en: forest-persistence spatial-modelling urban-morphology forest-gain urban-compactness nature-conservation planning-outcome built-up-classification topography basic-services urban-sprawl land-use-and-cover-change

en: isolated

en: New built-up pixels classified as isolated

format: GeoTIFF

en: Native forest cover persistence from 2005 to 2015

en: Mean income in Reais (R$) per census sector (change per year)

en: Master plan Ubatuba (zones)

en: Increase in waste collection service

en: Permanent housing density increase

en: Descricao dos dados em portiuguês

en: Portugues description

en: infill

en: New built-up pixels classified as infill

en: Master plan Ihabela (zones)

format: SHP

en: Population density per pixel (change per year)

en: Native forest cover gains from 2005 to 2015

en: Urban persistence: Built-up 2005 = Built-up 2015

en: Increase in clean water provision service

en: Ecological-Economic Zoning (EEZ)

en: slope

en: Slope °

en: Topographic Index Position (TPI)

en: Variables description

en: Table of content. Variables description, source, and other important information

en: Axial

en: New built-up pixels classified as axial

en: Increase in sanitation service

en: Increase in Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

en: Human Development Index (HDI) per municipality (change per year)

en:
Basic education in % per census sector (change per
year)

en:
The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper entitled “The role of spatial planning in land change: An assessment of urban planning and nature conservation efficiency at the southeastern coast of Brazil” (Pierri Daunt, Inostroza and Hersperger, 2021). In this work, we evaluated the conformance of stated spatial planning goals and the outcomes in terms of urban compactness, basic services and housing provision, and nature conservation for different land-use strategies. We evaluate the 2005 Ecological-Economic Zoning (EEZ) and two municipal master plans from 2006 in a coastal region in São Paulo State, Brazil. We used Partial Least Squares Path Modelling (PLS-PM) to explain the relationship between the plan strategies and land-use change ten years after implementation in terms of urban compactness, basic services and housing increase, and nature conservation.

We acquired the data for the explanatory variables from different sources listed on Table 1. Since the model is spatially explicit, all input data were transformed to a 30 m resolution raster. Regarding the evaluated spatial plans, we acquired the zones limits from the São Paulo State Environmental Planning Division (CPLA-SP), Ilhabela and Ubatuba municipality.

1)	Land use and cover data: Urban persistence, Urban axial, Urban infill, Urban Isolates, Forest cover persistence, Forest cover gain, NDVI increase

We acquired two Landsat Collection 1 Higher-Level Surface Reflectance images distributed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), covering the entire study area (paths 76 and 77, row 220, WRS-2 reference system, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/). We classified one image acquired by the Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) sensor on 2005-05-150, and one image from the Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) sensor from 2015-08-15. We collected 100 samples for forest cover, 100 samples for built-up cover and 100 samples for other classes. We then classified these three classes of land cover at each image date using the Support Vector Machine (SVM) supervised algorithm (Hsu et al., 2003), using ENVI 5.0 software.

Land-use and land-cover changes from 2005 to 2015 were quantified using map algebra, by mathematically adding them together in pairs (10*LULC2015 + LULC2005). We reclassified the LULC data into forest gain (conversion of any 2005 LULC to forest cover in 2015); forest persistence (2005 forested pixels that remained forested in 2015); new built-up area (conversion of any 2005 LULC to built-up in 2015); and urban maintenance (2005 built-up pixels that remained built-up in 2015).

To describe the spatial configuration of the urban expansion, we classified the new built-up areas into axial, infill and isolated, following Inostroza et al. (2013) (For details, please refer to Supplementary Material I at the original publication).

The NDVI was obtained from the same source used for the LULC data. With the Google Engine platform, we used an annual average for the best pixels (without clouds) for 2005 and 2015, and we calculated the changes between dates. We used increases of > 0.2 NDVI to represent an improvement in forest quality.

2)	Federal Census data organization: Urban Basic Services and Housing indicator, socioeconomic and population:

The data used to infer the values of basic services provision, socioeconomic and population drivers was derived from the Brazilian National Census data (IBGE, 2000 and 2010). Population density, permanent housing unit density, mean income, basic education, and the percentage of houses receiving waste collection, sanitation and water provision services, called basic services in the context of this study, were calculated per 30 m pixel. The Human Development Index is only available at the municipality level. We attributed the HDI for the vector file with the municipality border, and we rasterized (30 m resolution) this file in QGIS. Annual rates of change were then calculated to allow comparability between LULC periods. To infer the BSH, we used only areas with an increase in permanent housing density and basic services provision (See Supplementary Material I at the original publication).

3)	Topographic drivers

To infer the values of the topographic driver, we used the slope data and the Topographic Index Position (TPI) based on the digital elevation model from SRTM (30 m resolution) produced by ALOS (freely available at eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/about/about_index.htm), and both variables were considered constant from 2005 to 2015 (See Supplementary Material I at the original publication).

basic-services

display_name: basic-services

built-up-classification

display_name: built-up-classification

forest-gain

display_name: forest-gain

forest-persistence

display_name: forest-persistence

land-use-and-cover-change

display_name: land-use-and-cover-change

nature-conservation

display_name: nature-conservation

planning-outcome

display_name: planning-outcome

spatial-modelling

display_name: spatial-modelling

topography

display_name: topography

urban-compactness

display_name: urban-compactness

urban-morphology

display_name: urban-morphology

en: Spatially explicit data to evaluate spatial planning outcomes in a coastal region in São Paulo State, Brazil


litterfall-lwf

title_for_slug: litterfall-lwf

en: swiss-forest-lab nutrient-content long-term-forest-ecosystem-research litterfall foliage-production fruit-production branches icp-forests

state: active

type: dataset

en: Data Request

format: SERVICE

en:
Litterfall is a key parameter in the biogeochemical cycle of forest ecosystems, linking the tree part to the soil compartment. Litterfall has been collected on 15 LWF plots using 10 traps that are emptied every 4 to 8 weeks since 1996 or later. Both the biomass of the litter and its chemical content (including heavy metals) are measured, in order to quantify the annual return of nutrients and organic matter to the soil. Furthermore, the analysis of the temporal pattern of litterfall production gives insight into possible effects of anthropogenic and natural factors (e.g. severe drought) on the ecosystem and the vitality of the forest stand, provides information on the phenological development of the stand, and, in particular, allows mast years to be identified. At 7 broadleaved sites, litterfall was also used to estimate the leaf area index (LAI) of the forest stand.

 Purpose:

To quantify the annual return of nutrients and organic matter to the soil.

 Manual Citation:

 * Thimonier, A., Brang, P., Ottiger, A., 1997. Kapitel C5. Streufall, in: Brang, P. (Ed.), Aufnahmeanleitungen aller Forschungsprojekte auf Flächen der Langfristigen Waldökosystem-Forschung (LWF). Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL, Birmensdorf, pp. 1-18.

 * Ukonmaanaho L., Pitman R, Bastrup-Birk A, Breda N, Rautio P, 2016: Part XIII: Sampling and Analysis of Litterfall. In: UNECE ICP Forests Programme Co-ordinating Centre (ed.): Manual on methods and criteria for harmonized sampling, assessment, monitoring and analysis of the effects of air pollution on forests. Thünen Institute for Forests Ecosystems, Eberswalde, Germany, 14 p. + Annex [http://icp-forests.net/page/icp-forests-manual](http://icp-forests.net/page/icp-forests-manual)

 Paper Citation:

 * Thimonier A, Sedivy I, Schleppi P (2010) Estimating leaf area index in different types of mature forest stands in Switzerland: a comparison of methods. European Journal of Forest Research, 129 (4): 543-562. [doi: 10.1007/s10342-009-0353-8](http://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-009-0353-8 )

branches

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foliage-production

display_name: foliage-production

fruit-production

display_name: fruit-production

icp-forests

display_name: icp-forests

litterfall

display_name: litterfall

long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

display_name: long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

nutrient-content

display_name: nutrient-content

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: Litterfall LWF


maintainer: Varun Sharma

en: antarctica mesoscale-modelling snow-atmosphere-interaction alps blowing-snow

media_type: application/zip

en:
REPRODUCIBILITY_POSTPROCESSING.zip contains data and scripts used to produce all figures from for the associated manuscript submitted for peer review ( see section on Citations below )

The folders stand for the three case studies presented in the manuscript. Two case studies (case Ia and case Ib) are on simulations in Antarctica and one case study
case II is for simulations in the Alps.

The associated data in the form of netcdf files or text files were produced using CRYOWRF v1.0

Apart from reproducibility, the intention of sharing these scripts is also to make it easy for new users to adopt CRYOWRF and be efficient, in particular in processing snowpack outputs.

