Data for article: Mapping temporal variations in ecosystem services: a case study of European wood supply and demand between 2008 and 2018

The data consists of the indicators for spatio-temporal analysis of wood Ecosystem Service (ES) potential, supply, and demand across Europe between 2008 and 2018. This dataset was used for the analysis of temporal trends of wood ES in the study "Mapping temporal variations in ecosystem services: a case study of European wood supply and demand between 2008 and 2018".

The data are collected and compiled from open access statistical databases. They consist of three parts:

1.     The PDF file with a detailed description of the data and all the input sources from which it was derived.

2.     The Zip file with 3 separate Excel files containing the short description of the indicators for mapping spatio-temporal changes, namely wood ES potential, wood ES supply and wood ES demand and their values between 2008 and 2018 at three different levels: continental, national and regional. Note that for the regional level only supply and demand indicators are available.

3.     The tiff file representing the spatial resolution for visualisation and analysis of the data.

Resolution:

Data are available for 3 spatial levels, in the temporal dimension between 2008 and 2018 (annually). All 3 indicators are available at continental (European) and national scales. The study area covers 24 countries of the European Union (EU) and Switzerland. Supply and demand are also available at regional level. At the regional scale, we assessed supply and demand using the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 3; n = 1061) and local administrative units (LAU; n = 957) from the year 2016 (Eurostat, 2016). The visualisation of the resolution is available in the tiff file attached to the data.

The data are visualised and analysed in the ETRS 1989 LAEA projection.

For more information on the indicators used, data collection and processing, see the supplementary files of the published article.

DEFINITIONS of ES mapping indicators used in the study:

ES potential - the hypothetical maximum yield of services potentially available for supply.

ES supply – the amount of the mobilized service within the ecosystem capable to provide a service at a given location in a certain time (frequently referred in literature as ES flow).

ES demand - the need for the ecosystem-based service by the end users. In this study demand is analysed from the perspective of service end-user.