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Schepaschenko D, Shvidenko A, Usoltsev V, Lakyda P, Luo Y, Vasylyshyn R, Lakyda I, Myklush Y, See L, McCallum I, Fritz S, Kraxner F, Obersteiner M. A dataset of forest biomass structure for Eurasia. Sci Data 2017; 4:170070. [PMID: 28509911 PMCID: PMC5433390 DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2017.70] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2017] [Accepted: 04/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
The most comprehensive dataset of in situ destructive sampling measurements of forest biomass in Eurasia have been compiled from a combination of experiments undertaken by the authors and from scientific publications. Biomass is reported as four components: live trees (stem, bark, branches, foliage, roots); understory (above- and below ground); green forest floor (above- and below ground); and coarse woody debris (snags, logs, dead branches of living trees and dead roots), consisting of 10,351 unique records of sample plots and 9,613 sample trees from ca 1,200 experiments for the period 1930-2014 where there is overlap between these two datasets. The dataset also contains other forest stand parameters such as tree species composition, average age, tree height, growing stock volume, etc., when available. Such a dataset can be used for the development of models of biomass structure, biomass extension factors, change detection in biomass structure, investigations into biodiversity and species distribution and the biodiversity-productivity relationship, as well as the assessment of the carbon pool and its dynamics, among many others.
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Affiliation(s)
- Dmitry Schepaschenko
- Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg A-2361, Austria
- Forestry Faculty, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Mytischi 141005, Russia
| | - Anatoly Shvidenko
- Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg A-2361, Austria
- Institute of Forest Siberian Branch Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk 66036, Russia
| | - Vladimir Usoltsev
- Botanical Garden, Ural Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg 620144, Russia
| | - Petro Lakyda
- National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv 03041, Ukraine
| | - Yunjian Luo
- Department of Ecology, School of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
| | - Roman Vasylyshyn
- National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv 03041, Ukraine
| | - Ivan Lakyda
- National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv 03041, Ukraine
| | - Yuriy Myklush
- Ukrainian National Forestry University, Gen. Chuprynka str. 103, Lviv 79057, Ukraine
| | - Linda See
- Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg A-2361, Austria
| | - Ian McCallum
- Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg A-2361, Austria
| | - Steffen Fritz
- Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg A-2361, Austria
| | - Florian Kraxner
- Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg A-2361, Austria
| | - Michael Obersteiner
- Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg A-2361, Austria
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