Composition and structure of Mediterranean shrublands for fuel characterization

Key message

We present a relational database containing compositional and structural characteristics of 575 permanent 100 m2 shrubland plots distributed in the NE of Iberian peninsula. The datasets provide valuable information about shrubland fuels to improve fire danger prediction, study vegetation dynamics in relation to drought and fire or test aerial-based methodologies with ground-based information. Dataset access is at : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7685487 and associated metadata are available at https://metadata-afs.nancy.inra.fr/geonetwork/srv/fre/catalog.search#/metadata/f55fcde4-113e-40f9-9a35-a2e65b0ee951.

Keywords
Fire danger; Fuel characteristics; Mediterranean shrublands; Shrub biomass; Shrub cover and height

Publication
Casals, P., Gabriel, E., De Cáceres, M. et al. Composition and structure of Mediterranean shrublands for fuel characterization. Annals of Forest Science 80, 23 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-023-01190-y

Data and/or Code availability
The datasets generated during the current study are available at the ZENODO repository: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7685487

Handling Editor
Véronique Lesage

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