Olson's Major World Ecosystem Complexes Ranked by Carbon in Live Vegetation: An Updated Database Using the GLC2000 Land Cover Product (NDP-017b, a 2006 update of the original 1985 and 2001 data file)

Gibbs, Holly K.

doi:10.3334/CDIAC/LUE.NDP017.2006

Title: Olson's Major World Ecosystem Complexes Ranked by Carbon in Live Vegetation: An Updated Database Using the GLC2000 Land Cover Product (NDP-017b, a 2006 update of the original 1985 and 2001 data file)

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In the 1980s, Olson et al. developed a data base and corresponding map following more than 20 years of field investigations, consultations, and analyses of published literature. The original data characterize the use and vegetative cover of the Earth's land surface with a 0.5° by 0.5° grid. The purpose of these world-ecosystem-complex data and the accompanying map were to 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.These data were widely used and cited in carbon cycle research. This updated database extends the methodology of Olson et al. to more contemporary land cover conditions of the Global Land Cover Database (GLC2000). The GLC2000 data were developed using remotely sensed imagery acquired in 2000. The updated data are presented in a GIS format and include estimates of mean and maximum carbon density values.For access to the data files, click this link to the CDIAC data transition website: http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/epubs/ndp/ndp017/ndp017b.html

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Gibbs, Holly K.

Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), University of Wisconsin, Madison

Publication Date:: 2006-11-30

Other Number(s):: osti:1389498; doi:10.3334/CDIAC/LUE.NDP017.2006; cdiac:doi 10.3334/CDIAC/lue.ndp017.2006

Research Org.:: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE) (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: U.S. DOE > Office of Science (SC) > Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)

Subject:: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Keywords:: Biomass; Carbon cycle; Ecosystem; Vegetation; Terrestrial ecosystems; global carbon reservoirs; biogeography; human impacts; maximum estimates of biomass carbon (metric tons C) ; mean estimates of biomass carbon (metric tons C)

Geolocation:: 90.0,180.0|-90.0,180.0|-90.0,-180.0|90.0,-180.0|90.0,180.0

OSTI Identifier:: 1389498

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/LUE.NDP017.2006

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                    Gibbs, Holly K. Olson's Major World Ecosystem Complexes Ranked by Carbon in Live Vegetation: An Updated Database Using the GLC2000 Land Cover Product (NDP-017b, a 2006 update of the original 1985 and 2001 data file).  United States: N. p., 2006. 
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                    Gibbs, Holly K. Olson's Major World Ecosystem Complexes Ranked by Carbon in Live Vegetation: An Updated Database Using the GLC2000 Land Cover Product (NDP-017b, a 2006 update of the original 1985 and 2001 data file).  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/LUE.NDP017.2006

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                    Gibbs, Holly K. 2006.  
"Olson's Major World Ecosystem Complexes Ranked by Carbon in Live Vegetation: An Updated Database Using the GLC2000 Land Cover Product (NDP-017b, a 2006 update of the original 1985 and 2001 data file)".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/LUE.NDP017.2006.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1389498. Pub date:Thu Nov 30 00:00:00 EST 2006

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