This dataset contains the location, size and species of the trees in each plot at year 2012. When necessary data were corrected and completed at the occasion of the second inventory (2017).

Dead wood plays an important role in element cycling (carbon, nutrients, water, etc.) and the build-up of carbon and nutrient stocks. It also represents an important structural component of forests, providing habitat for a large variety of organis...

Most of the plant diversity in European forests is found in the understorey, and despite its relatively low biomass compared to the forest overstorey, its functional importance is high (nectar source for pollinators, habitat for small mammals, aff...

The main objectives of this task are to quantify the decomposition of a standard woody material (wood sticks), and to relate this information to tree diversity and environmental gradients across sites.

Plot level % nitrogen reabsorption efficiency in the Exploratory plots. Based on Ca. N, C and Ca content of leaves sampled from the exploratory sites during the sampling campaigns conducted within the FunDivEUROPE project. Foliar N content was ...

The humus form is the expression of the equilibrium between litter production, litter decomposition and humification in a forest ecosystem, resulting from the biological action of bacteria, fungi, and soil fauna. The observed humus form reflects a...