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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: December 3, 2019

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    • mortality-models
    • tree-mortality
    • forest-reserves
    • primeval-forests
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • forest-inventory
  • 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: August 30, 2023

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    • CSV
    • biomass
    • single-tree
    • tree-volume
    • lidar
    • terrestiral-laserscanning
    • forest-inventory
  • Supplementary Data Sample Plot Inventory Sihlwald

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    Education, culture and sport

    Supplementary Data Sample Plot Inventory Sihlwald

    The Sihlwald is one of the largest contiguous beech forests in the Swiss Plateau region. In the year 2000, timber harvesting...

    Last updated: April 20, 2022

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    • natural-forest-dynamics
    • forest-inventory
    • forest-reserves
    • fagus-sylvatica
    • sihlwald
  • The Experimental Forest Management network

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The EFM network is one of the longest running scientific projects in Switzerland and has been collecting growth and yield data since the late 1880’s. As of 2021, 28 plots had been...

    Last updated: September 21, 2021

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    • tree-height
    • forest-inventory
    • long-term-monitoring
    • crown-diameter
    • growth-and-yield
    • switzerland
    • silviculture
    • permanent-plot