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. 2017 May 16:4:170070.
doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.70.

A dataset of forest biomass structure for Eurasia

Dmitry Schepaschenko  1   2 , Anatoly Shvidenko  1   3 , Vladimir Usoltsev  4 , Petro Lakyda  5 , Yunjian Luo  6 , Roman Vasylyshyn  5 , Ivan Lakyda  5 , Yuriy Myklush  7 , Linda See  1 , Ian McCallum  1 , Steffen Fritz  1 , Florian Kraxner  1 , Michael Obersteiner  1
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A dataset of forest biomass structure for Eurasia

Dmitry Schepaschenko et al. Sci Data. .

Abstract

The most comprehensive dataset of in situ destructive sampling measurements of forest biomass in Eurasia have been compiled from a combination of experiments undertaken by the authors and from scientific publications. Biomass is reported as four components: live trees (stem, bark, branches, foliage, roots); understory (above- and below ground); green forest floor (above- and below ground); and coarse woody debris (snags, logs, dead branches of living trees and dead roots), consisting of 10,351 unique records of sample plots and 9,613 sample trees from ca 1,200 experiments for the period 1930-2014 where there is overlap between these two datasets. The dataset also contains other forest stand parameters such as tree species composition, average age, tree height, growing stock volume, etc., when available. Such a dataset can be used for the development of models of biomass structure, biomass extension factors, change detection in biomass structure, investigations into biodiversity and species distribution and the biodiversity-productivity relationship, as well as the assessment of the carbon pool and its dynamics, among many others.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing financial interests.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. Location of sample trees and plots (Coordinate System: Asia north Albers equal area conic, central meridian 95° E).
Figure 2
Figure 2. Linkage between the plot and tree datasets.
Figure 3
Figure 3. Above ground biomass by biome.
Figure 4
Figure 4. Ratio of stem biomass to its volume for different tree genera.
Figure 5
Figure 5. Ratio of stem biomass to its volume for different site indexes of pine stands.
Site index 3 refers to an average stand height of 38.2–41.8 m at the age of 100 years old, while a site index of 12 refers to 4.8–8.4 m at the same age.
Figure 6
Figure 6
Figure 7
Figure 7. Ratio of belowground to aboveground biomass, which depends on the (a) aboveground biomass value or (b) the site index.
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Dataset use reported in

  • doi: 10.1890/13-2089.1

References

Data Citations

    1. Schepaschenko D. 2017. PANGAEA. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.871465 - DOI
    1. Schepaschenko D. 2017. PANGAEA. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.871491 - DOI

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