UK National Forest Inventory 2011: Preliminary Broadleaved and Ash Tree Data

National Forest Inventory (NFI) preliminary estimates for 2011 quantify broadleaved species in British woodlands over 0.5 hectares, with a special focus on ash trees. The report includes estimates of stocked area, standing volume, and numbers of trees. The data was published by the Government Digital Service and later estimates are available in a 2014 forecast.

Use Cases

• Modeling forest resource availability based on estimates of stocked area and standing volume.
• Tracking the distribution and prevalence of ash trees in woodlands over 0.5 hectares.
• Assessing changes in broadleaved species composition using preliminary 2011 estimates as a baseline.

Strengths

• Focuses specifically on ash trees, a species of particular interest.
• Provides estimates for three key forestry metrics: stocked area, standing volume, and number of trees.
• Data is sourced from the official National Forest Inventory.
• Geographic coverage is explicitly for Great Britain.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is preliminary; later estimates are available in a 2014 forecast.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

National Forest Inventory survey.

Time Range

2011

Geography

Great Britain