Harmonised statistics and maps of forest biomass and increment in Europe

Forest biomass is an essential resource in relation to the green transition and its assessment is key for the sustainable management of forest resources. Here, we present a forest biomass dataset for Europe based on the best available inventory and satellite data, with a higher level of harmonisation and spatial resolution than other existing data. This database provides statistics and maps of the forest area, biomass stock and their share available for wood supply in the year 2020, and statistics on gross and net volume increment in 2010–2020, for 38 European countries. The statistics of most countries are available at a sub-national scale and are derived from National Forest Inventory data, harmonised using common reference definitions and estimation methodology, and updated to a common year using a modelling approach. For those counties without harmonised statistics, data were derived from the State of Europe’s Forest 2020 Report at the national scale. The maps are coherent with the statistics and depict the spatial distribution of the forest variables at 100 m resolution.

AVITABILE Valerio;  PILLI Roberto;  MIGLIAVACCA Mirco;  DUVEILLER G.;  CAMIA Andrea;  BLUJDEA Viorel;  ADOLT Radim;  ALBERDI Iciar;  BARREIRO Susana;  BENDER Susann;  BOROTA Dragan;  BOSELA Michal;  BOURIAUD Olivier;  BREIDENBACH Johannes;  CANELLAS Isabel;  CAVLOVIC Jura;  COLIN Antoine;  DI COSMO Lucio;  DONIS Janis;  FISCHER Christoph;  FREUDENSCHUSS Alexandra;  FRIDMAN Jonas;  GASPARINI Patrizia;  GSCHWANTNER Thomas;  HERNANDEZ Laura;  KORHONEN Kari;  KULBOKAS Gintaras;  KVIST JOHANNSEN Vivian;  LATTE Nicolas;  LAZDINS Andis;  LEJEUNE Philippe;  MAKOVSKIS Kristaps;  MARIN Gherorghe;  MASLO Jan;  MICHORCZYK Artur;  MIONSKOWSKI Marcin;  MORNEAU Francois;  MYSZKOWSKI Marcin;  NAGY Kinga;  NILSSON Mats B.;  NORD-LARSEN Thomas;  PANTIC Damjan;  PERIN Jerome;  REDMOND John;  RIZZO Maria;  SEBEN Vladimir;  SKUDNIK Mitja;  SNORRASON Arnor;  SROGA Radoslaw;  STOYANOV Todor;  SVENSSON Arvid;  TALARCZYK Andrej;  TEEUWEN Sander;  THURIG Esther;  UVA Jose;  MUBAREKA Sarah Betoul; 

2024-03-18

NATURE PORTFOLIO

JRC134570

2052-4463 (online),   

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02868-8,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC134570,   

10.1038/s41597-023-02868-8 (online),