Live Biomass Carbon Density
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<div class="p1"><p>This dataset provides a spatially explicit estimation of above- and below-ground terrestrial live biomass carbon density. The map was produced by combining the most reliable publicly-available datasets on biomass carbon. These datasets were selected based on a literature review of existing datasets on biomass carbon in terrestrial ecosystems, and evaluated against a criteria based on resolution, accuracy, biomass definition and reference date. The selected datasets were then overlaid with the Copernicus land cover dataset (Buchhorn et al. 2019) assigning to each grid cell the corresponding above-ground biomass value from the biomass map that was most appropriate for the grid cell's land cover type. Below-ground biomass was added by using root-to-shoot ratios from the 2006 IPCC guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. The values of the resulting map (in tonnes of dry organic matter per hectare) were multiplied by 0.5 to convert to carbon, following the guidelines established in the IPCC Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (Penman et al. 2003).</p><p><u>See:</u><ul><li>García-Rangel, S. et al. (In prep.) Global distribution of natural carbon stocks potentially vulnerable to land use changes References.</li></ul></p><p><u>Other References:</u><ul><li>Buchhorn, M. ; Smets, B. ; Bertels, L. ; De Roo, B. ; Lesiv, M. ; Tsendbazar, N. - E. ; Herold, M. ; Fritz, S. Copernicus Global Land Service: Land Cover 100m: collection 3: epoch 2015: Globe 2020. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3939038.</li><li>Penman J et al. (2003) Good practice guidance for land use, land-use change and forestry. Kanagawa Prefecture: Institute for Global Environmental Strategies.</li></ul></p></div>
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