615481ab-e97d-4c73-9973-4fb80e5fb003 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:20:49 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator Forest inventory and lightning strikes data from Ankasa Conservation area, Ghana, 2018-2021 2024-02-21 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/615481ab-e97d-4c73-9973-4fb80e5fb003 10.5285/615481ab-e97d-4c73-9973-4fb80e5fb003 doi: Adu-Bredu, S., Stivanello, S., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Addo-Danso, S., Dabo, J., Ibrahim, F., Manu, E.A., Ametsitsi, G., Streher, A.S., Feldpausch, T., Hill, T. (2024). Forest inventory and lightning strikes data from Ankasa Conservation area, Ghana, 2018-2021. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/615481ab-e97d-4c73-9973-4fb80e5fb003 This dataset contains includes measurements of trees and lianas stem diameters and status (e.g. alive, dead), and lightning strike data for forest areas within the Ankasa Conservation Area, collected between June 2018 and July 2021. We investigated tree mortality drive by lightning strikes in a 50-ha (1000 m x 500 m) plot area in the Ankasa Conservation Area, located in southwestern Ghana. The 50-ha was divided into 50 x 1-ha forest plots. In every census, we measured and tagged all trees and lianas that have a stem diameter at 1.3 m (or above buttresses) of ≥25 cm and notes were taken about the tree's living status (e.g., broken, hollow) or the trees death mode (e.g., uprooted, standing). Lightning strike data was collected from a subsample of the individual trees recorded in the census data. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/615481ab-e97d-4c73-9973-4fb80e5fb003 Adu-Bredu, S. Forestry Research Institute of Ghana sabredu@csir-forig.org.gh https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7487-7911 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Stivanello, S. University of Exeter silvio.stivanello@tin.it author Duah-Gyamfi, A. Forestry Research Institute of Ghana adgyamfi@csir-forig.org.gh author Addo-Danso, S. Forestry Research Institute of Ghana sadanso@csir-forig.org.gh author Dabo, J. Forestry Research Institute of Ghana j.dabo@kew.org author Ibrahim, F. Forestry Research Institute of Ghana ibrahimforzia@yahoo.com author Manu, E.A. Forestry Research Institute of Ghana eamponsahmanu@gmail.com author Ametsitsi, G. Forestry Research Institute of Ghana gametsitsi@csir-forig.org.gh author Streher, A.S. University of Exeter annia.streher@gmail.com author Feldpausch, T. University of Exeter T.R.Feldpausch@exeter.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6631-7962 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Hill, T. University of Exeter t.c.hill@exeter.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1740-930X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Hill, T. University of Exeter t.c.hill@exeter.ac.uk pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher University of Exeter t.c.hill@exeter.ac.uk owner tree tropical forest GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Tree mortality Forest Inventory lightning otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Adu-Bredu, S., Stivanello, S., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Addo-Danso, S., Dabo, J., Ibrahim, F., Manu, E.A., Ametsitsi, G., Streher, A.S., Feldpausch, T., Hill, T. (2024). Forest inventory and lightning strikes data from Ankasa Conservation area, Ghana, 2018-2021. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/615481ab-e97d-4c73-9973-4fb80e5fb003 textTable 1000 English utf8 biota 2018-06-01 2021-07-31 -2.731 -2.424 5.136 5.443 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/615481ab-e97d-4c73-9973-4fb80e5fb003 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/615481ab-e97d-4c73-9973-4fb80e5fb003.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 For each tree measured in the forest inventory, we installed a custom-made Rogowski Coil sensor, that was designed and tested by the Cardiff Morgan Botti lightning laboratory, to record if a tree was struck by lightning, without damaging the tree or altering the tree's electrical resistance. The Rogowski Coil is a non-contact sensor commonly used to measure alternating and impulse current flowing through the axis of the coil (in our case, down the tree). A quick visual check of the fuse allows us to see if the tree was struck by lightning. In addition to tree stem measurements, in each census, we also took notes on the general state of the coil and fuse, and the electrical conductivity was measured. Trees struck by lightning (e.g. with the fuse blown or melted) were identified at the species level and any lightning-associated damage to the tree (e.g. marks in trunks, broken branches, canopy dieback) and in the surroundings (e.g. canopy gaps, sapling mortality) was documented.