The scripts were tested on multiple machines (different OSes) with the attached YAML file (wrf_analysis.yml) to setup the conda environment. All scripts were run using spyder as the IDE.

format: ZIP

en: REPRODUCIBILITY_SIMULATION.zip contains all the extraneous files required to perform the simulations in associated manuscript (see Citations 3 in README.txt). The purpose of sharing these files apart from purposes of reproducibility is to also serve as templates for users to learn the workflow of CRYOWRF and perform simulations for their own purposes.

en:
This repository contains data required for reproducibility of the results to be published in the associated manuscript.

Apart from reproducibility, the attached datasets also serve as templates for new users to adopt CRYOWRF in their research.

The datasets consist of two folders organized in zip format:

1. REPRODUCIBILITY_SIMULATION:
  Consists of namelists for WPS, WRF and SNOWPACK to reproduce simulations published in the manuscript
  Additional files include datasets (from IMAU-FDM / RACMO, see "credits" below ) as well as helper python scripts to
  produce *.sno files
  which are used as initial conditions for SNOWPACK in CRYOWRF.

2. REPRODUCIBILITY_POSTPROCESSING:
   Includes outputs of CRYOWRF and python scripts used to prepare figures in the manuscript.

Each of the folders have their own readme files for more details.

 Code
citation: Varun Sharma. (2021, July 2). vsharma-next/CRYOWRF: CRYOWRF v1.0 (Version v1.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5060165

location: https://gitlabext.wsl.ch/atmospheric-models/CRYOWRF   (stable releases / institutional repo)
        https://github.com/vsharma-next/CRYOWRF            (dev branches / developer repo)

 Publication
**Introducing CRYOWRF v1.0: Multiscale atmospheric flow simulations with advanced snow cover modelling.**
Varun Sharma, Fraziska Gerber and Michael Lehning, Submitted to Geoscientific Model Development

 Acknowledgements
We thank Peter Kuipers Munneke (P.KuipersMunneke@uu.nl) for preparing and sharing outputs of IMAU-FDM and RACMO used for initial conditions for case Ia. The relevant citations for the methods through which these datasets were generated are:

* Kuipers Munneke, P., S. R. M. Ligtenberg, B. P. Y. Noël, I. M. Howat, J. E. Box, E. Mosley-Thompson, J. R. McConnell, K. Steffen, J. T. Harper, S. B. Das and M. R. van den Broeke. 2015. Elevation change of the Greenland ice sheet due to surface mass balance and firn processes, 1960-2014. The Cryosphere, 9, 2009-2025. doi:10.5194/tc-9-2009-2015

 * Ligtenberg, S. R. M., P. Kuipers Munneke, B. P. Y. Noël, and M. R. van den Broeke. 2018. Brief communication: Improved simulation of the present-day Greenland firn layer (1960-2016). The Cryosphere, 12, doi:10.5194/tc-12-1643-2018

alps

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antarctica

display_name: antarctica

blowing-snow

display_name: blowing-snow

mesoscale-modelling

display_name: mesoscale-modelling

snow-atmosphere-interaction

display_name: snow-atmosphere-interaction

en: Reproducibility Dataset for CRYOWRF v1.0


maintainer: EnviDat Support

en: pore-water landslides landslide-testsite pressure-perturbations cces tramm

en: TRAMM Ruedlingen data

en: TRAMM project data from the Ruedlingen site (exp 1 + 2). Measured parameters include soil suction, water level, soil volumetric water content, rain intensity, and soil temperature.

mimetype: application/zip

en:
A landslide testsite dataset related to pore water pressure perturbations on the stability of unsaturated silty sand slopes leading to the initiation and propagation of the shear deformations and eventual rapid mass movements. This project was initiated and led by the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering (IGT) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and was incorporated in a Swiss national (TRAMM) and a European Union (SafeLand) multidisciplinary research project. Field site: The experimental slope is 7.5 m wide by 35 m long, located in the Swiss lowlands on an east facing slope over-looking the river Rhine, at an altitude of ~ 350 masl. Originally there were forestry covertures of circa 80%, heights of 5-20 m. Shrubs up to 1-5 m high and a free herb layer covered ~ 50% of the surface. The average gradient was determined to be from 38° to 43° with a slightly concave surface. The underlying rock consists mainly of Molasse, which is formed by alternate layers of sea deposits under the Tethys Sea (Seawater Molasse) and land deposits (Freshwater Molasse). Several augured samples, as well as an outcrop of the bedrock about 20 m above the selected field, revealed horizontal layering of fine grained sand- and marlstone at the test site. The sandstone was later proven to be highly permeable and fissured. Grain-size distributions were determined and the soil was classified as medium-low plasticity silty sand. Site instrumentation:Measurements of soil suction, groundwater level, soil volumetric water content, rain intensity and soil temperature were taken and combined with geophysical monitoring using Electrical Resistance Tomography (ERT) and investigations into subsurface flow by means of tracer experiments. Deformations were monitored during the experiment, both on the surface via photogrammetrical methods and within the soil mass, using a flexible probe equipped with strain gauges at different points and two axis inclinometers on the top and acoustic sensors. Instruments were installed mainly in three clusters at depths of 15, 30, 60, 90, 120, and 150 cm below the ground surface over the slope, including jet-fill tensiometers, TDRs, Decagon TDRs, piezometers, soil temperature sensors, deformation probes, earth pressure cells, acoustic sensors and rain gauges. A ring-net barrier (provided by Geobrugg AG) was set up at the foot of the slope to protect the road. Experiments: A sprinkling experiment was carried out in September 2008 to investigate the hydrological and mechanical response of the slope (Experiment 1), followed by a second one to trigger a landslide in March 2009 (Experiment 2).

Publications

1. Lehmann, P., F. Gambazzi, B. Suski, L. Baron, A. Askarinejad, S. M. Springman, K. Holliger, and D. Or (2013), Evolution of soil wetting patterns preceding a hydrologically induced landslide inferred from electrical resistivity survey and point measurements of volumetric water content and pore water pressure, Water Resour. Res., 49, 7992–8004, doi:[10.1002/2013WR014560](http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013WR014560).

2. Springman, S. M., Kienzler, P., Casini, F., & Askarinejad, A. (2009). Landslide triggering experiment in a steep forested slope in Switzerland. In 17th International Conference of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Alexandria, Egypt (pp. 1698-1701). doi: [10.3233/978-1-60750-031-5-1698](http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-031-5-1698)

cces

display_name: cces

landslide-testsite

display_name: landslide-testsite

landslides

display_name: landslides

pore-water

display_name: pore-water

pressure-perturbations

display_name: pressure-perturbations

tramm

display_name: tramm

en: TRAMM project Ruedlingen experimental landslide dataset, Switzerland


mountain-permafrost-hydrology

maintainer: Jeannette Noetzli

title_for_slug: mountain-permafrost-hydrology

en: mountain-permafrost-hydrology climate-change-impacts monitoring-techniques ice-rich-permafrost permafrost-degradation mass-movements

en: Synthesis report chapter of the Hydro-CH2018 project of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)

media_type: application/pdf

format: PDF

en: DORA Persistent URL

en: This report was prepared as one of the synthesis report chapters of the Hydro-CH2018 project of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). In earlier reports such as the CH2014-IMPACTS report (CH-Impacts 2014), the topic of mountain permafrost hydrology was not addressed. Here, we provide a baseline of the available knowledge of mountain permafrost in the Swiss Alps for future reference. We compile an overview of the current understanding of mountain permafrost in the Swiss Alps, its distribution and characteristics, observed and projected changes, and expected impacts on slope stability, infrastructure and hydrological aspects. We also briefly describe the measurement techniques and modelling approaches applied. The chapter closes with a summary of the most important open research questions. The literature cited mainly includes studies on mountain permafrost published in scientific journals and assessments of long-term observation data. We focus on permafrost hydrology interactions wherever information is available. However, systematic studies on permafrost hydrology in mountain areas are still limited.

climate-change-impacts

display_name: climate-change-impacts

ice-rich-permafrost

display_name: ice-rich-permafrost

mass-movements

display_name: mass-movements

monitoring-techniques

display_name: monitoring-techniques

mountain-permafrost-hydrology

display_name: mountain-permafrost-hydrology

permafrost-degradation

display_name: permafrost-degradation

en: Mountain Permafrost Hydrology


maintainer: Matthias Haeni

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

en: Site aerial photo (Visp)

en: Site aerial photo from both Visp stations. Source: Google. 2016. Site aerial photo from both Visp stations. Retrieved November 11, 2016, from https://www.google.ch/maps

mimetype: image/jpeg

en: Field station data (VSF)

media_type: text/csv

en: Data file.

format: CSV

mimetype: text/csv

en: Forest station data (VSB)

en: Data plot of the forest station (VSB)

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

mimetype: application/pdf

en: Site photo of the field station (VSF)

en: Site photo of the field station from the side.

en: Site photo of the forest station (VSB)

en: Site photo of the forest station from below (viewing upwards the slope).

en: Data plot of the field station (VSF)

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 two meteorological stations in Visp in Switzerland where one station is located within a natural mixed forest stand (VSB) with Scots pine (_Pinus sylvestris_; 40-80 yrs) as dominant tree species. A second station is situated in the very vicinity outside of the forest (field station, VSF). The meteorological time series are presented in hourly time resolution of air temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and wind speed. Visp 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

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


en: deadwood swiss-forest-lab icp-forests coarse-woody-debris long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

en: Data Request

en:
Assessment of coarse woody debris on LWF plots using the line intersect method

 Purpose:

Assessing the amount of coarse woody debris

 Manual Citation:

 * Matthias Dobbertin, Nathalie Bretz Guby, 1997: Totholz. In: Peter Brang (ed.) LWF Aufnahmeanleitung. Langfristige Waldökosystem-Forschung LWF, Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL, Birmensdorf, 5 S.

