Facets of Anthropocene change in tropical forests

Facets of Anthropocene change in tropical forests.

This is the data underlying Figure 1 in Y. Malhi et al. (2014) Tropical forests in the Anthropocene. Annual Reviews in Environment and Resources. Volume 39. doi: 10.1146/annurev-environ-030713-155141.

We include QGIS (v. 2.2.0-Valmiera) project files (.qgs), which allow for a quick re-assembly of the panels built for the figure. Finally, we provide a high-resolution pdf version of the figure (before final post-processing by the Journal).

Below is description of data layers:

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DIRECTORY "common"

continent - World Continents vector layer published by ESRI (2002/04/01)

world_nations2 - vector boundaries published by Clark Labs ("IDRISI Macon Data")

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DIRECTORY "panel1"

CR_MODIS_TF2 - raster representing generalised land cover information derived from the MODIS MCD12C1 product

glbiome_5min_on_GLC2000_crop30d_HTFDEC raster representing the distribution of evergreen and seasonal forests around 1700, as represented in Ramankuttya and Foley 1999

hansen_mosaic_losswholecon23_a10 - raster representing the most intense clearance over the
period 2000-2012 (>=10% per 10 km2), derived by aggregating data from Hansen et al 2013

world_ifl_on_GLC2000_crop30d - rasterised Intact Forest Landscapes dataset (see www.intactforests.org and Potapov et al 2008)

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DIRECTORY "panel2"

firepop - raster layer assembling together information from two data sources (i) Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University; and Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT). 2005. Gridded Population of the World Version 3 (GPWv3): Population Density Grids. Palisades, NY: Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), Columbia University. Available at http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw and (ii) generalised information from the MODIS Active Fire Product MOD14CMH, accessed at ftp://fuoco.geog.umd.edu

MODIS_HTF_gen_v - vector representing generalised evergreen forest distribution derived from the MODIS MCD12C1 product

MODIS_STF_gen_v - vector representing generalised seasonal tropical forest distribution derived from the MODIS MCD12C1 product

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DIRECTORY "panel3"

4deg_contour35c- generalised isoline of 3.5 degrees local warming at 4 degrees of global warming above pre-industrial levels, derived from the CMIP3 (https://esg.llnl.gov:8443) assembly of Earth System Models

4deg_contour4c - generalised isoline of 4 degrees local warming at 4 degrees of global warming above pre-industrial levels, derived from the CMIP3 (https://esg.llnl.gov:8443) assembly of Earth System Models

4deg_contour45c - generalised isoline of 4.5 degrees local warming at 4 degrees of global warming above pre-industrial levels, derived from the CMIP3 (https://esg.llnl.gov:8443) assembly of Earth System Models

4deg_contour50c - generalised isoline of 5 degrees local warming at 4 degrees of global warming above pre-industrial levels, derived from the CMIP3 (https://esg.llnl.gov:8443) assembly of Earth System Models

contHTMniche - raster with the extent of climatological niche of the evergreen humid tropical forest (based on water stress and annual precipitation), as derived in Zelazowski et al 2011

contHTMniche_v - vector with the extent of climatological niche of the evergreen humid tropical forest (based on water stress and annual precipitation), as derived in Zelazowski et al 2011

CR_MODIS_TF_GEN2 - raster representing generalised land cover information derived from the MODIS MCD12C1 product

HTMnichectr4dm - raster with the number of earth system models (from CMIP3, https://esg.llnl.gov:8443) that predict humid rainforests would no longer be viable under a global warming of 4∞C, as derived in Zelazowski et al 2011