptera insect. Data were collected during the summer 2016 and 2017.

alps

display_name: alps

community-indices

display_name: community-indices

elevation

display_name: elevation

environmental-gradients

display_name: environmental-gradients

functional-traits

display_name: functional-traits

herbivores-communities

display_name: herbivores-communities

plant-herbivore-interactions

display_name: plant-herbivore-interactions

en: Above- and below-ground herbivore communities along elevation


en: range-dynamics paleo-environmental-modeling population-genetics geogenomics landscape-genetics process-based-modeling

en: Chamois occurrences

en: Coordinates (0.05° resolution) of chamois occurrences across the Alps. See Suppl. mat. Table S1 for more information and citation of the data sets used.

en: gen3sis simulations

en:
Scripts to run gen3sis simulations, including configs used for the publication.

1.2_gen3sis_input_generation.R creates the input files required for 2.2_gen3sis_simulation_chamois.R, which is running the gen3sis simulations.
 3_gen3sis_track_simulation_over_time.R and 4_gen3sis_divergence_sampling_locations.R can be used to start the analysis.

en: Metadata

en: Habitat suitability raster

en:
Habitat suitability raster stacks (.grd) files for different terrain slope scenarios use (see main publication its supporting information for details) for Northern chamois until 20,000 years BP in 100 year time steps.

 Description of layer names:
* prob: habitat suitability ranging continuously from 0 (unsuitable) to 1 (very well suitable).
*bin: binary classification of habitat suitability based on TSS threshold optimization (see main publication and supporting information for details).
*glm: generalized linear model (to model and predict habitat suitability)
*gam: generalized additive model
*gbm: generalized boosted regression model
*rf: random forest
*ensemble: average of all 4 model types

en: Genetic data Northern chamois across Alps

en: ddRADseq data (vcf file and sampling locations) of 449 Northern chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) sampled across the European Alps

en: Rivers and glaciers

en: Input rasters required to set up gen3sis simulations

en: Fossil records

en: Chamois fossil records with estimated time span and coordinates. Please see the sheet "references_data_sets" for the references and read the read_me.txt file prior to using the data.

en:
 General description

Genomic data, habitat suitability raster files and scripts to run gen3sis to simulate cumulative divergence over time as approximation for genetic differentiation. Scripts for basic analysis of the simulations (e.g., create distance matrix from sampling locations) are provided, too. See original publication (doi link will be provided after publication) for details. The study area are the European Alps.
All data is uploaded as zipped file. Unzip them after the download and put all data in one folder.
See linked publications for correct citation of the data used, use of the data without correct citation is not allowed.

Corresponding author: Flurin Leugger, email: flurin.leugger@gmail.com

 Description of the data (content of the different zip folders)

 Abiotic data

 Glaciers
Folders with raster stacks with glaciated areas at 0.05° resolution in WGS84 projection from Seguinot et al. (2018).
Seguinot, J., Ivy-Ochs, S., Jouvet, G., Huss, M., Funk, M., & Preusser, F. (2018). Modelling last glacial cycle ice dynamics in the Alps. _The Cryosphere, 12(10)_, 3265–3285. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3265-2018

 Rivers
* river_raster_elevation_class.tif: raster file (.tif) at 0.05° resolution and WGS84 projection with large rivers (scenario 2 from publication). The rivers (each cell) is classified according to the elevation of the cell.
Natural Earth. (2018). Rivers + lake centerlines version 4.1.0. Retrieved January 22, 2020, from https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-physical-vectors/50m-rivers-lake-centerlines
* river_raster_strahler_class_5km.tif: raster file at 0.05° resolution and WGS84 projection with medium rivers. The rivers are classified according to their Strahler order.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (2014). Rivers in Europe (Derived from HydroSHEDS). Retrieved January 29, 2020, from http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/fr/google.kml?uuid=e0243940-e5d9-487c-8102-45180cf1a99f&layers=AQUAMAPS:37253_rivers_europe

 Fossil records
* chamois_fossil_combined_public.xlsx: list with fossil records until 20,000 years BP from Central Europe, see linked references for citation.

 Chamois occurrences
* chamois_occurrence.csv: Chamois presences from all sources used for the publication (see Suppl. mat. Table S1 for detailed information and correct citations of the data) aggregated at 0.05° resolution (~5km).

 Gen3sis
* config: folders with all configuration files used to run the simulations for the publication (different dispersal divergence parameters).
* scripts: scripts (and helper functions) to run the gen3sis simulations including scripts for the beginning of the subsequent analysis.