 Paper Citation:

 * Bretz Guby, N.A., Dobbertin, M., 1996. Quantitative estimates of coarse woody debris and standing dead trees in selected Swiss forests. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. Lett. 5, 327-341.

coarse-woody-debris

display_name: coarse-woody-debris

deadwood

display_name: deadwood

icp-forests

display_name: icp-forests

long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

display_name: long-term-forest-ecosystem-research

en: Deadwood survey LWF 1995 - line intersect


en: soil-moisture-water-content long-term-monitoring soil-water-potential swiss-forest-lab long-term-forest-ecosystem-research wdb

en: Data request

en:
Since 2001 soil water content and soil water potential are measured in 40 plots of the *[Intercantonal Forest Observation Program](https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/interkantonale-walddauerbeobachtung-wdb)*. Soil water content and soil water potential is measured in hourly resolution in 3 depths according to the soil horizons.

The following parameters about soil water balance are measured:

 * Volumetric soil water content (SMT-100, Truebner)
 * Soil water potential (TEROS21, METER)

More information about the analytical methods and results can be found in *[Braun et al. (2021)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5724756)*.

long-term-monitoring

display_name: long-term-monitoring

soil-moisture-water-content

display_name: soil-moisture-water-content

soil-water-potential

display_name: soil-water-potential

wdb

display_name: wdb

en: Soil moisture and soil water potential measurements of the Intercantonal Forest Observation Program


en: icecube microct specific-surface-area snow intercomparison

en: Influence of black carbon on the measurement of the specific surface of snow with the near infrared method - Philipp Baumann

en: These experiments investigate different possible errors by measuring the specific surface area (SSA) of snow with the near infrared method. The influence of black carbon on this measurement was disproved, the theory was therefore validated. It shows that sunlight has no influence on the measurement with the IceCube. Wind drift snow as thin layer on the sample can increase the measured value of the specific surface by a few percent. This could be part of the error, observed in former measurements at SLF. As reference for the measured SSA values with the near infrared method, computer tomography was used to verify the SSA values.

en: TARTES simulations

en: Jupyter notebook with TARTES simulations.

en: SMP measurement files for snow types A, B, C and D.

en: Statistics of samples

format: XLS

en: IceCube and MicroCT data

en: The file contains all micro-CT and IC measurements for snow types A, B, C, D and E used in our study. All samples were processed (and stored) in a cold laboratory at -15°C.

en: The file contains all data for the plot in figure 1 of the co-located density and SSA measurement at Summit, Greenland in May 2015, conducted by Schneebeli, Proksch, Schmid.

en: Grain survey of snow particles

en: The file contains all measurements of the artificial particles for snow types A, B, C, D and E, including the artificial particle mass in the Petri dish.

en: artificial_snow_data set

en: The file contains all micro-CT and IC measurements of the artificial snow data set. The data set was originally produced to investigate the influence of black carbon on SSA measurements.

en: The specific surface area (SSA) of different snow types were measured with the IceCube instrument and the Scanco Medical microCT 40. In addition, the snow particles created during the preparation of IceCube samples were counted. The difference in SSA between these instruments is explained by the formation of the surface particles. A numerical simulation using TARTES simulation support the observations.

icecube

display_name: icecube

intercomparison

display_name: intercomparison

microct

display_name: microct

snow

display_name: snow

specific-surface-area

display_name: specific-surface-area


total-stem-number

title_for_slug: total-stem-number

en:
Number of stems of all living and dead trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh.

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

accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest

display_name: accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest

altitudinal-vegetation-zone

display_name: altitudinal-vegetation-zone

biogeographical-region

display_name: biogeographical-region

canton

display_name: canton

conifers-broadleaves

display_name: conifers-broadleaves

degree-of-damage

display_name: degree-of-damage

economic-region

display_name: economic-region

giants

display_name: giants

lower-higher-altitudinal-zones

display_name: lower-higher-altitudinal-zones

main-tree-species

display_name: main-tree-species

ownership

display_name: ownership

production-region

display_name: production-region

protection-forest-region

display_name: protection-forest-region

total-stem-number

display_name: total-stem-number

tree-state-alive-dead

display_name: tree-state-alive-dead

tree-status

display_name: tree-status

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: Total stem number


en: snow-water-equivalent snow snow-height gcos snow-profile

en: DATA ACCESS

en: STATION METADATA

media_type: text/plain

format: TXT

mimetype: text/plain

en: Snowprofile from 11 observer sites in Switzerland compiled for the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). Height of snow (cm) and snow water equivalent (mm) are recorded every 2 weeks since the 1947 (depending on station). Attached metadata file gives details of each station.

gcos

display_name: gcos

snow

display_name: snow

snow-height

display_name: snow-height

snow-profile

display_name: snow-profile

snow-water-equivalent

display_name: snow-water-equivalent

en: GCOS SWE data from 11 stations in Switzerland


biomass-of-lying-dead-wood-lis

title_for_slug: biomass-of-lying-dead-wood-lis

en:
Dry weight (mass) of lying deadwood starting at 7 cm in diameter that does not fulfil the criteria for a tally tree (measurement location of dbh not identifiable or the dbh is less than 12cm).

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

accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest

display_name: accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest

biogeographical-region

display_name: biogeographical-region

biomass-of-lying-dead-wood-lis

display_name: biomass-of-lying-dead-wood-lis

canton

display_name: canton

en: Biomass of lying dead wood (LIS)


en: traits assisted-migration fagus-sylvatica-subsp-orientalis spectroscopy species-classification assisted-gene-flow predictive-provenancing fagus-sylvatica-l

en: Wäldi spectral and traits data

en: Orietnal and European beech leaf spectral and trait data for top and bottom of canopy leaves

en: Wäldi genetic data

en: Allenwiller genetic data

en: Allenwiller spectral and traits data

en: The dataset includes leaf spectroscopy, leaf traits and genetic data for oriental and european beech trees at two mature forest sites (Allenwiller in France and Wäldi in Switzerland) sampled in summer 2021 and 2022 for top and bottom of canopy leaves.

assisted-gene-flow

display_name: assisted-gene-flow

assisted-migration

display_name: assisted-migration

fagus-sylvatica-l

display_name: fagus-sylvatica-l

fagus-sylvatica-subsp-orientalis

display_name: fagus-sylvatica-subsp-orientalis

predictive-provenancing

display_name: predictive-provenancing

species-classification

display_name: species-classification

spectroscopy

display_name: spectroscopy

traits

display_name: traits

en: Oriental and European beech spectral, traits and genetics data


maintainer: Irmi Seidl

en: community-energy cooperatives switzerland energy-cooperatives renewable-energy

en: Questionnaire with variable names

en: Modified questionnaire with variable names for each item. Should be used together with the data files (.csv or .sav) to reconstruct the data and variable structures.

en: Codebook

en: Description of variable attributes and valid n

en: Raw date (SPSS)

en: Raw data in sav. format (SPSS). For comprehension of the data and variable structure, please consult the modified questionnaire with variable names.

en: Raw data (.csv)

en: Raw data in csv. format. For comprehension of the data and variable structure, please consult the codebook and the modified questionnaire with variable names.

en:
 Topic of Survey
The data at hand on energy cooperatives in Switzerland were collected in 2016 as part of the project "Collective financing of renewable energy projects in Switzerland and Germany" of the National Research Programme 71 "Managing Energy Consumption". The cooperatives were surveyed on their organizational structure, their activities in electricity and heat generation, their finances, the political context and their assessments of the future.

