Google Earth Engine (GEE) - Aboveground Carbon Stocks of Global Monoplantation Forests

Aboveground Carbon Stocks in Global Monoplantation Forests
Restoring forest cover is a key action for mitigating climate change. Although monocultures dominate existing commitments to restore forest cover, we lack an integrated view of carbon accumulation in these systems. Here we collect a global database of 4756 field measurements from single plantations on all forested continents. Using these data, we model carbon accumulation in aboveground living tree biomass and examine the biological, environmental, and anthropogenic drivers that influence this increase. Preface – Bed Length Artificial Intelligence Tutorial

This project systematically reviewed the literature on the measurement of aboveground carbon stocks in individual plantations. The data compiled here are for single tree species plantations and are a subset of a broader review undertaken to determine empirical measurements of carbon stocks in all forest types. The structure of this database is similar to that of ForC (https://forc-db.github.io/) and GROA database (https://github.com/forc-db/GROA). You can read the paper here Rates and drivers of aboveground carbon accumulation in global monoculture plantation forests | Nature Communications

Disclaimer: All or part of the description of the dataset is provided by the authors or their works.

Dataset preprocessing
To associate the station ID latitude with the study, we wrote a piece of code that iterates over all the stations and studies and associates the latitude. Then ingest it as a combined table.

paper:

Bukoski, J.J., Cook-Patton, S.C., Melikov, C. et al. Rates and drivers of aboveground carbon accumulation in global monoculture plantation forests.
Nat Commun 13, 4206 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31380-7

Data Citation¶

Bukoski, Jacob, Cook-Patton, Susan C., Melikov, Cyril, Ban, Hongyi, Chen, Jessica Liu, Goldman, Elizabeth D., Harris, Nancy L., & Potts, Matthew D.
(2022). Global Plantation Forest Carbon database (1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6555216

 

 

Earth Engine Snippet¶

var global_fertilizer_use = ee.FeatureCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/global-monoculture-plantations");

var table = ee.FeatureCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/global-monoculture-plantations");
// Get a color from biome
var biomeColor = ee.Dictionary({
  'Boreal Forests/Taiga': '000000',
  'Deserts & Xeric Shrublands': '593704',
  'Flooded Grasslands & Savannas': 'BC80BD',
  'Mangroves': '0565A6',
  'Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub': 'E31A1C',
  'Montane Grasslands & Shrublands': 'FF7F00',
  'Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests': '6A3D9A',
  'Temperate Conifer Forests': '5CA2D1',
  'Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands': 'FDBF6F',
  'Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests': '229A00',
  'Tropical & Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands':'80cdc1',
  'Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests':'8c510a'
});

// List of biomes to add to the map
var biomes = ['Boreal Forests/Taiga','Deserts & Xeric Shrublands','Flooded Grasslands & Savannas',	'Mangroves',
'Mediterranean Forests Woodlands & Scrub','Montane Grasslands & Shrublands', 'Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests',
'Temperate Conifer Forests','Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands',
'Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests','Tropical & Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands','Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests',];

//Use above ground carbon (agc) for points
function addStyle(pt) {
  var size = ee.Number(pt.get('agc')).sqrt().divide(10).add(2)
  var color = biomeColor.get(pt.get('biome'));
  return pt.set('styleProperty', ee.Dictionary({'pointSize': size, 'color': color}));
}

// Make a FeatureCollection out of the agc data table
var pp = ee.FeatureCollection(table).map(addStyle);
print(pp.first());


function addLayer(biome) {
  print(biome);
  Map.addLayer(pp.filter(ee.Filter.eq('biome', biome)).style({styleProperty: 'styleProperty', neighborhood: 50}), {}, biome, true, 0.65);
}

// Apply `addLayer` to each record in `biomes`
biomeColor.keys().getInfo().map(addLayer);

Sample code: https://code.earthengine.google.com/243774c7f7cdbec21c3450c4fa8a64fb

License¶

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

Created by: Bukoski, Jacob et al 2022

Curated in GEE by : Samapriya Roy

keywords: Forests, Aboveground carbon stocks, Climate change, Reforestation, Plantations, Aboveground biomass

Last modified: 2022-05-16

Last updated on GEE: 2022-09-05