Geographical Distribution of Biomass Carbon in Tropical Southeast Asian Forests: A Database (NPD-068)

Dataset · Thu Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/LUE.NDP068· OSTI ID:1389505

Brown, S. ^[1]; Iverson, L. R. ^[2]; Prasad, A. ^[2]

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1. University of Illinois, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences; OSTI
2. University of Illinois, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

A database was generated of estimates of geographically referenced carbon densities of forest vegetation in tropical Southeast Asia for 1980. A geographic information system (GIS) was used to incorporate spatial databases of climatic, edaphic, and geomorphological indices and vegetation to estimate potential (i.e., in the absence of human intervention and natural disturbance) carbon densities of forests. The resulting map was then modified to estimate actual 1980 carbon density as a function of population density and climatic zone. The database covers the following 13 countries: Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia (Campuchea), India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam.For access to the data files, click this link to the CDIAC data transition website: http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/epubs/ndp/ndp068/ndp068.html

• Research Organization: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem
• 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: 1389505
• Report Number(s): osti:1389505; doi:10.3334/CDIAC/LUE.NDP068; cdiac:doi 10.3334/CDIAC/lue.ndp068; ESD Publication 4879
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
BIOMASS DENSITY
CLIMATIC INDEX
COUNTRY
ECOFLORISTIC ZONE
ELEVATION
FOREST/NONFOREST
LATITUDE
LONGITUDE
POPULATION DENSITY
PRECIPITATION
SLOPE
SOIL TEXTURE
Southeast Asia
VEGETATION
biomass
carbon
carbon cycle
climate
elevation
forest
land use
organic matter
population
slope
soil
tropics
vegetation