DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18325820
title: Bern Landscape Change Explorer Ecosystem Service Provision Simulations

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