European Forest Resource Database (EEFR)

The EFISCEN Inventory Database, formerly European Forest Resource Database (EEFR), was developed to provide input data for the large scale matrix model, called the European Forest Information Scenario Model (EFISCEN). EFISCENS is used to project the development of Europe's forest resources under various scenarios.

The database contains data for the following European countries: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and United Kingdom. The input data are derived from national forest inventories. For a number of countries, the project relies on the database of the IIASA Forest Study (Nilsson et al. 1992).

In the EEFR database, the European forests are divided in 2689 forest types, distinguished by country, region, owner, structure, site class, and tree species. For each forest type and age class, the forest area, the total and mean volume, the total annual increment and the current annual increment may be retrieved from the EEFR database. Such data are available for all countries which have distinguished even-aged forest structure. There are a number of exceptions for data available from uneven-aged forest types. Uneven-aged forests information is not ordered in age classes, but in diameter classes. For the individual diameter classes, the number of trees, the total volume, the mean volume per tree, the total annual increment and the mean annual increment per tree are available.

Together with the requested data, the user will receive contact information of the original data provider, links to the responsible national forest institutes home pages, information on the source of the data and definitions used for the forest inventories.