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6 datasets found

  • Data from: Does one model fit all? patterns of beech mortality in natural forests of three European regions

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The datasets comprise nearly 19’000 trees of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) from unmanaged forests in Switzerland, Germany / Lower Saxony and Ukraine. Tree death was...

    Last updated: November 17, 2023

    • CSV
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest-inventory
    • forest-reserves
    • mortality-models
    • primeval-forests
    • tree-mortality
  • Resurveyed vegetation releves of beech forests in the Swiss Jura Mountains

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset comprised 254 historical (1937 – 1948) and resurveyed (2019 – 2022) vegetation relevés of beech-dominated forests sites in the Swiss Jura mountains. The data contains...

    Last updated: February 21, 2024

    • XLS
    • air-pollution
    • climate-change
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest
    • forest-management
    • ground-vegetation
  • Data on multi-year drought impacts on European beech in northern Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This study investigated multi-year drought impacts on beech forests through a unique large-scale monitoring of 963 individual beech trees, which showed either premature leaf...

    Last updated: May 2, 2024

    • ZIP
    • drought-2018
    • european-summer-drought
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forests
    • growth-reaction-to-drought-stress
    • leaf-senescence
  • European Beech tree-ring dataset 1952-2020

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the raw ring-width and climate data (1952-2020), as well as the R code to run the model and the model output used in the research article "No future growth...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • OCTET
    • TXT
    • beech
    • dendrochronology
    • dendroecology
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • network-analysis
    • tree-ring
  • Steigerwald_Artificial_Dendrotelms

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset comprises environmental and insect larval data from 24 artificial dendrotelms (water-filled tree holes) created in beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) in six old-growth...

    Last updated: October 29, 2025

    • XLS
    • body-size
    • dendrotelms
    • diversity
    • european-beech
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest
    • germany
    • insects
    • invertebrates
    • metacommunity
    • old-growth-islands
    • steigerwald
    • stepping-stones
    • trems
    • water-filled-tree-holes
  • Stand inventory data from the 10‐ha forest research plot in Uholka, Ukraine

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In 2000, a permanent forest plot of 10 ha has been established in the core zone of the primeval beech forest of Uholka. All living and dead trees with a diameter at breast height...

    Last updated: October 29, 2025

    • ZIP
    • carpathian-biosphere-reserve
    • dem
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest
    • forest-dynamics
    • forest-structure
    • long-term-data-sets
    • permanent-forest-plot-data
    • primeval-beech-forest
    • stand-inventory-data