 Genetic
* populations.snps.light.vcf: vcf file of the sampled Northern chamois _(Rupicapra rupicapra)_ . The genomic data encompasses 20k SNPs (from ddRAD sequencing).
* Sequencing_final_without_slovakia.txt: sampling locations of Northern chamois _(Rupicapra rupicapra)_

 HSM
* habitat_suitability_hindcasting: Aggregated habitat suitability raster files (stacks, .grd files) at 0.05° resolution and WGS84 projection from 20,000 years BP until today in 100 year time steps. There are separate folders for each environmental variable scenario used (different terrain slope variables) an the different occurrence/pseudo-absence sampling strategy used.
* ODMAP_LeuggerEtAl2021-10-25.csv: ODMAP protocol

geogenomics

display_name: geogenomics

landscape-genetics

display_name: landscape-genetics

paleo-environmental-modeling

display_name: paleo-environmental-modeling

population-genetics

display_name: population-genetics

process-based-modeling

display_name: process-based-modeling

range-dynamics

display_name: range-dynamics

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: Simulating population divergence of Northern chamois in the Alps based on habitat dynamics


lwf-novaggio-long-term-research-site

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

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

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

en: Novaggio Meteorological Data LWF

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

LWF Plot Novaggio

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

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

forest

display_name: forest

infrastructure

display_name: infrastructure

lwf

display_name: lwf

meteorological-data

display_name: meteorological-data

meteorological-measurements

display_name: meteorological-measurements

plot

display_name: plot

swiss-forest-lab

display_name: swiss-forest-lab

en: LWF Novaggio long-term research site


en: catchment-data snowpack meteorological-data snow-hydrology rain-on-snow

en: The file contains all data needed to run simulations with the snow cover model SNOWPACK.

en: Meteorological data used to run SNOWPACK for 58 catchments in the Swiss Alps. The data consists of a 2 km grid of "virtual meteorological stations" for each catchment. It was used to simulate snow cover processes during rain-on-snow events, therefore meteorological data of each catchment contains at least one rain-on-snow event. Further information can be found in the attached readme.txt and in Würzer & Jonas et al. (2017), currently under review in Hydrological Processes.

catchment-data

display_name: catchment-data

rain-on-snow

display_name: rain-on-snow

snow-hydrology

display_name: snow-hydrology

snowpack

display_name: snowpack

en: Meteorological data for investigation of rain-on-snow events in 58 catchments in Switzerland


tdr-pfynwald

title_for_slug: tdr-pfynwald

en: swiss-forest-lab irrigation long-term-forest-ecosystem-research icp-forests soil-water-content

en: Data Request

en:
Continuous measurement of soil water content at one control and

in one irrigated plot in 10, 40 and 60 cm depth (4 replications) with TDR (Tektronix

1502B cable tester, Beaverton, OR, US).

 Purpose:

Monitoring of the soil water content

 Paper Citation:

 * Dobbertin, M.; Eilmann, B.; Bleuler, P.; Giuggiola, A.; Graf Pannatier, E.; Landolt, W.; Schleppi, P.; Rigling, A., 2010: Effect of irrigation on needle morphology, shoot and stem growth in a drought-exposed Pinus sylvestris forest. Tree Physiology, 30, 3: 346-360. [doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpp123](http://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpp123)

icp-forests

display_name: icp-forests

irrigation

display_name: irrigation

long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

display_name: long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

soil-water-content

display_name: soil-water-content

en: TDR Pfynwald


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

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

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


en: snow-instability avalanche-danger danger-level snow avalanche avalanche-forecasting

en: Read-me file

en: This read-me file contains the descriptions of the variables.

en: Field observations of snow instabilities

en:
This data set includes 589 snow profile observations including a rutschblock test, observations of signs of instability and an assessment of the local avalanche danger level, mainly recorded in the region of Davos (eastern Swiss Alps) during the winter seasons 2001-2002 to 2018-2019.

These data were analyzed and results published by Schweizer et al. (2021). They characterized the avalanche danger levels based on signs of instability (whumpfs, shooting cracks, recent avalanches), snow stability class and new snow height.

The data are provided in a csv file (589 records); the variables are described in the corresponding read-me file.

These data are the basis of the following publication: Schweizer, J., Mitterer, C., Reuter, B., and Techel, F.: Avalanche danger level characteristics from field observations of snow instability, Cryosphere, 15, 3293-3315, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-3293-2021, 2021.

 Acknowlegements
Many of the data were recorded by SLF observers and staff members, among those Roland Meister, Stephan Harvey, Lukas Dürr, Marcia Phillips, Christine Pielmeier and Thomas Stucki. Their contribution is gratefully acknowledged.

avalanche

display_name: avalanche

avalanche-danger

display_name: avalanche-danger

avalanche-forecasting

display_name: avalanche-forecasting

danger-level

display_name: danger-level

snow

display_name: snow

snow-instability

display_name: snow-instability

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: biodiversity statistical-interpolation climate-change ecology forest radiation-transfer microclimate

en: Predicted microclimate air temperatures at 5 cm above ground. 10 m spatial resolution raster files are provided for mean daily minimum (tmin), mean (tmean) and maximum (tmax) temperatures during each month from April (04) to October (10) over the period between 2012 to 2021.

en: Predicted microclimate air temperatures at 100 cm above ground. 10 m spatial resolution raster files are provided for mean daily minimum (tmin), mean (tmean) and maximum (tmax) temperatures during each month from April (04) to October (10) over the period between 2012 to 2021.

en: Predicted microclimate topsoil temperatures at 5 cm below ground. 10 m spatial resolution raster files are provided for mean daily minimum (tmin), mean (tmean) and maximum (tmax) temperatures during each month from April (04) to October (10) over the period between 2012 to 2021.

en: Climate data matching the scales at which organisms experience climatic conditions are often missing. Yet, such data on microclimatic conditions are required to better understand climate-change impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Here we combine a national network of microclimate temperature measurements with a novel radiative transfer model to map monthly minimum, mean and maximum temperatures during the vegetation period at a 10 meter spatial resolution across Switzerland. The temperature measurements took place in 107 sampling plots distributed across different habitat types, with 62 plots in forests, 22 below trees outside forests, and 23 in open grasslands. In each plot we measured temperature in the topsoil (-5cm), as well as in the air at 5cm and 100cm height above ground. Spatial interpolation was achieved by using a hybrid approach based on linear mixed effects models with input from detailed radiation estimates that account for topographic and vegetation shading, as well as other predictor variables related to the macroclimate, topography and vegetation height. Our data reveals strong horizontal and vertical variability in microclimate temperature, particularly for maximum temperatures at 5 cm above the ground and within the topsoil. Compared to macroclimate conditions as measured by weather stations outside forests, diurnal air and topsoil temperature ranges inside forests were reduced by up to 3.0 and 7.8 °C, respectively, while below trees outside forests, e.g. in hedges and below solitary trees, this buffering effect was 1.8 and 7.2 °C. We also found that in open grasslands, maximum temperatures at 5 cm above ground are on average 3.4 °C warmer than that of macroclimate, suggesting that in such habitats heat exposure close to the ground is often underestimated when using macroclimatic data. After accounting for macroclimate effects, microclimate patterns were primarily driven by radiation, with particularly strong effects on maximum temperatures. Results from spatial block cross-validation revealed predictive accuracies as measured by RSME’s ranging from 1.18 to 3.43 °C, with minimum temperatures generally being predicted more accurately than maximum temperatures. The microclimate maps presented here enable a more biologically relevant perspective when analysing climate-species interactions, which is expected to lead to a better understanding of biotic and ecosystem responses to climate and land use change.

climate-change

display_name: climate-change

ecology

display_name: ecology

forest

display_name: forest

microclimate

display_name: microclimate

radiation-transfer

display_name: radiation-transfer

statistical-interpolation

display_name: statistical-interpolation

en: Monthly topsoil and near surface microclimate temperature data for Switzerland


maintainer: Mahdi Jafari

en: vapor-transport convection-in-snow numerical-simulation snow-density-profile openfoam

en: snowpackBuoyantPimpleFoam

en:
This zipped folder includes (1) the source code files, (2) an example case for simulation, and (3) an instruction how to compile and use the new solver.

Note that the most updated version of snowpackBuoyantPimpleFoam can be found in the WSL/SLF GitLab repository: https://gitlabext.wsl.ch/snow-models/snowpackbuoyantpimplefoam

en: snowpackBuoyantPimpleFoam is a two-phase solver implemented to model convection of water vapor with phase change in snowpacks. This new solver is based on the standard solver of buoyantPimpleFoam in the open-source fluid dynamics software, OpenFOAM 5.0 (www.openfoam.org).

convection-in-snow

display_name: convection-in-snow

numerical-simulation

display_name: numerical-simulation

openfoam

display_name: openfoam

snow-density-profile

display_name: snow-density-profile

vapor-transport

display_name: vapor-transport

en: snowpackBuoyantPimpleFoam: an OpenFOAM Eulerian–Eulerian two-phase solver for modelling convection of water vapor in snowpacks