data - Leveraging biomass procurement to mitigate carbon emissions at the stand level: a case study in eastern Canadian forests

This repository provides input and output datasets used in “Leveraging biomass procurement to mitigate carbon emissions at the stand level: a case study in eastern Canadian forests”.Input datasets include data collected in 2019 from pre-harvest mature forests, following the experimental design described in Canuel et al. (2024), "Post-harvest regeneration is driven by ecological factors rather than wood procurement intensity in eastern Canadian forests" (doi:10.1093/forestry/cpae008). The experimental design included six experimental sites, each with a randomized block design using four blocks. Two to four ground sampling plots per block were established, for a total of 84 sampling plots. Data were collected following ground sampling guidelines, version 5.0 published in 2008, from the Canada's National Forest Inventory (see https://nfi.nfis.org/resources/groundplot/Gp_guidelines_v5.0.pdf).Only pre-harvest stumps data (pre-harvest_stumps.csv) are provided in this repository. Stumps were tallied and measured within circular sampling plots (r = 3.99 m). Only data from sampling plots where one or more stumps were measured are shown. Other empirical data from the pre-harvest stand inventory used in the study are available at the following repository: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.22587139.v1.We provided output datasets from carbon modelling for the six experimental sites and seven scenarios in five separate files ("[...]_scenario.csv"). These output datasets support the results of our study.We also provide a summary file that describes the rows and columns in the datasets of this repository.