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Data description paper
| 
10 Feb 2020
Data description paper |
| 10 Feb 2020
A spatially explicit database of wind disturbances in European forests over the period 2000–2018
Giovanni Forzieri
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Matteo Pecchi
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Marco Girardello
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Achille Mauri
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Marcus Klaus
Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
Christo Nikolov
National Forest Centre, Forest Research Institute Zvolen, Zvolen,
Slovakia
Marius Rüetschi
Department of Land Change Science, Swiss Federal Institute for
Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Barry Gardiner
Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Villenave
d'Ornon, France
EFI Planted Forests Facility, 69 Route D'Arcachon, Cestas,
France
Julián Tomaštík
Department of Forest Resource Planning and Informatics, Faculty of
Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia
David Small
Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography, University of
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Constantin Nistor
Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Donatas Jonikavicius
Laboratory of Geomatics, Institute of Land Management and Geomatics, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
Jonathan Spinoni
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Luc Feyen
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Francesca Giannetti
Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Rinaldo Comino
Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia, Direzione centrale risorse agricole, forestali e ittiche, Udine, Italy
Alessandro Wolynski
Provincia autonoma di Trento, Ufficio Pianificazione, Selvicoltura
ed Economia forestale, Trento, Italy
Francesco Pirotti
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry,
University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Fabio Maistrelli
Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano, Ufficio pianificazione forestale,
Bolzano, Italy
Ionut Savulescu
Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Stéphanie Wurpillot-Lucas
Institut National de l'Information Geographique et Forestiere, IGN, Saint Mandé, France
Stefan Karlsson
Swedish Forest Agency, Department of Policy and Analysis, Jönköping, Sweden
Karolina Zieba-Kulawik
Department of Forest Management, Geomatics and Forest Economics,
Institute of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry, University of
Agriculture, Kraków, Poland
Paulina Strejczek-Jazwinska
Department of Forest Management, Geomatics and Forest Economics,
Institute of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry, University of
Agriculture, Kraków, Poland
Martin Mokroš
Department of Forest Resource Planning and Informatics, Faculty of
Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Forestry and
Wood Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Stefan Franz
Landesbetrieb Wald und Holz, North Rhine-Westphalia Forest Service, Munster, Germany
Lukas Krejci
Department of Geoinformatics, Faculty of Science, Palacky
University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Ionel Haidu
Laboratoire LOTERR-EA7304, Université de Lorraine, Metz CEDEX,
France
Mats Nilsson
Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
Piotr Wezyk
Department of Forest Management, Geomatics and Forest Economics,
Institute of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry, University of
Agriculture, Kraków, Poland
Filippo Catani
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Yi-Ying Chen
Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan
Sebastiaan Luyssaert
Department of Ecological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Gherardo Chirici
Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Alessandro Cescatti
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Pieter S. A. Beck
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Data sets
A spatially-explicit database of wind disturbances in European forests over the period 2000-2018 G. Forzieri, M. Pecchi, M. Girardello, A. Mauri, M. Klaus, C. Nikolov, M. Rüetschi, B. Gardiner, J. Tomaštík, D. Small, C. Nistor, D. Jonikavicius, J. Spinoni, L. Feyen, F. Giannetti, R. Comino, A. Wolynski, F. Pirotti, F. Maistrelli, S. Ionut, W. Lucas-Stephanie, K. Stefan, K. Zieba-Kulawik, P. Strejczek-Jazwinska, M. Mokroš, F. Stefan, L. Krejci, I. Haidu, M. Nilsson, P. Wezyk, F. Catani, Y.-Y. Chen, S. Luyssaert, G. Chirici, A. Cescatti, and P. S. A. Beck https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9555008.v2
Short summary
Strong winds may uproot and break trees and represent a risk for forests. Despite the importance of this natural disturbance and possible intensification in view of climate change, spatial information about wind-related impacts is currently missing on a pan-European scale. We present a new database of wind disturbances in European forests comprised of more than 80 000 records over the period 2000–2018. Our database is a unique spatial source for the study of forest disturbances at large scales.
Strong winds may uproot and break trees and represent a risk for forests. Despite the importance...
