Montejo Beech Forest: Tree Growth and Competition Data

Radial growth data for Fagus sylvatica, Quercus petraea, and Quercus pyrenaica trees sampled in El Hayedo de Montejo, measured with 0.01 mm precision. The dataset includes tree perimeters from 2018 and estimated competition metrics, in basal area (m2/ha), for adjacent trees from 1994 to 2015. It supports research on the relative importance of stand density and climate change on observed growth decline.

Use Cases

• Modeling climate-growth relationships based on high-precision radial growth time series.
• Analyzing the impact of stand density and competition on tree growth using estimated basal area data.
• Calibrating or validating forest growth models with field-measured tree perimeter and competition data.
• Studying species-specific growth patterns and resilience in a mixed beech-oak forest.

Strengths

• Provides high-precision radial growth measurements at 0.01 mm resolution.
• Includes a multi-decadal time series for competition metrics from 1994 to 2015.
• Contains data for at least 20 individuals per species, supporting species-level analysis.

Limitations

• Key metadata such as row count, file size, and complete column names are unknown.
• The license is inconsistently reported across sources (Open Access (green) vs. null).
• Data files are in a specialized .txt format ordered as .rwl, which may require specific software or preprocessing for analysis.

Provenance

Source

Rubio-Cuadrado, Álvaro (e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse)

Collection Method

Field sampling of tree cores and perimeters, with competition data estimated via geostatistics from forest inventories.

Time Range

1994 to 2018

Freshness

2024-05-05 07:19:59

Geography

El Hayedo de Montejo (Montejo Beech Forest)