 Survey Method
The survey was targeted at all energy cooperatives in Switzerland (this is the basic population). The Swiss Commercial Register was searched for cooperatives and specific keywords in order to determine this basic population and collect addresses. This search in May 2016 resulted in a total of 304 energy cooperatives, to which a questionnaire was sent in July 2016. A pre-test with 8 persons had been carried out before the questionnaire was sent out. The questionnaire was provided in German and French. It was sent by mail and an attached letter referred to a link for the digital version if preferred. The online version was designed with the software "Sawtooth". After three weeks, a first, and after six weeks a second reminder letter was sent to those cooperatives that had not yet completed the questionnaire. The returned hardcopy questionnaires were manually entered into the database and then combined with the electronic data from the online survey. In the course of the survey, the total population was reduced from 304 to 289: in 4 cases the survey was not deliverable, 4 cooperatives had dissolved, 6 were not actually energy cooperatives, 1 case had recently changed its legal form. With a response rate of 47%, the final data set comprises 136 responses (from 77 digital and 59 hardcopy questionnaires). However, not all 136 of the returned questionnaires were filled out completely. We checked for answers that seemed contradictory or incomprehensible. If an error could be clearly identified and the correct answer derived, the answer was adjusted, otherwise the answer was replaced by "missing data".

 Anonymization
Participating cooperatives have been assured that their information will be kept confidential and will only be made public anonymously. For this reason, the data have been anonymized in in order to prevent any identification of individual cooperatives.

 How to Use the Data
* The data are available in CSV and SPSS (sav.) format.
* A codebook and a modified version of the used questionnaire are provided to illustrate the data and variable structure. In the questionnaire, the variable names are assigned to the corresponding questions. In the codebook, further information on these variables (valid n, answer categories) can be found. This information (of the codebook) is already integrated in the SPSS file.

 Current Embargo on Data
These data are currently under embargo and will only be released when the project is completed (not before 2020).

#Additional Information
* The used questionnaire is provided in German and French.
* Descriptive results of the survey were published in a WSL report: https://www.dora.lib4ri.ch/wsl/islandora/object/wsl:18943

community-energy

display_name: community-energy

cooperatives

display_name: cooperatives

energy-cooperatives

display_name: energy-cooperatives

renewable-energy

display_name: renewable-energy

switzerland

display_name: switzerland

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: Energy Cooperatives in Switzerland: Survey Results // Energiegenossenschaften in der Schweiz: Befragungsergebnisse


experimental-rockfall-trilogy-of-surava

title_for_slug: experimental-rockfall-trilogy-of-surava

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

en: In situ sensor data original forest

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

en: In situ sensor data deadwood

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

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

en: GNSS-deposition points of all experimental runs

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

en: In situ sensor data cleared area

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

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

en: ReleasePoint

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

en: StoneNode Data Analysis Surava

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

en: Standing trees after forest management intervention

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

acceleration

display_name: acceleration

deposition-points

display_name: deposition-points

forest

display_name: forest

gnss

display_name: gnss

gyroscope

display_name: gyroscope

in-situ

display_name: in-situ

induced-rockfall

display_name: induced-rockfall

lying-deadwood

display_name: lying-deadwood

rockfall

display_name: rockfall

en: Experimental rockfall trilogy of Surava


en: forest-ecosystems abstracts conference adaptation genomics evoltree

en: Book of Abstracts

en:
The first EVOLTREE Conference, taking place in hybrid format (on-site and online) at WSL Birmensdorf (Switzerland) from 14-17 September, 2021, focuses on the genomics of trees and interacting species from evolutionary, demographic, and ecological perspectives.

EVOLTREE is a European network of institutions engaged in studying the evolution and functioning of forest ecosystems, in particular trees as the foundation species in forest stands. A prime topic in the face of ongoing climate change is to elucidate how trees, together with their associated organisms such as mycorrhizal fungi, respond to rapid environmental changes.

The conference includes contributions that apply innovative approaches and consider the relevance of their research in the context of biodiversity conservation through natural dynamics or silvicultural interference.

abstracts

display_name: abstracts

adaptation

display_name: adaptation

conference

display_name: conference

evoltree

display_name: evoltree

forest-ecosystems

display_name: forest-ecosystems

genomics

display_name: genomics

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: Genomics and Adaptation in Forest Ecosystems. Book of Abstracts. EvolTree Conference 2021, 14 – 17 September 2021, Birmensdorf, Switzerland


biomass-of-lying-dead-trees

title_for_slug: biomass-of-lying-dead-trees

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

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

accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest

display_name: accessible-forest-without-shrub-forest

biogeographical-region

display_name: biogeographical-region

biomass-of-lying-dead-trees

display_name: biomass-of-lying-dead-trees

canton

display_name: canton

conifers-broadleaves

display_name: conifers-broadleaves

economic-region

display_name: economic-region

production-region

display_name: production-region

protection-forest-region

display_name: protection-forest-region

en: Biomass of lying dead trees


wind-crust-formation-snowmicropen-data

title_for_slug: wind-crust-formation-snowmicropen-data

en: wind-packing snow smp snowmicropen wind-crust

en: README

en: Describes the dataset in detail

en: SMP data

en: Links to the dataset

en: Processing scripts

en: Contains the R-scripts used to process the SMPs

en:
This dataset contains the SnowMicroPen (SMP) data from 38 wind tunnel experiments on wind-packing / wind crust formation. These experiments were performed in the winters 2015/16 and 2016/17 and include more than 1000 SMP measurements.

The SMPs are organized per experiment. Each experiment subfolder contains the processed SMP profiles 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. (2017). Wind tunnel experiments: Saltation is necessary for wind-packing. Journal of Glaciology, 63(242), 950-958. doi:10.1017/jog.2017.53

smp

display_name: smp

snow

display_name: snow

snowmicropen

display_name: snowmicropen

wind-crust

display_name: wind-crust

wind-packing

display_name: wind-packing

en: Wind crust formation: SnowMicroPen data


en: weissfluhjoch stable-water-isotopes latent-heat paleoclimate snow natural-tracer post-depositional-processes sublimation

en: Stable water isotopes in vapor

en:
Stable water isotopes in vapor measurements. Processed (calibrated) and raw data for February - June 2017. Raw data for January and February 2020.
For the time in between July 2017 and April 2020, raw vapor isotopic measurements are available, but no calibrations were performed during that time. For data delivery, please contact one of the authors.
This folder also contains the post-processing scripts for stable water isotopes in vapor measurements.

en: Weather

en: Meteorological data, snow height measurement, and SNOWPACK simulations covering the different field campaigns.

en:
Details on the data collected during the different field campaigns and available in this dataset.
Information on the sampling procedure of the snow isotopes samples.

en: Folder containing the scripts and data used in "Surface snow isotopic composition: post-depositional processes in an alpine snowpack" (Sadowski et al., 2022)

en: Stable water isotopes in snow

en: Stable water isotopes in snow measurements

en: Details about the different folders

en:
Notice: Changes to the dataset are still possible. Please do not use this dataset until the final publication with a DOI. Contact the authors if you have questions about this.

This dataset contains measurements of stable water isotopes in snow and vapor on the Weissfluhjoch from different field campaigns (Winter 2017 (Trachsel, 2019), January 2020, December 2020, and March 2021 (Sadowski et al., 2022).
Snow profiles and surface samples are available at different frequencies for each campaign. Please see "Data_description.pdf" for details.

Scripts and SNOWPACK simulations used in (Trachsel, 2019) and (Sadowski et al., 2022) are also provided.

latent-heat

display_name: latent-heat

natural-tracer

display_name: natural-tracer

paleoclimate

display_name: paleoclimate

post-depositional-processes

display_name: post-depositional-processes

stable-water-isotopes

display_name: stable-water-isotopes

sublimation

display_name: sublimation

weissfluhjoch

display_name: weissfluhjoch

en: Stable Water Isotopes in snow and vapor on the Weissfluhjoch


net-increment

title_for_slug: net-increment

en:
Increment including ingrowth minus the mortality.  The correction for bias with the sample Tarif trees may be so drastic that it results in negative values with small numbers of trees.

