Authors: Sabatini, Francesco Maria, Bluhm, Hendrik, Kun, Zoltan, Aksenov, Dmitry, Atauri, José A., Buchwald, Erik, Burrascano, Sabina, Cateau, Eugénie, Diku, Abdulla, Duarte, Inês Marques, Fernández López, Ángel B., Garbarino, Matteo, Grigoriadis, Nikolaos, Horváth, Ferenc, Keren, Srđan, Kitenberga, Mara, Kiš, Alen, Kraut, Ann, Ibisch, Pierre L., Larrieu, Laurent, Lombardi, Fabio, Matovic, Bratislav, Melu, Radu Nicolae, Meyer, Peter, Midteng, Rein, Mikac, Stjepan, Mikoláš, Martin, Mozgeris, Gintautas, Panayotov, Momchil, Pisek, Rok, Nunes, Leónia, Ruete, Alejandro, Schickhofer, Matthias, Simovski, Bojan, Stillhard, Jonas, Stojanovic, Dejan, Szwagrzyk, Jerzy, Tikkanen, Olli-Pekka, Toromani, Elvin, Volosyanchuk, Roman, Vrška, Tomáš, Waldherr, Marcus, Yermokhin, Maxim, Zlatanov, Tzvetan, Zagidullina, Asiya, Kuemmerle, Tobias
Venue: Scientific Data
Type: Publication
Abstract: Primary forests, defined here as forests where the signs of human impacts, if any, are strongly blurred due to decades without forest management, are scarce in Europe and continue to disappear. Despite these losses, we know little about where these forests occur. Here, we present a comprehensive geodatabase and map of Europe’s known primary forests. Our geodatabase harmonizes 48 different, mostly field-based datasets of primary forests, and contains 18,411 individual patches (41.1 Mha) spread across 33 countries. When available, we provide in...
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Ecology
Database
Environmental resource management
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