Published February 11, 2026
| Version v2
Dataset
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Bern Landscape Change Explorer Ecosystem Service Provision Simulations
Authors/Creators
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ETH Zurich
Description
GENERAL INFORMATION
1. Title of Dataset: Bern Landscape Change Explorer Ecosystem Service Provision Simulations.
2. Author Information
A. Principal Investigator Contact Information
Name: Benjamin Black
Institution: Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Address: HIL H 52.1, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5 CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Email: bblack@ethz.ch
B. Additional researcher Contact Information
Name: Manuel Kurmann
Institution: Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Address: HIL H 52.1, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5 CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Email: mankurma@ethz.ch
C. Additional researcher Contact Information
Name: Isabel Nicholson Thomas
Institution: Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Address: HIL H 52.1, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5 CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Email: inthomas@ethz.ch
3. Date of data collection: 2025-06-01 > 2026-01-1
4. Geographic location of data: Switzerland
SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
2. Recommended citation for this dataset: Black, B., Kurmann, M., & Nicholson Thomas, I. (2026). Bern Landscape Change Explorer Ecosystem Service Provision Simulations (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. ETH Zurich. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18325820
DESCRIPTION/REPRODUCIBILITY:
- This dataset contains rasters of Ecosystem Service Provision scenarios for the Bern Landscape Change Explorer project.
- All rasters are projected in the CH1903+ / LV95 coordinate reference system and share the same extent and resolution (1 hectare).
- For detailed descriptions of the data generation process, raster value interpretation and suggested colour scheme, please refer to the accompanying metadata files:
- BeschreibungMetadatenOekosystemleistungen_DE.pdf
- BeschreibungMetadatenOekosystemleistungen_ENG.pdf
This dataset contains files on eight ecosystem services. The simulations were carried out in five-year
increments for the period 2025 to 2060. Three climate scenarios, five economic scenarios, three
population scenarios, and five land use scenarios were taken into account. The latter control the
future transition probabilities between different land use classes. All possible combinations were
calculated for each ecosystem service, resulting in a total of 2,025 files per ecosystem service.
The file names follow the pattern:
< Ecosystem service>-<Year>-<Climate scenario>-<Economic scenario>-<Population scenario>-
<land use scenario>-canton.tif
Example: car-2025-rcp45-ref_peri_urban-low-ei-cul-canton.tif
Category Options
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Ecosystem Service car, ff, hab, ndr, pol, rec, sdr, wy
Year 2025, 2030, 2035, 2040, 2045, 2050, 2055, 2060
Climate scenarios rcp26, rcp45, rcp85
Economic scenarios combined_urban, ecolo_urban, ecolo_central, ref_central, ref_peri_urban
Demographic scenarios low, ref, high
Land use change rates scenarios bau, ei_cul, ei_nat, ei_soc, gr_ex
Files
blce-es-data-archive.zip
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Additional details
Related works
- Is derived from
- Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.18324442 (DOI)
Funding
- Wyss Academy for Nature
Software
- Repository URL
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18202087
- Programming language
- R , Python
- Development Status
- Active