Potential Vegetation

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Citation Information

Title: Potential Vegetation Biomes

Source: Ramankutty and Foley (1999)

Date: 1999

Citation: Ramankutty N, Foley JA (1999) Estimating historical changes in global land cover: Croplands from 1700 to 1992. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 13, 997-1027. [online] URL: http://www.sage.wisc.edu/download/potveg/global_potveg.html

Description

Potential vegetation biomes (12 clases). Native resolution is 5 arc minute projected in Geographic Coordinate System WGS 1984.

Code Definition
0 No Data
1 Tropical Evergreen Woodland
2 Tropical Deciduous Woodland
3 Temperate Evergreen Woodland
4 Temperate Deciduous Woodland
5 Boreal Woodland
6 Mixed Woodland
7 Savanna
8 Grassland and Steppe
9 Dense Shrubland
10 Open Shrubland
11 Tundra
12 Deserts and Barren

Processing Procedure

1. In ArcMap 10.0, convert native data to 30 arc second resolution.

2. Use zonal statistics to calculate mean values within each GLU.

Data Coverage

Data is coded by the number of cells covered by the native data (1), data extrapolation (2), and not covered by either (3).

DGG Cell Coverage Report
 Coverage Codes Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent
Valid 1 1382441 95.7 95.7 95.7
3 62523 4.3 4.3 100.0
Total 1444964 100.0 100.0

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