1. European primary forest database v2.0
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Ferenc Horváth, Olli-Pekka Tikkanen, Gintautas Mozgeris, Srđan Keren, Nikolaos Grigoriadis, Matthias Schickhofer, Tobias Kuemmerle, Sabina Burrascano, Dmitry Aksenov, Stjepan Mikac, Jerzy Szwagrzyk, Jonas Stillhard, Erik Buchwald, Tomáš Vrška, Asiya Zagidullina, Rein Midteng, Roman Volosyanchuk, Ángel B. Fernández López, Alen Kiš, Tzvetan Zlatanov, Matteo Garbarino, Elvin Toromani, Leónia Nunes, Momchil Panayotov, Fabio Lombardi, Laurent Larrieu, Radu Nicolae Melu, Martin Mikoláš, Inês Duarte, Mara Kitenberga, Bojan Simovski, Marcus Waldherr, Alejandro Ruete, Peter Meyer, Ann Kraut, José A. Atauri, Eugénie Cateau, Maxim Yermokhin, Rok Pisek, Pierre L. Ibisch, Hendrik Bluhm, Dejan Stojanović, Bratislav Matović, Zoltan Kun, Abdulla Diku, Francesco Maria Sabatini, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg (MLU), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Frankfurt Zoological Society, NGO 'Transparent World', Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI), Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid [Madrid] (UCM), MINISTRY OF THE DANISH ENVIRONMENT NATURE AGENCY GRAESTED DNK, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], Réserves Naturelles de France, PSEDA ILIRIA ORGANIZATION TIRANA ALB, Centre for Applied Ecology 'Prof. Baeta Neves' (CEABN – InBIO), School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Parque Nacional de Garajonay, Università degli studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Scienze Agarie, Forestali e Alimentari (DISAFA), Forest Research Institute of Thessaloniki, Vassilika, Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Va´cra´to´t, Hungary, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Latvian State Forest Research Institute 'Silava', Institute for Nature Conservation of Vojvodina Province, University of Tartu, Dynamiques et écologie des paysages agriforestiers (DYNAFOR), École nationale supérieure agronomique de Toulouse [ENSAT]-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), CNPF-CRPF Occitanie, Institute of Computer Science [University of Tartu, Estonie], University of Novi Sad, World Wide Fund for Nature, Northwest German Forest Research Institute, Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS) ETN-WIE-FZS-001, European Commission Joint Research Centre 658876, Department for Nature Protection of the Italian Ministry of the Environment, Land and Sea Protection, Region Pays de la LoireRegion OccitanieRegion Ile-de-France, Czech Science Foundation (Grant GACR) 21-27454S, institutional project EVA CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000803, Ministry of Education, Science & Technological Development, Serbia 451-03-9/2021-14/200197, German Research Foundation (DFG), Sabatini F.M., Bluhm H., Kun Z., Aksenov D., Atauri J.A., Buchwald E., Burrascano S., Cateau E., Diku A., Duarte I.M., Fernandez Lopez A.B., Garbarino M., Grigoriadis N., Horvath F., Keren S., Kitenberga M., Kis A., Kraut A., Ibisch P.L., Larrieu L., Lombardi F., Matovic B., Melu R.N., Meyer P., Midteng R., Mikac S., Mikolas M., Mozgeris G., Panayotov M., Pisek R., Nunes L., Ruete A., Schickhofer M., Simovski B., Stillhard J., Stojanovic D., Szwagrzyk J., Tikkanen O.-P., Toromani E., Volosyanchuk R., Vrska T., Waldherr M., Yermokhin M., Zlatanov T., Zagidullina A., and Kuemmerle T.
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0106 biological sciences ,Statistics and Probability ,Data Descriptor ,Conservation of Natural Resources ,Databases, Factual ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Science ,Forest management ,Biodiversity ,Potential natural vegetation ,Library and Information Sciences ,Forests ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Education ,Databases ,Forest ecology ,ddc:550 ,Conservation of Natural Resource ,Factual ,database ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,European primary forest ,[SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Agroforestry ,Conservation biology ,15. Life on land ,Old-growth forest ,Field (geography) ,550 Geowissenschaften ,Computer Science Applications ,Europe ,Geography ,Disturbance (ecology) ,Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty ,Information Systems - Abstract
Primary forests, defined here as forests where the signs of human impacts, if any, are strongly blurred due to decades without forest management, are scarce in Europe and continue to disappear. Despite these losses, we know little about where these forests occur. Here, we present a comprehensive geodatabase and map of Europe’s known primary forests. Our geodatabase harmonizes 48 different, mostly field-based datasets of primary forests, and contains 18,411 individual patches (41.1 Mha) spread across 33 countries. When available, we provide information on each patch (name, location, naturalness, extent and dominant tree species) and the surrounding landscape (biogeographical regions, protection status, potential natural vegetation, current forest extent). Using Landsat satellite-image time series (1985–2018) we checked each patch for possible disturbance events since primary forests were identified, resulting in 94% of patches free of significant disturbances in the last 30 years. Although knowledge gaps remain, ours is the most comprehensive dataset on primary forests in Europe, and will be useful for ecological studies, and conservation planning to safeguard these unique forests., Measurement(s)Geographic DistributionTechnology Type(s)digital curationFactor Type(s)countrySample Characteristic - Environmentprimary forestSample Characteristic - LocationEurope Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14540625
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- 2021
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