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Eduard Spelterini image collection
Education, culture and sport
Between 1890 and 1910 Eduard Spelterini (1852-1931) undertook a number of travels by balloon over Switzerland and other countries. While doing this, he took photographs from ab...
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Spatial modelling of ecological indicator values
Education, culture and sport
Ecologically meaningful predictors are often neglected in plant distribution studies, resulting in incomplete niche quantification and low predictive power of species distributi...
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Soil property maps for the Swiss forest
Education, culture and sport
We used 2071 forest soil profiles to model a wide range of soil properties for the forested area of Switzerland. The spatial prediction is based on the principle of «digital soi...
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trophiCH v1 - a food web for Switzerland
Education, culture and sport
Environmental pressures on species can cascade within food webs and even extend beyond individual ecosystems to interconnected systems at large spatial scales. To facilitate the...
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Max van Berchem image collection
Education, culture and sport
Born in Geneva in 1863, Max van Berchem was an Orientalist, specialist in Islamic archaeology and photographer. He travelled to Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Turkey to carry out r...
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History of wetlands in Switzerland since 1850
Education, culture and sport
Naturally, large parts of the Swiss Plateau are characterised by wetlands and meandering rivers. That this is no longer the case today is the result of centuries of efforts to o...
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Land use projections and services for Switzerland
Education, culture and sport
Data and scripts of publication: Madleina Gerecke, Oskar Hagen, Janine Bolliger, Anna M. Hersperger, Felix Kienast, Bronwyn Price, Loïc Pellissier (2019) Assessing potential la...