Forest biomass and primary production database for Eurasia. CD-version

Abstract

This is CD-EXCEL enlarged and re-harmonized version in English of the forest and NPP data set published in Russian in the monograph “Eurasian forest biomass and primary production data. Yekaterinburg: Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. 2010. 570 pp.” by V.A. Usoltsev. This database of forest and NPP for Eurasian basic forest-forming species involves at the moment the data of more than 8000 sample plots for forest biomass and more than 2600 sample plots for NPP and biomass (stems, bark, branches, foliage, roots and understorey), as well as traditional taxation indices of forests. This database covers the territory of 43 states of Eurasia. It consists of four pages involving “Intro”, “Database”, “References” and “Species designations”