Forests & Forestry

National dataset of Aboveground Live Woody Biomass density at spatial resolution of circa 500m derived from field/LiDAR(GLAS)/MODIS. Values Units: The pixel values are in megagrams (Mg) of Aboveground Live Woody Biomass per Hectare (Mg/Ha). The national level data set is freely available for use for scientific, conservation, and educational purposes. Users agree to cite the dataset as: A. Baccini, S J. Goetz, W.S. Walker, N. T. Laporte, M. Sun, D. Sulla-Menashe, J. Hackler, P.S.A. Beck, R. Dubayah, M.A. Friedl, S. Samanta and R. A. Houghton. Estimated carbon dioxide emissions from tropical deforestation improved by carbon-density maps. 2012 Nature Climate Change, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE1354

The Atlas of the Biosphere was created as a Masters Thesis project of the University of Wisconsin's Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE). The project goal was to provide information about the environment and human interactions with the environment. We have no additional information regarding the data or sources other than what is listed on the site. If you have any questions regarding a particular dataset, please contact the original author of that dataset

Centers are focal topics or geographies of special interest to Data Basin. Centers provide experts, datasets, maps, galleries, working groups that facilitate more effective collaboration. Centers include: climate, boreal information, aquatic conservation, protected areas.

The International Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests operating under the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution.

"This database of over 350,000 items includes over 250,000 items available for free download. Includes forestry, environmental, and development documents."*

The Environmental Data Explorer is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Its online database holds more than 500 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables or download the data in different formats.