en: open-source geoinformation-system wms-data digital-planning digital-elevation-model qgis-plugin cable-yarding seilaplan swiss-geodata

en: WMS-Layer als Hintergrundkarten laden

en: View video on youtube!

en:
In order to digitally plan a cable line using the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’, maps with various background information are helpful. In this tutorial we show you how to obtain maps that are helpful for cable line planning, for example a national map of Switzerland at different scales, the NFI vegetation height model or the NFI forest mix rate. For this we explain what WMS datasets are and how to integrate them into QGIS. No download of large data is needed for this, only a good internet connection. Please note that the tutorial language is German!

Link for the integration of WMS data: https://wms.geo.admin.ch/

Link to the description on the Swisstopo website:
https://www.geo.admin.ch/en/geo-services/geo-services/portrayal-services-web-mapping/web-map-services-wms.html

Link to the Seilaplan website: https://seilaplan.wsl.ch

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Für die Verwendung des QGIS Plugins Seilaplan zur digitalen Seillinienplanung sind verschiedene Hintergrundkarten hilfreich. In diesem Tutorialvideo zeigen wir, was WMS Daten sind und wie man diese in QGIS einbinden kann. Dafür müssen die Daten nicht heruntergeladen werden. Es braucht lediglich eine gute Internetverbindung. Für die Seillinienplanung hilfreiche Karten sind bspw. die Landeskarte der Schweiz in verschiedenen Massstäben, das Vegetationshöhenmodell LFI oder der Waldmischungsgrad LFI.

Link zur Einbindung der WMS Daten: https://wms.geo.admin.ch/

Link zur Beschreibung auf der Swisstopo Webseite: https://www.geo.admin.ch/de/geo-dienstleistungen/geodienste/darstellungsdienste-webmapping-webgis-anwendungen/web-map-services-wms.html

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

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digital-planning

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geoinformation-system

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open-source

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swiss-geodata

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wms-data

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educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Seilaplan Tutorial: Load WMS layers as background maps


maintainer: Felix Kienast

en: landscape marxan spatial-planning social-acceptance photovoltaic energy wind-power optimization ecosystem-services

state: active

type: dataset

media_type: application/zip

en:
This is the compressed Shapefile (ESRI) from the MARXAN optimization with 2216 rows (objects) and 18 columns (variables) with sf (simple feature) and data frame classes.
Column description:
X01 = Planning_units (PUs)
X02 = incl.OS. number of times pu was selected in MARXAN when optimized for ecological costs
X03 = incl.OS. number of times pu was selected in MARXAN when optimized for social costs
X04 = incl.OS. ecological costs (ECUess) of pu when realizing the total energy (normalized)
X05 = incl.OS. social costs (ECUsoc) of pu when realizing the total energy (normalized)
X06 = incl.OS. total energy (MWh/a)
X07 = incl.OS. energy from roof-mounted PV infrastructure (MWh/a)
X08 = incl.OS. energy from wind turbines (MWh/a)
X09 = incl.OS. energy from ground-mounted PV infrastructure (MWh/a)

X10 = excl.OS. number of times pu was selected in MARXAN when optimized for ecological costs
X11 = excl.OS. number of times pu was selected in MARXAN when optimized for social costs
X12 = excl.OS. ecological costs (ECUess) of pu when realizing the total energy (normalized)
X13 = excl.OS. social costs (ECUsoc) of pu when realizing the total energy (normalized)
X14 = excl.OS. total energy (MWh/a)
X15 = excl.OS. energy from roof-mounted PV infrastructure (MWh/a)
X16 = excl.OS. energy from wind turbines (MWh/a)
X17 = excl.OS. energy from ground-mounted PV infrastructure (MWh/a)
geometry = Simple feature XY geometry (SFC_POINT) each representing the center of a 4x4km planning unit (PU) in EPSG 21781 (CRS CH1903 / LV03).

format: ZIP

en:
This study examines the siting scenarios for renewable energy infrastructure (REI) in Switzerland, incorporating the external costs of ecosystem services and, innovatively, social preferences. This approach challenges the prevalent techno-economic siting paradigm, which often overlooks these externalities. To minimize the external costs of the scenarios while maximizing energy yield, Marxan, an optimization software, was employed.
MARXAN was run for 2 versions: a) without ground-mounted open space PV infrastructure (excl. OS) and b) with ground-mounted open space PV infrastructure (incl. OS). In each version optimization was done using ecological costs (ECUess) or social costs (ECUsoc) in a regular grid of 4x4km (planning unit).

File:
PU_data.shp: compressed Shapefile (ESRI) from the MARXAN optimization with 2216 rows (objects) and 18 columns (variables) with sf (simple feature) and data frame classes.

Headers are described below:
X01 = Planning_units (PUs)

X02 = incl.OS. number of times pu was selected in MARXAN when optimized for ecological costs
X03 = incl.OS. number of times pu was selected in MARXAN when optimized for social costs
X04 = incl.OS. ecological costs (ECUess) of pu when realizing the total energy (normalized)
X05 = incl.OS. social costs (ECUsoc) of pu when realizing the total energy (normalized)
X06 = incl.OS. total energy (MWh/a)
X07 = incl.OS. energy from roof-mounted PV infrastructure (MWh/a)
X08 = incl.OS. energy from wind turbines (MWh/a)
X09 = incl.OS. energy from ground-mounted PV infrastructure (MWh/a)

X10 = excl.OS. number of times pu was selected in MARXAN when optimized for ecological costs
X11 = excl.OS. number of times pu was selected in MARXAN when optimized for social costs
X12 = excl.OS. ecological costs (ECUess) of pu when realizing the total energy (normalized)
X13 = excl.OS. social costs (ECUsoc) of pu when realizing the total energy (normalized)
X14 = excl.OS. total energy (MWh/a)
X15 = excl.OS. energy from roof-mounted PV infrastructure (MWh/a)
X16 = excl.OS. energy from wind turbines (MWh/a)
X17 = excl.OS. energy from ground-mounted PV infrastructure (MWh/a)

geometry = Simple feature XY geometry (SFC_POINT) each representing the center of a 4x4km planning unit (PU) in EPSG 21781 (CRS CH1903 / LV03).

For MARXAN optimizations (for meaning of standard files in MARXAN see https://scholar.google.ch/scholar_url?url=https://courses.washington.edu/cfr590/software/Marxan1810/marxan_manual_1_8_2.pdf&hl=de&sa=X&ei=NAWHZI6JJ8PFmAGMo47oDQ&scisig=AGlGAw-DBrsV4kUzkR6GkN1jtG66&oi=scholarr), pu_data.shp was used to generate MARXAN files input.dat, pu.dat, puvfeat.dat, spec.dat.
Coordinate Reference System: CH1903 / LV03. EPSG: 21781.

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spatial-planning

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wind-power

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educ

fr: Éducation, culture et sport

de: Bildung, Kultur und Sport

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fr: EnviDat: le portail de données environnementales

de: EnviDat: das Umwelt-Datenportal

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.

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en: Optimizing renewable energy siting in the Swiss landscape


greenland-climate-network-gc-net-data

maintainer: EnviDat Support

title_for_slug: greenland-climate-network-gc-net-data

en: air-temperature net-radiation aws automatic-weather-station greenland climate

format: SERVICE

en: Archived GC-Net Data (deprecated)

en:
The GC-Net is kindly continued by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS).

Starting October 3, 2022, the access to the latest versions of the "ready to use" L1 data has been migrated to GEUS, (doi:10.22008/FK2/VVXGUT). Future versions will be available from GEUS, while the initial versions of L0 and L1 data have been archived.

en: Access the latest L1 data

en:
The GC-Net is kindly continued by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS).

Starting October 3, 2022, the access to the latest versions of the "ready to use" L1 data has been migrated to GEUS, (doi:10.22008/FK2/VVXGUT). Future versions will be available from GEUS, while the initial version of L1 data has been archived.

en: GC Net Config for Stations

media_type: application/json

en: Stations Config from the static bucket

format: JSON

en: GC Net Chart Parameters

en: Stations parameters from static bucket

en: 22-Petermann ELA

en:
In Memory of Dr. Konrad (Koni) Steffen

Update October 2022: The GC-Net is kindly continued by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS).
Starting October 3, 2022, the access to the latest versions of the "ready to use" L1 data has been migrated to GEUS. Future data versions will be available at: [https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/VVXGUT](https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/VVXGUT)
 Background
Starting with a single station in 1991, the Greenland Climate Network (commonly known as GC-Net) is a set of Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) set up and managed by the late Prof. Dr. Konrad (Koni) Steffen, and spanning the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS). This first station was "Swiss Camp" or the "ETH-CU" camp (GC-Net station 01) which was used as a field science and education site by Koni for years. The GC-Net was expanded with multiple NASA, NOAA, and NSF grants throughout the years, and then supported by WSL in the later years. These data (see "C-file" below) were previously hosted by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) in Boulder, Colorado.

