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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6129-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6129-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Data description paper
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14 Nov 2025
Data description paper |
| 14 Nov 2025
| 14 Nov 2025
Soil and tree stem xylem water isotope data from two pan-European sampling campaigns
Forest and Soil Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Josie Geris
School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Ilja van Meerveld
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Daniele Penna
Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI), University of Florence, Florence/Firenze, Italy
Youri Rothfuss
Institute of Biogeosciences, Agrosphere (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Matteo Verdone
Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI), University of Florence, Florence/Firenze, Italy
Pertti Ala-Aho
Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Matyas Arvai
Institute for Soil Sciences, HUN-REN Centre for Agricultural Research, Budapest, Hungary
Alise Babre
Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Philippe Balandier
Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, UMR PIAF 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Fabian Bernhard
Forest and Soil Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Lukrecija Butorac
Department of Forestry, Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation, Split, Croatia
Simon D. Carrière
UMR HSM, IRD, UM, CNRS, 34093 Montpellier, France
Natalie C. Ceperley
Hydrology Group, Institute of Geography & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Zuosinan Chen
Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Alicia Correa
Centre for International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Haoyu Diao
Forest and Soil Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
David Dubbert
Ecophysiology of Water and Matter Cycling, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
Maren Dubbert
Ecophysiology of Water and Matter Cycling, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
Fabio Ercoli
Chair of Hydrobiology and Fisheries, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
Marius G. Floriancic
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Alligin Ghazoul
Forest and Soil Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Teresa E. Gimeno
CREAF, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
Damien Gounelle
URFM, INRAE, Domaine Saint Paul, Site Agroparc, Avignon, France
Frank Hagedorn
Forest and Soil Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Christophe Hissler
Catchment and Ecohydrology group, Environmental Sensing and Modelling unit, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Belvaux, Luxembourg
Frédéric Huneau
Université de Corse, CNRS UMR 6134 SPE, Campus Grimaldi, BP52, 20250 Corte, France
Alberto Iraheta
Institute for Geoecology, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Tamara Jakovljević
Division for Forest Ecology, Croatian Forest Research Institute, Jastrebarsko, Croatia
Nerantzis Kazakis
Laboratory of Hydrogeology, Department of Geology, University of Patras, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Rion, Patras, Greece
Zoltan Kern
Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Laura Kinzinger
Chair of Ecosystem Physiology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Karl Knaebel
Ecosystem Research and Environmental Information Management, Environment Agency Austria, Vienna, Austria
Johannes Kobler
Ecosystem Research and Environmental Information Management, Environment Agency Austria, Vienna, Austria
Jiri Kocum
Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Charlotte Koeber
Ecophysiology of Water and Matter Cycling, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
Gerbrand Koren
Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Angelika Kübert
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Dawid Kupka
Department of Ecology and Silviculture, Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture in Kraków, Poland
Samuel Le Gall
Institute of Biogeosciences, Agrosphere (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Aleksi Lehtonen
Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Helsinki, Finland
Thomas Leydier
Université de Corse, CNRS UMR 6134 SPE, Campus Grimaldi, BP52, 20250 Corte, France
Philippe Malagoli
Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, UMR PIAF 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Francesca Sofia Manca di Villahermosa
Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI), University of Florence, Florence/Firenze, Italy
Chiara Marchina
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy
Núria Martínez-Carreras
Catchment and Ecohydrology group, Environmental Sensing and Modelling unit, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Belvaux, Luxembourg
Nicolas Martin-StPaul
URFM, INRAE, Domaine Saint Paul, Site Agroparc, Avignon, France
Hannu Marttila
Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Aline Meyer Oliveira
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Gael Monvoisin
Université Paris-Saclay, UMR8148 GEOPS, Orsay, France
Natalie Orlowski
Chair of Forest Sites and Hydrology, Institute of Soil Science and Site Ecology, TU Dresden, Tharandt, Germany
Kadi Palmik-Das
Chair of Hydrobiology and Fisheries, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
Aurel Persoiu
Emil Racovita Institute of Speleology, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Stable Isotope Laboratory, Stefan cel Mare University, Suceava, Romania
Andrei Popa
National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry “Marin Dracea”, Bucharest, Romania
Egor Prikaziuk
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
Cécile Quantin
Université Paris-Saclay, UMR8148 GEOPS, Orsay, France
Katja T. Rinne-Garmston
Stable Isotope Laboratory of Luke (SILL), Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Finland
Clara Rohde
Ecophysiology of Water and Matter Cycling, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
Martin Sanda
Dept. of Landscape Water Conservation, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czechia
Matthias Saurer
Forest and Soil Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Daniel Schulz
Institute of Biogeosciences, Agrosphere (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Michael P. Stockinger
Institute of Soil Physics and Rural Water Management, Department of Landscape, Water and Infrastructure, BOKU University, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
Christine Stumpp
Institute of Soil Physics and Rural Water Management, Department of Landscape, Water and Infrastructure, BOKU University, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
Jean-Stéphane Vénisse
Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, UMR PIAF 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Lukas Vlcek
Institute of Hydrodynamics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Stylianos Voudouris
Earth Sciences and Environmental Technologies Division, IFP Energies Nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, France
Björn Weeser
Centre for International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Mark E. Wilkinson
Environmental and Biochemical Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Giulia Zuecco
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy
Katrin Meusburger
Forest and Soil Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Data sets
Soil and stem xylem water isotope data from two pan-European sampling campaigns Marco M. Lehmann et al. https://doi.org/10.16904/envidat.542
Short summary
This study describes a unique large-scale isotope dataset to study water dynamics in European forests. Researchers collected data from 40 beech and spruce forest sites in spring and summer 2023, using a standardized method to ensure consistency. The results show that water sources for trees change between seasons and vary by tree species. This large dataset offers valuable information for understanding plant water use, improving ecohydrological models, and mapping water cycles across Europe.
This study describes a unique large-scale isotope dataset to study water dynamics in European...
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