en: snow-modelling snowpack avalanche snowdrift source-code

en:
This dataset includes the FORTRAN code of the FSM2trans model version used in the paper: Quéno et al., Snow redistribution in an intermediate-complexity snow hydrology modelling framework, The Cryosphere, 2024.
The FSM2trans code is derived from the FSM2 model (Essery et al., 2015) and its variant FSM2oshd (Mott et al., 2023). In this model, we implemented and adapted the snowdrift model SnowTran-3D (Liston et al., 2007) and the avalanching model SnowSlide (Bernhardt and Schulz, 2010).
This dataset does not include the processing scripts to prepare meteorological input data for the model, provided as bin files.

avalanche

display_name: avalanche

snow-modelling

display_name: snow-modelling

snowdrift

display_name: snowdrift

snowpack

display_name: snowpack

source-code

display_name: source-code

en: FSM2trans code


maintainer: EnviDat Support

en: qpcr crispr-dx edna threatened-species african-manatee crispr-cas environmental-dna biodiversity-monitoring field-based-protocol

state: active

type: dataset

media_type: application/zip

en:
Folder containing the data files with Cp values (qPCR) and the CRISPR-Dx classifications. CRISPR_field_based_classifications.csv file contains the classifications per pool per extract (0: no detection, 1: detection) for the African manatee (Trichechus senegalensis).
CRISPR_lab_based_classifications.csv file contains the classifications per pool per extract (0: no detection, 1: detection).
qPCR_Cp_2nd_derivative.csv file contains the Cp value of the 8 replicates of each extract.

format: ZIP

en: File containing overview of site names and extract number (field-based or lab-based extraction). The extract_number_field_based corresponds to the identically called column in CRISPR_field_based_classifications.csv file in the data folder, as the extract_number_lab_based to the column in the file CRISPR_lab_based_classifications.csv file and the qPCR_Cp_2nd_derivative.csv file (also in the data folder). The file includes the GPS coordinates of the sampling location (transect start point).

media_type: text/plain

en: Description of project and folders and files

format: TXT

en:
Data associated to the publication "Rapid field-based detection of a threatened and elusive species with environmental DNA and CRISPR-Dx"

 Authors:

Flurin Leugger, Martina Lüthi, Michel Schmidlin, Zacharias Kontarakis and Loïc Pellissier

 Contact:

flurinleugger@gmail.com
loic.pellissier@usys.ethz.ch

 Project description:

We collected eDNA samples in the Conkouati-Douli National Park in the Republic of Congo in 2023 in collaboration with Beauval Nature and HELP Congo. We analyzed the samples on site in the national park using CRISPR-Dx assays to detect the African manatee (*Trichechus senegalensis*). Additionally, we transported the remaining samples (buffer) to Switzerland and used a high-sensitivity protocol with CRISPR-Dx assays and a qPCR assay to verify the field-based detections. The qPCR of Hunter et al. (2018) detects the genus manatee (Trichechus). See publication for more details (doi will be added after publication).

 Folders:

 lateral_flow_tests_images\:

Images of the lateral flow tests used to analyze the eDNA extracts in the national park. File names correspond to the site names. At each site, we took two filter replicates. We ran 8 PCRs per filter/extract and pooled two PCRs together, resulting in 4 CRISPR-Dx assays per extract. The EVE number on top of the tests indicates the environmental extract number we use to track the extracts in our data base. It corresponds to the extract_number_field_based in the metadata and data folder. The negative extraction control with the strongest "band" was placed right to the eDNA extract on each image (labelled hand written with NC x.y).

 metadata\:

File containing overview of site names and extract number (field-based or lab-based extraction). The extract_number_field_based corresponds to the identically called column in CRISPR_field_based_classifications.csv file, as the extract_number_lab_based to the column in the file CRISPR_lab_based_classifications.csv file and the qPCR_Cp_2nd_derivative.csv file. The file includes the GPS coordinates of the sampling location (transect start point).

 data\:

Folder containing the files with Cp values (qPCR) and the CRISPR-Dx classifications. CRISPR_field_based_classifications.csv file contains the classifications per pool per extract (0: no detection, 1: detection) for the African manatee (Trichechus senegalensis).
CRISPR_lab_based_classifications.csv file contains the classifications per pool per extract (0: no detection, 1: detection).
qPCR_Cp_2nd_derivative.csv file contains the Cp value of the 8 replicates of each extract.

african-manatee

display_name: african-manatee

biodiversity-monitoring

display_name: biodiversity-monitoring

crispr-cas

display_name: crispr-cas

crispr-dx

display_name: crispr-dx

edna

display_name: edna

environmental-dna

display_name: environmental-dna

field-based-protocol

display_name: field-based-protocol

qpcr

display_name: qpcr

threatened-species

display_name: threatened-species

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: Field-based eDNA analysis to detect the threatened and elusive African manatee


en: uetliberg plant-species flora-change zurich occurrence

media_type: text/csv

en:
The list gives the clearly identifiable plant species from Schinz (1775). Die Reise auf den Uetliberg. Verlag des Waysenhauses, Zürich). Several species given in Schinz (1775) are not identifiable to the species level and are not included in the list. Similarly, Vicia pisiformis, Erbsenartige Wicke, given by Schinz (1775) is probably a misidentification and also not included in the list.

Latin plant species name Schinz 1775: Latin plant name (if) given by Schinz (1775); na: not available
German plant species name Schinz 1775: German plant name given by Schinz (1775)
Latin plant species name Info Flora 2024: Latin plant name according to www.infoflora.ch in 2024
German plant species name Info Flora 2024: German plant name according to www.infoflora.ch in 2024
Plant species still occurring in 2020: Plant species given in Schinz (1775) still occurring at the Uetliberg in 2020 (Zürcherische Botanische Gesellschaft. 2020. Flora des Kanton Zürich. Haupt, Bern); occurrence of Thesium alpinum, Alpen-Bergflachs, according to floristic knowledge of Rolf Holderegger and Michèle Büttner; 1: still occurring; 0: no longer occurring / extinct.

format: CSV

en:
The list gives the clearly identifiable plant species from Schinz (1775). Die Reise auf den Uetliberg. Verlag des Waysenhauses, Zürich). Several species given in Schinz (1775) are not identifiable to the species level and are not included in the list. Similarly, *Vicia pisiformis*, Erbsenartige Wicke, given by Schinz (1775) is probably a misidentification and also not included in the list.
Latin plant species name Schinz 1775: Latin plant name (if) given by Schinz (1775); na: not available
German plant species name Schinz 1775: German plant name given by Schinz (1775)
Latin plant species name Info Flora 2024: Latin plant name according to www.infoflora.ch in 2024
German plant species name Info Flora 2024: German plant name according to www.infoflora.ch in 2024
Plant species still occurring in 2020: Plant species given in Schinz (1775) still occurring at the Uetliberg in 2020 (Zürcherische Botanische Gesellschaft. 2020. Flora des Kanton Zürich. Haupt, Bern); occurrence of *Thesium alpinum*, Alpen-Bergflachs, according to floristic knowledge of Rolf Holderegger and Michèle Büttner; 1: still occurring; 0: no longer occurring / extinct.

