European Primary Forest Dataset - Points

Dataset Availability

2000-01-01T01:00:00Z–2019-12-31T16:45:00Z

Dataset Provider

Geography Department, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Earth Engine Snippet

FeatureCollection
ee.FeatureCollection("HU_BERLIN/EPFD/V2/points")

FeatureView
ui.Map.FeatureViewLayer("HU_BERLIN/EPFD/V2/points_FeatureView")

Tags

europe forest table

Description

European primary forest data harmonizes 48 different, mostly field-based datasets of primary forests, and contains 18,411 individual patches (41.1 Mha) spread across 33 countries. It includes includes mainly old-growth, late-successional forests, but also some early seral stages and young forests that originated after natural disturbances and natural regeneration, without subsequent management.

For more information, including a complete list of authors and their affiliations, please see the dataset documentation This dataset is a point-based, where each point represents the approximate center of a primary forest.

Table Schema

Table Schema

Name	Type	Description
BIOGEOGRAP	STRING	Biogeographical region is defined by the European Environmental Agency, one of: Alpine, Arctic, Atlantic, Black Sea, Boreal, Continental, Macaronesia, Mediterranean, Pannonian, or Steppic.
CONTACT_PE	STRING	Contact person
DOMINANT_1	STRING	Species (latin name) of the dominant tree species of the overstorey
DOMINANT_2	STRING	Species (latin name) of the second dominant tree species of the overstorey (if any)
DOMINANT_T	STRING	Species (latin name) of the third dominant tree species of the overstorey (if any)
FOREST_NAM	STRING	Name of the forest stand (if applicable, otherwise can be name of the wider area)
FOREST_SHA	DOUBLE	Actual share of the polygon covered by forest, assuming that primary forests in high naturalness classes, and having a large extent, may encompass land temporarily or permanently not covered by forest.
FOREST_TYP	INT	Main forest type according to the forest categories defined by the European Environmental Agency, based on the map of Potential Vegetation type for Europe. Possible values: 1: Boreal 2: Hemiboreal-nemoral 3: Alpine coniferous 4: Acidophilus oak-birch 5: Mesophytic deciduous 6: Lowland beech 7: Montane beech 8: Thermophilus deciduous 9: Broadleaved evergreen 10: Coniferous Mediterranean 11: Mire and swamp 12: Floodplain 13: Non-riverine Alder-birch-aspen
FOREST_T_1	INT	Second main forest type according to the forest categories defined by the European Environmental Agency, based on the map of Potential Vegetation types for Europe
ID_Dataset	STRING	ID of the data set
LAST_DISTU	STRING	LAST_DISTURBANCE1_TYPE, type of the last disturbance event. Possible values: 1: Fire 2: Windthrow 3: Flood 4: Landslide Avalanche 5: Logging/harvesting 6: Diseases/insect outbreak 7: OTHER natural 8: OTHER anthropogenic
LAST_DIS_1	INT	LAST_DISTURBANCE1_YEAR, year when disturbance event 1 happened
LAST_DIS_2	INT	LAST_DISTURBANCE1_INTENSITY, intensity of disturbance event 1. Possible values: 1: Light (<20% of the stand disturbed) 2: Moderate (20-70% of the stand disturbed) 3: Stand replacing (>70% of the stand disturbed)
LAST_DIS_3	STRING	LAST_DISTURBANCE2_TYPE, type of the penultimate disturbance event Possible values: 1: Fire 2: Windthrow 3: Flood 4: Landslide Avalanche 5: Logging/harvesting 6: Diseases/insect outbreak 7: OTHER natural 8: OTHER anthropogenic
LAST_DIS_4	INT	LAST_DISTURBANCE2_YEAR, year when disturbance event 2 happened
LAST_DIS_5	INT	LAST_DISTURBANCE2_INTENSITY, intensity of disturbance event 2. Possible values: 1: Light (<20% of the stand disturbed) 2: Moderate (20-70% of the stand disturbed) 3: Stand replacing (>70% of the stand disturbed)
LOCATION	STRING	Municipality, Protected Area, or Region in which the primary forest remnant is located
NATURALNES	INT	Naturalness level of the primary forest remnant: Possible values: 10: n10 - Primeval Forest 9: n9 - Virgin Forest 8: n8 - Frontier Forest 7: n7 - Near-virgin Forest 6: n6 - Old-growth Forest 5: n5 - Long Untouched Forest 0: UNKNOWN
Notes	STRING	Optional additional remarks to the forest points/polygon
OBJECTID	STRING	Object ID
PROTECTION	INT	Legal protection status of the forest stand as derived from the World Database of Protected. The original IUCN classification was simplified to three classes: Strictly protected (IUCN category I); Protected (IUCN categories II-VI + not classified); Not protected. In case more updated/precise information was available from our data contributors, these were given priority. Possible values: 0: Not protected 1: Protected 2: Strictly protected
RELEVANT_L	STRING	Any relevant sources of information describing the forest remnant (including journal articles, local reports and websites)
Source	STRING	Directly attributable source/ownership attribution of the forest remnant data
THREATS_1	INT	Threat (if any) that is most likely to endanger the primary forest remnant. Possible values: 1: Plantation development 2: Anthropogenic Fires 3: Tourism/recreation 4: Infrastructure development (including touristic) 5: Mismanagement 6: Illegal logging 7: Timber and fuelwood extraction 8: Non-Timber Forest Products extraction 9: Urbanization and housing construction 10: Climate change 11: Biodiversity loss
THREATS_2	INT	Threat (if any) that is most likely to endanger the primary forest remnant.
DATA_AVAIL	STRING	Data availability
FOREST_EXT	DOUBLE	The total extent of the primary forest patch in hectares. This field is only relevant when a polygon feature IS NOT available for the forest patch.
FOREST_E_1	INT	The order of magnitude of the extent of a primary forest remnant patch. This field is only relevant when a polygon feature IS NOT available for the forest patch and no precise measurement of the total extent of the forest remnant is available. Possible values: 1: 1-10 ha 2: 11-100 ha 3: 101-1000 ha 4: >1001 ha
PUBLICATIO	STRING	Publication

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

European primary forest datasets are provided under the CC BY 4.0 license, which allows for most commmercial, noncommercial, and academic uses. See provider terms of use.

Explore with Earth Engine

Important: Earth Engine is a platform for petabyte-scale scientific analysis and visualization of geospatial datasets, both for public benefit and for business and government users. Earth Engine is free to use for research, education, and nonprofit use. To get started, please register for Earth Engine access.

Code Editor (JavaScript)

var dataset = ee.FeatureCollection('HU_BERLIN/EPFD/V2/points');

Map.setCenter(13.64, 50.11, 4);

var styleParams = {
  fillColor: '0F7209',
  color: '000000',
  width: 1.0,
};

dataset = dataset.style(styleParams);

Map.addLayer(dataset, {}, 'European Primary Forest Points');

Open in Code Editor

European Primary Forest Dataset - Points

European primary forest data harmonizes 48 different, mostly field-based datasets of primary forests, and contains 18,411 individual patches (41.1 Mha) spread across 33 countries. It includes includes mainly old-growth, late-successional forests, but also some early seral stages and young forests that originated after natural disturbances and natural regeneration, without subsequent …

HU_BERLIN/EPFD/V2/points, europe,forest,table

2000-01-01T01:00:00Z/2019-12-31T16:45:00Z

Google Earth Engine

https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets