Dear Maurizio,

I do not know which taxa you are interested in. May I suggest that you specify your question in this regard.

The global biodiversity information facility (http://www.gbif.org/) is always a good starting point. Otherwise check "species occurrence data at the diva-gis website http://www.diva-gis.org/Data

I hope this helps.

Cheers

Darius

Hi Darius, many thanks for your answer. I'm looking for data about Pinus nigra, Douglas fir and Fagus sylvatica.

Hi Maurizio,

the key adress is efi.int with. Several projects deal with this kind of problems. First of all it's an issue of terms and definitions:

http://www.efi.int/files/attachments/publications/ir_13_bw.pdf

Then several maps have been created: Maps + data (including beech, but no on so called minor species, like this one for instance:

http://www.efi.int/files/images/virtual_library/tree_species_map_and_legend.png

Underlying references are:

Brus, D.J., G.M. Hengeveld, D.J.J. Walvoort, P.W. Goedhart, A.H. Heidema, G.J. Nabuurs, K. Gunia, 2011. Statistical mapping of tree species over Europe. European Journal of Forest Research 131 (1): 145–157.

Hengeveld, G.M., G.J. Nabuurs, M. Didion, I. van den Wyngaert, A.P.P.M., Clerckx, M.J. Schelhaas, 2011. A forest management map of European forests. Ecology and Society. Special Issue Eforwood. In press.

Nabuurs, G.J., 2009. NFI plot level database gathered from 18 European countries. Digital database. Alterra and European Forest Institute.

Schuck, A., Van Brusselen, J., Päivinen, R., Häme, T., Kennedy, P., Folving, S., 2002. Compilation of a calibrated European forest map derived from NOAA-AVHRR data. EFI Technical Report 13, European Forest Institute.

Tröltzsch, K., Van Brusselen, J., Schuck, A., 2009. Spatial occurrence of major tree species groups in Europe derived from multiple data sources. Forest Ecology and Management 257 (1): 294-302. 

Maps are available at: efi.int Data most probably upon request, I think!

Kind regards

Sebastian

Dear Maurizio,

try doing a search with these keywords

ONF NFI douglas fir

(Office National des Forets-France)

(National Forest Inventory)

Kind regards

Mariagrazia

The species you are looking for are well represented in National Forest Inventories (NFI). I don't know if a joint public database exists, but you may find the NFI datasets ready to download in their webpages (check http://efdac-catalog.jrc.ec.europa.eu/efdac_subthemes.jsp?DI=8) or even in the GBIF data portal (e.g. Spanish NFI, http://www.gbif.org/dataset/fab4c599-802a-4bfc-8a59-fc7515001bfa)

Maybe useful: there is a new tree species atlas of the JRC, and can (for now) be downloaded fully: http://forest.jrc.ec.europa.eu/european-atlas-of-forest-tree-species/