We present a data set resulting from the first round of a national monitoring program of forest reserves. It contains 9538 permanent plots, distributed across 111 study sites in mainland France (including Corsica). Notably focusing on dead wood measurement, this protocol has primarily been applied in strict forest reserves and special nature reserves (sensu Bollmann & Braunisch 2013), with 68% (6494) of the plots being current...

Climate is one of the main factors driving species distributions and global biodiversity patterns. Obtaining accurate predictions of species’ range shifts in response to ongoing climate change has thus become a key issue in ecology and conservation. Correlative species distribution models ( cSDM s) have become a prominent tool to this aim in the last decade and have demonstrated good predictive abilities with current condition...