 Overview
Provided in this dataset are the 16 longest running stations in the network, which are spread over a significant area of the GrIS and the majority of the unique climatic zones. From the South Dome high point in the South, to the Western Jakobshavn ablation region in the west, to the Petermann glacier in the North across east of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream to the east, GC-Net is the longest running climatological record of Greenland.

 The standard GC-Net station consists of:
* Air temperature measurements at 2 heights above the surface
* Temperature and humidity measurements at 2 heights above the surface
* Wind speed and direction measured at 2 heights above the surface
* Sonic distance sounder measurements for 2 snow height and distance of instruments to surface
* Incoming shortwave radiation measurement
* Reflected shortwave radiation measurement
* Net broadband radiation (long- and short-wave) measurement
* Air pressure measurement
Data have often been repatriated in near-real time using one of either the GOES geostationary satellite or the ARGOS polar orbiting satellite transmission system. The stations were visited typically every 1-2 years for maintenance and service, and to download full uncorrupted data directly from the dataloggers. GC-Net stations were visited by Twin Otter equipped with snow skids to land directly on the open-ice at the AWS locations, or by helicopter near the west coast. The AWSs operate on solar and battery power and occasionally lost power during the dark and cold winter months, particularly when the batteries were aging.

 Dataset
This dataset consists of 2 main data levels; Level 0 and Level 1.
Level 0 is the raw data from the dataloggers, historical processing codes, satellite transmissions, and Koni’s personal data archive. Level 0 data (.zip) directories contain subdirectories:
* “C file” - contains the historical processed datafile for each station.
* “Campbell logger files” - contains the raw csv datafiles from the stations’ Campbell Scientific dataloggers since the CR1000 era (~2007-2008 for most stations).
* “Photos” - contains photographs of the station when available marked by year.
Level 1 is the appended, calibrated, cleaned, and quality flagged data. The full processing scheme is open-source and publicly available on the following GitHub repository (please also check GitHub for the latest L1 data):
[GC-Net L1 data on GitHub](https://github.com/GEUS-Glaciology-and-Climate/GC-Net-level-1-data-processing "GC-Net-level-1-data-processing")
Level 1 data is provided in the newly described csv-compatible [NEAD format](https://www.envidat.ch/#/metadata/nead "NEAD format").

 Additional Details
Dataset description publication will be forthcoming.
The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) has been imperative in the reprocessing and continuity mission of GC-Net. Multiple GC-Net stations have been replaced with updated and upgraded AWS hardware at the same coordinates by GEUS. This effort will ensure continuity of the GC-Net dataset into the future.

air-temperature

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automatic-weather-station

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aws

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climate

display_name: climate

greenland

display_name: greenland

net-radiation

display_name: net-radiation

en: Greenland Climate Network (GC-Net) Data


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

en: Fatal avalanche accidents in Switzerland since 1995-1996

media_type: text/csv

format: CSV

mimetype: text/csv

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

avalanche-accident-statistics

display_name: avalanche-accident-statistics

avalanche-accidents

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avalanche-fatalities

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number-of-caught-persons

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number-of-dead-persons

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educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal


maintainer: Matthias Haeni

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

en: Data plot of the forest station (BAB)

media_type: application/pdf

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

format: PDF

mimetype: application/pdf

en: Site photo of the forest station (BAB)

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

mimetype: image/jpeg

en: Field station data (BAF)

en: Data file.

en: Data plot of the field station (BAF)

en: Site aerial photo (Beatenberg)

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

en: Site photo of the field station (BAF)

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

en: Forest station data (BAB)

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 Beatenberg in Switzerland where one station is located within a natural coniferous forest (BAB) with Norway spruce (_Picea abies_; 190-210 yrs) as dominant tree species. A second station is situated in the very vicinity outside of the forest (field station, BAF). The meteorological time series are presented in hourly time resolution of air temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and wind speed. Beatenberg is part of the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF) established and maintained by the
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL.

climate-change

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meteo

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meteorology

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


swiss-fluxnet-site-lageren

title_for_slug: swiss-fluxnet-site-lageren

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

en: Data access

media_type: text/html

en: The flux and meteo data of the Swiss FluxNet site Lägeren are openly available from the European Fluxes Database Cluster.

format: HTML

en: Site description

en:
The Swiss FluxNet Site Lägeren is a managed mixed deciduous mountain forest located on the steep Lägeren mountain (NW of Zurich, Swiss Plateau). The forest is highly diverse, dominated by beech, but also including ash, maple, spruce and fir trees. Eddy covariance flux measurements were started in April 2004. The site was part of the international CarboEurope IP network and the National Air Pollution Monitoring Network (NABEL). In addition to Swiss FluxNet, the site is part of the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research (LWF) of WSL and the biological drought and growth indicator network (TreeNet) of WSL.

Measurements

- Ecosystem flux measurements of CO2, H2O vapour 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), 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), soil respiration campaigns
- Continuous CO2 profile measurements.
- Auxiliary micrometeorology and soil climate measurements.

Data availability

All data are available from the European Fluxes Database Cluster, but are also 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-lae-laegeren/site-info-ch-lae//](https://www.swissfluxnet.ethz.ch/index.php/sites/ch-lae-laegeren/site-info-ch-lae/)

eddy-covariance

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flux

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forest

display_name: forest

greenhouse-gas

display_name: greenhouse-gas

meteorological-measurements

display_name: meteorological-measurements

swiss-fluxnet

display_name: swiss-fluxnet

educ

en: Education, culture and sport

envidat

en: EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal

en: Swiss FluxNet Site Lägeren


tree-species-map-of-switzerland

maintainer: Tiziana Li Koch

title_for_slug: tree-species-map-of-switzerland

en: map remote-sensing forest switzerland tree-species

media_type: image/png

en: Image of the tree species map

format: PNG

en:
Dominant tree species map of Switzerland
We created a tree species map of Switzerland for the dominant tree species in the forested areas. The spatial resolution of the map is 10 m and the coordinate system is ETRS89-extended / LAEA Europe (EPSG 3035). The map comprises Sentinel-2 index time series from the year 2020, a digital elevation model and species reference data from the Swiss National Forest Inventory. The map is available as raster (.tif) or vector dataset (.gpkg).
**Access will be granted upon request.**
In total, the following 15 species were mapped:
*Abies alba*, *Acer pseudoplatanus*, *Alnus glutinosa*, *Alnus incana*, *Betula pendula*, *Castanea sativa*, *Fagus sylvatica*, *Fraxinus excelsior*, *Picea abies*, *Pinus cembra*, *Pinus mugo arborea*, *Pinus sylvestris*, *Quercus petraea*, *Quercus robur*, *Sorbus aucuparia*.

 Approach

 Data
- Swiss National Forest Inventory Data (stand species with > 60 % dominance in upper canopy; on at least more than 9 plots dominant)
- Sentinel-2 time series (2020, Indices: CCI, CIRE, NDMI, EVI, NDVI)
- Digital elevation model (DEM) (swissalti3d, 5 m)
- Biogeographical regions (Federal Office for the Environment FOEN)
- Forest mask 2017 (Approach: Waser et al., 2015)

 Modeling approach
We identified the most meaningful variables that led to separation of the respective groups by using random forest models with a forward feature selection (Meyer et al., 2018; Ververidis & Kotropoulos, 2005). In this approach, the final random forest model is solely built from the selected meaningful variables. By identifying meaningful variables, we can determine which variables might influence the grouping. Further, to avoid overfitting and overly optimistic results, we applied 10-fold spatial cross-validation and put all pixels from a plot in the same spatial fold.
The modeling was realized using the CAST package in R (Meyer et al., 2022), based on the well-known caret package (Kuhn, 2022). We used the ranger package in R (Wright & Ziegler, 2017) to implement the random forest models, due to its short computation time.

