Scientific Data (Mar 2024)
Harmonised statistics and maps of forest biomass and increment in Europe
- Valerio Avitabile,
- Roberto Pilli,
- Mirco Migliavacca,
- Gregory Duveiller,
- Andrea Camia,
- Viorel Blujdea,
- Radim Adolt,
- Iciar Alberdi,
- Susana Barreiro,
- Susann Bender,
- Dragan Borota,
- Michal Bosela,
- Olivier Bouriaud,
- Johannes Breidenbach,
- Isabel Cañellas,
- Jura Čavlović,
- Antoine Colin,
- Lucio Di Cosmo,
- Janis Donis,
- Christoph Fischer,
- Alexandra Freudenschuss,
- Jonas Fridman,
- Patrizia Gasparini,
- Thomas Gschwantner,
- Laura Hernández,
- Kari Korhonen,
- Gintaras Kulbokas,
- Vivian Kvist,
- Nicolas Latte,
- Andis Lazdins,
- Philippe Lejeune,
- Kristaps Makovskis,
- Gheorghe Marin,
- Jan Maslo,
- Artur Michorczyk,
- Marcin Mionskowski,
- François Morneau,
- Marcin Myszkowski,
- Kinga Nagy,
- Mats Nilsson,
- Thomas Nord-Larsen,
- Damjan Pantic,
- Jerôme Perin,
- John Redmond,
- Maria Rizzo,
- Vladimír Šebeň,
- Mitja Skudnik,
- Arnor Snorrason,
- Radosław Sroga,
- Todor Stoyanov,
- Arvid Svensson,
- Andrzej Talarczyk,
- Sander Teeuwen,
- Esther Thürig,
- José Uva,
- Sarah Mubareka
Affiliations
- Valerio Avitabile
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Roberto Pilli
- Consultant to the European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Mirco Migliavacca
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Gregory Duveiller
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
- Andrea Camia
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Viorel Blujdea
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Radim Adolt
- Forest Management Institute
- Iciar Alberdi
- Institute of Forest Science (INIA, CSIC)
- Susana Barreiro
- Centro de Estudos Florestais, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda
- Susann Bender
- Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems
- Dragan Borota
- University of Belgrade - Faculty of Forestry
- Michal Bosela
- National Forest Centre
- Olivier Bouriaud
- University of Suceava, Faculty of Forestry
- Johannes Breidenbach
- Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO)
- Isabel Cañellas
- Institute of Forest Science (INIA, CSIC)
- Jura Čavlović
- University of Zagreb - Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Department of Forest Inventory and Management
- Antoine Colin
- Département d’analyse des forêts et des haies bocagères, Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (IGN)
- Lucio Di Cosmo
- Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Forestry and Wood
- Janis Donis
- Latvian State Forest Research Institute “Silava”
- Christoph Fischer
- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
- Alexandra Freudenschuss
- Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW)
- Jonas Fridman
- Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Patrizia Gasparini
- Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Forestry and Wood
- Thomas Gschwantner
- Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW)
- Laura Hernández
- Institute of Forest Science (INIA, CSIC)
- Kari Korhonen
- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
- Gintaras Kulbokas
- Lithuanian State Forest Service
- Vivian Kvist
- Københavns Universitet, Institut for Geovidenskab og Naturforvaltning
- Nicolas Latte
- Université de Liège
- Andis Lazdins
- Latvian State Forest Research Institute “Silava”
- Philippe Lejeune
- Université de Liège
- Kristaps Makovskis
- Latvian State Forest Research Institute “Silava”
- Gheorghe Marin
- National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry
- Jan Maslo
- Forest Management Institute
- Artur Michorczyk
- Bureau For Forest Management and Geodesy
- Marcin Mionskowski
- Bureau For Forest Management and Geodesy
- François Morneau
- Département d’analyse des forêts et des haies bocagères, Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (IGN)
- Marcin Myszkowski
- Bureau For Forest Management and Geodesy
- Kinga Nagy
- Hungarian National Land Centre, Forestry Department
- Mats Nilsson
- Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Thomas Nord-Larsen
- Københavns Universitet, Institut for Geovidenskab og Naturforvaltning
- Damjan Pantic
- University of Belgrade - Faculty of Forestry
- Jerôme Perin
- Université de Liège
- John Redmond
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Maria Rizzo
- Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Forestry and Wood
- Vladimír Šebeň
- National Forest Centre
- Mitja Skudnik
- Slovenian Forestry Institute, Department for Forest and Landscape Planning and Monitoring
- Arnor Snorrason
- Icelandic Forest Research
- Radosław Sroga
- Bureau For Forest Management and Geodesy
- Todor Stoyanov
- Forest Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- Arvid Svensson
- Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO)
- Andrzej Talarczyk
- Forest and Natural Resources Research Centre Foundation/Taxus IT
- Sander Teeuwen
- Stichting Probos
- Esther Thürig
- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
- José Uva
- Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests
- Sarah Mubareka
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02868-8
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 17
Abstract
Abstract Forest biomass is an essential resource in relation to the green transition and its assessment is key for the sustainable management of forest resources. Here, we present a forest biomass dataset for Europe based on the best available inventory and satellite data, with a higher level of harmonisation and spatial resolution than other existing data. This database provides statistics and maps of the forest area, biomass stock and their share available for wood supply in the year 2020, and statistics on gross and net volume increment in 2010–2020, for 38 European countries. The statistics of most countries are available at a sub-national scale and are derived from National Forest Inventory data, harmonised using common reference definitions and estimation methodology, and updated to a common year using a modelling approach. For those counties without harmonised statistics, data were derived from the State of Europe’s Forest 2020 Report at the national scale. The maps are coherent with the statistics and depict the spatial distribution of the forest variables at 100 m resolution.
