A dataset of forest volume deadwood estimates for Europe

Under the auspices of the International Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests (ICP-Forests) a large-scale forest condition monitoring in Europe is carried out on the basis of a 16x16 km gridnet covering around 6000 plots. Data of forest volume deadwood for 3,243 plots related to 19 European countries are introduced alongside this data paper. The aim of the datapaper is to priorities the publication of a high-value dataset, the added-value results of harmonised sampling procedure and in the same time compliance with the recent priority of FAIR Data Principles.