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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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Amphibian migration conflicting with traffic
Regions and cities, Environment
Since the mid-1950s, the number of amphibians being killed on roads has increased dramatically. Every year, hundreds of thousands of amphibians cross roads in Switzerland during...
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Assessment of the Chemical Water Status: Ammonium
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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Estimation of direct CO₂ emissions based on heat demand according to SIA...
Regions and cities, Environment
The Swiss building stock is responsible for around a quarter of CO2 emissions. Reductions in this area are key to achieving the climate targets. </p><p> The map "CO2 Emissions B...
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Assessment of the Chemical Water Status: Nitrite
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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Nase spawning grounds 1995 - 2004
Regions and cities, Environment
The data includes the coordinates of spawning grounds in Switzerland (around 100 sites) as well as the average number of breeding animals (10-year average). The FOEN conducted a...
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Hydrogeological sketch
Regions and cities, Environment
Groundwater is present in all subterranean rock. This map gives a hydrogeological overview of Switzerland and its various types of aquifers. Important unconsolidated aquifers ar...
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Assessment of the Chemical Water Status: Phosphate
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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Assessment of the Chemical Water Status: Total Phosphorus
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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Assessment of the Biological Water Status: Macrozoobenthos
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 stati...
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Federal Inventory of Raised and Transition Bogs of National Importance
Regions and cities, Environment
Raised bogs are some of the most susceptible habitats in Switzerland and are in sharp decline. Today, between 10% and 20% of the original stocks still exist. The scientific inve...
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Assessment of the Chemical Water Status: Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC)
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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Federal Inventory of Floodplains of National Importance
Regions and cities, Environment
1987 liess das BUWAL eine detaillierte Vegetationskartierung der Objekte des Vernehmlassungsversion des Aueninventars ausarbeiten. Im Rahmen dieser Kartierungen wurden die sicht...
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Mapping of Floodplains of National Importance
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
In order to give cantons the option of taking the protection of floodplains of probable national importance into their own hands as quickly as possible, the Swiss Agency for the...
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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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Floodplains outside of the federal inventary
Regions and cities, Environment
Of all the floodplains mapped throughout Switzerland, the objects which have not been included in the federal inventory have been compiled in this dataset. A distinction has bee...
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Springs and swallow holes in karst regions
Regions and cities, Environment
The Karst springs and swallow holes layer shows the main points where groundwater emerges from the karst system as well as important infiltration points. Distinctions are made b...
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Grayling population of national importance: distribution area
Regions and cities, Environment
The data on grayling populations of national im-portance includes four subproducts; the distribution area layer includes the sections of watercourses with 20 major grayling popu...
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Grayling population of national importance: spawning grounds
Regions and cities, Environment
The data on grayling populations of national importance includes four sub-products; the spawning grounds layer includes the areas in which natural reproduction occurs. The core ...
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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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Grayling population of national importance: core areas
Regions and cities, Environment
The data on grayling populations of national importance includes three subproducts; the core zones layer includes the areas of particular importance for grayling populations, ba...
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FOEN basic monitoring network for surfaces water
Regions and cities, Environment
The data show the locations of the stations in the basic monitoring network of the Hydrology Division of the FOEN. It includes all stations currently listed on the FOEN’s home p...
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Grayling population of national importance: larva habitats
Regions and cities, Environment
The data on grayling populations of national importance includes four subproducts; the larva habitats layer includes the areas in which larva were monitored. The core data come ...
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Assessment of the Chemical Water Status: Nitrate
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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Federal Inventory of Floodplains of National Importance - Appendix 2
Regions and cities, Environment
Floodplains, namely natural habitats in the flood zones of watercourses, are in decline. The scientific inventory of floodplains was commissioned by the FDHA in May 1981 and com...