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...

This is a script to synthesize FunDivEUROPE exploratory platform data. It combines many datasets from the FunDivEUROPE exploratory platform, related to tree biodiversity and composition, ecosystem functions and the diversity of associated organis...

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...

This dataset contains the bird communities sampled from the Finnish region

The ash dieback pathogen Hymenoscyphus fraxineus threatens European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) since its introduction into Europe in the early 1990s. European-wide population genetics analysis has been previously carried out and revealed that the fu...

Soil water: Leaf Area Index (LAIe) - Germany. The objective of this task is to provide an estimation of the LAI over 32 soil measuring points per plot. LAI measurements were carried out in 10 plots (30mx30m) of the Exploratory Region (on HIPs, hig...