version with EFDB integration

This version is updated to facilitate data submission to the the IPCC's Emission Factor Database (https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/EFDB/main.php). The companion GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/forc-db/IPCC-EFDB-integration.

This update is described in a paper soon to be published in Plants, People, Planet: "Informing forest carbon inventories under the Paris Agreement using ground-based forest monitoring data" by Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina; Herrmann, Valentine; Williams, Madison ; Rogers, Teagan; Banbury Morgan, Rebecca ; Bond-Lamberty, Ben; Cook-Patton, Susan

first version with EFDB integration

Many of the data in ForC stand to be of value to national greenhouse gas inventories if made available through the Emission Factor Database (EFDB) of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). We developed a process for semi-automated submission of data from ForC into the EFDB (code and documentation in IPCC-EFDB-integration repository). This process required some updates to the ForC database structure, leading to the release of a new version of ForC (v4.0, to be finalized upon publication of this manuscript).

Specirically, modest changes to the structure and contents of ForC were needed in order to provide all information required by EFDB and to improve ForC’s capacity to serve as a repository of valuable information for forest C accounting under IPCC guidelines. To support export of data to EFDB, and to improve the overall quality of the ForC database, we added or modified 18 fields (Appendix A), defined 15 new variables, implemented enhanced quality control, manually reviewed >1954 records to obtain additional required information, and added 329 new records.

first release of ForC with GROA

v3.0

update readmes

first release under CC-BY-4 license

v3.0-beta

Update DATA USE.md

first release of ForC with SRDB

Since publication of v2.0-Ecology, ForC has almost doubled in size (from 17,367 to 29,730 records), mainly through the integration of Ben Bond Lamberty's (@bpbond) Global Soil Respiration Database (SRDB). We have also added some records from the ForestGEO network. Additional targeted literature searches were conducted to identify any further available data on primary productivity, with particular focus on mature forests in temperate and boreal regions.

Note: There remain sites that were duplicated between SRDB and ForC and have not yet been integrated.

MEASUREMENTS.split

MEASUREMENTS.split Rdata file

Version for IPCC 2019 updated default tables for biomass growth of natural forests in the (sub)tropics

This data version will be used in default tables for biomass growth of natural forests in the (sub)tropics in the 2019 Refinement of the 2006 IPCC guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories.

This release demarcates the data version; associated scripts and figures remain under active development.

ForC data publication in Ecology

This release corresponds to our data publication in Ecology:

Anderson-Teixeira, K. J., M. M. H. Wang, J. C. McGarvey, V. Herrmann, A. J. Tepley, B. P. Bond-Lamberty, and D. S. LeBauer. in press. ForC: a global database of forest carbon stocks and fluxes. Ecology (in press).

ForC release following one round of peer review, prior to publication

Release following modifications in response to first round of peer review. Changes are recorded in issues #55- 62.

ForC release prior to publication

ForC expands upon the previously published portion of this database, TropForC v1.0 (Anderson-Teixeira et al. 2016a, 2016b; v1.0), with the primary changes being (1) an expansion of the geographic scope from pantropical to global and (2) an approximately five-fold expansion in the number of records (from 3,568 to 17,505). Treatment of plots and their history was substantially improved by (1) generation of a new table, PLOTS, that gives basic plot information and summarizes and summarizes their history (derived from the HISTORY table, which was previously named PLOTHISTORY) and (2) cleanup and checking of the HISTORY table.

This release is the version that will be submitted for peer review. Upon publication, v2.0-alpha will become v2.0.