 Training data for modeling
- 295 Sentinel-2, DEM & Biogeographical variables
- 10525 tree species pixels

 Selected variables for final model
1. EVI of 2020.05.16
2. NDMI of 2020.03.12
3. CIRE of 2020.04.16
4. NDMI of 2020.07.05
5. CCI of 2020.05.11
6. dem
7. CCI of 2020.08.14
8. NDMI of 2020.08.24
9. CCI of 2020.12.22
10. NDMI of 2020.04.21
11. NDMI of 2020.11.17
12. NDMI of 2020.08.09
13. CIRE of 2020.03.22
14. CIRE of 2020.08.09
14. CCI of 2020.11.02
15. CIRE of 2020.06.10

 Overall Accuracy of final model
- 0.759

 Nationwide prediction
- Predicted throughout forest mask 2017 (Approach: Waser et al., 2015)
- Not applied on incomplete Sentinel-2 time series (own category in final map: incomplete_ts)
- Applied the Area of Applicability (Meyer 2022) to sort out pixels outside of the feature space; basically where the model had not the same values for pixels as in the available training data

 *Be aware that the map is only validated with the training data itself, an independent validation with other data sources remains missing*

 References
- Kuhn, M. (2022). Classification and Regression Training. 6.0-93.
- Meyer, H., Reudenbach, C., Hengl, T., Katurji, M., & Nauss, T. (2018). *Improving performance of spatio-temporal machine learning models using forward feature selection and target-oriented validation*. Environmental Modelling and Software, 101, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.12.001
- Meyer, H., Milà, C., & Ludwig, M. (2022). *CAST: 'caret' Applications for Spatial-Temporal Models*. 0.7.0.
- Ververidis, D., & Kotropoulos, C. (2005). *Sequential forward feature selection with low computational cost*. 2005 13th European Signal Processing Conference.
- Waser, L., Fischer, C.,Wang, Z., & Ginzler, C. (2015). *Wall-to-Wall Forest Mapping Based on Digital Surface Models from Image-Based Point Clouds and a NFI Forest Definition*. Forests, 6, 12, 4510–4528.
- Wright, M. N., & Ziegler, A. (2017). *ranger: A Fast Implementation of Random Forests for High Dimensional Data in C++ and R*. Journal of Statistical Software, 77(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/doi:10.18637/jss.v077.i01

map

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remote-sensing

display_name: remote-sensing

switzerland

display_name: switzerland

tree-species

display_name: tree-species

en: Tree species map of Switzerland


maintainer: Aline Frossard

en: beta-diversity microbial-biodiversity soil-respiration ecosystem-functions microbial-respiration

en: Bacterial amplicon sequencing

en: Bacterial ASVs and taxonomic tables

format: XLS

en: Fungal amplicon sequencing

en: Fungal ASVs and taxonomic tables

en: Microbial functions and metadata

en: Extracellular enzyme activities, respiration and sites metadata

en: Structural and functional changes of microbial communities in ephemeral stream sediments and adjacent soils between was assessed in an artificial newly created catchment at 3 and 13 years after catchment construction. Bacterial and fungal communities, respiration and extracellular enzyme activities were assessed.

beta-diversity

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ecosystem-functions

display_name: ecosystem-functions

microbial-biodiversity

display_name: microbial-biodiversity

microbial-respiration

display_name: microbial-respiration

soil-respiration

display_name: soil-respiration

en: Chicken Creek 10 years


maintainer: Franziska Gerber

en: cryowrf surface-mass-balance reproducibility antarctica blowing-snow

en: Static input data from the WRF simulations (used in the python scripts in Scripts_Reproducibility).

en: Processed CRYOWRF output used for the analysis and the figures in the paper.

mimetype: application/zip

en: Python scripts to reproduces figures in Gerber et al., 2022, submitted.

en: Namelist and input files and information to run the WRF and CRYOWRF simulations used in the paper.

en: Python scripts to reproduces figures in Gerber et al., 2022, revised

mimetype: application/x-zip-compressed

en: Processed WRF output (run with Noah-MP land surface model) used for the analysis and the figures in the paper.

en:
This dataset contains data and scripts for "CRYOWRF - a validation and the effect of blowing snow on the Antarctic SMB" (Gerber et al., submitted).

* Simulation_setup: Namelists and input information to run the simulation. Some input files need to be downloaded from Sharma et a., 2021.
* Static_input: Static topography input file of WRF (geo_em.d01).
* WRF_27km_NoahMP: Preprocessed WRF output of the simulation run with the WRF using the surface parameterization Noah-MP to reproduce the figures and results in the paper.
* WRF_27km_CRYOWRF: Preprocessed WRF output of the simulation run with CRYOWRF to reproduce the figures and results in the paper.
* Scripts_Reproducibility: Python scripts to reproduce the figures and results in the paper.

Note:

* To run some of the scripts Atmospheric Weather station data needs to be prepared using Gerber and Lehning, 2022.
* AWS data is not provided and needs to be downloaded from the corresponding databases. Please make sure to comply with the respective terms and conditions.

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en: common-garden isotopes carbohydrates methoxy-groups tree-species

en: The resource contains a metadata sheet explaning the variables, as well as a sheet with the actual species and isotope data.

en: This dataset contains hydrogen and carbon isotope data from 73 tree and shrub species grown in a common garden (Kannenfeldpark) in Basel, Switzerland. Leaf and twig samples were collected in August 2019. The isotope measurements cover various organic compounds, including sugars, cellulose, and (lignin) methoxy groups, as well as leaf and twig xylem water. Details on sample preparation and isotope analysis are provided in Schuler et al. (2023) for carbohydrates and water, and in Wieland et al. (in review) for methoxy groups.

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en: Stable isotope data from 73 tree and shrub species in a common garden in Basel Switzerland


en: precipitation rainfall-runoff-modelling time-series nonlinear-deconvolution hydrology nonstationarity ecohydrology streamflow

en: An introduction to ERRA v1.06.pdf

en: "An introduction to ERRA" presents a series of vignettes that introduce some of the capabilities of the Ensemble Rainfall-Runoff Analysis (ERRA) script, and that show how to invoke them. This introduction also includes documentation for ERRA function calls, largely reproducing the documentation embedded in the ERRA script itself.

en: {{deprecated version}} ERRA_scripts.zip

en: Zip-compressed folder containing two versions of the ERRA script. ERRA_v1.0.R uses Rcpp to speed up several key calculations, but requires a C++ compiler. ERRA_v1.0_no_Rcpp.R is a bit slower but does not require a C++ compiler or Rcpp. Public use of these scripts is permitted under GNU General Public License 3 (GPL3); for details see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/

en: Demonstration scripts.zip

en: Zip-compressed folder containing demonstration scripts, source data, and output files for the ERRA results shown in "Introduction to ERRA" and in J.W. Kirchner, "Characterizing nonlinear, nonstationary, and heterogeneous hydrologic behavior using Ensemble Rainfall-Runoff Analysis (ERRA): proof of concept", Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2024.

en: Zip-compressed folder containing two versions of the ERRA script. ERRA_v1.06.R uses Rcpp to speed up several key calculations, but requires a C++ compiler. ERRA_v1.06_no_Rcpp.R is a bit slower but does not require a C++ compiler or Rcpp. Public use of these scripts is permitted under GNU General Public License 3 (GPL3); for details see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/

en: {{deprecated version}} An introduction to ERRA.pdf

en:
ERRA is a data-driven, nonparametric, model-independent method for quantifying rainfall-runoff relationships across a spectrum of time lags, in systems that may be nonlinear, nonstationary, and spatially heterogeneous.
Researchers using ERRA in published work should cite J.W. Kirchner, "Characterizing nonlinear, nonstationary, and heterogeneous hydrologic behavior using Ensemble Rainfall-Runoff Analysis (ERRA): proof of concept", Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4427-2024, 2024 (for ERRA itself) and J.W. Kirchner, "Impulse response functions for nonlinear, nonstationary, and heterogeneous systems, estimated by deconvolution and de-mixing of noisy time series", Sensors, 22(9), 3291, https://doi.org/10.3390/s22093291, 2022 (for the underlying mathematics).
This data set includes two versions of the ERRA script written in the open-source programming language R, a detailed user's guide, and sample scripts and source data for all of the results in Kirchner (2024).
These scripts are made publicly available under GNU General Public License 3; for details see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/. The data and documentation are made available under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike CC-BY-SA.
ETH Zurich, WSL, and James Kirchner make ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, including NO WARRANTIES, expressed or implied, that this software is free of errors or is suitable for any particular purpose. Users are solely responsible for determining the suitability and reliability of this software for their own purposes.

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en: ERRA -- an R script for Ensemble Rainfall-Runoff Analysis


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en: open-data open-science reproducibility hpc research-data-management jupyter-notebooks open-source

en: Open Science Support @ WSL (Poster)

en:
This poster was originally created for the swissuniversities Open Science Action Plan: Kick-Off Forum, and showed to the audience on 17.10.2019. It illustrates how the environmental data portal EnviDat provides the tools for fostering Open Science and Reproducibility of scientific research at WSL.

