Global belowground biomass carbon density of grass in the year 2010

• Main Authors: Gibbs, Holly, Spawn, Seth A, Sullivan, Clare C, Lark, Tyler J
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: figshare 2020
• Subjects: 70104 Agricultural Spatial Analysis and Modelling; FOS Other agricultural sciences; 70501 Agroforestry; FOS Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; 70199 Agriculture, Land and Farm Management not elsewhere classified; 70301 Agro-ecosystem Function and Prediction; 70304 Crop and Pasture Biomass and Bioproducts; 60302 Biogeography and Phylogeography; FOS Biological sciences; 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified; 69902 Global Change Biology; 60208 Terrestrial Ecology; 120504 Land Use and Environmental Planning; FOS Social and economic geography; 50301 Carbon Sequestration Science; 40104 Climate Change Processes; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Climate Science; 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity; 49999 Earth Sciences not elsewhere classified; 50199 Ecological Applications not elsewhere classified; 50101 Ecological Impacts of Climate Change; Ecology; 50102 Ecosystem Function; 50204 Environmental Impact Assessment; 50206 Environmental Monitoring; Environmental Science; 50299 Environmental Science and Management not elsewhere classified; 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified; 50104 Landscape Ecology; Physical Geography; 40699 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience not elsewhere classified; 140205 Environment and Resource Economics; FOS Economics and business; Geography; 160507 Environment Policy; FOS Political science; 160605 Environmental Politics; Tundra
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11828748.v1; https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/Global_belowground_biomass_carbon_density_of_grass_in_the_year_2010/11828748/1

This layer represents the belowground biomass (BGB) carbon (C) density estimates for grass that were used to create the harmonized global BGB C density map of Spawn et al. (2020). It has been scaled by 10 to reduce file size and should by multiplied by 0.1 before analysis to attain units of megagrams C per hectare (MgC/ha). Since grass may coexist with other vegetation types within the extent of a given grid cell, estimates in this layer have been proportionally adjusted to account for the relative spatial extent that grass is assumed to occupy in each grid cell. Grid cells that do not contain grass report a value of zero. As such, taking the pixelwise sum of the accompanying layers for tree, grass, tundra and crop BGB C will produce the harmonized global BGB C density map of Spawn et al. (2020).