Carbon Security Management (2020) [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]
Description
We created an index to look at carbon security in the sagebrush steppe across the Great Basin. Our index uses a fractional plant cover dataset from the Rangeland Analysis Platform (https://rangelands.app/), a fire probability model dataset created for the Great Basin (Smith et al., 2023), and the resistance and resilience categorical dataset created for the sagebrush steppe (Chambers et al., 2014, 2017). Our carbon security index (CSI) is made up of three parts as following: CSI = Preferred Rangeland Cover Index + Resistance & Resilience - P(Fire) The result is an index that spans from -2 to +2 and can be used to compare carbon security in different spatial. For greater detail of methods and rational please read the associated paper.
Creator
USDA
Temporal Coverage
2020
Date Issued
2025-02-25
Rights
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Access Rights
Public
Format
ArcGIS ImageMapLayer
Language
English
Date Added
August 10, 2025
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Open Data on 2025-08-24.