Effects of canopy disturbance on Swiss forests

The files refer to the data used in Scherrer et al. (2021) "Canopy disturbances catalyse tree species shifts in Swiss forests" in _Ecosystems_. The two data files contain information about site factors (e.g. disturbance events, dominant tree species, elevation) and species-specific biomass of 5521 plots of the Swiss National Forest Inventory visited during the second (NFI2 1993-1995) and fourth (NFI4 2009-2017) inventory. In addition, we provide all the R-scripts necessary to reproduce the Figures and data tables of the related publication. For more detailed information about the data files please check the ReadMe.docx file.