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

altitudinal-vegetation-zone

display_name: altitudinal-vegetation-zone

avalanches-silvaprotect

display_name: avalanches-silvaprotect

biogeographical-region

display_name: biogeographical-region

landslide-mudflow-silvaprotect

display_name: landslide-mudflow-silvaprotect

lower-higher-altitudinal-zones

display_name: lower-higher-altitudinal-zones

main-tree-species

display_name: main-tree-species

net-increment

display_name: net-increment

ownership

display_name: ownership

potential-cost-for-timber-harvesting

display_name: potential-cost-for-timber-harvesting

processes-in-channels-silvaprotect

display_name: processes-in-channels-silvaprotect

rockfall-silvaprotect

display_name: rockfall-silvaprotect

site-quality

display_name: site-quality

stage-of-stand-development

display_name: stage-of-stand-development

tree-species-woody-species

display_name: tree-species-woody-species

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: Net increment


en: snow-atmosphere-interactions atmosphere ice laboratory-study chemistry

en:
The table lists all NEXAFS raw data with the following columns:

* name:						raw file name
* xRayEkinRange_eV: 		Smallest and largest X-ray photon energy in eV
* scientaPassEnergy_eV: 	Pass energy of electron analyzer in eV
* scientaDwellTime_ms: 		Dwell time of electron analyzer in ms
* regionName:				O K-edge for all data
* scientaAcquisitionMode: 	Fixed energy (snapshot) mode
* scientaEkinRange_eV: 		Smallest and largest energy of the kinetic energy window used for detection in this work
* scientaEkinStep_eV		Not defined in fixed energy mode
* scientaLensMode:			Tune table
* scientaRegionIterations: 	Iterations (sweeps)
* scientaSequenceIterations: Iterations (sweeps)
* sampleTemp_dC: 			Temperature as monitored at the sample holder in °C
* cellPressure_mbar: 		Total pressure in measurement cell in mbar
* iceTemp_dC: 				Temperature of ice sample calculated based on vapour pressure (assuming total pressure equals partial pressure of water) in °C
* smplX_mm: 				positon of measurement spot, x dimension in mm
* smplY_mm: 				positon of measurement spot, y dimension in mm
* smplZ_mm: 				positon of measurement spot, z dimension in mm
* sealingTemp:				temperature at base of sample manipulator
* lastModifiedDatestr: 		time and date when data aquisition was finished
* sample: 					sample description

en: Processed data as shown in Figure 4 of publication. X-ray energy in eV in column one, electron count intensity in arb. units in column 2.

en: Near Ambient Pressure partial Auger-Meitner electron yield X-ray absorption spectra and photon flux data. X-ray energy in eV in column 1, analyzer electron count intensity in arb. units in column 2.

en: Data are compiled that have been used to demonstrate the impact of high water partial pressure on X-ray absorption spectra of ice.

atmosphere

display_name: atmosphere

chemistry

display_name: chemistry

ice

display_name: ice

laboratory-study

display_name: laboratory-study

snow-atmosphere-interactions

display_name: snow-atmosphere-interactions

en: An ice oxygen K-edge NEXAFS spectroscopy data set on gas-phase processing


wamos-meets-lfi-ganze-schweiz

title_for_slug: wamos-meets-lfi-ganze-schweiz

en: Codebook to dataset

en: Questionnaire English

en: Dataset SPSS

en: Questionnaire Italian

en: Questionnaire French

en: Dataset in Excel-format

en: Explanation Dataset

en: Questionnaire German

en: The data consists of a forest visitor survey conducted at 50 plots in the whole of Switzerland, once during the winter- and once during the summer season. Physical forest characteristics according to the Swiss National Forest Inventory NFI were collected from the same plots in winter and summer. Visibility was measured using terrestrial laser scanning. At some plots, sound measurements were also conducted.

forest-characteristics

display_name: forest-characteristics

seasons

display_name: seasons

visitor-preferences

display_name: visitor-preferences

visual-attractiveness-of-forest

display_name: visual-attractiveness-of-forest

en: WaMos meets LFI, ganze Schweiz


maintainer: Christoph Marty

en: water-cycle climate-change-impacts snow snowfall hydrology

en: DORA Persistent URL

en: Synthesis report chapter

en:
This report was prepared as one of the synthesis report chapters of the Hydro-CH2018 project of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). An important feature of snow cover is the fact that its volume and duration is subject to large year-to-year fluctuations. As frozen precipitation, snow cover is nothing other than a natural water reservoir that delays precipitation to runoff and is thus of outstanding importance for the seasonal water balance in Switzerland. Over a whole year, approximately 40% (22 km3) of the annual runoff currently comes from snow melting and only 1% from glacier melting. Typically, the snow cover in the Alpine region builds up over the autumn and winter months, reaches its maximum between February and May, depending on the altitude, and dominates the runoff processes during melting in the following spring and summer months.
Due to the great dependence on minus temperatures and precipitation, the snow cover reacts sensitively to temperatures above 0° Celsius and more or less precipitation. Due to climate change and the associated warming, the proportion of precipitation that falls as snow decreases measurably. In addition to this reduction in snowfall, the warmer temperatures also cause the snow cover to melt more quickly. The decline in snowfall has so far mainly affected lower altitudes, where winter temperatures often reach positive levels.
As climate change progresses, this trend is likely to continue and above all affect higher zones. Even at higher altitudes, the snow cover will then start later, melt away earlier and is increasingly no longer permanently present. This development will also have an effect on the water bodies. Today nival regimes, i.e. regimes shaped by snow, are shifting towards pluvial regimes, i.e. regimes dominated by rain. Overall, winter runoff increases, summer runoff decreases. By the end of the century, the proportion of runoff from snowmelt will decrease throughout Switzerland, albeit to a lesser extent than the proportion from glacier melt.

climate-change-impacts

display_name: climate-change-impacts

hydrology

display_name: hydrology

snow

display_name: snow

snowfall

display_name: snowfall

water-cycle

display_name: water-cycle

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: Snow and the water cycle in a changing climate


en: cordex downscaling cryosphere toposcale rcm

en: Github link to TopoCLIM project

en: TopoCLIM v1.0

en: Archive of Github repository as of 10 June 2021 including license and documentation and examples.

en:
Model code and documentation for the downscaling model TopoCLIM which provides methods to downscale climate timeseries from CORDEX RCM data. This scheme specifically addresses the need for hillslope scale atmospheric forcing timeseries for modeling the local impact of regional climate change projections on the land surface in complex terrain. The method has a global scope and is able to generate the full suite of model forcing variables required for hydrological and land surface modeling at hourly timesteps.

A working example is provided in this code archive but for full running of the scheme TopoSCALE is required https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-387-2014 with code available at https://github.com/joelfiddes/tscaleV2. Standard library dependencies are given in the python requirements.txt of the archive with installation instructions in the README.md.

License GPL v.3

cordex

display_name: cordex

cryosphere

display_name: cryosphere

downscaling

display_name: downscaling

rcm

display_name: rcm

toposcale

display_name: toposcale

en: TopoCLIM v1.0 code


en:
Volume of stemwood with bark of all trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh that were used, died or disappeared between two inventories. *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

conifers-broadleaves

display_name: conifers-broadleaves

increment-star

display_name: increment-star

lower-higher-altitudinal-zones

display_name: lower-higher-altitudinal-zones

main-tree-species

display_name: main-tree-species

ownership

display_name: ownership

yield-and-mortality-star

display_name: yield-and-mortality-star

en: Yield and mortality*


en: European Snow Booklet unpublished metadata

en: The entire station metadata of all European institutions that contributed data is stored in METADATA_unpublished.xlsx. This file, however, cannot be accessed, since not all institutions gave permission to publish their station metadata. If you wish to access the metadata, please send a request to marty@slf.ch stating clearly why you want to access these metadata. NOTE: in this file ONLY station metadata (Lat/Lon/Altitude) is given, NO measured snow depth data.

en: COST European Snow Booklet (ESB)

en: Please find here the web version of the COST European Snow Booklet (ESB).

en: COST European Snow Booklet (ESB) - DORA Link

media_type: text/html

en: DORA Link of the COST European Snow Booklet (ESB).

format: HTML

en: European Snow Booklet public metadata

en:
The core of the European Snow Booklet (ESB), the country reports of 38 European countries, are based on information and metadata on snow measurements collected through a comprehensive survey, the ESB Questionnaire, between August 2017 and March 2018. The station metadata (for example location, elevation, measurement start date) from each country was provided by one or several institutions responsible for snow observations. By answering the questionnaire the contacts agreed that the information and metadata provided could be presented in the ESB. For cases where institutions indicated that information on station locations could be made publicly available, the metadata for the variables snow depth (HS), depth of snowfall (HN) and water equivalent of the snow cover (SWE), is additionally provided here for download (METADATA.xlsx).
Please note that not all institutions gave permission to publish their station metadata. This metadata has to be requested from the non-personal institution contacts provided in the METADATA.xlsx file. In some cases, however, no institutional contact is available and thus the contact of the country representative who filled in the questionnaire is used.
For current, updated station metadata we refer to the (non-personal) institutional contacts provided in METADATA.xlsx and/or the institution webpages. Note, however, that we cannot guarantee for completeness of the dataset for all countries because operational networks are prone to changes.

en: List of authors and list of the editorial board of the European Snow Booklet

en:
Here you can find the list of all lead authors of the different chapters of the European Snow Booklet (ESB).
In addition a list of the editorial board that reviewed the ESB is given.

en:
The European Snow Booklet (ESB) is a book of reference for snow measurements that has been produced through collaboration with many European snow practitioners and snow scientists in the framework of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action ES1404 “A European network for a harmonised monitoring of snow for the benefit of climate change scenarios, hydrology and numerical weather prediction (HarmoSnow)”. The ESB provides a unique collection of information about operational snow observations in the European countries and the methods used to perform basic measurements of snow on the ground: snow depth (HS), depth of snowfall (HN), water equivalent of the snow cover (SWE) and presence of snow on the ground (PSG). Information and station metadata (for example location, elevation) for these basic snow variables were collected through a comprehensive survey, the ESB questionnaire between August 2017 and March 2018. Numerous institutions of 38 European countries provided detailed information describing the status of the operational snow observations and the methods used at the time of the survey. Based on the information provided, a country report was written for each European country. Similarities and differences among the countries, that is, the choice of snow variables to be measured, the measurement principles applied, the number of stations, or the spatial and elevational station distribution are pointed out. Thus the collection of country reports demonstrates the relevance of snow measurements for each country. Thus, the intention of the ESB is to foster better knowledge transfer regarding snow measurements between the snow science and operational communities and to improve the communication of information to the general public.

