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5 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
  • Long-term biomass dynamics of temperate forests in Europe after cessation of management

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset documents the analyses and the plot generation for the manuscript Long-term biomass dynamics in temperate forests in Europe after cessation of management. We...

    Last updated: January 11, 2024

    • OCTET
    • SERVICE
    • biomass-dynamics
    • carbon-storage
    • environmental-gradients
    • forest-inventory
    • forest-reserves
  • Trends in background mortality in unmanaged forests across Europe over the last century

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    These datasets and script document the analyses and the plot generation for the article **“Trends in background mortality in unmanaged forests across Europe over the last...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

    • OCTET
    • ecological-niche
    • forest
    • forest-dynamics
    • forest-inventory
    • mortality-rate
    • temperate-forests
    • tree-mortality
  • Ramerenwald Close Range Remote Sensing Benchmark

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Close Range Remote Sensing Benchmark for different LiDAR and photogrammetric Sensors in a mixed temperate forest. Benchmarks are needed to evaluate the performance of different...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • ZIP
    • 3d-point-cloud
    • forest-inventory
    • lidar
    • mobile-laser-scanning
    • structure-from-motion
    • terrestrial-laser-scanning
    • terrestrial-photogrammetry
    • unmanned-aerial-vehicle-laser-scanning
  • Individual tree TLS point clouds for tree volume estimation

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset This dataset is based on terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data acquired during winter 2020/2021 in leaf-off conditions, with a Leica BLK 360 instrument following a...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • biomass
    • forest-inventory
    • lidar
    • single-tree
    • terrestiral-laserscanning
    • tree-volume