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            https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1295-2020
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                the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1295-2020
                    © Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under 
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
                the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
The PROFOUND Database for evaluating vegetation models and simulating climate impacts on European forests
Christopher P. O. Reyer
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
                                            
                                    
                                            Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz
Association, P.O. Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
                                        
                                    Ramiro Silveyra Gonzalez
                                            Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz
Association, P.O. Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
                                        
                                    Klara Dolos
                                            Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
                                        
                                    Florian Hartig
                                            Faculty of Biology and Pre-Clinical Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
                                        
                                    Ylva Hauf
                                            Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz
Association, P.O. Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
                                        
                                    Matthias Noack
                                            Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e.V. (FNR), Gülzow-Prüzen, Germany
                                        
                                    Petra Lasch-Born
                                            Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz
Association, P.O. Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
                                        
                                    Thomas Rötzer
                                            Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
                                        
                                    Hans Pretzsch
                                            Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
                                        
                                    Henning Meesenburg
                                            Northwest German Forest Research Institute, Göttingen, Germany
                                        
                                    Stefan Fleck
                                            Northwest German Forest Research Institute, Göttingen, Germany
                                        
                                    Markus Wagner
                                            Northwest German Forest Research Institute, Göttingen, Germany
                                        
                                    Andreas Bolte
                                            Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems, 16225 Eberswalde, Germany
                                        
                                    Tanja G. M. Sanders
                                            Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems, 16225 Eberswalde, Germany
                                        
                                    Pasi Kolari
                                            Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
                                        
                                    Annikki Mäkelä
                                            Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
                                        
                                    Timo Vesala
                                            Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
                                        
                                    Ivan Mammarella
                                            Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
                                        
                                    Jukka Pumpanen
                                            Biogeochemistry Research Group, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
                                        
                                    Alessio Collalti
                                            National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Agriculture and
Forestry Systems in the Mediterranean, Perugia (PG), Italy
                                        
                                    
                                            Department of Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest System,
University of Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
                                        
                                    Carlo Trotta
                                            Department of Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest System,
University of Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
                                        
                                    Giorgio Matteucci
                                            National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Agriculture and
Forestry System in the Mediterranean, Ercolano (NA), Italy
                                        
                                    Ettore D'Andrea
                                            National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Agriculture and
Forestry System in the Mediterranean, Ercolano (NA), Italy
                                        
                                    Lenka Foltýnová
                                            Global Change Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic
                                        
                                    Jan Krejza
                                            Global Change Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic
                                        
                                    Andreas Ibrom
                                            Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
                                        
                                    Kim Pilegaard
                                            Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
                                        
                                    Denis Loustau
                                            French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Bordeaux, France
                                        
                                    Jean-Marc Bonnefond
                                            French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Bordeaux, France
                                        
                                    Paul Berbigier
                                            French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Bordeaux, France
                                        
                                    Delphine Picart
                                            French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Bordeaux, France
                                        
                                    Sébastien Lafont
                                            French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Bordeaux, France
                                        
                                    Michael Dietze
                                            Department of Earth & Environment, Boston University, Boston, USA
                                        
                                    David Cameron
                                            Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh, UK
                                        
                                    Massimo Vieno
                                            Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Lancaster, UK
                                        
                                    Hanqin Tian
                                            School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, USA
                                        
                                    Alicia Palacios-Orueta
                                            Departamento de Silvopascicultura, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
                                        
                                    Victor Cicuendez
                                            Departamento de Silvopascicultura, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
                                        
                                    Laura Recuero
                                            Departamento de Silvopascicultura, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
                                        
                                    Klaus Wiese
                                            Departamento de Silvopascicultura, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
                                        
                                    Matthias Büchner
                                            Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz
Association, P.O. Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
                                        
                                    Stefan Lange
                                            Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz
Association, P.O. Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
                                        
                                    Jan Volkholz
                                            Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz
Association, P.O. Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
                                        
                                    Hyungjun Kim
                                            Department of Human and Social Systems, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
                                        
                                    Joanna A. Horemans
                                            Centre of Excellence PLECO, University of Antwerp, Antwerp,
Belgium
                                        
                                    Friedrich Bohn
                                            Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany
                                        
                                    Jörg Steinkamp
                                            Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberg,
Germany
                                        
                                    Alexander Chikalanov
                                            University of Library Study and Information Technology, Sofia,
Bulgaria
                                        
                                    Graham P. Weedon
                                            Met Office, Wallingford, UK
                                        
                                    Justin Sheffield
                                            Dept. Civil & Environ. Eng., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
08544, USA
                                        
                                    Flurin Babst
                                            W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Department of Ecology, Polish Academy
of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
                                        
                                    
                                            Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
                                        
                                    Iliusi Vega del Valle
                                            Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz
Association, P.O. Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
                                        
                                    Felicitas Suckow
                                            Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz
Association, P.O. Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
                                        
                                    Simon Martel
                                            Department of Earth & Environment, Boston University, Boston, USA
                                        
                                    Mats Mahnken
                                            Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz
Association, P.O. Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
                                        
                                    Martin Gutsch
                                            Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz
Association, P.O. Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
                                        
                                    Katja Frieler
                                            Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz
Association, P.O. Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
                                        
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- Final revised paper (published on 12 Jun 2020)
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Interactive discussion
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            AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment
        
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                RC1:  'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Dec 2019
                
                    
            
        
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                RC2:  'Anonymous review of PROFOUND database publication', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Feb 2020
                
                    
            
        
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                AC1:  'Author response', Christopher Reyer, 21 Apr 2020
                
                    
            
        
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                EC1:  'Further concerns from a reviewer', David Carlson, 07 May 2020
                
                    
            
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                                AC2:  'Reply to Chief-Editor', Christopher Reyer, 07 May 2020
                                
                                    
                            
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                                                AC3:  'How to upload the revised text?', Christopher Reyer, 07 May 2020
                                                
                                                    
                                            
                                        
                                             
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                        AR by Christopher Reyer  on behalf of the Authors (06 May 2020)
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                        AR by Christopher Reyer  on behalf of the Authors (10 May 2020)
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                Short summary
                    Process-based vegetation models are widely used to predict local and global ecosystem dynamics and climate change impacts. Due to their complexity, they require careful parameterization and evaluation to ensure that projections are accurate and reliable. The PROFOUND Database provides a wide range of empirical data to calibrate and evaluate vegetation models that simulate climate impacts at the forest stand scale to support systematic model intercomparisons and model development in Europe.
                    Process-based vegetation models are widely used to predict local and global ecosystem dynamics...
                    
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