For detailed information on the European countries, we refer to the ESB, which can be downloaded here (envidat.ch). Please note that the ESB is not a living document and information and station metadata are from August 2017 till March 2018, except for Latvia (metadata updated in December 2018).

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snow-measurement-methods

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en: European Snow Booklet – an Inventory of Snow Measurements in Europe


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

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

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economic-region

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production-region

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yield-of-live-bole-wood

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educ

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envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

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

en: Yield of live bole wood


maintainer: Thomas Wohlgemuth

en: biodiversity forest-management soil-impacts biogeography pairwise-stand-comparisons

en: Baseline data

en: headers

en: Description of headers for data_wohlgemuth_etal_Neobiota_2022

en: references

en: Bibliography of all references cited in data_wohlgemuth_etal_Neobiota_2022.

en: Compiled data on the impacts of seven important NNTs (Acacia dealbata, Ailanthus altissima, Eucalyptus globulus, Prunus serotina, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus rubra, Robinia pseudoacacia) on physical and chemical soil and biodiversity in Europe, and summarise commonalities and differences. A total of 107 publications considered, studies referred to biodiversity attributes and soil properties: 2804 lines and 30 rows.

biodiversity

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biogeography

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forest-management

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pairwise-stand-comparisons

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soil-impacts

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en: Impact of non-native tree species in Europe on soil properties and biodiversity: a review


en: allocation drought microbial-biomass forest rhizosphere pfynwald soil

en:
Data of 13C pulselabelling experiment
1. Climate and soil respiration in the year following pulse labelling
2. Temporal patterns in 13C signal (D13C) and 13Cexcess
3. Spatial distribution of 13C in the soil

en: Data from pulse-labelling experiment with 100-year old trees of a naturally dry pine forest exposed to a 15-year-long irrigation experiment. Canopies of 10 trees were labelled for 3 hours with 13CO2 and the fate of this label was traced for one year in stem and soil respiration and in microbial biomass around these trees. Data include (1) microclimatic data and soil respiration rates of the year following pulse labelling. (2) Temporal patterns of the 13C signal and 13C excess in soil respired CO2 and microbial biomass. (3) Spatial distribution of 13C signal in the soil.

allocation

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drought

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forest

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microbial-biomass

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pfynwald

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rhizosphere

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soil

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en: Drought alters C footprint of trees in soil: tracking the spatio-temporal fate of 13C labelled assimilates in the soil


mortality

title_for_slug: mortality

en:
Volume of stemwood with bark of all trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh that died or disappeared between two inventories, but were not cut. *In the calculation no D7/tree height data were used. The values calculated like this have not been corrected for bias, but allow for cantons or forest districts a more robust estimation of changes and could thus be better interpreted.

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

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en: Mortality*


yield-and-mortality

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en:
Volume of stemwood with bark of all trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh that were felled, died or disappeared between two inventories. The correction for bias with the sample Tarif trees may be so drastic that it results in negative values with small numbers of trees.

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

altitudinal-vegetation-zone

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biogeographical-region

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conifers-broadleaves

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economic-region

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increment

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lower-higher-altitudinal-zones

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main-tree-species

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production-region

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protection-forest-region

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stage-of-stand-development

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yield-and-mortality

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educ

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envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Yield and mortality


area-of-shrub-forest

title_for_slug: area-of-shrub-forest

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

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

accessible-shrub-forest

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area-of-shrub-forest

display_name: area-of-shrub-forest

shrub-forest

display_name: shrub-forest

type-of-shrub-forest-aerial-photo

display_name: type-of-shrub-forest-aerial-photo

envidat

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

en: Area of shrub forest


en: surface-winds convolutional-neural-networks complex-terrain machine-learning meteorology high-resolution topography downscaling

en: Contains: all codes, installation procedure, technical documentation, an example of Digital Elevation Model of the Swiss Alps, the expected outputs of the code (downscaled wind fields).

en:
Wind-Topo is a statistical downscaling model for near surface wind fields especially suited for highly complex terrain.

It is based on deep learning and was trained (calibrated) using the hourly wind speed and direction from 261 automatic measurement stations (IMIS and SwissMetNet) located in Switzerland. The periods 1st October 2015 to 1st October 2016 and 1st October 2017 to 1st October 2018 were used for training. The model was validated using 60 other stations on the period 1st October 2016 to 1st October 2017. Wind-Topo was trained using COSMO-1 data and a 53-meter Digital Elevation Model as input.

This dataset provides all the necessary code to understand, use and incorporate Wind-Topo in a new downscaling scheme. Specifically, the dataset contains the architecture of Wind-Topo and its optimized parameters, as well as a python script to downscale uniform wind fields with a prescribed vertical profile for any given 53-meter DEM.

Accompanies the publication "Wind-Topo: Downscaling near-surface wind fields to high-resolution topography in highly complex terrain with deep learning" Dujardin and Lehning, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4265
Please cite this publication if you use Wind-Topo or derive new models from it.
The code can be used under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL).

complex-terrain

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convolutional-neural-networks

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machine-learning

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meteorology

display_name: meteorology

surface-winds

display_name: surface-winds

topography

display_name: topography


maintainer: Felix Neff

en: diversity grassland insects restoration functional-traits topsoil-removal long-term-experiment functional-diversity

en: Plot information

en:
Information on the experimental plots.

- **Plot**: ID of Plot
- **Treatment**: Experimental treatment
- **Landuse_history**: recent agricultural use for Initial; agricultural use before restoration for all restored sites
- **Last_tilled**: Last time the site was tilled
- **Intensity**: Frequency and intensity of mowing and manuring (*intensity1*: mowing once and no manure, i*ntensity2*: 2-3 times mowing and no manure, *intensity3*: 2-3 times mowing and manuring, *intensity4*: 4-5 times mowing and manuring)
- **Slope**: slope gradient according to classes defined by FAO (1990)
- **X**: X coordinate of the plot (CH1903)
- **Y**: Y coordinate of the plot (CH1903)
- **Cluster**: Spatial cluster of the plot

en: Insect abundance

en:
Abundance of adult insects recorded in the samplings on all experimental sites

- **Plot**: ID of Plot
- **Treatment**: Experimental treatment
- **Species**: Insect species name (following [Fauna Europaea](https://fauna-eu.org))
- **Author**: Author and year of species' description (following [Fauna Europaea](https://fauna-eu.org))
- **Group**: Insect group as used in the analyses
- **Number_Adults**: Number of adult individuals recorded
- **Herbivore**: Logical indicating whether the species is feeding as a herbivore (*TRUE*) or not (*FALSE*)

en: Insect traits

en:
Functional traits of all herbivorous insect species sampled in the study.

- **Species**: Insect species name (following [Fauna Europaea](https://fauna-eu.org))
- **Author**: Author and year of species' description (following [Fauna Europaea](https://fauna-eu.org))
- **Group**: Insect group as used in the analyses
- **Body volume**: Body volume determined by body length, body width and body height (in mm$^3$)
- **Body_shape**: Ratio of body length to body width
- **Hind_femur_shape**: Ratio of hind-femur length to hind-femur width
- **Hind_front_leg_ratio**: Ratio of front-leg length to hind-leg length (leg length = femur length + tibia length)
- **Wing_length_rel**: Ratio of wing length to body length
- **Leg_length_rel**: Ratio of front-leg length to body length (leg length = femur length + tibia length)
- **Antenna_length_rel**: Ratio antenna length to body length
- **Eye_width_rel**: Ratio of eye width to head width (Auchenorrhyncha, Heteroptera) / to head height (Orthoptera)
- **Feeding_specialization**: Insect specialization on food source (*m*: monophagous, *o*: oligophagous, *p*: polyphagous)
- **Feeding_tissue**: Feeding tissue used for feeding (*c*: chewers, *x*: xylem, *p*: phloem, *m*: mesophyll, *m-p/r*: mesophyll as well as phloem and/or reproductive organs, *r*: reproductive organs, *se*: ripe seeds)
- **Hibernation**: Hibernation stage (*e*: egg, *e/n*: egg and nymph, *n*: nymph, *a*: adult)
- **Generations**: Number of generations per year (*1.5* stands for *1-2* generations per year)
- **Moisture_pref_mean**: mean of preferred habitat moistures (*1*: xerophilous, *2*: moderately xerophilous, *3*: moderately mesohygrophilous, *4*: mesohygrophilous, *5*: moderately hygrophilous, *6*: hygrophilous, *7*: moderately hydrophilous, *8*: hydrophilous)
- **Moisture_pref_range**: range of preferred habitat moistures (indicating degree of specialization)

