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3 datasets found

  • 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
  • Soil and stem xylem water isotope data from two pan-European sampling campaigns

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Here, we present a comprehensive isotope dataset of soil and stem xylem water collected during two pan-European sampling campaigns in spring and summer 2023. The dataset includes...

    Last updated: September 23, 2025

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    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • beech
    • critical-zone
    • cryogenic-extraction
    • ecohydrology
    • europe
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest
    • hydrogen-isotopes
    • hydrology
    • isotopes
    • oxygen-isotopes
    • picea-abies
    • soil-water
    • spruce
    • water-isotopes
    • xylem-water
  • 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