flora-change

display_name: flora-change

occurrence

display_name: occurrence

plant-species

display_name: plant-species

uetliberg

display_name: uetliberg

zurich

display_name: zurich

en: Plant species list from 1775 and 2020 for Uetliberg Zürich


backward-trajectories

maintainer: Michael Sprenger

title_for_slug: backward-trajectories

en: raclets lagrangian-analysis alps atmospheric-dynamics backward-trajectories complex-topopgraphy cosmo

en: Backward Trajectories

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

mimetype: application/zip

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

alps

display_name: alps

atmospheric-dynamics

display_name: atmospheric-dynamics

backward-trajectories

display_name: backward-trajectories

complex-topopgraphy

display_name: complex-topopgraphy

cosmo

display_name: cosmo

lagrangian-analysis

display_name: lagrangian-analysis

raclets

display_name: raclets

en: Backward  Trajectories


maintainer: Matthias Haeni

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

en: Data plot of the forest station (BTB)

en: Data file.

mimetype: text/csv

en: Site photo of the forest station (BTB)

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

format: SERVICE

mimetype: image/jpeg

en: Site photo of the field station (BTF)

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

media_type: application/pdf

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

format: PDF

mimetype: application/pdf

en: Data plot of the field station (BTF)

en: Field station data (BTF)

en: Site aerial photo (Bettlachstock)

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

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 Bettlachstock in Switzerland where one station is located within a natural mixed forest stand (BTB) with European beech (_Fagus sylvatica_; 170-190 yrs), European silver fir (_Abies alba_; 190 yrs) and Norway spruce (_Picea abies_; 200 yrs) as dominant tree species. A second station is situated in the very vicinity outside of the forest (field station, BTF). The meteorological time series are presented in hourly time resolution of air temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and wind speed. Bettlachstock 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

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


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

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

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

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

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

en: information on ingredients of national dishes

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

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

agro-food-trade

display_name: agro-food-trade

food-preferences

display_name: food-preferences

food-taste-similarity

display_name: food-taste-similarity

latent-semantic-analysis

display_name: latent-semantic-analysis

national-dishes

display_name: national-dishes

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

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

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


maintainer: Jonas Stillhard

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

en: Dataset

en: Data description

en: Available online on publishers website

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

carpathian-biosphere-reserve

display_name: carpathian-biosphere-reserve

dem

display_name: dem

fagus-sylvatica

display_name: fagus-sylvatica

forest

display_name: forest

forest-dynamics

display_name: forest-dynamics

forest-structure

display_name: forest-structure

long-term-data-sets

display_name: long-term-data-sets

permanent-forest-plot-data

display_name: permanent-forest-plot-data

primeval-beech-forest

display_name: primeval-beech-forest

stand-inventory-data

display_name: stand-inventory-data

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


maintainer: Tessa Hegetschweiler

en: childhood forest adolescents teenagers recreational-activities

en: Questionnaire school survey

en: The questionnaire used in the survey at 8 schools aimed at teenagers in German.

en: Dataset comments

en: The codebook to the dataset

format: XLS

en: Dataset survey at schools

en: The dataset of the questionnaire survey at schools in excel format.

en: Survey at schools 2017

en: The dataset of the questionnaire survey at schools in SPSS-format.

en: The data results from a questionnaire survey conducted at 8 schools in the cantons Zurich, Aargau and St. Gallen. Respondents aged 13-22 years. The aim of the survey was to gain insight into teenagers' relationship to the forest, reasons for visiting or not visiting the forest and activities in the forest.

adolescents

display_name: adolescents

childhood

display_name: childhood

recreational-activities

display_name: recreational-activities

teenagers

display_name: teenagers

en: Factors influencing teenagers' forest visit frequency


en: soil-water-balance precipitation temperature growing-season-length growing-degree-days relative-humidity solar-radiation

en: CHELSA-BIOCLIM+

en: Global extented set of bioclimatic variables at different temporal (e.g. monthly, annual, long term normals) resolution in Geotiff format.

format: GeoTIFF

en: CHELSA-BIOCLIM+ Technical Documentation

en: Technical documentation document including the variable names, units, scaling, offset, and background.

en: A multitude of physical and biological processes on which ecosystems and human societies depend are governed by climatic conditions. Understanding how these processes are altered by climate change is central to mitigation efforts. Based on mechanistically downscaled climate data, we developed a set of climate-related variables at yet unprecedented spatiotemporal detail as a basis for environmental and ecological analyses. We created gridded data for near-surface relative humidity (hurs), cloud area fraction (clt), near-surface wind speed (sfcWind), vapour pressure deficit (vpd), surface downwelling shortwave radiation (rsds), potential evapotranspiration (pet), climate moisture index (cmi), and site water balance (swb), at a monthly temporal and 30 arcsec spatial resolution globally starting 1980 until 2018. At the same spatial resolution, we further estimated climatological normals of frost change frequency (fcf), snow cover days (scd), potential net primary productivity (npp), growing degree days (gdd), and growing season characteristics for the periods 1981-2010, 2011-2040, 2041-2070, and 2071-2100, considering three shared socioeconomic pathways (SSP126, SSP370, SSP585) and five Earth system models. Time-series variables showed high accuracy when validated against observations from meteorological stations. Climatological normals were also highly correlated to observations although some variables showed notable biases, e.g., snow cover days (scd). Together, the data sets presented here allow improving our understanding of patterns and processes that are governed by climate, including the impact of recent and future climate changes on the world’s ecosystems and associated services to societies.

growing-degree-days

display_name: growing-degree-days

growing-season-length

display_name: growing-season-length

precipitation

display_name: precipitation

relative-humidity

display_name: relative-humidity

soil-water-balance

display_name: soil-water-balance

solar-radiation

display_name: solar-radiation

temperature

display_name: temperature

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: CHELSA-BIOCLIM+ A novel set of global climate-related predictors at kilometre-resolution


