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.

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Asset Size 155.648 MB
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Author Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U. S. Department of Energy
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 1988-01-25
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/PD2X-BX83
Alternate Identifier d769000
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Topic Category biota
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Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:30:00Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d769000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U. S. Department of Energy. (1988). Olson's CDIAC Major World Ecosystem Complexes Ranked by Carbon in Live Vegetation at 30-Minute Resolution. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/PD2X-BX83. Accessed 10 October 2025.

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