Major World Ecosystem Complexes Ranked by Carbon in Live Vegetation: A Database (NDP-017) (2001 version of original 1985 data)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division
In 1980, this data base and the corresponding map were completed after more than 20 years of field investigations, consultations, and analyses of published literature. They characterize the use and vegetative cover of the Earth's land surface with a 0.5° × 0.5° grid. This world-ecosystem-complex data set and the accompanying map provide a current reference base for interpreting the role of vegetation in the global cycling of CO2 and other gases and a basis for improved estimates of vegetation and soil carbon, of natural exchanges of CO2, and of net historic shifts of carbon between the biosphere and the atmosphere.For access to the data files, click this link to the CDIAC data transition website: http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/epubs/ndp/ndp017/ndp017_1985.html
- Research Organization:
- Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE) (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- U.S. DOE > Office of Science (SC) > Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
- Contributing Organization:
- Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1389497
- Report Number(s):
- osti:1389497; doi:10.3334/CDIAC/LUE.NDP017; cdiac:doi 10.3334/CDIAC/lue.ndp017
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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