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

en: Read-me file

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

en: Field observations of snow instabilities

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

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

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

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

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

avalanche

display_name: avalanche

avalanche-danger

display_name: avalanche-danger

avalanche-forecasting

display_name: avalanche-forecasting

danger-level

display_name: danger-level

snow

display_name: snow

snow-instability

display_name: snow-instability


radiosondes

maintainer: Jörg Wieder

title_for_slug: radiosondes

en: temperature pressure wind-direction relative-humidity raclets radiosonde wind holoballoon

en: Radiosond Template Files

en:
The "template" files contain standard parameters, i.e. ambient pressure (mbar and Pa), temperature (°C), relative humidity (%), wind speed (m s‾ ¹) and wind direction (true deg), as well as additional information, e.g. time (UTC and local time), dew point (°C), mixing ration (g/kg), density (kg m³), altitude (m MSL), height above ground (ft and m AGL), and geographic coordinates (longitude, latitude). If the wind speed was zero, no wind direction is given.
The zip files contain ascents on the following days:
February 10 (morning and afternoon),
February 11 (morning),
February 16 (afternoon),
February 22 (morning),
March 1 (morning),
March 5 (morning),
March 11 (morning),
March 12 (morning),
March 13 (morning),
March 14 (morning),
March 17 (afternoon), and
March 18.
The data was managed with Windsond Receiver Application Demo Version 2.92, (C) Sparv Embedded AB 2016.

en: Radiosond Sounding Files

en:
The "soundings" radiosond data contains information on ambient pressure (mbar), temperature (C), relative humidity (%), wind speed (m s‾ ¹) and wind direction (true deg), and are ordered with respect to the height above ground (m AGL) with a step size of 20 m. The first line of each file idicates the geographic location and the start time (in UTC) of the ascent. If the wind speed was zero, no wind direction is given.
The zip files contain ascents on the following days:
February 10 (morning and afternoon),
February 11 (morning),
February 16 (afternoon),
February 22 (morning),
March 1 (morning),
March 5 (morning),
March 11 (morning),
March 12 (morning),
March 13 (morning),
March 14 (morning),
March 17 (afternoon), and
March 18.
The data was managed with Windsond Receiver Application Demo Version 2.92, (C) Sparv Embedded AB 2016.

en: Radiosondes (Windsond, Sparv Embedded AB) were started in Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) to report height profiles of pressure, relative humidity and temperature at specific days. In addition to regular launches of radiosondes, sondes were attached to [HoloBalloon](https://www.envidat.ch/group/clouds-in-situ-raclets) to report the ambient conditions of the in-situ measurements. Further profiles of meteorological measures were recorded at [HoloGondel](https://www.envidat.ch/group/clouds-in-situ-raclets) which was installed at the gondola moving between Gotschnaboden and Gotschnagrat at 2285 m a.s.l.

holoballoon

display_name: holoballoon

pressure

display_name: pressure

raclets

display_name: raclets

radiosonde

display_name: radiosonde

wind

display_name: wind

wind-direction

display_name: wind-direction

en: Radiosondes


en: soil-texture glide-snow-avalanche alpine soil soil-classification lwc matric-potential measurements

en: Coordinates of each soil location, location of the snow profiles, and location of the snow liquid water content measurements

en: Detailed information of each file in the dataset

en: Daily averaged values used for the direct fitting

en: Complete list of the van Genuchten parameter values for each soil and method

en: Hydrus files used for the inverse fitting

en: Texture data of the soil locations

en: The dataset contains measured values of soil liquid water content, matric potential, and soil texture of 40 soil samples in Davos, Switzerland. The measurements were used for determining van Genuchten parameter values through fitting of water retention curves, pedotransfer functions, and inverse fitting with Hydrus-1D.

alpine

display_name: alpine

glide-snow-avalanche

display_name: glide-snow-avalanche

lwc

display_name: lwc

matric-potential

display_name: matric-potential

measurements

display_name: measurements

soil

display_name: soil

soil-classification

display_name: soil-classification

soil-texture

display_name: soil-texture

en: Soil measurements of Seewer Berg and Davos


maintainer: Lyu

en: species-richness species-occurrence species-distribution-model pinales fagales species-range-map

en: Occurrence maps for species of Fagales and Pinales with few records

en: Point_buffer.zip includes 267 occurrence maps of species that do not have enough occurrence data for polygon mapping.

en: Species range maps of species in Fagales and Pinales (with enough occurrences)

en: species_map.zip includes species 1690 range maps generated based on the integrated method described in Lyu et al., (2022). File names with (polygon) indicate that this map is only generated by polygon mapping, as there are not enough occurrences for SDMs.

en:
This database contains 1957 distribution maps of species from Fagales and Pinales constructed based on a method integrating polygon mapping and SDMs (Lyu et al., 2022).
To construct the maps, we first collected occurrence data from 48 different sources. According to the number of occurrences after data cleaning, three kinds of maps are constructed: (1) For species with more than 20 occurrences, we performed SDM and polygon mapping described in Lyu et al. (2022) and select the integration of the two layers as the distribution range; (2) For species with more than 4 but less than 20 occurrences, we only use polygon mapping to draw the distribution range; (3) For species with less than 4 occurrences, a 20-km buffer was generated around the occurrences as the distribution range. The maps were manually checked and evaluated (see Note S3 and Table S9 in Lyu et al., 2022 for details).

fagales

display_name: fagales

pinales

display_name: pinales

species-distribution-model

display_name: species-distribution-model

species-occurrence

display_name: species-occurrence

species-range-map

display_name: species-range-map

species-richness

display_name: species-richness

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: Species distribution maps of Fagales and Pinales (GDPlants)


en: cavity-nesting hymenoptera bees urbanization natural-enemies wasps performance-traits cities urban-ecology richness life-history-traits hymennoptera

en: Taxonomic metrics on CNBW

en:
The data contains at the site level the species richness of cavity-nesting bees and wasps. It also contains site level estimates of the life-history traits and the performance traits.

We calculated species richness, abundance, and number of nests of the hatched hosts separately for bees and wasps. We calculated the abundance of hatched hosts as the number of brood cells where an individual emerged, i.e. the total number of brood cells minus the number of parasitized cells and the number of cells with no emergence for reasons other than parasitism.

City codes: An =Antwerp, Pa = Paris; Po = Poznan; Ta =Tartu; Zu= Zurich

en: Information on the study sites

en: For each site, the IDs, city, coordinates, structure where the trapnest was attached and height is provided

en: Predictors of the study

en: Performance traits and life-history traits

en:
It contains the data of two performance traits (survival and parasitism) and two life-history traits (sex ratio and number of offspring per nest for the hosts) at the nest level.

