The excel file contains the replies of small-scale private forest owners in Lower Saxony, Germany, to certain questions of a survey analyzed within the following publication: "Small-scale private forest owners and the European Natura 2000 conservation network: Perceived ecosystem services, management practices, and nature conservation attitudes”. The questions included in this dataset cover their objectives, management activities, attitudes and forest stand structures. Further details can be found in the second sheet of the file called “Code explanation”. More information about the methods of data collection can be found in the before-mentioned publication.

The project "Small private forests: conservation through resource use (KLEIBER)" is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) through the Agency of Renewable Resources (FNR) within the funding program "Renewable Resources" and according to a decision of the German Parliament (FKZ 22001218 and 22023218).