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

**Paper Citation**:

Neff, F., Resch, M. C., Marty, A., Rolley, J. D., Schütz, M., Risch, A. C, Gossner, M. M. 2020. Long-term restoration success of insect herbivore communities in semi-natural grasslands: a functional approach. Ecological Applications, 30, e02133. [10.1002/eap.2133](https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2133)

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

 Methods

 Study site
The study area is situated within and nearby to Eigental nature reserve (47°27’36” to 47°29’06” N, 8°37’12” to 8°37’44” E, 461 to 507 m a.s.l.) in the vicinity of Zurich airport (Canton Zurich, Switzerland). Mean annual precipitation and temperature is 903 ± 136 mm and 9.14°C ± 0.50°C (mean ± SD for 2007-2017 (*MeteoSchweiz 2018*)). In 1967, the Eigental nature reserve was established to protect small and isolated remnants of species-rich, semi-natural grasslands (roughly 12 ha), which were embedded in an otherwise intensively managed landscape. It is characterized by oligo- to mesotrophic Molinion (semi-wet, matrix species *Molinia caerulea*) and Mesobromion (semi-dry, matrix species *Bromus erectus*) meadows (*Delarze et al. 2015*), reflecting small-scale habitat heterogeneity, mainly due to site-specific groundwater levels and slope inclination. As in most Central European grasslands, management is necessary to prevent shrub and tree invasions as well as to secure low levels of available soil nutrients and thus to maintain these species-rich habitats ([*Poschlod and WallisDeVries 2002*](https://doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3207(01)00201-4)).
In 1990, the government of the Canton Zurich decided to enlarge the Eigental nature reserve as a counter measure against degradation and biodiversity loss in semi-natural grasslands due to overutilization and the excessive input of nutrients (mostly nitrogen). Eleven patches of adjacent intensively managed grassland (in total roughly 20 ha) were targeted to be transformed into semi-natural grasslands. As a first restoration measure, fertilization was ceased, and biomass harvested three times to remove excessive soil nutrients from the original system and thus benefit plant species with low competitive ability on the long run. In 1995, the restoration efforts were increased and a large-scale experiment comprising three restoration measures with increasing intervention intensities was implemented:

- **Harvest only**: Initial restoration measures were continued with mowing and removing of the aboveground biomass two times a year (early summer and autumn).
- **Topsoil**: Removal of topsoil, depending on the thickness of the A horizon the upper 10 to 20 cm, in four randomly selected areas within the eleven patches in late autumn 1995. The size of the restoration area depended on individual patch size (2700 to 7000 m2).
- **Topsoil + Propagules**: Plant propagules were added on half of the area where topsoil was removed via application of fresh, seed-containing hay and hand-collected propagules of target species originating from semi-dry and semi-wet species-rich grasslands with local and regional provenance (within radius of 7 to 30 km) (1995, 1996, 1997).

Management of *Topsoil* and *Topsoil + Propagules* started five years after treatment implementation and included yearly mowing and removing of aboveground biomass (late summer or early autumn). The experiment was complemented with intensively managed grassland sites that share the same agricultural history as the restored sites (**Initial**; swards dominated by *Lolium perenne*, *L. multiflorum* and *Trifolium repens*): mowing and subsequent fertilizing (manure) up to five times a year, as well as different tillage regimes. Finally, sites were selected in target semi-dry and semi-wet grasslands (**Target**) located within the Eigental nature reserve and another nature reserve nearby (Altläufe der Glatt; 47°28’29” to 47°27’41” N, 8°31’56” to 8°32’26” E, 418 to 420 m a.s.l.). The selected target sites are mown and aboveground biomass removed once a year in late summer or early autumn. For each of the five treatments, we selected eleven plots (5 m × 5 m) spread across the sites. Altogether, the experiment included 55 plots.

 Arthropod sampling
Aboveground arthropods were sampled using suction sampling on four consecutive days in early July 2017 before the grasslands were mown. Arthropods were sampled in two locations on each 5 m × 5 m plot, once in the south-western and once in the north-eastern corner to account for possible spatial heterogeneity within the plots. Arthropods were sorted to order or lower taxonomic levels and individuals were identified to species level. We focused on three groups (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha, Hemiptera: Heteroptera, Orthoptera),

 Functional traits
We used two sets of functional traits in this study.

**Morphometric traits**:
Body volume, body shape, hind femur shape, hind/front leg ratio, wing length, leg length, antenna length and eye width. We used trait measurements from [*Simons et al. (2016)*](http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/15-0616.1) and [*Neff et al. (2019)*](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00872-1) and complemented them with measurements on study specimens. These measurements were conducted using a high-resolution measuring stereo microscope (Leica DVM6, Leica Microsystems) including automated high-resolution photo stacking with the software Leica Application Suite X (LAS X, © 2018 Leica Microsystems CMS GmbH) and Leica Map Premium (Leica Microsystems, © 1996-2017 Digital Surf) at WSL Birmensdorf. The eight morphometric traits were calculated from direct measurements of body parts on specimens of all sampled species. From each species, we measured at least one female and one male specimen. Additionally, for species that show wing dimorphism, we included the different wing morphs and weighted them by their prevalence reported in literature. For few species, of which not all wing morphs were available for measurements (10 cases), we estimated relative wing length from congeneric species or from the literature.

**Life-history traits**
Based on an existing data set collected by [*Gossner et al. (2015)*](http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-2159.1). We included traits describing different life-history characteristics of herbivore insect species, namely: feeding specialization, feeding tissue, hibernation stage and number of generations per year, which are related to insect species’ vulnerability to changes in plant community composition, microhabitat use and disturbance tolerance. To represent potential changes in habitat moisture with abandonment of intensive land use (e.g., change in ground-water level), we also included two traits related to preferred habitat moisture of the study species: moisture preference, describing species’ optimum habitat moisture, and moisture range, which describes the species’ range of preferable moisture conditions.

 References

Delarze, R., Y. Gonseth, S. Eggenberg, and M. Vust. 2015. Lebensräume der Schweiz: Ökologie - Gefährdung - Kennarten. 3rd ed. Ott, Bern.

Gossner, M. M., N. K. Simons, R. Achtziger, T. Blick, W. H. O. Dorow, F. Dziock, F. Köhler, W. Rabitsch, and W. W. Weisser. 2015. A summary of eight traits of Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Orthoptera and Araneae, occurring in grasslands in Germany. Scientific Data 2:150013.

MeteoSchweiz. 2018. Klimabulletin Jahr 2017. MeteoSchweiz, Zürich.

Neff, F., N. Blüthgen, M. N. Chisté, N. K. Simons, J. Steckel, W. W. Weisser, C. Westphal, L. Pellissier, and M. M. Gossner. 2019. Cross-scale effects of land use on the functional composition of herbivorous insect communities. Landscape Ecology 34:2001–2015.

Poschlod, P., and M. F. WallisDeVries. 2002. The historical and socioeconomic perspective of calcareous grasslands—lessons from the distant and recent past. Biological Conservation 104:361–376.

Simons, N. K., W. W. Weisser, and M. M. Gossner. 2016. Multi-taxa approach shows consistent shifts in arthropod functional traits along grassland land-use intensity gradient. Ecology 97:754–764.

diversity

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functional-diversity

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functional-traits

display_name: functional-traits

grassland

display_name: grassland

insects

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long-term-experiment

display_name: long-term-experiment

restoration

display_name: restoration

topsoil-removal

display_name: topsoil-removal

en: Grassland restoration: insects and insect traits


en: pest-invasion torymus-sinensis southern-switzerland population-evolution castanea-sativa biological-control dryocosmus-kuriphilus

en:
Data has been collected from summer 2011 to 2016.

Main reasons for NA values:

-	D. kuriphilus still not arrived in the site.
-	No galls were found during the field sampling.
-	Site has not been sampled in the correspondent year because of time, weather or money constrains.
-    T. sinensis not found in the galls

Variable description:

Year = sampling year.

