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Observational data: avalanche observations, danger signs and stability test r...
This is the freely available part of the data used in the publication by Techel et al. (2022): On the correlation between a sub-level qualifier refining the danger level with... -
Biomass of standing dead trees
Dry weight (mass) of dead, standing trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh. This consists of the tree parts: roots, stemwood and also, depending on the degree of decomposition,... -
ESPON Digiplan
The dataset as a part of the international project ESPON Digiplan. The aim of this international project is to assess the extent, organisation and financing of digitisation of... -
Plant-mediated effects of heavy metals and acid rain on feeding aphids and ca...
In controlled model forest ecosystems young trees were exposed to heavy metals in the soil and to acid precipitation. On spruce trees Lymantria monacha caterpillars and Cinara... -
Biomass of lying dead wood (LIS)
Dry weight (mass) of lying deadwood starting at 7 cm in diameter that does not fulfil the criteria for a tally tree (measurement location of dbh not identifiable or the dbh is... -
Herb layer biomass in Swiss forests
The purpose of this project was to develop a model to estimate herb layer biomass and carbon stock based on the categorical cover estimate on each NFI sample plot. To this end,... -
Number of woody species (>= 12 cm DBH)
Number of tree and shrub species starting at 12 cm dbh (diameter at breast height) within the 200 m2 sample plot. Citation: Abegg, M.; Brändli, U.-B.; Cioldi, F.; Fischer, C.;... -
ECT and RB data Switzerland
The data set contains the data used in the publication "On snow stability interpretation of Extended Column Test results" by Techel et. al. (2020), published in Natural Hazards... -
Restoration of the lowland raised bog Hagenmoos (Switzerland): Data on vegeta...
This dataset includes data from three vegetation surveys in a restored raised bog (Hagenmoos) in the lowland of the canton of Zürich (Switzerland). The bog Hagenmoos was... -
The Experimental Forest Management network
The EFM network is one of the longest running scientific projects in Switzerland and has been collecting growth and yield data since the late 1880’s. As of 2021, 28 plots had... -
Landscape in contemporary strategic spatial plans of European Urban regions
The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper Hersperger, A.M., Bürgi, M., Wende, W., Bacău, S. and Grădinaru, S.R., 2020. Does landscape play a role in... -
Input data for impact assessment of homogenised snow series
Input data for the following research article: Impact assessment of homogenised snow depth series on trends The data consists of separate output files from the following... -
Water availability of Swiss forests during the 2015 and 2018 droughts
The Swiss forests' water availability during the 2015 and 2018 droughts was modelled by implementing the mechanistic Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere-Transport (SVAT) model... -
Total stem number by cause of damage
Number of all living and dead trees and shrubs starting at 12 cm dbh where a particular cause of damage (including no damage, dead or lying) was determined. One tree may have... -
Shape still matters - experimental quantification of deadwood effects on rock...
We conducted an experimental rockfall campaign on a forested slope with deadwood and on with the windthrown area cleared in Schiers (CH). Two different rock categories were... -
Volume of dead wood
Volume of stemwood with bark of all dead trees and shrubs (standing and lying) starting at 12 cm dbh. Unlike this theme , the "Amount of deadwood according to the method of... -
Diversity of ground beetles and spiders as well as cynipid oak gall formation...
In the dry Pfynwald forest a long-term experiment of WSL was initiated in 2003 with a set of irrigated and non-irrigated plots. Forest Entomologie WSL made several... -
Forest area by forest function
The forest area refers to all areas classified as forest according to NFI’s forest definition. The forest definition includes shrub forest. For each forest function (including... -
Drought alters C footprint of trees in soil: tracking the spatio-temporal fat...
Data from pulse-labelling experiment with 100-year old trees of a naturally dry pine forest exposed to a 15-year-long irrigation experiment. Canopies of 10 trees were labelled... -
More than one century of hydrological monitoring in two small catchments with...
Long-term data on precipitation and runoff are essential to draw firm conclusions about the behavior and trends of hydrological catchments that may be influenced by land-use and...