Sapwood biomass carbon in northern boreal and temperate forests

Martin Thurner

We have estimated the amount of carbon stored in the living tissue of tree stems (sapwood), based on satellite remote sensing observations during the year 2010 and biomass allometry measurements. The resulting dataset of stem sapwood biomass per area covers the entire northern hemisphere boreal and temperate forests at a spatial resolution of 0.01° (roughly 1 km). Such information is useful for carbon and water cycle applications. Since sapwood biomass is a state variable estimated by many global vegetation models, our product can serve as a benchmark to evaluate such models.

Terrestrial Observations Sapwood biomass Heartwood biomass Stem biomass Boreal forest Temperate forest Biomass allometry Tree biomass Vegetation carbon cycle Vegetation carbon stock

References

Thurner, M., Beer, C., Crowther, T., Falster, D., Manzoni, S., Prokushkin, A. & Schulze, E.-D. (accepted) Sapwood biomass carbon in northern boreal and temperate forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Data description

Stem sapwood biomass per area and its corresponding absolute uncertainty estimate, both in kgC m-2 (kg Carbon per square meter). Data provided as compressed netCDF-4 files, along with a readme docx file.

Comments

Conditions for use: 1) The dataset has to be requested from the principal investigator (Martin Thurner: martin.thurner@aces.su.se). Please give a brief description of the intended use of the dataset. You will then receive access to a download link as soon as possible. 2) The principal investigator should be notified when the dataset is used in any publication or derivative work. 3) Full citation to the corresponding publication (Thurner et al., accepted in Global Ecology and Biogeography) should be provided when using the dataset. 4) One year after the date of publication of this metadata, the dataset will be available for direct download from the Bolin Centre Database, without the condition that a request must be sent to the principal investigator.

The principal investigagor, Martin Thurner, is from January 2019 at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.