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2 datasets found

  • 'Latent reserves' within the Swiss NFI

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The files refer to the data used in Portier et al. "‘Latent reserves’: a hidden treasure in National Forest Inventories" (2020) Journal of Ecology.

    'Latent reserves' are...

    Last updated: February 4, 2021

    • CSV
    • tree-mortality
    • switzerland
    • national-forest-inventory
    • near-natural-forest
    • forest-reserves
  • Effects of canopy disturbance on Swiss forests

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The files refer to the data used in Scherrer et al. (2021) "Canopy disturbances catalyse tree species shifts in Swiss forests" in Ecosystems.

    The two data files contain...

    Last updated: April 20, 2021

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • pinus-sylvestris
    • disturbance
    • windthrow
    • castanea-sativa
    • national-forest-inventory
    • drought
    • insect-outbreaks
    • vegetation-shift
    • switzerland
    • picea-abies
    • tree-recruitment