Globe-LFMC 2.0, an enhanced and updated dataset for live fuel moisture content research

Marta Yebra; Gianluca Scortechini; Karine Adeline; Nursema Aktepe; Turkia Almoustafa; Avi Bar-Massada; María Eugenia Beget; Matthias Boer; Ross Bradstock; Tegan Brown; Francesc Xavier Castro; Rui Chen; Emilio Chuvieco; Mark Danson; Cihan Ünal Değirmenci; Ruth Delgado-Dávila; Philip Dennison; Carlos Di Bella; Oriol Domenech; Jean-Baptiste Féret; Greg Forsyth; Eva Gabriel; Zisis Gagkas; Fatma Gharbi; Elena Granda; Anne Griebel; Binbin He; Matt Jolly; Ivan Kotzur; Tineke Kraaij; Agnes Kristina; Pınar Kütküt; Jean-Marc Limousin; M Pilar Martín; Antonio T Monteiro; Marco Morais; Bruno Moreira; Florent Mouillot; Samukelisiwe Msweli; Rachael H Nolan; Grazia Pellizzaro; Yi Qi; Xingwen Quan; Victor Resco de Dios; Dar Roberts; Çağatay Tavşanoğlu; Andy F S Taylor; Jackson Taylor; İrem Tüfekcioğlu; Andrea Ventura; Nicolas Younes Cardenas

doi:10.1038/s41597-024-03159-6

Globe-LFMC 2.0, an enhanced and updated dataset for live fuel moisture content research

Sci Data. 2024 Apr 4;11(1):332. doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-03159-6.

Authors

Marta Yebra^{1

2}, Gianluca Scortechini³, Karine Adeline⁴, Nursema Aktepe⁵, Turkia Almoustafa^{6

7}, Avi Bar-Massada⁸, María Eugenia Beget⁹, Matthias Boer¹⁰, Ross Bradstock¹¹, Tegan Brown¹², Francesc Xavier Castro¹³, Rui Chen¹⁴, Emilio Chuvieco¹⁵, Mark Danson⁶, Cihan Ünal Değirmenci¹⁶, Ruth Delgado-Dávila^{17

18}, Philip Dennison¹⁹, Carlos Di Bella²⁰, Oriol Domenech²¹, Jean-Baptiste Féret²², Greg Forsyth²³, Eva Gabriel¹³, Zisis Gagkas²⁴, Fatma Gharbi²⁵, Elena Granda²⁶, Anne Griebel^{10

27}, Binbin He¹⁴, Matt Jolly²⁸, Ivan Kotzur¹⁰, Tineke Kraaij²⁹, Agnes Kristina³⁰, Pınar Kütküt¹⁶, Jean-Marc Limousin³¹, M Pilar Martín³², Antonio T Monteiro^{33

34}, Marco Morais³⁵, Bruno Moreira³⁶, Florent Mouillot³⁷, Samukelisiwe Msweli³⁸, Rachael H Nolan¹⁰, Grazia Pellizzaro³⁹, Yi Qi^{40

41}, Xingwen Quan¹⁴, Victor Resco de Dios⁴², Dar Roberts³⁵, Çağatay Tavşanoğlu¹⁶, Andy F S Taylor⁴³, Jackson Taylor³, İrem Tüfekcioğlu¹⁶, Andrea Ventura³⁹, Nicolas Younes Cardenas³

Affiliations

¹ Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. marta.yebra@anu.edu.au.
² School of Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. marta.yebra@anu.edu.au.
³ Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
⁴ ONERA / DOTA, Université de Toulouse, F-31055, Toulouse, France.
⁵ Department of Biology, Kastamonu University, Kastamonu, Türkiye.
⁶ School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford, Salford, UK.
⁷ Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Geography Department, Tishreen University, Tishreen, Syria.
⁸ Department of Biology and Environment, University of Haifa at Oranim, Kiryat Tivon, 36066, Israel.
⁹ Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁰ Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia.
¹¹ University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
¹² US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory, 5775 Highway 10 West, Missoula, 59803, MT, USA.
¹³ Servei de Prevenció d'Incendis Forestals (Generalitat de Catalunya), Santa Perpètua de Mogoda, Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁴ School of Resources and Environment, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sichuan, China.
¹⁵ Department of Geology, Geography and the Environment, University of Alcalá, Colegios 2, 28801, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
¹⁶ Division of Ecology, Department of Biology, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Türkiye.
¹⁷ Joint Research Unit CTFC - AGROTECNIO, Crta. de St. Llorenç de Morunys, km 2, E, 25280, Solsona, Spain.
¹⁸ Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
¹⁹ Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
²⁰ IFEVA-CONICET, Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
²¹ Centre Forestal de les Illes Balears (CEFOR-Menut), Forest Management Service (Government of the Balearic Islands), Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
²² INRAE, UMR TETIS, 500 rue Jean-François Breton, 34093, Montpellier, France.
²³ CSIR, NRE, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
²⁴ Environmental and Biochemical Sciences Department, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK.
²⁵ Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia.
²⁶ Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
²⁷ School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123 Broadway, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia.
²⁸ RMRS, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, USFS, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 5775 Hwy 10 W Missoula, Missoula, MT, 59808, USA.
²⁹ Nelson Mandela University, School of Natural Resource Management, George, South Africa.
³⁰ Bushfire Technical Services, DFES WA, Perth, Australia.
³¹ CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.
³² Environmental Remote Sensing and Spectroscopy Laboratory (SpecLab), IEGD, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
³³ Centro de Estudos Geográficos (CEG) and Laboratório Associado TERRA, Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território (IGOT), Universidade de Lisboa, Rua Edmée Marques, 1600-276, Lisboa, Portugal.
³⁴ Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-IGG), Via Moruzzi 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
³⁵ Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
³⁶ Department of Ecology and Global Change. Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación (CIDE-CSIC/UV/GV). Carretera Moncada-Náquera km 4, 5 s/n, E-46113, Moncada, Valencia, Spain.
³⁷ IRD, CEFE/CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier, Cedex 5, France.
³⁸ Natural Resource Science and Management Cluster, Nelson Mandela University, George, South Africa.
³⁹ Istituto per la Bioeconomia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, (CNR-IBE), Traversa La Crucca 3, 07100, Sassari, Italy.
⁴⁰ University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
⁴¹ University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁴² Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain.
⁴³ Ecological Sciences Department. The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK.

Abstract

Globe-LFMC 2.0, an updated version of Globe-LFMC, is a comprehensive dataset of over 280,000 Live Fuel Moisture Content (LFMC) measurements. These measurements were gathered through field campaigns conducted in 15 countries spanning 47 years. In contrast to its prior version, Globe-LFMC 2.0 incorporates over 120,000 additional data entries, introduces more than 800 new sampling sites, and comprises LFMC values obtained from samples collected until the calendar year 2023. Each entry within the dataset provides essential information, including date, geographical coordinates, plant species, functional type, and, where available, topographical details. Moreover, the dataset encompasses insights into the sampling and weighing procedures, as well as information about land cover type and meteorological conditions at the time and location of each sampling event. Globe-LFMC 2.0 can facilitate advanced LFMC research, supporting studies on wildfire behaviour, physiological traits, ecological dynamics, and land surface modelling, whether remote sensing-based or otherwise. This dataset represents a valuable resource for researchers exploring the diverse LFMC aspects, contributing to the broader field of environmental and ecological research.

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