Supporting open science is a highly relevant user requirement for EnviDat and for implementing FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability) principles at dataset level.
EnviDat encourages WSL scientists to complement data publication with a complete description of research methods and the inclusion of the open source software, code or scripts used for processing the dataset or for obtaining the published results. By openly publishing open software (e.g. as Jupyter notebooks) alongside research data sets, researchers can contribute to mitigate reproducibility issues.

EnviDat also promotes and supports, where possible and practical, the publication of software as Jupyter notebooks. Jupyter notebooks provide a solution for improved documentation and interactive execution of open code in a wide range of programming languages (Python, R, Octave/Matlab, Java or Scala). These programming languages are widely used in environmental research at WSL and well supported by the Jupyter-compatible kernels. We have sucessfully interfaced EnviDat-hosted notebooks with the WSL High-Performance Computing (HPC) Linux Cluster through a JupyterHub/JuypterLab beta installation on the HPC cluster implemented in close collaboration with the WSL IT-Services.
For existing software that cannot be easily migrated to Jupyter Notebooks, the Open Science and Reproducibility is assisted by containerisation. We have proven that several Singularity containers can successfully run on WSL's HPC cluster.

Finally, the researchers can upload the data/results complemented by code (e.g. as Jupyter Notebooks, or Singularity containers) and any additional documentation in EnviDat. Consequently, they will receive a DOI for the entire dataset, which they can reference in their science paper in order to publish a more reproducible research.

_License_: This poster is released by WSL and the EnviDat team to the public domain under a Creative Commons 4.0 CC0 "No Rights Reserved" international license. You can reuse this poster in any way you want, for any purposes and without restrictions.

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en: Open Science Support at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. The EnviDat Concept


maintainer: Avalanche Warning Service SLF

en: Avalanche fatalities per year in Switzerland since 1936/1937

en:
Attention: this data is not updated after 2022 anymore.
This dataset contains the statistics on the number of avalanche fatalities per hydrological year in Switzerland. The data set commences with the beginning of the hydrological year 1936/37 on 01/10/1936. After the completion of a hydrological year, the new data is appended to the existing dataset.
The following information is contained (by column and column title):
 - hydrological year
 - number of fatalities in the backcountry (=tour)
 - number of fatalities in terrain close to ski areas (=offpiste)
 - number of fatalities on transportation corridors including ski runs, roads, railway lines (=transportation.corridors)
 - number of fatalities in or around buildings or in settlements (= buildings)
 - sum (of all four categories)
The definition for these four categories as described in the guidelines to the avalanche accident database:
**tour**:
activities include back-country ski, snowboard or snow-shoe touring
**offpiste**:
access from ski area, generally from the top of a skilift with short hiking distances
**transportation.corridors** ([Techel et al., 2016](http://www.geogr-helv.net/71/147/2016/ )):
people travelling or recreating on open or temporarily closed
transportation corridors (e.g. a road user or a skier on a ski run) and people working on open or closed transportation corridors (e.g. maintenance crews on roads, professional rescue teams)
**buildings** ([Techel et al., 2016](http://www.geogr-helv.net/71/147/2016/ )):
people inside or just outside buildings, and workers on high alpine building
sites

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en: meteorological-data mass-flux antarctica eddy-covariance-measurements blowing-snow large-eddy-simulations micro-rain-radar turbulence drifting-snow

en: Readme

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en: Meta data

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en: Simulation data for a situation with negligible snow transport

en: Results from two LES-LSM simulations called NoDrift_1 and NoDrift_2, which reproduce the conditions observed at the S17 site on 12th January 2019, 05:40 to 05:50 UTC.

en: Simulation data for a situation with significant snow transport

en: Data from two LES-LSM simulations called Drift_1 and Drift_2, which reproduce the conditions observed at the S17 site on 11th January 2019, 00:40 to 00:50 UTC.

en: Measurement data from snow particle counter at MRR site

en: Near-surface observations of drifting snow from a Snow Particle Counter (SPC) installed at the location of the Micro Rain Radar.

en: Measurement data from micro-meteorological station

en: Automatic in-situ measurements of micro-meteorology and snow transport

en: Measurement data from Micro Rain Radar (MRR)

en: Remote sensing data of blowing snow from a Micro Rain Radar (MRR).

en: Source code of the large-eddy simulations coupled with a Lagrangian stochastic model (LES-LSM), available on GitLab.

en:
This dataset contains measurement and simulation data. The measurements characterize the standard meteorology, turbulence, and snow transport at the S17 site near Syowa Station in East Antarctica during an expedition in austral summer 2018/2019. Large-eddy simulations with sublimating particles provide additional insight into the latent and sensible heat exchange between snow and air in two example situations observed at the S17 site.

A part of the measurement data was recorded by an automatic measurement station from 10th January 2019 to 26th January 2019. This measurement station was equipped with standard meteorological sensors, a three-dimensional ultrasonic anemometer, an open-path infrared gas analyzer, a snow particle counter, an infrared radiometer for measurements of the surface temperature, and a sonic ranging sensor measuring changes in snow surface elevation.

At a horizontal distance of approximately 500 m, a Micro Rain Radar (MRR) was installed in a tilted configuration with an elevation angle of 7° for remote sensing of blowing snow between 25th December 2018 and 24th January 2019. In addition, near-surface in-situ measurements of snow transport were performed at the location of the MRR by deploying a snow particle counter from 27th December 2018 to 24th January 2019.

The simulations cover a 18 x 18 x 6 m³ domain and reproduce the steady-state conditions during a 10-min interval with significant snow transport and another 10-min interval with negligible snow transport. We provide the model source code and the post-processed simulation data, i.e., horizontally averaged quantities as a function of height and time.

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en: Meteorology and snow transport at S17 near Syowa, Antarctica, in austral summer 2018/2019


en: digital-zoning-plans land-use-transformations spatial-planning land-use-simulations land-use-change

en: Legend simulated maps

en:
Table of Content: 1. General context of the data set "LUSzoning”; 2. Background and aims of the study using the data set LUSzoning; 3. The data set LUSzoning.
1. General context of the data set "LUSzoning".
The data set "LUSzoning" stands for Land-use simulations integrating zoning regulations in Spanish functional urban areas. The data set has been generated as part of the CONCUR research project (https://www.wsl.ch/en/projects/concur.html) led by Dr. Anna M. Hersperger and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (ERC TBS Consolidator Grant (ID: BSCGIO 157789) for the period 2016-2021. The CONCUR research project is interdisciplinary and aims to develop a scientific basis for adequately integrating spatial policies (in this case, digital zoning plans) into quantitative land-change modelling approaches at the urban regional level.
2.	Background and aims of the study using the data set “LUSzoning”.
As part of the CONCUR project, a specific task was to integrate planning spatial policies in land-change modelling. Planning can be implemented in modelling using either hard or gradual restrictions. Different studies have addressed the inclusion of spatial planning policies in land-use change modelling. However, the integration of zoning constraints is generally established as hard or Boolean-based restrictions (e.g., whether urban development is allowed or not), while not accounting for the spatial heterogeneity or gradual characteristics within planning zones (e.g., whether planning regulations allow low, medium or high urban density), though these could improve real patterns simulations in urban areas. We assume Spanish General Zoning plans were suitable to explore the integration of planning into land-change modelling as soft constrains because they define land-use intensities in the buildable zoning areas. In light of the above considerations, the overall aim of the study was to model urban land-use changes using a multi-scenario approach that integrates digitized zoning plans for the Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) of Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, and Zaragoza. The following specific objectives were addressed: i) to analyse the role of planning by defining three future scenarios that integrate digitized zoning plans and one scenario that assumes almost no planning intervention; ii) to introduce zoning constraints that reflect different degrees of urban densities; iii) to generate a transferable spatially-explicit modelling framework to integrate planning into land-use change simulations.
Four future land-use demands scenarios were defined for the FUAs. Storylines were created considering probable development scenarios related to zoning plans, current Spanish legislation and sustainability goals defined along two axes: a high market-oriented vs. high planning-intervention axis, and an axis of short-term economic growth vs. long-term sustainable growth. The sustainable development scenario (S1) is characterized by low gross floor area (GFA) growth that is limited to areas that are currently under development according to zoning plans. The business-as-usual scenario (S2) is characterized by medium GFA growth in the range of on-going trends. The strong development scenario (S3) is characterized by high GFA growth rates. Growth is restricted to buildable areas without urbanization project designated in zoning plans. The unrestricted development scenario (S4) prioritizes a high degree of market liberalization characterized by high GFA growth that surpasses population demands. S4 follows a rapid economic growth pattern with almost no planning intervention.
3.	 The data set “LUSzoning”.
The dataset includes 16 .asc raster layers providing the simulated land-uses under four defined scenarios for Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia and Zaragoza Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) for 2030. The simulated raster layers were created using CLUMondo simulation framework and have a spatial resolution of 30m. The .asc layers name include the name of the FUA and scenario number. For example, the output from simulating the urban growth for the city of Zaragoza under Scenario 2 is named “Zaragoza_S2.tif”. Furthermore, a .txt file named “Legend.txt” includes the numeric value of the land-use and the category of land-use that represents to interpret the .asc raster layers. The name of the land-use classes is a reclassification of the Urban Atlas 2012 land-use classes within the four Spanish FUAs analyzed.

