BIOME 6000 Data Release 1

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Boenisch, G., Harrison, S.P., Prentice, I.C., and Biome 6000 members

Publication_Date: May 2001

Title: BIOME 6000 Data Release 1

Edition: Release 1

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:

Series_Information:

Series_Name: IGBP PAGES/WDCA Data Contribution Series #: 2001-046

Issue_Identification: 2001-046

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Boulder, CO

Publisher: IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology

Other_Citation_Details:

NOAA/NCDC Paleoclimatology Program

Online_Linkage: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/biome6000.html

Description:

Abstract:

The Global Palaeovegetation Mapping (BIOME 6000) Project is a community-wide collaboration inaugurated in 1994 under the joint auspices of four of the elements of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program. The aims of BIOME 6000 are to: - create fully-documented pollen and plant macrofossil data sets for 6000 and 18,000 years before present (yr B.P.) - construct global maps of biomes for these time periods, using a standard objective biomisation technique based on plant functional types (PFTs). This is the first release of the Biome6000 data. The data are organised according to publications. This first release only contains the most basic metadata (region, site name or code, latitude, longitude, and elevation) and the biome assignments for each of the sites, if available. A more detailed data report will be made available as soon as the regional data have come in. An updated Version 4.2 of BIOME 6000 is available from the University of Bristol: http://www.bridge.bris.ac.uk/resources/Databases/BIOMES_data

Purpose:

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Supplemental_Information:

REFERENCE: Prentice, C.I., Guiot, J., Huntley, B., Jolly D. and Cheddadi, R., 1996, Reconstructing biomes from palaeoecological data: a general method and its application to European pollen data at 0 and 6 ka. Climate Dynamics 12:185-194. Africa 1998: D. Jolly, S. P. Harrison, B. Damnati and R. Bonnefille, 1998, SILMULATED CLIMATE AND BIOMES OF AFRICA DURING THE LATE QUATERNARY: COMPARISON WITH POLLEN AND LAKE STATUS DATA, Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol.: 17, 629-657. Africa and Arabia FSI 1998: Jolly, D., Prentice, C.I., Bonnefille, R., Ballouche, A., Bengo, M., Brenac, P., Buchet, G., Burney, D., Cazet, J-P., Cheddadi, R., Edorh, T., Elenga, H., Elmoutaki, S., Guiot, J., Laarif, F., Lamb, H., Lezine, A-M., Maley, J., Mbenza, M., Peryon, O., Reille, M., Reynaud-Farrera, I., Riollet, G., Ritchie, J.C., Roche, E., Scott, L., Ssemmanda, I., Straka, H., Umer, M., Van Campo, E., Vilimumbalo, S., Vincens, A. and Waller, M., 1998, Biome reconstruction from pollen and plant macrofossil data for Africa and the Arabian peninsula at 0 and 6000 years. Journal of Biogeography Former Soviet Union and Mongolia FSI 1998: Tarasov, P.E., Webb III, T., Andreev, A.A., Afanas'eva, N.B., Berezina, N.A., Bezusko, L.G., Blyakharchuk, T.A., Bolikhovskaya, N.S., Cheddadi, R., Chernavskaya, M.M., Chernova, G.M., Dorofeyuk, N.I., Dirksen, V.G., Elina, G.A., Filimonova, L.V., Glebov, F.Z., Guiot, J., Gunova, V.S., Harrison, S.P., Jolly, D., Khomutova, V.I., Kvavadze, E.V., Osipova, I.M., Panova, N.K., Prentice, I.C., Saarse, L., Sevastyanov, Volkova, V.S., Zernitskaya, V.P., 1998, Present-day and mid-Holocene biomes reconstructed from pollen and plant macrofossil data from the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. Journal of Biogeography 25, 1029-1053. 25, 1007-1027. China FSI 1998: Yu, G., Prentice, I.C., Harrison, S.P., Sun, X., 1998, Pollen-based biome reconstruction for China at 0 and 6000 years. Journal of Biogeography, 25, 1055-1069. Berengia SSI 2000: Edwards, M.E., Anderson, P.M., Brubaker, L.B., Ager, T.A., Andreev, A.A., Bigelow, N.H., Cwynar, L.C., Eisner, W.R., Harrison, S.P., Hu, F-S., Jolly, D., Lozhkin, A.V., MacDonald, G.M., Mock, C.J., Ritchie, J.C., Sher, A.V., Spear, R.W., Williams, J.W. and Yu, G., (2000) Pollen-based biomes for Beringia 18,000, 6,000 and 0 14C yr B.P. Journal of Biogeography 27: 521-554. Western USA SSI 2000: Thompson, R.S. and Anderson, K.H., 2000. Biomes of Western North America at 18,000, 6,000 and 0 14C yr B.P. reconstructed from pollen and packrat midden data. Journal of Biogeography 27: 555-584. Canada and Eastern USA SSI 2000: Williams, J.W., Webb III, T., Richard, P.J.H. and Newby, P., 2000, Late quaternary biomes of Canada and the eastern United States. Journal of Biogeography 27: 585-607. Africa and Southern Europe SSI 2000: Elenga, H., Peryon, O., Bonnefille, R., Prentice, I.C., Jolly, D., Cheddadi, R., Guiot, J., Andrieu, V., Bottema, S., Buchet, G.-L., de Beaulieu, J.L., Hamilton, A.C., Maley, J., Marchant, R., Perez-Obiol, R., Reille, M., Riollet, G., Scott, L., Straka, H., Taylor, D., Van Campo, E., Vincens, A., Laarif, F. and Jonson, H., 2000, Pollen-based reconstruction for Southern Europe and Africa 18,000 years ago. Journal of Biogeography 27: 621-634. Northern Eurasia SSI 2000: Tarasov, P.E., Volkova, V.S., Webb III, T., Guiot, J., Andreev, A.A., Bezusko, L.G., Bezusko, T.V., Bykova, G.V., Dorofeyuk, N.I., Kvavadze, E.V., Osipova, I.M., Panova, N.K. and Sevastyanov, D.V., 2000, Last glacial maximum biomes reconstructed from pollen and plant macrofossil data from northern Eurasia. Journal of Biogeography 27: 609-620. China SSI 2000: Yu, G., Chen, X., Ni, J., Cheddadi, R., Guiot, J., Han, H., Harrison, S.P., Huang, C., Ke, M., Kong, Z., Li, S., Li, W., Liew, P., Liu, G., Liu, J., Liu, K.-B., Prentice, I.C., Qui, W., Ren, G., Song, C., Sugita, S., Sun X., Tang, L., Van Campo, E., Xia, Y., Xu, Q., Yan, S., Yang, X., Zhao, J., Zheng, Z., 2000, Palaeovegetation of China: a pollen data-based synthesis for the mid-Holocene and last glacial maximum. Journal of Biogeography 27:635-664. Japan SSI 2000: Takahara, H., Sugita, S., Harrison, S.P., Miyoshi, N., Morita, Y. and Uchiyama, T., 2000, Pollen-based reconstruction of Japanese biomes at 0, 6000 and 18,000 14C yr B.P. Journal of Biogeography 27: 665-683.

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Progress: In Work

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

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West_Bounding_Coordinate: -180.0

East_Bounding_Coordinate: 180.0

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 90.0

South_Bounding_Coordinate: -90.0

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD SCIENCE PARAMETERS

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: PROJECT

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ANCILLARY KEYWORDS

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO TOPIC CATEGORY

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: DATA SET LANGUAGE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > ALPINE/TUNDRA

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > DESERTS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > FORESTS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > GRASSLANDS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > SAVANNAS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > SHRUBLAND/SCRUB

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LAND USE/LAND COVER > LAND COVER

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > LAND RECORDS > MACROFOSSILS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > LAND RECORDS > PALEOVEGETATION

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > LAND RECORDS > POLLEN

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > OCEAN/LAKE RECORDS > MACROFOSSILS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS > VEGETATION RECONSTRUCTION

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS

Theme_Keyword: PAGES > PAST GLOBAL CHANGES, IGBP

Theme_Keyword: BIOME 6000 > GLOBAL PALEOVEGETATION MAPPING PROJECT

Theme_Keyword: Biomes

Theme_Keyword: Paleovegetation

Theme_Keyword: Igbp

Theme_Keyword: Biome 6000

Theme_Keyword: Tems

Theme_Keyword: Gtos

Theme_Keyword: G3os

Theme_Keyword: BIOTA

Theme_Keyword: CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Theme_Keyword: GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Theme_Keyword: IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER

Theme_Keyword: OCEANS

Theme_Keyword: ENGLISH

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Place_Keyword: GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL

Place_Keyword: GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL LAND

Access_Constraints: Not Available

Use_Constraints:

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Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: GERHARD BOENISCH

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: SANDY P. HARRISON

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: I. COLIN PRENTICE

Contact_Position: INVESTIGATOR

Contact_Position: INVESTIGATOR

Contact_Position: INVESTIGATOR

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Address: P.O. Box 100164

Address: Hans-Knoll-Str. 10

City: Jena

Postal_Code: 07745

Country: GERMANY

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: BRIDGE

Address: School of Geographical Sciences

Address: University of Bristol

Address: University Road

City: Bristol

Postal_Code: BS8 1SS

Country: United Kingdom

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Address: P.O. Box 100164

Address: Hans-Knoll-Str. 10

City: Jena

Postal_Code: 07745

Country: GERMANY

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 49 3641 576277

Contact_Voice_Telephone: +44 (0)117 33 17223

Contact_Voice_Telephone: +49 3641 576200

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: +44 (0)117 928 7878

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: boenischbgc-jena.mpg.de

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: sandy.harrison@bristol.ac.uk

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Colin.Prentice@bristol.ac.uk

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Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

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Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: WDC/PALEOCLIMATOLOGY, BOULDER > World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder

Contact_Person: WDC/PALEOCLIMATOLOGY, BOULDER

Contact_Position: DATA CENTER CONTACT

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: World Data Center for Paleoclimatology

Address: NOAA/NCDC Code E/GCx3

Address: 325 Broadway

City: Boulder

State_or_Province: CO

Postal_Code: 80303

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: +1 (303) 497-6160

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: +1 (303) 497-6513

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: paleo@noaa.gov

Resource_Description: NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2001-046

Distribution_Liability:

Not Available

Standard_Order_Process:

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Digital_Transfer_Information:

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Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/

Access_Instructions:

DATA CENTER URL

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/biome6000.html

Access_Instructions:

Access to BIOME 6000 data, maps and additional information

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://www.bridge.bris.ac.uk/resources/Databases/B...

Access_Instructions:

BIOME 6000 home page for latest version and download

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/pollen/biom...

Access_Instructions:

Documentation for the BIOME 6000 data set

Fees: None

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20040323

Metadata_Review_Date: 20090420

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Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: GCMD User Support Office

Contact_Organization: NASA Global Change Master Directory

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: Not Available

City: Lanham

State_or_Province: MD

Postal_Code: 20706

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: Not Available

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gcmduso@gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time