Fri Aug  4 14:23:47 1989
Major World Ecosystem Complexes Ranked by Carbon in Vegetation
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NOAA/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Martin Marietta Energy
Systems, Inc, The CDIC Numeric Data Collection
generated by Src/import.rle/import.rle
The global ecology map shows the spatial distriution of major
world ecosystem complexes estimated for 1980. However, because
some information sources documented are older, some of this
information may not be current.  ...  Only the mass of green
plants is considered here, since the amount of animal biomass
are small in comparison.  The mass of fungi and bacteria is not
necessarily negligible, but evaluating it was beyond the scope
of the 1983 report.

References:

1. Olson, J.S. 1982. Earth's Vegetation and Atmospheric Carbon
Dioxide, pp.388-398.  In W.C. Clark (ed.), Carbon Dioxide
Review: 1982.  Oxford University Press, New York.
2. Olson, J.S., Watts, J.A., Allison, L.J.  1983. Carbon in
Live Vegetation of Major World Ecosystems, ORNL-5862, Environ-
mental Sciences Division Pub No. 1997, Oak Ridge National Lab.,
Oak Ridge, TN

Processing to GRASS format by R. Lozar
at Construction Eng. Research Lab, Champaign, IL