About how to use data:

• ・Commercial use is prohibited.
• ・This database contains data that has already been opened as research papers and/or data papers The published data may have been modified and updated from the initial version through screening processes. When you use any data in this database, please cite the appropriate papers in the acknowledgements. Bibliographic information of original papers is shown in the “publication” column in the censusdata table. For detailed information about measurements, please read the original papers. Without them, please specify that the data is obtained from UTFEEP (Database for the University of Tokyo Forests Experimental and Ecological forest Plots). Also, when your production using this database is published, please let us know whenever possible.
• ・We keep the right to modify and update the data in this database when necessary in future. Date of update will be recorded in the database (please see “Data explanation”). Major modification will be announced in this website.
• ・This database also contains scanned data of field data sheets of each census. To check detailed or uninput information, please see “PDF of field data sheets” in the “Plot metadata” page. Other scanned data such as maps and figures can also be included.
• ・When metadata is only posted here, measurement data should be stocked in branch forest office. If you wish to obtain such data, please consult to each branch forest office. Please note that measurement data is often available only in hand-writing form.

How to download data:

• ・Fill in the search box in “Search plots” page, and click “search”
• ・By clicking the plot name of shown list, you can see its detail.
• ・By clicking download button, you can obtain the shown list.
• ・By clicking button after checking plots in the checkboxes on the left, you can see the metadata of measurements at chosen plots.
• ・In the measurement metadata list, if any measurement data is registered, “records” indicates more than one. Then, by clicking download button, you can obtain measurement data you want.
• ・Please read “Data explanation” page for more detailed information about each data.

Website of 7 branch forests:

• Chiba Forest (UTCBF)
• Hokkaido Forest (UTHF)
• Chichibu Forest (UTCF)
• Tanashi Forest (UTTF) (Former Experimental Station at Tanashi)
• Ecohydrology Research Institute (ERI) (Former University Forest in Aichi)
• Fuji Iyashinomori Woodland Study Center (FIWSC) (Former University Forest at Yamanakako)
• Arboricultural Research Institute (ARI)