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Data description paper
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31 Aug 2021
Data description paper |
| 31 Aug 2021
| 31 Aug 2021
A global map of root biomass across the world's forests
Yuanyuan Huang
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE IPSL,
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation,
Aspendale, 3195, Victoria, Australia
Phillipe Ciais
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE IPSL,
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Maurizio Santoro
Gamma Remote Sensing, 3073 Gümligen, Switzerland
David Makowski
INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, UMR 211, 78850
Thiverval-Grignon, France
CIRED, 45bis Avenue de la Belle Gabrielle, 94130 Nogent-sur-Marne,
France
Jerome Chave
Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS,
Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France
Dmitry Schepaschenko
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Schlossplatz 1, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, 117997, Russia
Institute of Ecology and Geography, Siberian Federal University, 79 Svobodny Prospect, 660041 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Rose Z. Abramoff
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE IPSL,
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Daniel S. Goll
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE IPSL,
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Hui Yang
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE IPSL,
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Ye Chen
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Northern Arizona
University, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA
Wei Wei
State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center
for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,
100085, China
Shilong Piao
Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and
Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of
Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of
Sciences,
Beijing, 100101, China
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Short summary
Roots play a key role in our Earth system. Here we combine 10 307 field measurements of forest root biomass worldwide with global observations of forest structure, climatic conditions, topography, land management and soil characteristics to derive a spatially explicit global high-resolution (~ 1 km) root biomass dataset. In total, 142 ± 25 (95 % CI) Pg of live dry-matter biomass is stored belowground, representing a global average root : shoot biomass ratio of 0.25 ± 0.10.
Roots play a key role in our Earth system. Here we combine 10 307 field measurements of forest...
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