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Percentage of stocking along rivers
Regions and cities, Environment
Vegetation performs important functions. It provides shade for rivers, thus reducing peak water temperatures. In the context of global warming, this is increasingly important. F...
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River basins (catchment areas)
Regions and cities, Environment
The river basins form the uppermost aggregation level for the "Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies" geodata set. The large areas with a surface area of usually mo...
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Amphibians appendix 3
Regions and cities, Environment
There are currently 19 different amphibian species that live in Switzerland, and nearly all of them are included in the Red List of Threatened Species. The areas that contain we...
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Windstorm: Gusts at return period 30 years
Regions and cities, Environment
The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the regi...
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Swiss residual flow maps Supply
Regions and cities, Environment
The Federal Act of 24 January 1991 on the Protection of Water against Pollution (LPEP) and its provisions on residual flows came into force on November 1, 1992 in Kraft getreten...
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Assessment of the Biological Water Status: Macrophytes
Regions and cities, Environment
Within the National Surface Water Quality Monitoring Programme (NAWA), water quality is recorded jointly by the federal and cantonal authorities at around 100 monitoring station...
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Water temperature monitoring stations
Regions and cities, Environment
The data set represents the locations of the stations in the water temperature monitoring network of the Hydrology Department of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). I...
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Tranquillity Areas
Regions and cities, Environment
Based on the "Tranquillity Map of the Swiss Plateau" and its calculated "tranquillity" values, certain recreational areas were derived. For this purpose, areas that did not fall...
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Biogeographical regions of Switzerland (CH)
Regions and cities, Environment
The basis for establishing the biogeographical regions (in 6 or 12 classes) were the homogeneous surfaces of the river basins, where relevant and adequately extensive species in...
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Interregional wildlife corridor
Regions and cities, Environment
First, known wildlife corridors were recorded from existing data at the cantonal level, and potential corridors were detected by GIS and then divided into wildlife corridors of ...
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Crayfish plague – Findings in Switzerland
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
Proof of the crayfish plague in Switzerland: Geo-referenced locations of populations with test results. The most cataclysmic disease for the European species is the crayfish pla...
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Groundwater bodies of Switzerland
Regions and cities, Environment
The groundwater bodies layer shows a simplified and comprehensive breakdown of hydrogeological overview units for Switzerland. The groundwater bodies here have not been develope...
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Alpine pastures protected by livestock guardian dogs
Regions and cities, Environment
The return of large predators to Switzerland has led to the use of livestock guardian dogs on our alpine pastures. Herd guards are used to protect livestock against larger preda...
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Mean runoff (m³/s) and flow regime types for the river network of Switzerland
Regions and cities, Environment
For the entire Swiss river network natural runoff (m³/s) values (monthly and annual means) have been modeled and the flow regime types determined. «MQ-GWN-CH» constitutes a data...
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Windstorm: Gusts at return period 50 years
Regions and cities, Environment
The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the regi...
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Warning Forest Fire Danger
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
The FOEN's forest fire danger warning contains the general daily forest fire danger based on meteorological data and the resulting forest fire indices.
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Windstorm: Gusts at return period 100 years
Regions and cities, Environment
The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the regi...
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Forest fire prevention measures of the cantons
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
Contains the forest fire prevention measures currently in force in the cantons.
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Map of past earthquakes in Switzerland and neighbouring regions
Regions and cities, Environment
ECOS09 is the earthquake catalogue of Switzerland and bordering regions. It integrates the following sources: - Macroseismic Earthquake Catalogue of Switzerland (MECOS 02) with ...
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NQStat low-flow statistics
Regions and cities, Environment
A wide variety of parameters may be used to describe low-flow events. The FOEN Hydrology Division's low-flow statistics are based on the recommendations of the German Associatio...
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Water status monitoring stations CH
Regions and cities, Environment
The data set represents the monitoring stations where the water status is recorded. The cantons are responsible for water protection enforcement, as they are for other environme...
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Windstorm: Dynamic Pressure at return period 100 years
Regions and cities, Environment
The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the regi...
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Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies 40 km²
Regions and cities, Environment
The "40 km² catchment areas" data set is one of four possible aggregation levels for the "Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies" geodata set. It consists of a compr...
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Base areas (catchment areas) HADES
Regions and cities, Environment
The base areas form the lowest layer of the system of catchment areas that describe Switzerland’s hydrographical structure (Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland, HADES). As many un...
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Windstorm: Dynamic Pressure at return period 300 years
Regions and cities, Environment
The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the regi...