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en: LUSzoning: Land-use simulations integrating zoning regulations in Spanish functional urban areas


en: topsoil-removal soil-chemistry soil-biology soil fungi nematodes plants biodiversity soil-biodiversity bacteria restoration grassland

en: Ecosystem coupling_interactions

en:
Treatment	Treatment groups; Y.4-18 = restored grasslands; Initial = intensively managed grasslands; Target = species-rich semi-wet to semi-dry grasslands
Type	Interactions type; A.A = abiotic.abiotic; A.B = abiotic.biotic; B.B = biotic.biotic
Correlation	non-parametric Spearman rank correlations between biotic and abiotic parameters (ecological interactions)

en: Networks

en:
Treatment	Treatment groups; Y.4-18 = restored grasslands; Initial = intensively managed grasslands; Target = species-rich semi-wet to semi-dry grasslands
Correlation	non-parametric Spearman rank correlations
Vertex.1+2	Comparison between network components; N.pool = total soil nitrogen pool [kg ha-1 12 cm-1]; Corg.pool = soil organic carbon pool [kg ha-1 12 cm-1], pH = soil pH [CaCl2]; BD = bulk density [g cm-3]; FC = field capacity [%]
	PCoA 1 + 2 biotic communities [Veg = vegetation; Nem = nematoda; Fun = fungi; Prok = prokaryota]
Type	Interactions type; A.A = abiotic.abiotic; A.B = abiotic.biotic; B.B = biotic.biotic

en: Distance to target results

en:
Community	biotic community (vegetation, nematoda, fungi, prokaryota)
Treatment	Treatment groups; Y.4-30= restored grasslands (time since restoration); Initial=intensively managed grasslands (I)
Comparison	within- or between-community Bray-Curtis dissimilarity distance comparison
Label	within-community distances of initial/restored grasslands: treatment abbreviation; between-communities distances of initial/restored-to-target grasslands: treatment abbreviation plus Target (T; species-rich grasslands)
mean	Mean distance to Target (6 plots per treatment group)
sd	Standard deviation of distances to Target (6 plots per treatment group)

en: Fungi data

en:
Sample.data
Plot.ID	consecutive numbers for plots (in total 36 plots)
Treatment	One restoration treatment and two reference treatments. Topsoil+Propagules= Topsoil removal (upper 10-30 cm) combined with introduction of target plant species; Initial=intensively managed grasslands; Target= species-rich semi-wet to semi-dry grasslands
treat.yr	Treatment abbreviation. For restored grasslands: Treatment abbreviation + time since restoration; Initial + Target = NA
yr.trt	year when topsoil was removed; Initial + Target = NA
Age	time since restoration (sampling year 2018 - yr.trt); Initial + Target = NA
Age.class	restored sites of similar age grouped into four age classes. Y.4 = Year 3+4 (recently restored); Y.18 = Year 17+19 (mid-term); Y.24 = Year 23+25 (long-term); Y.30 = Year 27+32 (long-term); Initial + Target = NA
Cluster	clustered spatial arrangment of sites in the field (see Supporting Information Fig. S1)
Site	clustered spatial arrangment (replicates) of plots per site (see Supporting Information Fig. S1)

Taxonomy
OTU.ID	consecutive numbers for operational taxonomic units (OTUe 1-7794)
Taxonomic rank	Domain, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

Abundance
columns	Plot.ID (see Sample.data)
rows	OTU.ID (see Taxonomy)

en: Nematode data

en:
Sample.data
Plot.ID	consecutive numbers for plots (in total 36 plots)
Treatment	One restoration treatment and two reference treatments. Topsoil+Propagules= Topsoil removal (upper 10-30 cm) combined with introduction of target plant species; Initial=intensively managed grasslands; Target= species-rich semi-wet to semi-dry grasslands
treat.yr	Treatment abbreviation. For restored grasslands: Treatment abbreviation + time since restoration; Initial + Target = NA
yr.trt	year when topsoil was removed; Initial + Target = NA
Age	time since restoration (sampling year 2018 - yr.trt); Initial + Target = NA
Age.class	restored sites of similar age grouped into four age classes. Y.4 = Year 3+4 (recently restored); Y.18 = Year 17+19 (mid-term); Y.24 = Year 23+25 (long-term); Y.30 = Year 27+32 (long-term); Initial + Target = NA
Cluster	clustered spatial arrangment of sites in the field (see Supporting Information Fig. S1)
Site	clustered spatial arrangment (replicates) of plots per site (see Supporting Information Fig. S1)

Taxonomy
ASV.ID	unit number.letter code per amplicon sequence variant (in total 904)
Taxonomic rank	Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

Abundance
columns	Plot.ID (see Sample.data)
rows	ASV.ID (see Taxonomy)

en: Vegetation data

en:
Plot.ID	consecutive numbers for plots (in total 36 plots)
Treatment	One restoration treatment and two reference treatments. Topsoil+Propagules= Topsoil removal (upper 10-30 cm) combined with introduction of target plant species; Initial=intensively managed grasslands; Target= species-rich semi-wet to semi-dry grasslands
treat.yr	Treatment abbreviation. For restored grasslands: Treatment abbreviation + time since restoration; Initial + Target = NA
yr.trt	year when topsoil was removed; Initial + Target = NA
Age	time since restoration (sampling year 2018 - yr.trt); Initial + Target = NA
Age.class	restored sites of similar age grouped into four age classes. Y.4 = Year 3+4 (recently restored); Y.18 = Year 17+19 (mid-term); Y.24 = Year 23+25 (long-term); Y.30 = Year 27+32 (long-term); Initial + Target = NA
Cluster	clustered spatial arrangment of sites in the field (see Supporting Information Fig. S1)
Site	clustered spatial arrangment (replicates) of plots per site (see Supporting Information Fig. S1)
column I-LW	Plant abundance per species (in total 327 plant species) expressed as cover percentage estimation according to van der Maarel (vdM 1979; 7 classes: 1-7); nomenclature according to Lauber & Wagner (1996)

en: Soil properties

en:
Plot.ID	consecutive numbers for plots (in total 36 plots)
Treatment	One restoration treatment and two reference treatments. Topsoil+Propagules= Topsoil removal (upper 10-30 cm) combined with introduction of target plant species; Initial=intensively managed grasslands; Target= species-rich semi-wet to semi-dry grasslands
treat.yr	Treatment abbreviation. For restored grasslands: Treatment abbreviation + time since restoration; Initial + Target = NA
yr.trt	year when topsoil was removed; Initial + Target = NA
Age	time since restoration (sampling year 2018 - yr.trt); Initial + Target = NA
Age.class	restored sites of similar age grouped into four age classes. Y.4 = Year 3+4 (recently restored); Y.18 = Year 17+19 (mid-term); Y.24 = Year 23+25 (long-term); Y.30 = Year 27+32 (long-term); Initial + Target = NA
Cluster	clustered spatial arrangment of sites in the field (see Supporting Information Fig. S1)
Site	clustered spatial arrangment (replicates) of plots per site (see Supporting Information Fig. S1)
N.pool	Soil nitrogen pool (June 2017); corrected for bulk density and 12 cm sampling depth [kg ha-1 12cm-1]
Corg.pool	Soil organic carbon pool (June 2017); corrected for bulk density and 12 cm sampling depth [kg ha-1 12cm-1]
pH	soil pH [CaCl2]
BD	Bulk density [g cm-3]
FC	Field capacity [%]
Veg.1	principle coordinate axis 1 (vegetation)
Veg.1	principle coordinate axis 2 (vegetation)
Nem.1	principle coordinate axis 1 (nematoda)
Nem.2	principle coordinate axis 2 (nematoda)
Fun.1	principle coordinate axis 1 (fungi)
Fun.2	principle coordinate axis 2 (fungi)
Prok.1	principle coordinate axis 1 (prokaryota)
Prok.2	principle coordinate axis 2 (prokaryota)
Veg.H	Shannon diversity (vegetation)
Nem.H	Shannon diversity (nematoda)
Fun.H	Shannon diversity (fungi)
Prok.H	Shannon diversity (prokaryota)

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

Paper Citation:

