ProfoundData
An R interface to the PROFOUND database of European forest data for evaluating vegetation models.
Cited 75 times on Google Scholar, summed over its 2 entries there (as of 11 October 2026)
ProfoundData is an R interface to the PROFOUND database, which collects data for evaluating vegetation models and simulating climate impacts at the scale of forest stands. For nine forest sites across Europe it contains site descriptions and soil, climate, CO₂, nitrogen-deposition, tree, stand and remote-sensing data; for five of them also time series of carbon fluxes. The package downloads the database and provides functions to query and plot it.
A shared dataset lets different forest models be benchmarked against the same observations, rather than against whatever data each modelling team happened to have. The database was produced by COST Action FP1304 PROFOUND and is archived at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (doi:10.5880/PIK.2019.008).
The package was archived from CRAN in June 2025 and remains available from GitHub. The database itself is unaffected.
Authors: Florian Hartig (maintainer), Ramiro Silveyra Gonzalez, Christopher Reyer, Mats Mahnken. Contributors: Friedrich Bohn.
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