The ORNL DAAC is pleased to announce the release of Global Forest Ecosystem Structure and Function Data for Carbon Balance Research prepared by Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Ilaria Iglima, and Martin King.
This data set provides a comprehensive global database of forest ecosystem carbon budget variables (fluxes and stocks), ecosystem traits (standing biomass, leaf area index, age), and ancillary information (management regime, climate, soil characteristics) that has been compiled for 528 sites. The database facilitates the quantification of CO2 fluxes and pathways across different levels of integration (from photosynthesis to net ecosystem production) in forest ecosystems, and fills an important gap for model calibration, model evaluation, and hypothesis testing at global and regional scales.
This data set includes: a Microsoft Office Access Database (Version 2003); data files for all tables in the database in *.csv format; and query outputs from the database in *.csv format.
The ORNL DAAC is a NASA-funded data center archiving and distributing terrestrial ecology and biogeochemical dynamics data.