Database for the European forest transect

Dear user,

The data on this CD-ROM are part of the book
Schulze E-D (ed) (2000) Carbon and nitrogen cycling in European forest ecosystems. Ecological studies 142, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York

This book contains the results of the EU-NIPHYS/CANIF projects that were performed during the years 1993 to 1996 (NIPHYS) and 1996 to 1999 (CANIF). These projects investigated plant and soil processes in deciduous and coniferous forest stands along a transect ranging from north Sweden to central Italy.

The production of a data-bank treating a heterogeneous subject as this CD is not only a lot of work, but contains also the danger, that there are errors. If you find inconsistencies or errors, we would appreciate your help to make them known to us. Therefore, in such case, please contact Ernst-Detlef Schulze (e-mail: detlef.schulze@bgc-jena.mpg.de) or Harmke van Oene (e-mail: Harmke.vanOene@staf.ton.wau.nl).

The authors of different subjects are just as much interested to know, who is going to use the data. Therefore, we would appreciate, if you could make contact to authors of the data if you use them. The contact to authors is also recommended in case there are problems with respect to the data.

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The database is organized in three parts:


The data files of the sites on the CD-ROM were compiled by Harmke van Oene (see address list) and Barbara Lühker, editorial assistant of E.-D. Schulze (see address list).