Coordinate, elevation, slope, aspect = average site characteristics.

ts_arrival = T. sinensis arrival year.

dk_arrival = D. kuriphilus arrival year.

dk_parasitism_by_ts = D. kuriphilus parasitism rate by T. sinensis. Formula: (no. of T. sinensis/ no. of D. kuriphilus chambers) * 100 at gall level.

dk_infestation = Percentage of attacked buds. Formula: no. of attacked buds / no. of total developed buds*100 (as presented in Kotobuki et al. 1985) at shoot level.

ts_per_bud = number of alive T. sinensis individual calculated at bud level.

dk_per_bud = number of alive D. kuriphilus individual calculated at bud level.

dk_pot_per_bud = overall number (dead and alive) D. kuriphilus individual calculated at bud level.

total_gall_nr_per_bud = average gall number per bud.

chamber_per_galls = average D. kuriphilus chamber number per gall.

For details see the submitted publication with the same name

References
Kotobuki, K., Mori, K. and Sato, Y. (1985) ‘2 methods to estimate the tree damage by chestnut gall wasp Dryocosmus-kuriphilus’, Bulletin of the fruit tree research station A (Yatabe), 2(12), pp. 29–36.

en:
This dataset contains the population evolution of a pest and its biocontrol agent in terms of presence proportion at gall level and absolute number of insects.

The study area extends from the Cuneo region (Piedmont, Italy) to southern Switzerland. In order to provide a complete range of data covering the entire process from the pest arrival to complete biological control by its natural enemy T. sinensis, a space-for-time substitution approach has been adopted so as to create a temporal gradient of the epidemic stages over the whole study area.

The southernmost Swiss sites roughly represent the arrival and establishment of the pest without the presence of the natural enemy, the central ones the early epidemic stage and the epidemic peak, whereas the northern ones the end of the epidemic with the beginning of the biocontrol. The Italian ones represent the beginning of the equilibrium between the two population as well as the situation with stable T. sinensis populations on the long term.

These data are used in the paper entitled: Torymus sinensis local and regional early population dynamics in the Insubrian and Piedmont regions

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castanea-sativa

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dryocosmus-kuriphilus

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pest-invasion

display_name: pest-invasion

population-evolution

display_name: population-evolution

southern-switzerland

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torymus-sinensis

display_name: torymus-sinensis

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal


en: elevation swiss-alps plant-insect-interaction dna-metabarcoding trophic-networks

en: Plant surveys

en: This dataset is formatted as a pair-wise table where each rows correspond to a possible interaction between a plant and an insect species. For each possible interaction are provided the interaction strenght, the study site identity and elevation, the average plant functional trait for the punch, the SLA, the LDMC, the carbon and nitrogen content.

en: Plant-orthoptera trophic networks

en: Orthoptera surveys

en: Plant trait (SLA, LDMC, C/N, punch strenght)

en: Information about the study sites

en: The study of ecological networks along environmental gradients has so far been limited by the difficulty of collecting large-scale dataset of comparable interactions. Here, we compiled 48 plant–orthoptera interaction networks at multiple locations across the Swiss Alps (i.e. along six elevation gradient). Trophic interactions were obtained by applying next-generation sequencing methods (e.g. DNA metabarcoding) on insect feces. Together with interaction data, we also provide data of the functional trait measurement (i.e. plant leaves traits and insect mandibular strength) expected to influence the realization of the interaction. Species inventories, feces samples and functionals traits were collected during the summer 2016 and 2017. Lab work and network reconstruction were completed in 2019.

dna-metabarcoding

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elevation

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plant-insect-interaction

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swiss-alps

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trophic-networks

display_name: trophic-networks

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: Plant-Orthoptera trophic networks (Lif3web projet)


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

en: Python scripts to perform the temporal downscaling

en: LICENSE

en: Python and R scripts to perform the data quality analysis

en: README

en:
This repository contains the source code of the analysis presented in the related paper. The code can be found in the following github repository: https://github.com/Chelmy88/temporal_downscaling

This code can be used to perform temporal downscaling of meteorological time series from daily to hourly time steps and to perform the quality assessment described in the paper.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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climate-change-scenarios

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delta-change

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imis

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meteoswiss

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python

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quantile-mapping

display_name: quantile-mapping

r-script

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switzerland

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temporal-downscaling

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


en: peat nature-conservation vegetation restoration indicator-values sphagnum raised-bog switzerland

en: Data Hagenmoos

en: The data file contains mean indicator values for light, moisture, pH, nutrients, humus, temperature and continentality and strategy values for stress, competition and ruderality for each plot and year. It further contains for each plot and year species richenss values for the following groups: (1) all plant species, (2) all vascular plant species, (3) bog specialists among vascular plant species, (4) all bryophyte species, (5) bog specialists among bryophyte species. As bog specialist species, we considered all plant species listed as characteristic species of raised bogs by Feldmeyer-Christe and Küchler (2018: Moore der Schweiz. Haupt, Bern).

en: This dataset includes data from three vegetation surveys in a restored raised bog (Hagenmoos) in the lowland of the canton of Zürich (Switzerland). The bog Hagenmoos was restored by cutting shrubs and trees within the formerly peat-cutting pits and by blocking drainages. The vegetation surveys were carried out before (1989), ten years after (1999) and 30 years after restoration (2020). In each vegetation survey, all vascular plant and bryophyte species within 72 permanent plots were recorded. Of these plots, 34 are located within the formerly peat-cutting pits and 38 are located outside the peat pits. Based on presence-absence data of vascular plants and bryophytes, mean ecological indicator and strategy values based on Landolt et al. (2010) were calculated and are provided in the Excel sheet. Indicator values for light, moisture, pH, nutrients, humus, temperature and continentality and strategy values for stress, competition and ruderality were considered. Furthermore, species richness for the following groups were calculated: (1) all plant species, (2) all vascular plant species, (3) bog specialists among vascular plant species, (4) all bryophyte species, (5) bog specialists among bryophyte species. As bog specialist species, we considered all plant species listed as characteristic species of raised bogs by Feldmeyer-Christe and Küchler (2018: Moore der Schweiz. Haupt, Bern).

indicator-values

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nature-conservation

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peat

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raised-bog

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restoration

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sphagnum

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vegetation

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educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Restoration of the lowland raised bog Hagenmoos (Switzerland): Data on vegetation, ecological indicator values and species richness from 1989 until 2020


maintainer: Christian Rixen

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en: Data Nutrient Addition Stillberg

en: This link leads to the figshare repository, which contains all nutrient addition data.

en: Project Description Nutrient Addition Stillberg

en: Link to Nutrient Addition project description on the WSL website (in German).

en: Metadata Nutrient Addition Stillberg Experimental Design

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en: Nutrient addition map of the study area with the investigated plots. Each circle (study block) contains one control plot and two plots that received NPK fertilizer corresponding to 15 (NPK15) or 30 (NPK30) kg N ha-1 a-1. Contour lines specify the elevation (m a.s.l.) in steps of 10 m.

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en:
 Background information

The availability of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) is considered to be a major factor limiting growth and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems globally. This project aimed to determine whether the growth stimulation documented in previous short‐term fertilisation trials persisted in a longer‐term study (12 years) in the treeline ecotone, and whether possible negative effects of nutrient addition offset the benefits of any growth stimulation.
Over the course of the 12 study years, NPK fertiliser corresponding to 15 or 30 kg N ha−1 a−1 was added annually to plots containing 30‐year‐old *Larix decidua* or 32‐year-old *Pinus uncinata* individuals with an understorey of mainly ericaceous dwarf shrubs. To quantify growth, annual shoot increments of trees and dwarf shrubs as well as radial growth increments of trees were measured. Nutrient concentrations in the soil were also measured and the foliar nutritional status of trees and dwarf shrubs was assessed.

 Experimental design

Over an elevation gradient of 140 m across the treeline afforestation site Stillberg, 22 locations were chosen that covered the whole range of microenvironmental conditions (*see* Nutrient addition experimental design.png). Half of the blocks included European larch (*L. decidua*) and the other half included mountain pine (*P. uncinata*). Within each block, three plantation quadrats were randomly selected as experimental plots and each plot was assigned to a control (no fertilisation) or to one of two fertiliser dose treatments (15 kg and 30 kg N ha−1 a−1). Treatments were assigned randomly but confined so that the location of fertilised plots within a block was not directly above control plots to avoid nutrient input from drainage. For details about the experiment, *see* Möhl et al (2019).

 Data description

The available datasets contain climate variables (2004-2016), nutrient isotope measurements (2010 & 2016), shrub growth measurements (2004-2016), soil parameter measurements and annual ring and shoot measurements (2004-2016). All data can be found here:
<https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Twelve_years_of_low_nutrient_input_stimulates_growth_of_trees_and_dwarf_shrubs_in_the_treeline_ecotone/7025858>

dwarf-shrubs

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fertilization

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nitrogen-isotope

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stillberg

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tree-rings

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treeline

display_name: treeline

en: Nutrient addition experiment at the Alpine treeline site Stillberg, Switzerland