Traditional and TLS-based forest inventories of beech and pine forests located in Sila National Park: A dataset.

ABSTRACT: Vegetation structure is a key determinant of species distribution and diversity. Compared to traditional methods, the use of Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) has allowed massive amounts of point cloud data collected for quantifying three-dimensional habitat properties at increasing spatial and temporal scales. We used TLS to characterize the forest plots across a broad range of forest structural diversity, located in the Sila National Park, South Italy. The dataset reports data collected in 24 15-m-radius circular plots, 12 of which were dominated by beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and 12, by black pine (Pinus nigra subsp. laricio). In detail, this work provides dataset of i) plot-level attributes calculated from raw data, such as the number of trees, ii) tree-level data, c

SUBMITTER: Puletti N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7736921 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature