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Olson's CDIAC Major World Ecosystem Complexes Ranked by Carbon in Live Vegetation at 30-Minute Resolution

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.


PERIODS:
VARIABLES:
Vegetation Species
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
TYPES: Grid
COVERAGE: Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=89.75S Northernmost=89.75N
Detailed coverage information
SOURCES: 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.

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FORMATS: ASCII (see dataset documentation)
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