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4 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

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    • 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

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    • biomass-dynamics
    • carbon-storage
    • environmental-gradients
    • forest-inventory
    • forest-reserves
  • Calibration data for empirical mortality models of 18 European tree species

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset comprises > 90 000 records from inventories in 54 strict forest reserves in...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • empirical-mortality-models
    • forest-reserves
    • inventory-data
    • tree-growth
    • tree-mortality
  • Sample plot inventory data form the Parc Naturel du Jorat

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The Jorat is one of the largest continously forested areas in the Swiss Plateau. On a forested area of 778 ha, the Parc Naturel du Jorat (PNJ), a periurban parc, has been...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • beech
    • forest-in
    • forest-reserves
    • swiss-plateau
    • temperate-forests