Hyytiälä SMEAR II site characteristics

This dataset contains description of site history and the essential characteristics of the forest stand surrounding SMEAR II research station located in Hyytiälä, Finland. The original tree inventory and increment core data are also provided.

The dataset consists of following files:

1. Description of site history and essential stand and soil characteristics (Hyytiala site description.pdf)

2. Stand characteristics, tree biomasses and leaf area index calculated for all biomass inventory plots and for ICOS target stand (Hyytiala stand characteristics.xlsx)

3. Table (line_plots.csv) that indicates which biomass sample plots are
a) located in the area that was burned in 1962
b) thinned in 2002
c) inside ICOS target stand

4. Cleaned-up tree-wise inventory data collected at the line sampling plots in 2001, 2008, 2012 and 2015 (Biomass inventories.xlsx)

5. Cleaned-up core drilling data collected at the line sampling plots in 2012, 2014 and 2016 for pine growth calculations (Core Drilling YYYY.txt, Core Drilling readme.txt)