We assessed performance traits, i.e. survival and parasitism, at the individual cell level. Specifically, for each cell within a nest, we noted whether the cell was alive or dead (survival), and whether it had a parasite or not (parasitism). Further, we calculated the parasitism rate as the number of cells with a parasite divided by the total number of cells. Concerning life-history traits, we calculated the total number of brood cells per nest as the total number of brood cells within a single nest, regardless of whether the larvae were dead, alive or parasitized. Finally, we used the probability that a femalehost emerged from a given cell as a proxy for the sex ratio. To do so, we first identified the sex of the individual hosts. Then, we noted it in a binary way to indicate whether the host was a female or not. We could identify the sex of all hatched hosts. Further, because CNBW first lay females and then males, on some occasions we could also identify the host sex in dead and parasitized cells, that is, when we had already identified the sex of the preceding and the following cells.

en: Taxonomic metrics on the natural enemies

en: It contains the species richness and the abundance of natural enemies per site.

en:
 Background
Urban ecosystems are associated with socio-ecological conditions that can filter and promote taxa. However, the strength of the effect of ecological filtering on biodiversity could vary among biotic and abiotic factors. Here, we provide the data used to investigate the effects of habitat amount, temperature, and host-enemy biotic interactions in shaping communities of cavity-nesting bees and wasps (CNBW) and their natural enemies. To do so, we installed trap-nests in 80 sites distributed along urban intensity gradients in 5 European cities (Antwerp, Paris, Poznan, Tartu and Zurich). We quantified the species richness and abundance of CNBW hosts and their natural enemies, as well as two performance traits (survival and parasitism) and two life-history traits (sex ratio and number of offspring per nest for the hosts).
The dataset contains:
* The taxonomic metrics on CNBW
* The taxonomic metrics on the natural enemies from CNBW
* The life-history traits and performance traits

bees

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cavity-nesting

display_name: cavity-nesting

cities

display_name: cities

hymennoptera

display_name: hymennoptera

hymenoptera

display_name: hymenoptera

life-history-traits

display_name: life-history-traits

natural-enemies

display_name: natural-enemies

performance-traits

display_name: performance-traits

richness

display_name: richness

urban-ecology

display_name: urban-ecology

urbanization

display_name: urbanization

wasps

display_name: wasps

en: Community structure, life-history traits and performance traits of urban cavity-nesting bees annd wasps


en: endemism flora geology madagascar landscape-evolution

en: Escarpment evolution drives the diversification of the Madagascar flora

en: This upload contains the data (species checklist, species range maps, time-calibrated phylogenies, topographic change, etc.) generated, analyzed, and presented in the paper .

en: Data v1.0

en: Although much of the endemic biodiversity of Madagascar can be attributed to its isolation as an island in the Indian Ocean, the high rates of speciation throughout its geologic history suggest an influence of local-scale landscape dynamics. The topographic evolution of Madagascar is dominated by the formation of high-relief continental rift escarpment and we argue that the erosion and landward retreat of this topography creates habitat heterogeneity that has served as a speciation pump for the island. The highest plant richness is found along the escarpment and is characterized by steady diversification rates over the last 45 Ma. Modeled landscape evolution by escarpment retreat demonstrates opportunities for allopatric speciation by transient habitat fragmentation through multiple mechanisms, including catchment expansion, isolation of highland remnants and formation of topographic and river barriers The segregation of floral phylogenetic turnover parallel to the escarpment is consistent with these mechanisms and indicates the importance of erosion-driven landscape dynamics on speciation.

endemism

display_name: endemism

flora

display_name: flora

geology

display_name: geology

landscape-evolution

display_name: landscape-evolution

madagascar

display_name: madagascar


en: forest-dynamics example-applications bioclimatic-variables climate-change r-package species-migration treemig land-use spatial-modelling forest-management forest

en:
1) Simulation environment TMEnvironmentExampleApplications for the simulation of the case study applications. It contains a) simulation settings (folder C), b) species parameters (folder P), c) folders S, R and P for the state files and results and plots to be produced, and the binaries of the TreeMig model.
2) Input data for Switzerland in TMInputData (Climate, soil, land cover, DEM)
3) Several R scripts (folder Scripts) to run and plot the simulations directly from R without having to use the graphical user interface.
For learning how to use TreeMig we recommend the starter kit https://www.doi.org/10.16904/envidat.533.

en: A condensed instruction for running the presented simulations.

en: R-script to install the TreeMig framework and start the graphical user interface

en: Where the environmental and land use input data come from and how they were processed

en:
The TreeMig framework allows for an easy application of the forest landscape model TreeMig for simulating forest dynamics in space under changing environmental and land use conditions.
Here, case study examples in Switzerland are given that simulate the dynamics and spatial spread of competing tree species in a region in Switzerland, the invasion of a hypothetical invasive tree species, and the control of this species via a management model coupled to TreeMig. The datasets consist of the installation- and GUI starting-script, example environmental input data for Switzerland, the simulation environment, and further R-scripts for running the simulations and plotting the simulation results directly from R and for coupling TreeMig to the forest management model.

bioclimatic-variables

display_name: bioclimatic-variables

climate-change

display_name: climate-change

example-applications

display_name: example-applications

forest

display_name: forest

forest-dynamics

display_name: forest-dynamics

forest-management

display_name: forest-management

land-use

display_name: land-use

r-package

display_name: r-package

spatial-modelling

display_name: spatial-modelling

species-migration

display_name: species-migration

treemig

display_name: treemig

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: Case study applications demonstrating the use and potential of the TreeMig framework v1


maintainer: Camille Albouy

en: atlantic-region bay-biscay chondrichthyes teleo fish-composition actinopterygii dna-metabarcoding edna

en: Data access

en:
Environmental DNA complements scientific trawling in surveys of marine fish biodiversity (Dataset 2020)

In October 2020 we chose 16 sites from the 2020 EVHOE survey for eDNA sampling. The French international EVHOE bottom trawl survey is carried out annually during autumn in the BoB to monitor demersal fish resources. All sites were located on the continental shelf (26–170 m depth), except one on the upper slope with a depth of 1045 m. To perform eDNA sampling, we collected water samples at 15 sites (Figure 1a). At each site, we sampled seawater using Niskin bottles deployed with a circular rosette. There were nine bottles on the rosette, each of them able to hold ∼5 l of water. At each site, we first cleaned the circular rosette and bottles with freshwater, then lowered the rosette (with bottles open) to 5 m above the sea bottom, and finally closed the bottles remotely from the boat. The 45 l of sampled water was transferred to four disposable and sterilized plastic bags of 11.25 l each to perform the filtration on-board in a laboratory dedicated to the processing of eDNA samples. To speed up the filtration process, we used two identical filtration devices, each composed of an Athena® peristaltic pump (Proactive Environmental Products LLC, Bradenton, Florida, USA; nominal flow of 1.0 l min–1 ), a VigiDNA 0.20 μm filtration capsule (SPYGEN, le Bourget du Lac, France), and disposable sterile tubing. Each filtration device filtered the water contained in two plastic bags (22.5 l), which represent two replicates per sampling site. We followed a rigorous protocol to avoid contamination during fieldwork, using disposable gloves and single-use filtration equipment and plastic bags to process each water sample. At the end of each filtration, we emptied the water inside the capsule that we replaced by 80 ml of CL1 conservation buffer and stored the samples at room temperature following the specifications of the manufacturer (SPYGEN, Le Bourget du Lac, France). We processed the eDNA capsules at SPYGEN, following the protocol proposed by Polanco-Fernández et al., (2020). We performed library preparation and sequencing at Fasteris (Geneva, Switzerland). Specifically, we prepared four libraries using the MetaFast protocol (a ligation-based method) and sequenced them separately. We carried out paired-end sequencing using a MiSeq sequencer (2 × 125 bp, Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA) on two MiSeq Flow Cell Kits (v3; Illumina), following the manufacturer’s instructions. We analysed the sequence reads using the OBITools package (http:
//metabarcoding.org/obitools; Boyer et al., 2016), following the protocol described by Valentini et al. (2016).