_Resch, M.C., Schütz, M., Ochoa-Hueso, R., Buchmann, N., Frey, B., Graf, U., van der Putten, W.H., Zimmermann, S., Risch, A.C. (in review). Long-term recovery of above- and belowground interactions in restored grassland after topsoil removal and seed addition. Journal of Applied Ecology_

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

Study area and experimental design
The study was conducted in and around two nature reserves, Eigental and Altläufe der Glatt, which were located approximately 5 km apart (47°27´ to 47°29´ N, 8°37´ to 8°32´ E, 417 to 572 m a.s.l., Canton of Zurich, Switzerland; Figure S1 and S2, Table S1). Mean annual temperature and precipitation are 9.8 ± 0.6 °C and 990 ± 168 mm (Kloten climate station 1988-2018; MeteoSchweiz, 2019). TFor this study, we used a space-for-time approach based on eight restoration sites that were between 3 and 32 years old. We measured recovery and restoration success by comparing the restored grasslands with intensively managed and semi-natural grasslands. Using a space-for-time approach requires high similarities in historical properties of the site, such as soil conditions and management regimes, to assure that temporal processes are appropriately represented by spatial patterns (Walker et al., 2010). This was the case in our study. The restored sites had similar soil conditions (i.e., soil type, structure, water availability) as the targeted semi-natural grasslands, while they shared the same agricultural legacy with intensively managed grasslands, i.e., biomass harvest and fertilization (manure and/or slurry) three to five times a year as well as tillage. We randomly established three 5 m x 5 m (25-m2) plots for plant identification and three 2 m x 2 m (4-m2) subplots for soil biotic and abiotic data collection at least 2 m away from the 25-m2 plots in each restoration site. Sites of similar age were grouped into four age classes: Y.4 (3 & 4 years after restoration), Y.18 (17 & 19 years), Y.24 (23 & 25 years), and Y.30 (27 & 32 years). Six intensively managed (Initial) and six semi-natural grassland (Target) sites complemented the experimental set-up, for a total of 36 plots. All plots were sampled under similar conditions, i.e., day of the year, air temperature, soil moisture, and time since last rain event, in June/July 2017 (intensively managed and semi-natural plots) and 2018 (restored plots).

Collection of plants and selected soil biota data
Plant species cover (in %) was visually estimated in each 25-m2 plot in mid-June (Braun-Blanquet, 1964; nomenclature: Lauber & Wagner, 1996). We calculated Shannon diversity and assessed plant community structure. We included soil microbial (fungi, procaryotes) and nematodes in our study as they represent the majority of soil biotic diversity and abundance (Bardgett & van der Putten, 2014), cover various trophic levels of the soil food web (Bongers & Ferris, 1999), and play key roles in soil functioning and ecosystem processes (Bardgett & van der Putten, 2014). In particular, soil nematodes were found to be well suited belowground indicators to evaluate recovery/development after restoration (e.g. Frouz, et al. 2008; Kardol et al., 2009; Resch et al., 2019). We randomly collected ten soil cores (2.2 cm diameter x 12 cm depths; sampler from Giddings Machine Company, Windsor, USA) in the 4-m2 subplots to assess soil nematode and microbial (fungal, prokaryotic) diversities and community structures. For soil nematodes, eight of the soil cores were combined and gently homogenized, placed in coolers and stored at 4 °C and transported to the laboratory (Netherlands Institute of Ecology, NIOO, Wageningen, Netherlands) within three days after collection. Free-living nematodes were extracted from 200 g of fresh soil using Oostenbrink elutriators (Oostenbrink, 1960). After extraction, each sample was divided into three subsamples, two for molecular identification and one to determine nematode abundance (see Resch et al., 2019). For the molecular work, two subsamples were stored in 70% ethanol (final volume 10 mL each) and transported to the laboratory at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL (Birmensdorf, Switzerland). Each subsample was reduced to roughly 200 μL by centrifugation and removal of the supernatant. The remaining ethanol was vaporized (65 °C for 3 h). Thereafter, 180 μL ATL buffer solution (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) was immediately added and samples were stored at 4 °C until further processing. From these samples, nematode metagenomic DNA was extracted using the DNeasy Blood & Tissue Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) according to the manufacturer`s protocol, except for the incubation step which was run at 56 °C for 4 h. PCR amplification of the V6-V8 region of the eukaryotic small-subunit (18S) was performed with 7.5 μL of genomic DNA template (ca. 1 ng/μL) in 25 μL reactions containing 5 μL PCR reaction buffer, 2.5 mM MgCL2, 0.2 mM dNTPs, 0.8 μM of each primer (NemF: Sapkota & Nicolaisen, 2015; 18Sr2b: Porazinska et al., 2009), 0.5 μL BSA, and 0.25 μL GoTaq G2 Hot Start Polymerase (Promega Corporation, Madison, USA). Amplification was using an initial DNA denaturation step of 95 °C for 2 min, followed by 35 cycles at 94 °C for 40 sec, 58 °C for 40 sec, 72 °C for 1 min, and a final elongation step at 72 °C for 10 min. Filtering, dereplication, sample inference, chimera identification, and merging of paired-end reads was implemented using the DADA2 pipeline (v.1.12; Callahan et al., 2016) to finally assign amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) as taxonomic units.
We combined and homogenized the remaining two soil cores to assess soil microbes, placed them in coolers (4 °C) and transported them to the laboratory at WSL. Metagenomic DNA was extracted from 8 g sieved soil (2 mm) using the DNAeasy PowerMax Soil Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) according to the manufacturer´s protocol. PCR amplification of the V3-V4 region of the small-subunit (16S) of prokaryotes (i.e., bacteria and archaea) and the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer region (ITS2) of fungi was performed with 1 ng of template DNA using PCR primers and conditions as previously described (Frey et al., 2016). PCRs were run in triplicates, pooled and sent to the Genome Quebec Innovation Centre (Montreal, QC, Canada) for barcoding using the Fluidigm Access Array technology (Fluidigm) and paired-end sequencing on the Illumina MiSeq v3 platform (Illumina Inc., San Diego, USA). Quality filtering, clustering into operational taxonomic units (OTUs, 97% similarity cutoffs) and taxonomic assignment were performed as previously described (Resch et al., 2021).Taxonomic classification of nematode, prokaryotic and fungal sequences was conducted querying against the most recent versions of PR2 (v.4.11.1; Guillou et al., 2013), SILVA (v.132; Quast et al., 2013), and UNITE (v.8; Nilsson et al., 2019) reference sequence databases. Taxonomic assignment cutoffs were set to confidence rankings ≥ 0.8 (below ranked as unclassified). Prokaryotic OTUs assigned to mitochondria or chloroplasts as well as OTUs or ASVs assigned to other than Fungi or Nematoda were manually removed prior to data analysis. The three datasets were filtered to discard singletons and doubletons. Taxonomic abundance matrices were rarefied to the lowest number of sequences per community to achieve parity of the total number of reads between samples (Prokaryotes: 10,929 reads; Fungi: 18,337 reads; Nematodes: 6,662 reads). We calculated Shannon diversity and assessed community structures for soil nematodes, prokaryotes and fungi based on their relative abundances of ASV or OTU at the taxon level.

Collection of soil physical and chemical properties
We randomly collected one undisturbed soil core (5 cm diameter, 12 cm depth) per 4-m2 subplot using a steel cylinder that fit into the soil corer. The cylinders were capped to avoid disturbance during transport and used to measure field capacity, rock content and fine earth density as previously described (Resch et al., 2021). We randomly collected another three soil cores (5 cm diameter, 12 cm depths) in each 4-m2 subplot to determine soil chemical properties. The cores were pooled, dried at 60 °C for 48 h and passed through a 2 mm sieve. We measured soil pH (CaCl2) on dried samples, total nitrogen (N) and organic carbon (C) concentration on dried and fine-ground samples (≤ 0.5 mm; for details see Resch et al., 2021). We calculated total N and organic C pools after correcting its concentration for soil depth, rock content and fine earth density.

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en: eur11 europe daily-climate maximum-temperature precipitation minimum-temperature air-temperature cordex

en: CHELSA_EUR11 technical documentation

en: Technical documentation of the data with variable names and methodology.

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High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present downscaled climate data for the CORDEX EUR11 domain at a high resolution of 30 arc sec. The temperature algorithm is based on statistical downscaling of atmospheric temperature lapse rates. The precipitation algorithm incorporates orographic predictors including wind fields, valley exposition, and boundary layer height. The resulting data consist of a daily temperature and precipitation timeseries.

The data is distributed under a: Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

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en: mass-flux terrestrial-laser-scanning meteorological-data drifting-snow snowmicropen antarctica

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This dataset contains the data acquired during the expedition to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station in December 2016 and January 2017. The dataset consits of meterorological data, drifting snow mass flux data, SnowMicroPen data and Terrestrial Laser Scanning data.

