ForestClim —Bioclimatic variables for microclimate temperatures of European forests

Stef Haesen (1) , Jonas Lembrechts (2) , Pieter de Frenne (3) , Jonathan Lenoir (4) , Juha Aalto (5) , Michael Ashcroft (6) , Martin Kopecký (7, 8) , Miska Luoto (5) , Ilya Maclean (9) , Ivan Nijs (10) , Pekka Niittynen (5) , Johan van den Hoogen (11) , Nicola Arriga (12) , Josef Brůna , Nina Buchmann (11) , Marek Čiliak (13) , Alessio Collalti (14) , Emiel de Lombaerde (15, 3) , Patrice Descombes (16, 11) , Mana Gharun , Ignacio Goded (17) , Sanne Govaert , Caroline Greiser , Achim Grelle , Carsten Gruening , Lucia Hederová , Kristoffer Hylander , Jürgen Kreyling , Bart Kruijt , Martin Macek , František Máliš , Matěj Man , Giovanni Manca , Radim Matula , Camille Meeussen , Sonia Merinero , Stefano Minerbi , Leonardo Montagnani , Lena Muffler , Romà Ogaya , Josep Penuelas , Roman Plichta , Miguel Portillo-Estrada , Jonas Schmeddes , Ankit Shekhar , Fabien Spicher , Mariana Ujházyová , Pieter Vangansbeke , Robert Weigel , Jan Wild , Florian Zellweger , Koenraad van Meerbeek

1 KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
2 Universiteit Antwerpen = University of Antwerpen [Antwerpen]
3 UGENT - Universiteit Gent = Ghent University
4 EDYSAN - Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés - UMR CNRS 7058
5 Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki
6 University of Wollongong [Australia]
7 IB / CAS - Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences
8 CZU - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
9 University of Exeter
10 UA - University of Antwerp
11 D-USYS - Department of Environmental Systems Science [ETH Zürich]
12 Department of Biology
13 TUZVO - Technical University in Zvolen
14 Università degli studi della Tuscia [Viterbo]
15 Forest & Nature Lab
16 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
17 JRC - European Commission - Joint Research Centre [Ispra]

Microclimate research gained renewed interest over the last decade and its importance for many ecological processes is increasingly being recognized. Consequently, the call for high-resolution microclimatic temperature grids across broad spatial extents is becoming more pressing to improve ecological models. Here, we provide a new set of open-access bioclimatic variables for microclimate temperatures of European forests at 25 × 25 m2 resolution.

Mots clés: ForestTemp; SoilTemp; biodiversity; boosted regression trees; climate change; ecosystem processes; forest microclimate; species distributions

Domaines: Sciences de l'environnement

Stef Haesen, Jonas Lembrechts, Pieter de Frenne, Jonathan Lenoir, Juha Aalto, et al.. ForestClim —Bioclimatic variables for microclimate temperatures of European forests. Global Change Biology, 2023, 29 (11), pp.2886-2892. ⟨10.1111/gcb.16678⟩. ⟨hal-04089003⟩