ICP Forests Defoliation and Symptoms Data Set

This data set has been obtained after processing original data from the ICP Forests data infrastructure. It includes "clean" defoliation and symptoms data from 19 countries over the period 1990-2022 after removing dubious cases of e.g. species attribution, dubious coding, long-standing dead trees. It is based on ICP Forests Level I plots.

Defoliation is the relative loss (shed or not formed) of tree needles / leaves in relation to a hypothetical fully foliated optimum and is visually assessed using a sliding scale recorded in 5% steps (from 0%= no defoliation to 100%=standing dead tree). Occurrence of s^Symptoms attributable to damaging agents (e.g., insects, fungi, drought, hail, fire, direct action of men…) on each tree and associated to defoliation are also included in this data set.

This data set includes a total of 2’688’512 observations from 219’854 trees in 12’104 plots.

• Partners of the official UNECE ICP Forests Network and partly funded by the European Commission (link) (Grant/Award: no specific grant number)