Data content:
	* rawdata/: contains the raw reads for each individual sample. One archive contains the paired-end reads specified by the _R1 or _R2 suffix as well as individually tagged PCR replicates (if available) together with an archive containing all extraction and PCR blank samples of the library. Reads have been demultiplexed using cutadapt but not trimmed, individual demultiplexing tags and primers remain present in the sequences.
	* taxadata/: contains the table with all detected taxonomy for each sample after bioinformatic processing (see Polanco et al. 2020 for details; https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.140) and associated field metadata.
	* metadata/: contains two metadata files, one related to the data collected in the field for each filter, and the second related to the sequencing process in the lab (including the tag sequence, library name, and marker information for each sample)

actinopterygii

display_name: actinopterygii

atlantic-region

display_name: atlantic-region

bay-biscay

display_name: bay-biscay

chondrichthyes

display_name: chondrichthyes

dna-metabarcoding

display_name: dna-metabarcoding

edna

display_name: edna

fish-composition

display_name: fish-composition

teleo

display_name: teleo

en: Environmental DNA Marine France Evhoe 2020


en: biodiversity birds fungi urban urban-ecology urban-biodiversity insects fungal-pathogen

en: Data tables including individual bird data with biometry, prey species from faecal samples, and fungi species from swab samples.

en:
We captured birds in urban parks and peri-urban forests in the cities of Lugano and Zurich. The urban sites were located in an urban forest (Lugano) and in a cemetery (Zurich), and the bird assemblages were comparable with those of the surrounding forests.
We captured individual birds during sessions lasting multiple days using mist-nets, concentrating the activities within 3-4 hours after sunrise and before sunset. We extracted birds from nets using single-use nitrile gloves and gently wiped their body parts with a dry foam swab MW940 (Medical Wire & Equipment), which was then placed in a screw-capped tube (2 ml), which was previously filled with 1 ml ethanol puriss. (Sigma-Aldrich) under sterile conditions.Then, we marked each bird with an alphanumeric leg band, identified the species, determined the sex and age whenever possible, measured for relevant biometrics (e.g. wing chord), the amount of body fat and pectoral muscle (i.e. body condition), and weighed.
Afterwards, we placed each bird in a disposable paper bag within a cotton bag that ensured respiration and left it for few minutes in a safe and calm place to allow for defecation and the collection of faecal samples. The faecal sample was collected from insectivorous and omnivorous birds, and few granivorous birds that are known to occasionally eat invertebrates, such as the house sparrow Passer domesticus.
After releasing the bird, we stored the faecal sample in a screw-capped tube (2 ml), which was previously filled with 1 ml ethanol puriss. (Sigma-Aldrich) under sterile conditions. We wore single-use nitrile gloves and used sterile toothpicks to collect solid samples. The tubes were initially stored in the refrigerator during the field campaign and no later than seven days after collection at -20°C until prepared for DNA extraction.
DNA extraction and library preparation was performed at WSL Phytopathology facilites, Sequencing was performed at Lausanne Genomic Technologies Facility (University of Lausanne; [https://wp.unil.ch/gtf/](https://wp.unil.ch/gtf/)) on an AVITI benchtop sequencing system (Element Biosciences). Bioinformatics was performed at the Genetic Diversity Center (ETH Zurich) using a custom pipeline.

biodiversity

display_name: biodiversity

birds

display_name: birds

fungal-pathogen

display_name: fungal-pathogen

fungi

display_name: fungi

insects

display_name: insects

urban

display_name: urban

urban-biodiversity

display_name: urban-biodiversity

urban-ecology

display_name: urban-ecology

en: Urban bird capture data with prey species and fungal community


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

en: Data plot of the field station (ISF)

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

en: Site photo of the forest station (ISB)

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

en: Field station data (ISF)

en: Data file.

en: Data plot of the forest station (ISB)

en: Site photo of the field station (ISF)

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

en: Forest station data (ISB)

en: Site aerial photo (Isone)

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

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 Isone in Switzerland where one station is located within a natural broad-leaved forest stand (ISB) with European beech (_Fagus sylvatica_; 70-100 yrs) as dominant tree species. A second station is situated in the very vicinity outside of the forest (field station, ISF). The meteorological time series are presented in hourly time resolution of air temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and wind speed. Isone 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

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


maintainer: Frank Techel

en: snow danger-level european-alps warning-regions avalanche-forecast

en: Forecast avalanche danger level

en: contains the highest forecast danger level (dangerLevelMax) for each day and warning region

en: shape file warning regions Alps

en:
This dataset contains the data used in the publication by Techel et al., 2018 _Spatial consistency and bias in avalanche forecasts - a case study in the European Alps_ (Nat Haz Earth Syst Sci).
For details on the data please refer to this publication.
The dataset contains the following:
- shape files for the warning regions in the Alps
- highest forecast danger level for each warning region and day

avalanche-forecast

display_name: avalanche-forecast

danger-level

display_name: danger-level

european-alps

display_name: european-alps

snow

display_name: snow

warning-regions

display_name: warning-regions

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: Forecast avalanche danger level European Alps 2011 - 2015


maintainer: Alexandre Buttler

en: silvopastoral-systems soil climate-change biogeochemisty transplantation-experiment

en: Dataset

en: Zip archive of all datasets detailed in study.

en:
Silvopastoral systems are highly productive and combine long-term wood production with annual provision of forage for livestock. In the Swiss Jura Mountains these systems are a key component of the landscape. As in other cold biomes, climate change can potentially accelerate landscape change within these historically sustainable systems.

In order to anticipate the evolution of subalpine wooded pasture ecosystems under future climate and land-use changes, this project focused on the interplay between soil, vegetation and climate. It was aimed at providing experimental evidence for chief ecosystem processes, with emphasis on the quality of the ecosystem services provided. The main interest was placed on vegetation turf resistance to climate change along an unwooded – sparsely wooded - densely wooded pasture gradient (land-use intensity), where plant productivity, diversity and succession along with rates of carbon cycling and microbial activity provided measures of ecosystem functioning at both plot and landscape level.

Experimental transplantation of monolith soil turfs to lower altitudes allowed to simulate soil warming and reduced annual precipitation. In order to simulate a year-round warmer and drier climate the natural climate variation along an altitudinal gradient was used as a proxy. The aim was to simulate realistic climate change scenarios for the second half of the 21st century predicted by the IPCC report and downscaled for Switzerland providing regionalized interpolated projections integrating therein trends for temperature increase and precipitation decrease. By using permanent meteorological stations within the network of the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss), we obtained high resolution regional data on the variation of mean annual temperature (MAT) and mean annual precipitation (MAP) in relation to altitude in the Swiss Jura Mountains. We observed a general increase of +0.5 K in MAT and a decrease of -20 % MAP for each 100 m decrease in altitude along the SE slope of the Swiss Jura Mountains. These relationships served for the selection of the transplantation sites such that in comparison to a control site at 1350 m a.s.l. (Combe des Amburnex, N 46°54’, E 6°23’) a +2 K MAT and -20 % MAP was achieved at 1010 m a.s.l. (Saint-George, N 46°52’, E 6°26’), a +4 K MAT and -40 % MAP at 570 m a.s.l., (Arboretum d’Aubonne, N 46°51’, E 6°37’), and a +5 K MAT and -50 % MAP at 395 m a.s.l. (Les Bois Chamblard, N 46°47’, E 6°41’). The two stations at 1010 m a.s.l. and 570 m a.s.l. corresponded to the IPCC scenario A1B for a moderate increase in greenhouse gas emissions and to scenario A2 for a high increase in greenhouse gas emissions, respectively. The station at 395 m a.s.l. was chosen to represent an extreme scenario with climate variables lying at the positive tail distribution of model predictions under the A2 scenario.

Soil cores were assembled into rectangular PVC boxes of 60  80 cm2 size and of 35 cm height. All mesocosms were dug down to surface level into previously prepared trenches in the ground thus preventing lateral heat exchange with the atmosphere. Since at each site the mesocosms were placed in a common garden with no light interception, mesocosms with turfs from the two wooded pastures were shaded from direct sun light to simulate the natural light conditions in the corresponding habitats. Each mesocosm was equipped with a drainage system and was connected to a water tank thus representing a zero potential lysimeter collecting soil solution and precipitation/snowmelt runoff. ECH2O EC-TM sensor probes coupled to Em50 data-loggers (Decagon Devices, Inc., USA) recorded soil temperature and volumetric water content in each mesocosm at the top-soil (0 to -3 cm) every minute and data were averaged over one hour intervals. Climate parameters at each transplantation site were monitored continuously throughout the experiment by means of automated weather stations (Sensor Scope Sàrl, Switzerland), measuring rain precipitation (non-heated tipping bucket gauges) and air temperature and humidity 2 m above the ground surface at one minute intervals.

A list of above- and belowground variables were measured to assess the resilience of biogeochemical processes, plant productivity, tree regeneration, and carbon sequestration for each respective land-use practice. Furthermore, the experimental data were used to improve on (parameterization) the existing spatially explicit, dynamic model WoodPaM and refine the modelʼs climatic and land-use variables so that different scenarios of climate change and land use change could be simulated. Natural and management induced disturbance patterns were incorporated into the model.
The data have been made available within the project CCES Mounted. The climate stations Sensorscope are still in use within the project CLIMARBRE (Wald und Klimawandel, WSL/BAFU).

#References

1. Puissant, J., Cécillon, L., Mills, R.T.E., Robroek, B.J.M. Gavazov, K., De Danieli, S., Spiegelberger, T., Buttler, A., Brun, J.J. 2015. Seasonal influence of climate manipulation on microbial community structure and function in mountain soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 80: 296–305.
2. Mills, R., K. Gavazov, T. Spiegelberger, D. Johnson and A. Buttler 2014. Diminished soil functions occur under simulated climate change in a sup-alpine pasture, but heterotrophic temperature sensitivity indicates microbial resilience. Science of the Total Environment, vol. 473–474(0): 465-472.
3. Gavazov, K., Spiegelberger, T. and Buttler, A. 2014. Transplantation of subalpine wood-pasture turfs along a natural climatic gradient reveals lower resistance of unwooded pastures to climate change compared to wooded ones. Oecologia (174) : 1425-1435.
4. Peringer A., Siehoff S., Chételat J., Spiegelberger T., Buttler A. & Gillet F. 2013. Past and future landscape dynamics in pasture-woodlands of the Swiss Jura Mountains under climate change. Ecology and Society, 18, 3: 11. DOI: 10.5751/ES-05600-180311. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol18/iss3/art11/
5. Gavazov, K. S., A. Peringer, A. Buttler, F. Gillet and T. Spiegelberger. 2013. Dynamics of Forage Production in Pasture-woodlands of the Swiss Jura Mountains under Projected Climate Change Scenarios. Ecology and Society 18 (1): 38. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol18/iss1/art38/

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silvopastoral-systems

display_name: silvopastoral-systems

soil

display_name: soil

transplantation-experiment

display_name: transplantation-experiment

en: Biogeochemical data from a transplantation experiment of monolith soil turfs along an altitudinal gradient to simulate climate change scenarios


swiss-fluxnet-site-davos

title_for_slug: swiss-fluxnet-site-davos

en: icos swiss-forest-lab greenhouse-gas swiss-fluxnet eddy-covariance meteorological-measurements forest flux

en: Site description

en: Processed data

en: Processed flux and meteo data are available from the European Fluxes Database Cluster.

en: Fluxnet2015 dataset

en: Processed flux and meteo data are also part of the Fluxnet2015 dataset.

en: Data access

en: The flux and meteo data of the Swiss FluxNet site Davos are openly available. Near real-time flux and meteo data are uploaded daily to the ICOS Carbon Portal.

en:
The Swiss FluxNet Site Davos is a managed subalpine evergreen forest, located on the Seehorn mountain near Davos in the Swiss Alps. The site is dominated by Norway spruce. The tower is owned by the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN).
Ecosystem flux measurements of CO2, H2O (since 1997) as well as CH4 and N2O (since 2016) are performed with the eddy covariance method.
In addition to Swiss FluxNet, the site is part of the National Air Pollution Monitoring Network (NABEL), the Long term Forest Ecosystem Research (LWF), the biological drought and growth indicator network (TreeNet) and of ICOS Switzerland (Integrated Carbon Observation System). Since November 2019, the site is an ICOS Class 1 Ecosystem station.

