Code and data for "Mapping the natural disturbance risk to protective forests across the European Alps"

This repository holds the code and output data for the publication entitled "Mapping the natural disturbance risk to protective forests across the European Alps",accepted in the Journal of Environmental Management, see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121659 The output maps can be viewed online here: https://risiko-gebirgswald.shinyapps.io/maps/ lib: scripts used for data processing and analysis Alps: output data (hazard, vulnerability and risk maps) for the European Alps Bayern: output data (hazard, vulnerability and risk maps) for the Bavarian Alps All of the data used in this study are publicly available: GEDI Level 2A and 2B products can be downloaded at https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/gedi02_av002/ and https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/gedi02_bv002/, respectively. The European disturbance map (Senf & Seidl, 2021) is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3924381 The attribution of disturbance agents for the disturbance map is available at https://zenodo.org/records/4607230 CHELSA climate data is available at www.chelsa-climate.org The Copernicus DEM can be downloaded from https://land.copernicus.eu/imagery-in-situ/eu-dem/eu-dem-v1.1. Wind data were obtained from https://map.neweuropeanwindatlas.eu/ Soil data were obtained from https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/european-soil-database-v20-vector-and-attribute-data. The boundary of the Alpine convention is available at https://www.atlas.alpconv.org/layers/geonode_data:geonode:Alpine_Convention_Perimeter_2018_v2