Geographical Distribution of Woody Biomass Carbon in Tropical Africa: An Updated Database for 2000 Export

@misc{citeulike:2520270, abstract = {Gibbs, H.K. and S. Brown. 2007. Geographical Distribution of Woody Biomass Carbon in Tropical Africa: An Updated Database for 2000, NDP-055b. Available at [http://cdiac.ornl.gov/epubs/ndp/ndp055/ndp055b.html] from the Carbon Dioxide Information Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. doi: 10.3334/CDIAC/lue.ndp055.2007Maps of biomass density are critical inputs for estimating carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation of tropical forests. Brown and Gatson (1996) pioneered methods to use GIS analysis to map forest biomass based on forest inventory data (ndp055). This database is an update of ndp055 (which represent conditions in circa 1980) and accounts for land cover changes occurring up to the year 2000.Keywords: biosphere, terrestrial ecosystems, tropical ecoystems, Africa, carbon cycle, biomass, degradation, deforestation, vegetation formations, biogeography, climate regions, mapping, human impacts.NDP055b includes the following data and documentation files: * ascii documenation file * gzipped ARC/INFO interchange file (.e00) of calculated biomass in woody vegetation (Mg/ha) (grid) * gzipped ARC/INFO interchange file (.e00) of carbon (Mg/ha) in woody vegetation (grid) * gzipped ARC/INFO interchange file (.e00) of GLC2000 land cover data (grid) (Africa only) * gzipped ARC/INFO interchange file (.e00) of NDP-055 land cover categories (grid) * gzipped ARC/INFO interchange file (.e00) of NDP-055 potential biomass (Mg/ha) (grid) * maps (jpegs)See CDIAC's Anonymous FTP service for information on how to download compressed data files.}, author = {Gibbs, H. K. and Brown, S.}, citeulike-article-id = {2520270}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://cdiac.ornl.gov/epubs/ndp/ndp055/ndp055b.html}, comment = {50\% conversion factor for biomass to carbon}, keywords = {africa, biomass, carbon, glc2000}, month = {September}, posted-at = {2009-09-22 08:59:40}, priority = {0}, title = {Geographical Distribution of Woody Biomass Carbon in Tropical Africa: An Updated Database for 2000}, url = {http://cdiac.ornl.gov/epubs/ndp/ndp055/ndp055b.html}, year = {2007} }

TY - GEN ID - citeulike:2520270 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2520270 N2 - Gibbs, H.K. and S. Brown. 2007. Geographical Distribution of Woody Biomass Carbon in Tropical Africa: An Updated Database for 2000, NDP-055b. Available at [http://cdiac.ornl.gov/epubs/ndp/ndp055/ndp055b.html] from the Carbon Dioxide Information Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. doi: 10.3334/CDIAC/lue.ndp055.2007Maps of biomass density are critical inputs for estimating carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation of tropical forests. Brown and Gatson (1996) pioneered methods to use GIS analysis to map forest biomass based on forest inventory data (ndp055). This database is an update of ndp055 (which represent conditions in circa 1980) and accounts for land cover changes occurring up to the year 2000.Keywords: biosphere, terrestrial ecosystems, tropical ecoystems, Africa, carbon cycle, biomass, degradation, deforestation, vegetation formations, biogeography, climate regions, mapping, human impacts.NDP055b includes the following data and documentation files: * ascii documenation file * gzipped ARC/INFO interchange file (.e00) of calculated biomass in woody vegetation (Mg/ha) (grid) * gzipped ARC/INFO interchange file (.e00) of carbon (Mg/ha) in woody vegetation (grid) * gzipped ARC/INFO interchange file (.e00) of GLC2000 land cover data (grid) (Africa only) * gzipped ARC/INFO interchange file (.e00) of NDP-055 land cover categories (grid) * gzipped ARC/INFO interchange file (.e00) of NDP-055 potential biomass (Mg/ha) (grid) * maps (jpegs)See CDIAC's Anonymous FTP service for information on how to download compressed data files. TI - Geographical Distribution of Woody Biomass Carbon in Tropical Africa: An Updated Database for 2000 KW - africa KW - biomass KW - carbon KW - glc2000 N1 - 50% conversion factor for biomass to carbon AU - Gibbs, HK AU - Brown, S PY - 2007/09// UR - http://cdiac.ornl.gov/epubs/ndp/ndp055/ndp055b.html ER -