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Air pollution by Ozone
Regions and cities, Environment
Ground-level ozone has negative impacts on human health and vegetation. High levels in particular lead to irritation of the respiratory tract and lung tissue. In plants, high oz...
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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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Geochemical soil atlas of Switzerland: Sodium
Regions and cities, Environment
Interpolierte Natrium-Konzentrationen (mg/kg Feinerde) in den Oberböden (0–20 cm) der Schweiz. Für die Ordinary Kriging Interpolationen (1 km x 1 km) wurden Messdaten von insges...
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Air pollution by particulate matter PM10
Regions and cities, Environment
"Particulate matter" (PM10) refers to particles less than 10 micrometres in diameter. These particles are formed during industrial and commercial production processes, combustio...
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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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Swiss water topographical catchment areas: Main river section
Regions and cities, Environment
The data set “Main river section” is part of the geo dataset “Swiss water topographical catchment areas”. The main river in a catchment area is the body of water that leaves t...
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Federal Inventory of Dry Grasslands of National Importance
Regions and cities, Environment
Dry grasslands are habitats with a wide variety of species that are marked by agricultural use. In accordance with the Federal Act on Protecting Nature and Cultural Heritage, th...
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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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Lothar 1999 storm damage inventory
Regions and cities, Environment
The aim of the federal government’s “Lothar” storm damage inventory was to produce a complete and uniform database of total and partial damage to forests throughout Switzerland....
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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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Geochemical soil atlas of Switzerland: Thallium
Regions and cities, Environment
Interpolierte Element-Konzentrationen (mg/kg Feinerde) in den Oberböden (0–20 cm) der Schweiz. Für die Ordinary Kriging Interpolationen (1 km x 1 km) wurden Messdaten von insges...
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Residual flow map of Switzerland: catchment
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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Geochemical soil atlas of Switzerland: Manganese
Regions and cities, Environment
Interpolierte Element-Konzentrationen (mg/kg Feinerde) in den Oberböden (0–20 cm) der Schweiz. Für die Ordinary Kriging Interpolationen (1 km x 1 km) wurden Messdaten von insges...
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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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Federal Inventory of Floodplains of National Importance
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...
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Relative air humidity in the year, period 1981-2010
Regions and cities, Environment
The map shows the mean relative air humidity at 13:30 in the year for the period 1981-2010. For the area-wide calculation the climate stations of MeteoSwiss served as support po...
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Underground flow paths in karst regions
Regions and cities, Environment
The Underground flow paths layer indicates the probable direction taken by the groundwater in karst regions within the catchments towards the relevant spring. These interpretati...
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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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Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area N.N.
Regions and cities, Environment
The set of invasive alien plants shows the maps of the potential areas of 56 alien plants species present in Switzerland as well as some invasive species present in neighboring ...
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Extent of groundwater resources in karst regions
Regions and cities, Environment
The Karst water resources layer shows the extent of the water-saturated zone of a karstified aquifer projected to the surface. It is determined by the karst water level and ther...
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Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland, with average...
Regions and cities, Environment
Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland with a spatial resolution of 100m. The maps show the average soil loss in tonnes per hectare and month. Shades of gr...
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Areas of silver fir
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
The map shows the areas of silver fir occurrence. In the main area, fir is naturally involved to a considerable extent in the stand development in the upper montane and high-mon...
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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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Federal Inventory of Hunting Ban Reserves
Regions and cities, Environment
Federal hunting bans have existed since 1875 and served the purpose of raising the populations of chamois, red deer and roe deer as well as ibex (cloven-hoofed game), which had ...