I am trying to create a (very approximative) model of a territory, focusing on the water balance.
I have some different vegetation areas, taken from the Map of Natural Vegetation of Europe (by the Bundesamt für Naturschutz).
The data look like for example like this:
"Formation F.1 : Species-poor oak and mixed oak forests (Quercus robur, Q. petraea, Q. pyrenaica, Pinus sylvestris, Betula pendula, B. pubescens, B. pubescens subsp. celtiberica, Castanea sativa)".
Does anyone know where to find data about the root depth of particular species or of the kind of forest in average?
Thank you in advance for your help!
Alice, I am afraid I do not have the rooting depths of the different species for you. However, be careful in many cases the actual rooting depth is not determined by the potential rooting depth of the species but by soil depth. You may want to consider soil depth into consideration for which different databases are available at the european scale:
https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/european-soil-database-v20-vector-and-attribute-data
Article S-World: A Global Soil Map for Environmental Modelling
cheers Jetse
Dear Alice,
You can see the:
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:565554/FULLTEXT01.pdf
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