http://bolin.su.se/data/lindgren-2018-biomes-1
Amelie Lindgren
Biomes of the Last Glacial Maximum permafrost region
Bolin Centre Database
2018
Datafile
Terrestrial
Land cover
LGM
Permafrost
Biome
Vegetation
Empirical
Earth science > Biosphere
Amelie Lindgren
2018-07-12T09:13:54+00:00
English
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The shapefile is available in WGS84, with areas calculated in North Pole Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection. The attribute table includes information about: vegetation = full biome name based on the original references; Reference = original reference; MegaBiome = mega biome class; Permafrost = continuous or discontinuous permafrost; Peat = describes if the polygon is located in a peat region or not; Shelf = describes if the polygon is located on a sea shelf or not; Alpine = describes if the polygon is categorized as alpine or not; Degrees = alpine areas separated into steep (>4° slope) or flat (< 4° slope);
Type = repeats the information given in the ‘peat’, and ‘alpine’ sections; SQKM = area in km².
Two separate raster files are available in geotiff and NetCDF format, one of them with a resolution of 0.01° and the other 0.05°, all of them in WGS84. The resolution is high to resolve steep slopes.
These files only describe permafrost type and the biome compound found in the shapefile attribute table.
<ol>
<li>tundra (-steppe) continuous permafrost;</li>
<li>tundra (-steppe) discontinuous permafrost;</li>
<li>alpine tundra (-steppe) continuous permafrost;</li>
<li>alpine tundra (-steppe) discontinuous permafrost;</li>
<li>forest (-steppe) continuous permafrost;</li>
<li>forest (-steppe) discontinuous permafrost;</li>
<li>alpine forest (-steppe) continuous permafrost;</li>
<li>alpine forest (-steppe) discontinuous permafrost;</li>
<li>steppe (-desert) continuous permafrost;</li>
<li>steppe (-desert) discontinuous permafrost;</li>
<li>alpine steppe (-desert) continuous permafrost;</li>
<li>alpine steppe (-desert) discontinuous permafrost;</li>
<li>alpine steep (>4° slope in alpine areas).</li>
</ol>
The Principal Investigator Amelie Lindgren has an <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9908-6091">ORCID account</a>.