Please refer to the README for more information about the data.

This dataset is the basis of the following publication:

Sommer, C. G., Wever, N., Fierz, C., and Lehning, M.: Wind-packing of snow in Antarctica, The Cryosphere Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2018-36, in review, 2018.

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en: Expedition to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station, 2016/2017


en: water-temperature hydrology discharge climate-change-impact model

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This work presents the first extensive study of climate change impacts on rivers temperature in Switzerland. Results show that even for low emissions scenarios, water temperature increase will lead to adverse effect for both ecosystems and socioeconomic sectors (such as nuclear plant cooling) throughout the 21st century. For high emissions scenarios, the effect will be worsen. This study also shows that water warming in summer will be more important in Alpine regions than in lowlands.
This material is distributed under CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode).

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en: Dataset for: Future water temperature of rivers in Switzerland under climate change investigated with physics-based models


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

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.

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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)

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en: TRAMM project Ruedlingen experimental landslide dataset, Switzerland


en: sweet-edge rooftop-pv alpine-pv solar-irradiance speed2zero plane-of-array agri-pv

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Contains seasonal and annual statistics (mean and sum) derived from the CH-POA300 dataset.
File naming conventions:
yyyy_agg_period_hourly_stat.nc : statistic <stat> for aggregation period <agg_period> in year <yyyy>
all_agg_period_stat_mean.nc : statistic <stat> for aggregation period <agg_period> computed over the entire dataset (all years)
Definitions:
yyyy = year (2004–2020)
agg_period = winter, summer, annual
stat = mean, sum

en: Data 2016

en: This document provides an in-depth description of the CH-POA300 dataset. It includes methodology and validation details.

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Contains seasonal and annual statistics (mean, sum) of the CH-POA300 dataset.
- "yyyy_agg_period_hourly_stat.nc": statistic <stat> for the period <agg_period> of the year <yyyy>
- "all_agg_period_stat_mean.nc": statistic <stat> for the period <agg_period> reduced on the entire dataset (all years).
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yyyy: [2004, 2020]
agg_period: [winter, summer, annual]
stat: [mean, sum]

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**CH-POA300** is a dataset of hourly solar irradiance maps projected onto tilted surfaces (analogous to monofacial solar panels).
- **Spatial resolution:** 300 m
- **Coverage:** Switzerland
Two temporal extents are available, depending on the number of surface orientations (azimuth–tilt combinations):
 1. Long-term
- **Period:** 2004–2020
- **Orientations:**
 - Azimuth: 180° (South)
 - Tilts: 0°, 35°, 60°, 90°
 2. Typical year
- **Period:** 2016
- **Orientations:**
 - Azimuths: 0° (North), 90° (East), 135°, 180° (South), 225°, 270° (West)
 - Tilts: 0°, 3°, 8°, 15°, 25°, 35°, 45°, 60°, 80°, 90°
 Notes
- Azimuth angles: 0° = North, 90° = East, 180° = South, 270° = West
- Tilt angles: 0° = horizontal, 90° = vertical
 Additional data
- Seasonal and annual statistics derived from the maps are included.
- Methodology and quality assessment are documented in *CH-POA300-v#-specs.pdf*.

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en: CH-POA300 -- Hourly Plane-of-Array Solar Irradiance at High Resolution for Switzerland


maintainer: Justine Berg

en: snowpack fsm2trans dischma fsm2 hicar snow-hydrology

en: Input data April 2017 COSD

en: Input data January 2017 HICAR 250m resolution

en: Input data April 2017 HICAR 100m resolution

en: input data october 2016 COSD

en: Input data May 2017 COSD

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time series of daily averages of the whole domain for each simulation run
- rainfall
- snowfall
- runoff
- snowmelt
- temperature

en: Input data May 2017 HICAR 100m resolution

en: Input data June 2017 HICAR 50m resolution

en: Input data June 2017 COSD

en: Input data July 2017 COSD

en: Input data May 2017 HICAR 50m resolution

en: Input data April 2017 HICAR 50m resolution

en: Input data November 2016 HICAR 250m resolution

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snowheight output of validation days (LiDAR days) for all simulation runs
- 20.03.2027
- 31.03.2017
- 17.05.2017

en: Input data June 2017 HICAR 100m resolution

en: Input data February 2017 COSD

en: Input data December 2016 HICAR 50m resolution

en: Input data May 2017 HICAR 250m resolution

en: Input data February 2017 HICAR 50m resolution

en: Input data March 2017 HICAR 50m resolution

en: Available input files for running with FSM2trans

en: input data january 2016 COSD

en: Input data July 2017 HICAR 100m resolution

en: Input data October 2016 HICAR 250m resolution

en: Input data February 2017 HICAR 100m resolution

en: Input data January 2017 HICAR 50m resolution

en: Input data March 2017 HICAR 250m resolution

en: Input data March 2017 HICAR 100m resolution

en: Input data January 2017 HICAR 100m resolution

en: Input data January 2017 COSD

en: Input data April 2017 HICAR 250m resolution

en: Input data november 2016 HICAR 100m resolution

en: Input data December 2016 HICAR 100m resolution

en: Input data June 2017 HICAR 250m resolution

en: Input data February 2017 HICAR 250m resolution

en: Input data December 2016 HICAR 250m resolution

en: Input data october 2016 HICAR 50m resolution

en: Input data July 2017 HICAR 250m resolution

en: Input data November 2016 HICAR 50m resolution

en: Input data october 2016 HICAR 100m resolution

en: Input data July 2017 HICAR 50m resolution

en:
 DESCRIPTION
The dataset is used to run snowpack simulations with various forcing data at different resolutions with the Flexible Snow Model (FSM2oshd). A dynamical downscaling model (HICAR) and a semi-statistical downscaling approach (COSD) are used to downscale COSMO data to resolutions of 250 m, 100 m and 50 m. Simulations are run with the operational snow cover model and a model extension including wind- and gravity-induced snow redistribution (FSM2trans).
 Input Data
This paragraph describes the input data used to run simulations with FSM2trans
 HICAR
The HICAR input data is created by the High-resolution Intermediate Complexity Atmospheric Research model. The input data is available for different resolutions (250m, 100m and 50m) for a domain covering complex terrain in the Swiss Alps (Dischma)
 COSD
The COSD data was statistically downscaled within the OSHD framework to different resolutions (250m, 100m, 50m) for a domain covering complex terrain in the Swiss Alps (Dischma)
 Simulation files
For the Simulations, a landuse file and a namelist file with the parametrizations need to be supplied to the model
 simulation output
This simulation output that is used for the analysis of the study is provided.

en: FSM2trans snowpack simulations with HICAR input


en: fish-composition actinopterygii teleo bayofbiscay edna metabarcoding atlantic-region chondrichthyes

en: Data access

en:
Environmental DNA complements scientific trawling in surveys of marine fish biodiversity (Dataset 2019)
In October 2019 we chose 15 sites from the 2019 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. 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)

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en: Environmental DNA Marine France Evhoe 2019


en: picea-abies belowground-biomass isotopes subalpine afforestation

en: This data set provides soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, and stable carbon isotope (13C) values of mineral soil (0-45cm), organic horizons (Oi, Oe, Oa), and root biomass of an afforestation sequence (0-130years) on a subalpine pasture in Jaun, Switzerland.

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en: Soil organic carbon stock of an afforestation sequence on a subalpine pasture


en: soil-mulitfunctionality prokaryotes fungi microbial-biodiversity soil-microbiome latitudinal-gradient

en: Metadata, soil properties and soil microbial functions for each sites across the European gradient.

en: 16S_Han et al_EUgradient.xlsx

en: Diversity of prokaryotes (16S gene sequencing) containing: 1) ASV (Amplicon Sequence Variants) table: abundance of ASV in each sample and 2) Taxonomy table: taxonomic classification of each ASV.

en: ITS_Han et al_EUgradient.xlsx

en: Diversity of fungi (ITS region sequencing) containing: 1) ASV (Amplicon Sequence Variants) table: abundance of ASV in each sample and 2) Taxonomy table: taxonomic classification of each ASV.

en: The diversity and network complexity of prokaryotic and fungal communities and their relationships with soil multifunctionality (SMF) – an integrative index for C-, N- and P-cycling functions – was investigated along a 3,000-km latitudinal transect across Europe (37° to 62°N), spanning biomes from Mediterranean drylands, temperate to boreal forests.