Measurements

- Ecosystem flux measurements of CO2, H2O vapour (since 1997) as well a CH4 and N2O (since 2016) are performed with the eddy-covariance method. This method is based on measurements of trace gas mixing ratios, using infrared gas analyzers (for CO2, H2O vapor) and laser spectrometers (for CH4 and N2O), combined with wind speed and wind direction measurements, using 3D sonic anemometers. To resolve the short-term turbulent fluctuations in the atmosphere, very fast measurements are needed: we measure at 10-20 Hz, i.e., 10-20 times per second. To assess the energy budget of each ecosystem, also radiation sensors and soil climate profiles are installed at the site.
- Sub-canopy eddy fluxes (CO2, H2O, since 2023 also CH4).
- Continuous profile concentration and forest floor flux measurement of CO2, H2O, CH4, N2O.
- Auxiliary micrometeorology and soil climate measurements.

Data availability

Near real-time flux and meteo data uploaded daily to the ICOS Carbon Portal. Processed flux and meteo data are also available from the European Fluxes Database Cluster and part of Fluxnet2015 dataset.

Data policy

ICOS data license:
[https://www.icos-cp.eu/data-services/about-data-portal/data-license](https://www.icos-cp.eu/data-services/about-data-portal/data-license)

Detailed site info:
[https://www.swissfluxnet.ethz.ch/index.php/sites/ch-dav-davos/site-info-ch-dav/](https://www.swissfluxnet.ethz.ch/index.php/sites/ch-dav-davos/site-info-ch-dav/)

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flux

display_name: flux

forest

display_name: forest

greenhouse-gas

display_name: greenhouse-gas

icos

display_name: icos

meteorological-measurements

display_name: meteorological-measurements

swiss-fluxnet

display_name: swiss-fluxnet

en: Swiss FluxNet Site Davos


maintainer: Loïc Pellissier Pellissier

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

en: Nematode surveys

en: Surveys of soil nematode along elevation

mimetype: text/plain

en: Orthoptera surveys

en: Species inventories of Orthoptera

en: Plant traits

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

en: Orthoptera traits

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

en: Vegetion surveys

en: Species inventories of plants

en: Study sites

en: Coordinates and elevation of the study sites

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

alps

display_name: alps

community-indices

display_name: community-indices

elevation

display_name: elevation

environmental-gradients

display_name: environmental-gradients

functional-traits

display_name: functional-traits

herbivores-communities

display_name: herbivores-communities

plant-herbivore-interactions

display_name: plant-herbivore-interactions

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: Above- and below-ground herbivore communities along elevation


maintainer: Michael Lombardo

en: snow measurements water soil pore-water transport

en: The Hydrus files used for the inverse fitting of the hydraulic conductivity.

en: Videos of the capillary rise experiments

en: Description of the videos

en: Descriptions of the nomenclature, Hydrus files, and videos.

en: This dataset consists of data related to capillary rise experiments performed with neutron radiography. There are 4 videos of capillary rise experiments as well as the files used to perform the inverse fitting with Hydrus. The videos show the upward flow of water in glass columns filled with sand and snow or sand, gravel, and snow. The videos show the 2D evolution of the unitless optical density with time. The Hydrus files were used to fit the parameter values of the Mualem-van Genuchten model. The experiments were performed at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland.

measurements

display_name: measurements

pore-water

display_name: pore-water

snow

display_name: snow

transport

display_name: transport

water

display_name: water

en: Capillary rise rise experiments in snow using neutron radiography


maintainer: Océane Hames

en: mosaic antarctica openfoam arctic-sea-ice snow-transport snow-deposition

en: Paper Draft

en: This is the initial draft of the paper where the snowBedFoam 1.0. results are tested against Terrestrial Laser Scan (TLS) measurements of snow dynamics on Arctic sea ice (MOSAiC expedition). It highlights the numerical limitations of our model as well as the measurement uncertainties, which may occur in such extreme environments.

en: Snowdrift measurements around Neumayer Station III

en: Files containing the topographical data barometrically measured in June 2009 around the German Antarctic Research station Neumayer III. Those measurements are compared to the snowBedFoam simulations to assess the ability of the model to reproduce real snow distribution observations.

en:
OpenFOAM-5.0 scripts containing the implemented Eulerian-Lagrangian snow transport model.
The code file provided here is not updated. The most recent version of the script can be found on the WSL/SLF GitLab repository: https://gitlabext.wsl.ch/atmospheric-models/snowbedfoam-v1-0.git

en: MOSAiC Met City preliminary (Level 2) wind data

en:
Extract from the preliminary MOSAiC atmospheric data (Level 2) for the time period 6th to 13th of November, 2019.
This data was used to set up the fluid forcing parameters in the snowBedFoam simulations on MOSAiC sea ice. It is being published in this repository with the kind permission from Matthew Shupe and his team.
The final processed and quality controlled version of this dataset (Level 3) has not been published yet. A complete reference will be added in this description once it is released.

en:
OpenFOAM-2.3.0. scripts containing the implemented Eulerian-Lagrangian snow transport model.

The code file provided here is not updated. The most recent version of the script can be found on the WSL/SLF GitLab repository: https://gitlabext.wsl.ch/atmospheric-models/snowbedfoam-v1-0.git

en: Neumayer III simulations

en:
Snow distribution results around Neumayer Station III obtained for the sensitivity analysis and comparison to measurements. The file contains several sub-folders, namely:
-COMP: simulation output for the comparison to measurements;
-FLOW: simulation output for the study of wind forcing impact;
-simulation_exampleCase: example case of a snowBedFoam simulation with the reference Neumayer Station mesh;
-SNOW: simulation output for the study of snow properties impact;
-STRUCT: simulation output for the study of structure properties impact.

