amphibian-data-aargau
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Amphibian observation and pond data (Aargau, Switzerland)
Helen Moor, Christoph Bühler, Ariel Bergamini, Christoph Vorburger, Rolf Holderegger, Benedikt R. Schmidt, Simon Egger
Helen Moor
Amphibian observation and pond data (Aargau, Switzerland)
2021
Birmensdorf, Switzerland
EnviDat
1.0
pdf,csv,rmd,html,xlsx
DOI
doi:10.16904/envidat.270
https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/amphibian-data-aargau
TECHNICAL CONTACT
Helen
Moor
helen.moor@wsl.ch
EARTH SCIENCE
CLIMATE INDICATORS
LAND SURFACE/AGRICULTURE INDICATORS
environment
AMPHIBIANS
CONNECTIVITY
CONSERVATION
LANDSCAPE
OCCUPANCY MODELS
WETLANDS
Not provided
Not provided
Not provided
2021-01-01
COMPLETE
CARTESIAN
CARTESIAN
8.08
47.385
47.15
47.62
7.7
8.46
7.7
47.15
7.7
47.62
8.46
47.62
8.46
47.15
8.08
47.385
Not provided
Access to the data upon request
Usage constraintes defined by the license "Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA)", see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
English
BGB
DISTRIBUTOR
WSL
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
https://www.wsl.ch
DATA CENTER CONTACT
EnviDat
envidat@wsl.ch
https://www.envidat.ch/envidat_thumbnail.png
In the canton of Aargau, hundreds of new ponds have been constructed since the 1990s to benefit declining amphibian populations. This dataset consists of monitoring data for all 12 pond-breeding amphibian species in the canton of Aargau from 1999 to 2019 in 856 ponds, and environmental variables that describe the ponds and the landscape surrounding the ponds. Species observation data is detection/non-detection data from repeat visits during survey years, during which all potentially suitable ponds in an area were surveyed. Environmental variables describing the ponds are whether the pond has been newly constructed since 1991 or not, pond age (if constructed), elevation a.s.l., the water surface area, and whether the water table fluctuates or not. Environmental variables describing the surroundings of the ponds are the percent area of forest within a circular buffer of radius 100m around the pond, the area of large (width ≥6m) roads within a circular buffer of radius 1km around the pond, as well as structural and potential population connectivity, quantified by three different metrics each. The canton of Aargau is the owner of the monitoring data; the original datafile is only disclosed upon request and in consultation with the canton of Aargau. The edited dataset contains cleaned observation data for the 12 amphibian species, as well as compiled and edited covariate data and code to fit dynamic occupancy models.
https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/amphibian-data-aargau
gcmd_dif
VERSION 10.2
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Acknowledgements
String
We thank the canton of Aargau for allowing us use their monitoring data. We thank the ETH Board for funding through the Blue-Green Biodiversity (BGB) Initiative (BGB 2020).
Species
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Alytes obstetricans, Bombina variegata, Bufo bufo, Epidalea calamita, Hyla aborea, Pelophylax ridibundus, Pelophylax esculentus, Pelophylax lessonae, Rana temporaria, Ichthyosaura alpestris, Lissotriton helveticus, Lissotriton vulgaris, Triturus cristatus