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en: Soil microbial diversity and multifunctionality across European biomes


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

en: DATA ACCESS

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

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

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

Data from this station is managed by the permos.ch project. More information: https://www.permos.ch/permafrost-monitoring/field-sites

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


maintainer: Esther R. Frei

en: stillberg climate-change treeline picea-abies larix-decidua forest g-tree seedling-recruitment swiss-alps

en: climate data G-TREE experiment, Davos, Switzerland

en:
 Background information
Climate change-induced range expansion of treeline populations depends on their successful recruitment, which requires dispersal of viable seeds followed by successful establishment of individual propagules. The Global Treeline Range Expansion Experiment (G-TREE) is a global initiative involving researchers from Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand (Brown et al., 2013). At 15 alpine and Arctic treeline sites worldwide the mechanisms determining the elevational and latitudinal distribution of tree populations are studied using a standardized experimental approach. In summer 2013, a multifactorial seedling recruitment experiment has been established at the Stillberg ecological treeline research site. The aim of this experiment, is to quantify the effect of multiple abiotic and biotic drivers on emergence, survival, and growth of *Larix decidua* and *Picea abies* seedlings in replicated plots along an elevation gradient with three sites below (1930 m a.s.l.), at (2090 m a.s.l.), and above treeline (2410 m a.s.l.; Frei et al., 2018). All plots have been surveyed annually to count seedlings and to measure their total height. Additional environmental factors, such as soil temperature, have been recorded.

 Experimental design
The Stillberg research area is located in the Eastern Swiss Alps near Davos, Switzerland. The site has been used for several long-term monitoring as well as experimental studies for the last four decades. Our G-TREE experiment consists of a lowest site located in a subalpine Larch-Spruce forest (*Larici-Picetum*) dominated by *Larix decidua* and *Picea abies* (1930 m a.s.l.), a transition zone site dominated by alpine shrubs (2100 m a.s.l.), and an uppermost site in an alpine meadow with some dwarf shrubs (2390 m a.s.l.). The three experimental sites were set up following the standard protocol of the global G-TREE initiative (Brown et al., 2013). In a split-plot design, 20 plots (224 cm × 45 cm) were established at each site, which were randomly assigned to the 2 × 2 treatment combinations of the main factors seeding and scarification (i.e. seeding and scarification, seeding only, scarification only, and full control), resulting in five replications per main treatment combination. Each plot was divided into 16 split-plots (22.5 cm × 28 cm), to which treatment combinations of four additional two-level factors species (larch and spruce), provenance (low- and high-elevation), herbivore exclosure (with and without exclosure), and seeding year (2013, 2014) were randomly assigned, which resulted in a total of 960 split-plots (Details see Frei et al. 2018).

 Data description
All plots have been surveyed annually to count seedlings and to measure their total height. Seedling height was assessed with a hand ruler as the total length from the original emerging point to the apical meristem (Details see Frei et al. 2018). Additionally, soil temperature at each site, has been continuously recorded since 2013. Here, we present data from eight years (2013–2021).

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swiss-alps

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treeline

display_name: treeline

educ

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envidat

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en: G-TREE: Global Treeline Range Expansion Experiment Davos, Switzerland


maintainer: Ariel Bergamini

en: biodiversity-experiment grassland bryophytes species-richness moss pandiv biomass functional-traits fungicide nitrogen

en: main data as used in Lin et al. 2025

en:
This dataset was used to analyse effects of different biodiversity and functional group treatments, fertilizer and fungicide applications as well as weeding of vascular plants on the species richness and species composition of bryophytes for the following publication: Lin M., Bergamini A., Pichon N.A., Allan E, Boch S. 2025. Nitrogen enrichment and vascular plant richness loss reduce bryophyte richness. Scientific Reports.
In this study we surveyed 96 of 216 2 m x 2 m experimental plots of the PaNDiv experiment, a large grassland field experiment in the Swiss lowlands (Pichon et al. 2020). In the PaNDiv experiment four experimental treatments were applied in a full-factorial design manipulating: (1) the nitrogen availability (through fertilization), (2) the presence of fungal pathogens (through fungicide application), (3) the functional composition of the vascular plant community (represented here by community-weighted mean (CWM) SLA), and (4) the vascular plant richness (sowing of either 1, 4, 8 or 20 species). To maintain the original sown vascular plant species richness and composition, one part of each plot (1.5 m × 2 m) was weeded, while the other part has been left unweeded since the beginning of the experiment (0.5 m × 2 m).
On each plot we surveyed two subplots, the unweeded subplot and a weeded subplot of the same area (0.5 m × 2 m). On each subplot we established a complete list of all bryophyte species together with an estimate of their cover.
The provided excel file contains three sheets:
1.	A sheet with raw species lists of all plots surveyed together with information on all treatments and an estimation of the percentage cover of vascular plants in a summer campaign in August 2022. Cover of bryophytes was estimated for each species in percent.
2.	A sheet with a list of all bryophyte species with its growth form (acroarpous/pleurocarpous)
3.	A sheet with some explantations
By means of the provided R code and the data in the excel file, all analyses can be repeated.
More details to the data sampled can be found in Lin et al (2025).

biodiversity-experiment

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biomass

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bryophytes

display_name: bryophytes

functional-traits

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fungicide

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grassland

display_name: grassland

moss

display_name: moss

nitrogen

display_name: nitrogen

pandiv

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species-richness

display_name: species-richness

en: Data on bryophyte diversity and treatment factors in the PaNDiv experiment


en: land-use-abandonment grassland-management vascular-plant biodiversity disturbance

en: Boch et al. - Vegetation records Alpengarten Schynige Platte 2010-2015.xlsx

en: Vegetation records (species lists, percentage cover of species) of a six-year experiment to test whether different land-use treatments affect species diversity and composition in alpine to subalpine graslands.

en: This dataset was used for the publication "Boch, Blaser, Föhr, Küchler, Fischer (2024) Haymaking complemented by moderate disturbances can sustain and restore species-rich alpine to subalpine grasslands" in Alpine Botany. It contains vegetation records (species lists, percentage cover of species) of six grassland sites with each five 2x2 m treatment plots established in the Schynige Platte Alpine Botanical Garden. In a six-year experiment, we tested the response of plant species richness and mean ecological indicator values that we calculated from this dataset, to management treatments ranging from combined haymaking and scraping, to haymaking or scraping alone, to complete abandonment. We further tested whether the treatments led to changes in species composition, i.e. shifts to different vegetation types.

biodiversity

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disturbance

display_name: disturbance

grassland-management

display_name: grassland-management

land-use-abandonment

display_name: land-use-abandonment

vascular-plant

display_name: vascular-plant

en: Schynige Platte Alpine Botanical Garden land-use experiment


en: edna ins16s switzerland insect drone minion

en: Data access

en: Please use cyberduck to download

en:
Traditional methods of biodiversity monitoring are often logistically challenging, time-consuming, require experienced experts on species identification and sometimes include destruction of the targeted specimens. Here, we investigated a non-invasive approach of combining the use of drones and environmental DNA (eDNA) to monitor insect biodiversity on vegetation.
We aimed to assess the efficiency of this novel method in capturing insect diversity and comparing insect composition across different vegetation types (grassland, shrub, and forest) in Switzerland. A commercial, off-the-shelf drone was equipped with a specialised probe that autonomously swabbed vegetation and collected eDNA. Then, samples were processed using rapid third-generation Oxford Nanopore sequencing. The obtained data were analysed for insect diversity, comparing taxonomic richness, evenness and community composition across the three habitat types using statistical techniques. Sequencing of the samples yielded 76 hexapods taxa, revealing an insect community with notable differences in taxonomic richness but not in evenness across grassland, shrub, and forest habitats.
Our study demonstrates the potential of drone-based sampling integrated with eDNA and nanopore sequencing for biodiversity monitoring, offering a non-destructive method for detecting insect occurrence on plant surfaces. Integrating robotics and eDNA technology provides a promising solution for fast, large-scale, non-invasive biodiversity monitoring, potentially improving conservation efforts and ecosystem management.

drone

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edna

display_name: edna

insect

display_name: insect

minion

display_name: minion

switzerland

display_name: switzerland

en: Robot-aided measurement of insect diversity on vegetation using environmental DNA


maintainer: Brian W. McArdell

en: magnitude illgraben force-plate monitoring-station debris-flow

en: Illgraben debris-flow characteristics 2023

en:
List of key debris flow variables from the WSL Illgraben monitoring station (2023) such as occurrence date and time, peak flow depth, peak flow velocity, total volume and bulk density.
This table contains values based on our current analysis methods. The list will be updated annually after each debris flow season, and as our methods continue to improve, individual values may change slightly in the future.

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display_name: debris-flow

force-plate

display_name: force-plate

illgraben

display_name: illgraben

magnitude

display_name: magnitude

monitoring-station

display_name: monitoring-station

educ

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envidat

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