en:
snowBedFoam 1.0. is a snow transport solver implemented in the computational fluid dynamics software OpenFOAM. It is adapted from the standard multi-phase flow solver DPMFoam for application in snow-influenced environments.
To simulate aeolian snow transport, snowBedFoam 1.0. handles coupled Eulerian–Lagrangian phases, which involve a finite number of particles (snow) spread in a continuous phase (air). The snow erosion and deposition are modelled through physics-based equations similar to the ones employed in the well-established LES-Lagrangian Stochastic Model (Comola and Lehning, 2017 ; Sharma et al., 2018 ; Melo et al., 2022). This modelling approach is computationally intensive and thus adapted to simulate snow movement and distribution on small scale terrain.
First, snowBedFoam 1.0. was applied to topographical data collected on Arctic sea ice during the MOSAiC expedition (Clemens-Sewall, 2021). Together with atmospheric data from the MOSAiC Met City (Shupe et al., 2021) used for the fluid forcing, the model was able to accurately simulate the zones of erosion and deposition of snow along a complex ice ridge structure (Hames et al., 2022).
Second, snowBedFoam 1.0. was used to simulate the snow distribution around the German Antarctic research station Neumayer Station III. The effect of snow properties, fluid forcing and aerodynamic structures on the snow accumulation were assessed.
snowBedFoam 1.0 was implemented in 2 different OpenFOAM versions, namely OpenFOAM-2.3.0 and OpenFOAM-5.0. The latter offers more options for turbulence models and boundary conditions. The fundamental model equations were not changed from one implementation to the other, thus both still correspond to snowBedFoam 1.0. The two branches are called snowBedFoam-v1-2.3.0 (OpenFOAM-2.3.0) and snowBedFoam-v1-5.0 (OpenFOAM-5.0). The core codes of snowBedFoam 1.0. are directly accessible on the WSL/SLF GitLab repository (more details in the Resources section).

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arctic-sea-ice

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mosaic

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openfoam

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snow-deposition

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snow-transport

display_name: snow-transport

en: snowBedFoam: an OpenFOAM Eulerian-Lagrangian solver for modelling snow transport


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

en: MeteorologicalData

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

en: WPSrun

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

en: Postprocessing

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

en: COSMO-WRF documentation v1.0

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

Documentation about the procedure to run COSMO-WRF

en: WPSSetup

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

en: WRFrun

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

en: StaticData

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

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

complex-terrain

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cosmo-wrf

display_name: cosmo-wrf

high-resolution

display_name: high-resolution

meteoswiss

display_name: meteoswiss

numerical-simulation

display_name: numerical-simulation

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

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: atmosphere hill turbulence deposition particles dust snow

en: preferential deposition patterns of all simulations performed

en: The data consist of matlab files. Each files contains a 2D array with the values of deposition at the surface nodes. Each array has Nx x Ny values. Please refer to the original paper for additional information on the spatial resolution and grid size.

en:
Preferential deposition of snow and dust over complex terrain is responsible for a wide range of environmental processes, and accounts for a significant source of uncertainty in surface mass balances of cold and arid regions. Despite the growing body of literature on the subject, previous studies reported contradictory results on the location and magnitude of deposition maxima and minima. This study aims at unraveling the governing processes of preferential deposition in neutrally stable atmosphere and to reconcile seemingly inconsistent results of previous works. For this purpose, a comprehensive modeling approach is developed, based on large eddy simulations of the turbulent airflow, Lagrangian stochastic model of particle trajectories, and immersed-boundary method to represent the underlying topography. The model performance is tested against wind tunnel measurements of dust deposition around isolated and sequential hills. A scale analysis is then performed to investigate the dependence of snowfall deposition on the particle Froude and Stokes numbers, which fully account for the governing processes of inertia, flow advection, and gravity. Additional simulations are performed, to test whether the often used assumption of inertialess particles yields accurate deposition patterns. We finally show that our scale analysis provides qualitatively similar results for hills with different aspect ratios.

This dataset contains the results of the LES-LSM model. Each Matlab file contains a 2D array of deposition values (in kg/m2) in each surface node (ix, iy) of the Cartesian grid. The file names are consistent with the simulation numbers listed in the original paper. For additional information, please refer to "Preferential deposition of snow and dust over hills: governing processes and relevant scales" by F. Comola, M. G. Giometto, S. T. Salesky, M. B. Parlange, and M. Lehning, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2019.

atmosphere

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deposition

display_name: deposition

dust

display_name: dust

hill

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particles

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turbulence

display_name: turbulence


maintainer: Axel Volkwein

en: field-test field-tests experiment rockfall mass-movements experiments trajectory natural-hazards field-data

en: Jumps and impacts

en: This table contains data of more than 2200 of each jumps and impacts of the test blocks on a grassy slope. It gives there durations in combination with acting accerlartions and the rotational speed of the blocks. The data were retrieved using the block internal accelerometer and rotation sensors. The combination of these data with the measurement from the local positioning system allows the deduction of jump lengths, slope gradient etc.

en: These data contain the point clouds obtained from laser scanning the test slope and the six test blocks used for the experiments. The coordinates of the slope are given in CH-1903 format. The coordinates of the block point clouds are kept in a lokal x/y/z coordinate system.

en: Block trajectories recorded from local positioning system

en: This file contains more than 80 rockfall trajectories projected onto the terrain, i.e. the positions of the single blocks over time during the single tests that were recorded by the local positioning system with about 10Hz. It contains the detected positions as well as a smoothened path (see Volkwein et al., Geosciences, 2018). The table also contains the derived velocities and accelerations along the slope (attention: these accelerations are the once that occur during an impact).

en: Overview of all tests

en:
This table gives an overview on all tests performed including
- block used
- start & end position
- number of jumps
- etc.
-

en:
In summer 2014, 6 rock blocks between 20 and 80kg have been thrown in total 111 times down a slope at the Swiss Oberalppass close to the village Tschamut. The slope was mainly covered by grass and its lower part was flat and large enough to provide natural runouts of the single trajectories.

An extensive measurement program has been set up to measure the block trajectories: With surveyor's instruments the slope and the six used rock blocks were scanned and the start and end positions of each test were recorded. During the single events two cameras filmed the trajectories. A special sensor device located within the blocks recorded the acting accelerations and rotational speeds over time. Further, the device emitted a Wifi signal that got detected from eight receivers around the slope. Based on this signal the block position has been recorded over time.

The dataset contains all data that were gathered through above field campaign.

experiment

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experiments

display_name: experiments

field-data

display_name: field-data

field-test

display_name: field-test

field-tests

display_name: field-tests

mass-movements

display_name: mass-movements

natural-hazards

display_name: natural-hazards

rockfall

display_name: rockfall

trajectory

display_name: trajectory

en: Repetitive trajectory testing in Tschamut 2014


en: backward-trajectories clouds aerosol raclets ice-nucleation

en: This dataset contains number concentrations of ice-nucleating particles active at -15 °C observed at Weissfluhjoch during February and March 2019, as well as complementary data (measured aerosol number concentrations and modelled total precipitation along air mass trajectories). This data formed the basis of our paper with the title “Towards parameterising atmospheric concentrations of ice-nucleating particles active at moderate supercooling”.

aerosol

display_name: aerosol

backward-trajectories

display_name: backward-trajectories

clouds

display_name: clouds

ice-nucleation

display_name: ice-nucleation

raclets

display_name: raclets

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

en: Ice nucleating particle concentrations active at -15 °C at Weissfluhjoch