Maryland Ecosystem Services - Net Carbon Sequestration - mT per year [Maryland] Full Details

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Title:

Maryland Ecosystem Services - Net Carbon Sequestration - mT per year [Maryland]

Description:

This layer quantifies the yearly net carbon sequestration in Maryland's forests and wetlands.Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a naturally occurring greenhouse gas (GHG) found in the Earth's atmosphere which plays a critical role in maintaining a climate suitable for life on this planet. Though beneficial to life, rising atmospheric concentrations of CO2 over the past century have been linked to increases in climate variability and change at local, regional, and global scales. Over the past 30 years, climate researchers have worked to quantify the flux of carbon between sources and sinks in the carbon cycle. Forested areas have been identified as one of the major carbon sinks existing on Earth. During the process of photosynthesis, trees remove CO2 from the atmosphere, releasing oxygen (O2) and converting carbon (C) to long term storage within the woody biomass of their trunks. Thus, the world's forests hold an immense amount of carbon in standing trees, and have the potential to continue sequestering carbon as they grow. Wetlands also have a large capacity for sequestering carbon, particularly coastal wetlands which have high primary production and produce less methane (a gas which contributes to warming), than freshwater wetlands. Net sequestration values in this layer reflect both carbon sequestration and methane emissions. This data layer was created as part of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources "Accounting for Maryland's Ecosystem Services" program.This is a MD iMAP hosted service. Find more information onhttps://imap.maryland.gov.Map Service Link:https://geodata.md.gov/imap/rest/services/Environment/MD_EcosystemServices/MapServer/12Download the Ecosystem Services layers at:https://www.dropbox.com/s/e6ovfcc01dxvnmo/EcosystemServices.gdb.zip?dl=0

Creator:

ArcGIS Online for Maryland

Provider:

Maryland iMap

Resource Class:

Datasets and Web services

Resource Type:

Vector data

Temporal Coverage:

Continually updated resource

Date Issued:

2019-07-16

Place:

Maryland

Rights:

The Spatial Data, and the information therein, (collectively the "Data") is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed, implied, or statutory. The user assumes the entire risk as to quality and performance of the Data. No guarantee of accuracy is granted, nor is any responsibility for reliance thereon assumed. In no event shall the State of Maryland be liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or special damages of any kind. The State of Maryland does not accept liability for any damages or misrepresentation caused by inaccuracies in the Data or as a result to changes to the Data, nor is there responsibility assumed to maintain the Data in any manner or form. The Data can be freely distributed as long as the metadata entry is not modified or deleted. Any data derived from the Data must acknowledge the State of Maryland in the metadata.

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile

Language:

English

Date Added:

2023-03-08