Natural forest cells according to the Saxon Forest Act in Saxony

The data set contains the natural forest cells (natural reserves) in the Free State of Saxony. Natural forest cells are forest areas that are left to their natural development. They are protected forest according to the Saxon Forest Act (SächsWaldG) with the aim of safeguarding the natural development of flora and fauna at a development stage close to natural vegetation. Natural forest cells primarily serve the research of self-developing forest communities, their soils, their vegetation, forest structure and fauna. They thus offer versatile approaches to the analysis of processes in forests and can be the basis for near-natural forest management or indicator of large-scale (anthropogenic) changes in relatively near-natural forest ecosystems. For each natural forest cell (natural forest reserve), the name, the test number and the affected tree species are indicated.