Abstract:
A computerized database used to generate a global vegetation
map of 44 different land ecosystem complexes comprising seven
broad groups is provided. The database provides a basis for
making improved estimates of vegetation areas and carbon
quantities, of natural biological exchanges of CO2, and
eventually of the net historic shifts of carbon between the
biosphere and the atmosphere.
Data Contributors:
DOE/ORNL/ESD/CDIAC
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U. S. Department of Energy
Publications:
Olson, J.S., J.A. Watts and L.J. Allison, 1985: Major World Ecosystem Complexes Ranked by Carbon in Live Vegetation: A Database. NDP-017, Carbon Dioxide Information Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 164 pp.
Data Formats:
ASCII (see dataset documentation)
Metadata Record:
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