Bark Beetle Disturbance and Forest Structure Data for Central Europe

Andreas Sommerfeld's data underpins research on whether bark beetle outbreaks amplify or dampen future disturbances. The dataset includes annual disturbance volumes and forest structure composition, with columns for year, scenario, and killed volume. Data supports the creation of multiple figures and a table from the associated research paper.

Use Cases

• Modeling future bark beetle disturbance scenarios based on annual killed volume data.
• Analyzing temporal patterns in forest structure using columns with lagged values from preceding time slices.
• Investigating relationships between past disturbances and current forest composition.

Strengths

• Data is directly linked to specific research figures (Figure 2, Figures 3-5, Table 2).
• Includes time-series data with annual resolution for disturbance analysis.
• Contains lagged variables to support analysis of temporal dependencies.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Andreas Sommerfeld via paperswithcode.

Collection Method

Likely generated from ecological modeling or observational studies for the research paper.

Geography

Central Europe