Data for wetlandscapes and their changes around the world

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Title: Data for wetlandscapes and their changes around the world
Authors: N. Ghajarnia, G. Destouni, J. Thorslund, Z. Kalantari, I. Åhlén, J. A. Anaya-Acevedo, J. F. Blanco-Libreros, S. Borja, S. Chalov, A. Chalova, K. P. Chun, N. Clerici, A. Desormeaux, B. B. Garfield, P. Girard, O. Gorelits, A. Hansen, F. Jaramillo, J. Jarsjö, A. Labbaci, J. Livsey, G. Maneas, K. McCurley Pisarello, S. Palomino-Ángel, J. Pietroń, R. M. Price, V. H. Rivera-Monroy, J. Salgado, A. B. K. Sannel, S. Seifollahi-Aghmiuni, Y. Sjöberg, P. Terskii, G. Vigouroux, L. Licero-Villanueva, D. Zamora
Source: Earth System Science Data, Vol 12, Pp 1083-1100 (2020)
Publisher Information: Copernicus Publications, 2020.
Publication Year: 2020
Collection: LCC:Environmental sciences
LCC:Geology
Subject Terms: Environmental sciences, GE1-350, Geology, QE1-996.5
More Details: Geography and associated hydrological, hydroclimate and land-use conditions and their changes determine the states and dynamics of wetlands and their ecosystem services. The influences of these controls are not limited to just the local scale of each individual wetland but extend over larger landscape areas that integrate multiple wetlands and their total hydrological catchment – the wetlandscape. However, the data and knowledge of conditions and changes over entire wetlandscapes are still scarce, limiting the capacity to accurately understand and manage critical wetland ecosystems and their services under global change. We present a new Wetlandscape Change Information Database (WetCID), consisting of geographic, hydrological, hydroclimate and land-use information and data for 27 wetlandscapes around the world. This combines survey-based local information with geographic shapefiles and gridded datasets of large-scale hydroclimate and land-use conditions and their changes over whole wetlandscapes. Temporally, WetCID contains 30-year time series of data for mean monthly precipitation and temperature and annual land-use conditions. The survey-based site information includes local knowledge on the wetlands, hydrology, hydroclimate and land uses within each wetlandscape and on the availability and accessibility of associated local data. This novel database (available through PANGAEA https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.907398; Ghajarnia et al., 2019) can support site assessments; cross-regional comparisons; and scenario analyses of the roles and impacts of land use, hydroclimatic and wetland conditions, and changes in whole-wetlandscape functions and ecosystem services.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 1866-3508
1866-3516
Relation: https://www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/12/1083/2020/essd-12-1083-2020.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/1866-3508; https://doaj.org/toc/1866-3516
DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-1083-2020
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/b1270baffb7c468da0f699099dfa90b7
Accession Number: edsdoj.b1270baffb7c468da0f699099dfa90b7
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:18663508
18663516
DOI:10.5194/essd-12-1083-2020
Published in:Earth System Science Data
Language:English