Spatial and temporal patterns of plantation forests in the United States since the 1930s: an annual and gridded data set for regional Earth system modeling

Chen, Guangsheng; Pan, Shufen; Hayes, Daniel J.; Tian, Hanqin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-545-2017

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-545-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-545-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

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Spatial and temporal patterns of plantation forests in the United States since the 1930s: an annual and gridded data set for regional Earth system modeling

Guangsheng Chen, Shufen Pan, Daniel J. Hayes, and Hanqin Tian

Data sets

Spatial and temporal patterns of plantation forests in the United States since the 1930s, links to gridded result files in different formats G. Chen, S. Pan, D. J. Hayes, and H. Tian https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.873558

Short summary

Through synthesizing multiple inventory data sources, this study developed methods to spatialize the time series plantation forest and tree species distribution data for the conterminous US during 1928–2012. These time series and gridded data set can be readily applied in regional Earth system modeling frameworks for assessing the impacts of plantation management practices on forest productivity, carbon and nitrogen stocks, and greenhouse gas and water fluxes on regional or national scales.