A Global Forest Growing Stock, Biomass and Carbon Map Based on FAO Statistics
By G. Kindermann, I. Mccallum, Steffen Fritz, Michael Obersteiner. 2008
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Currently, information on forest biomass is available from a mixture of sources, including in-situ measurements, national forest inventories, administrative-level statistics, model outputs and regional satellite products. These data tend to be regional or national, based on different methodologies and not easily accessible. One of the few maps available is the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO 2005) which contains aggregated country-level information about the growing stock, biomass and carbon stock in forests for 229 countries and territories. This paper presents a technique to downscale the aggregated results of the FRA2005 from the country level to a half degree global spatial dataset containing forest growing stock; above/belowground biomass, dead wood and total forest biomass; and above-ground, below-ground, dead wood, litter and soil carbon. In all cases, the number of countries providing data is incomplete. For those countries with missing data, values were estimated using regression equations based on a downscaling model. The downscaling method is derived using a relationship between net primary productivity (NPP) and biomass and the relationship between human impact and biomass assuming a decrease in biomass with an increased level of human activity. The results, presented here, represent one of the first attempts to produce a consistent global spatial database at half degree resolution containing forest growing stock, biomass and carbon stock values. All results from the methodology described in this paper are available online at .
Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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- Global land-use implications of first and second generation biofuel targets (2011, methodology): “More specifically, mean annual increment for the current management, is obtained by downscaling biomass stock data from the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FAO, 2006a) from the country level to a 0.51 0.51 grid using the method described in Kindermann et al. (2008).”
- Global Pyrogeography: the Current and Future Distribution of Wildfire (2009, background): “The approximately linear relationship between NPP and biomass [39] invites the use of NPP as a metric of flammable vegetation, since detailed spatially-gridded, globally extensive measures of biomass are not readily available [39].”
- Comparing aboveground structure and aboveground carbon storage of an age series of moso bamboo forests subjected to different management strategies (2015, background): “Large-bodied woody plants in forest ecosystems are known to make dominant contributions to carbon storage of global carbon cycles (e.g., Gifford 2000; Lamolom and Savidge 2003; Smith et al. 2006; Kindermann et al. 2008; Yen et al. 2009, 2010; Lin et al. 2011; Yen and Lee 2011).”