Large-scale importance of bark beetle outbreaks for standing deadwood and woodpeckers

Woodpecker counts - Data from 40 regions of Switzerland
Data associated with Basile et al. (2025) Large-scale importance of bark beetle outbreaks for standing deadwood and woodpeckers. Journal of Animal Ecology
Authors Marco Basile, Gilberto Pasinelli, Sophie Stroheker, Meinrad Abegg, Kurt Bollmann, Martin M. Gossner, Thomas Sattler, Eckehard G. Brockerhoff
The species covered are great spotted woodpecker Dendrocopos major, black woodpecker Dryocopus martius, Eurasian three-toed woodepecker Picoides tridactylus.
Data correspond to the number of territories in each region.
Count data were kindly provided by the Swiss Ornithological Institute. Further information can be requested by contacting the corresponding author or [e-mail] (code for query: ####.count, with #### = year, e.g., 2000.count = count data for year 2000).