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Nitrogen availability under trees exposed to CO2 enrichment (FACE)
Education, culture and sport
Data obtained in the free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiment at Hofstetten, NW Switzerland, between 2009 and 2016. This dataset contains analyses of the soil solution througho...
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Sample Geodata and Software for Demonstrating Geospatial Preprocessing for...
Education, culture and sport
This dataset contains open vector data for railways, forests and power lines, as well an open digital elevation model (DEM) for a small area around a sample forest range in Euro...
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Factors influencing teenagers' forest visit frequency
Education, culture and sport
The data results from a questionnaire survey conducted at 8 schools in the cantons Zurich, Aargau and St. Gallen. Respondents aged 13-22 years. The aim of the survey was to gain...
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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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Resurveyed vegetation releves of beech forests in the Swiss Jura Mountains
Education, culture and sport
This dataset comprised 254 historical (1937 – 1948) and resurveyed (2019 – 2022) vegetation relevés of beech-dominated forests sites in the Swiss Jura mountains. The data contai...
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LWF-Tea bag sites
Education, culture and sport
Decomposition of plant litter is a key process for the transfer of carbon and nutrients in ecosystems. Carbon contained in the decaying biomass is released to the atmosphere as ...
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Shading by Trees and Fractional Snow Cover Control the Subcanopy Radiation Budget
Education, culture and sport
This data set consists of incoming and outgoing short- and longwave radiation as well as sunlit-snow-view-fraction as described in the JGR-Atmospheres paper "Shading by trees an...
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Tree species map of Switzerland
Education, culture and sport
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...
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G-TREE: Global Treeline Range Expansion Experiment Davos, Switzerland
Education, culture and sport
Background information Climate change-induced range expansion of treeline populations depends on their successful recruitment, which requires dispersal of viable seeds followed...
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Starter Kit for the TreeMig framework v1 for easy simulation of...
Education, culture and sport
Starter kit for the TreeMig framework that allows for an easy application of the forest landscape model TreeMig for simulating forest dynamics in space under changing environmen...
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Site description Davos Seehornwald CH-DAV
Education, culture and sport
Site description of the Seehornwald Davos (CH-DAV) research site. The material provided offers information on the biomass and growth of trees in CH-DAV, including supporting mat...
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Vegetation Height Model NFI
Education, culture and sport
Countrywide **vegetation height models (VHM)** were generated for Switzerland based on **stereo aerial images**, acquired by the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo. From th...
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Monthly topsoil and near surface microclimate temperature data for Switzerland
Education, culture and sport
Climate data matching the scales at which organisms experience climatic conditions are often missing. Yet, such data on microclimatic conditions are required to better understan...
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Historical Vegetation Height Model NFI
Education, culture and sport
The main datasets available are 4 nationwide **Digital Surface Models (DSMs)** and corresponding **Vegetation Height Models (VHMs)** with a spatial resolution of 1 m. The Vegeta...
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Vegetation Height Model LiDAR NFI
Education, culture and sport
Countrywide **vegetation height models (VHM)** were generated for Switzerland based on LiDAR data acquired in the framework of the **swissSURFACE3D** campaign (swisstopo). To d...
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Soil and stem xylem water isotope data from two pan-European sampling campaigns
Education, culture and sport
Here, we present a comprehensive isotope dataset of soil and stem xylem water collected during two pan-European sampling campaigns in spring and summer 2023. The dataset include...
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Psychophysiological effects of walking in forests and urban built...
Education, culture and sport
This repository contains data related to the field experiments of the RESTORE project. This project is a collaboration between the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and L...
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Trends in background mortality in unmanaged forests across Europe over the...
Education, culture and sport
These datasets and script document the analyses and the plot generation for the article **“Trends in background mortality in unmanaged forests across Europe over the last centur...
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Steigerwald_Artificial_Dendrotelms
Education, culture and sport
This dataset comprises environmental and insect larval data from 24 artificial dendrotelms (water-filled tree holes) created in beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) in six old-growth f...
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Stand inventory data from the 10‐ha forest research plot in Uholka, Ukraine
Education, culture and sport
In 2000, a permanent forest plot of 10 ha has been established in the core zone of the primeval beech forest of Uholka. All living and dead trees with a diameter at breast heig...
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Forest monitoring to assess forest functioning under air pollution and...
Education, culture and sport
Forest monitoring to assess forest functioning under air pollution and climate change. Proceedings. FORECOMON 2021 - the 9th forest ecosystem monitoring conference. 7-9 June 202...
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Swiss FluxNet Site Davos
Education, culture and sport
The Swiss FluxNet Site Davos is a managed subalpine evergreen forest, located on the Seehorn mountain near Davos in the Swiss Alps. The site is dominated by Norway spruce. The t...
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Vegetation Height Model Sentinel NFI
Education, culture and sport
Countrywide vegetation height models (VHM) were generated for Switzerland based on Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery and the digital terrain model (DTM) swissALTI3D from the Swiss F...
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Forest Canopy Layer Code
Education, culture and sport
R script for large-scale mapping of forest canopy layering. The approach combines tree-based and area-based methods, using airborne laser scanning point clouds together with ind...
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Case study applications demonstrating the use and potential of the TreeMig...
Education, culture and sport
The TreeMig framework allows for an easy application of the forest landscape model TreeMig for simulating forest dynamics in space under changing environmental and land use cond...