Dataset Selection: B02

Bazilevich Global Primary Productivity: Phytomass, Net Primary Production, and Mortmass

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Bazilevich Global Primary Productivity

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NOTE: All variables are expressed as a range of values and are shown for total (below- and above-ground) dry organic matter.

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SOURCE

Source Data Citation:

Bazilevich, N.I. 1990. World Net Primary Production Map. Global analog map of 1:80,000,000 scale in Russian polyconical projection. Paper manuscript on one sheet. Unpublished.

Bazilevich, N.I. 1990. World Mortmass Map. Global analog map of 1:80,000,000 scale in Russian polyconical projection. Paper manuscript on one sheet. Unpublished.

Bazilevich, N.I. 1990. Global Primary Productivity Database. Global tabular database with about 5,000 descriptions of field measurements of primary productivity for most of the world ecosystems. Unpublished.

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1. Global primary productivity maps published by Natalia I. Bazilevich with co-authors between 1967 and 1975 (see reference list).
2. 1988 manuscripts of Natalia Bazilevich's global primary productivity maps of 1:80,000,000 scale (phytomass, NPP, and mortmass). Contour lines and information about the vegetation type for these maps are adopted from the vegetation maps of the Physical Geographical Atlas of the World (Gerasimov, 1964). Primary productivity data are from the Global Primary Productivity Database (Bazilevich, 1960-93).
3. 1990 manuscripts of Natalia Bazilevich's global primary productivity maps of 1:80,000,000 scale (phytomass, NPP, and mortmass). Contour lines and information about the vegetation type for these maps are based on the World Vegetation Cover map (Fedorova and Volkova, 1990) and Global Primary Productivity Database (Bazilevich, 1960-93).
4. Data processing and integration with the World Vegetation Cover map:

Dmitry L. Varlyguin
Graduate School of Geography
Clark University
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA 01610-1477 USA
phone: 508/849-2309 (Clark)
fax: 508/793-8881 (Clark)
e-mail: DVARLYGUIN@vax.clarku.edu
5. Processing for publication

John J. Kineman
NOAA National Geophysical Data Center
325 S. Broadway, E/GC1
Boulder, CO 80303 USA
fax: (303) 497-6513
Email: jkineman@ngdc.noaa.gov
Web: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg

Dataset Description

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES

Komarov Botanical Institute. 1991. Legend of World Vegetation Cover Map. Translated by Dmitry L. Varlyguin. Russian Academy of Sciences

Previously published global and regional primary productivity maps and extractions from the Global Primary Productivity Database.

Bazilevich, N.I. 1974. Energy flow and biogeochemical regularities of the main world ecosystems. In: Structure, functioning, and management of ecosystems. Center for Agricultural Publishing and Documentation. Wageningen. pp. 182-186.

Bazilevich, N.I. (ed.) 1975. Productivity of steppe, meadow, and mire communities of the forest-steppe. Resources of the biosphere, 1: 56-95. (In Russian).

Bazilevich, N.I. 1984. Productivity and biogeochemical cycles in natural landscapes of the USSR. Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Geographical ser., 5: 15-33. (In Russian).

Bazilevich, N.I. 1986. Biological productivity of the soil-plant formations of the USSR. Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Geographical ser., 2: 49-67. (In Russian).

Bazilevich, N.I. 1993. Biological productivity of North Eurasian ecosystems. Nauka. Moscow. (In Russian).

Bazilevich, N.I., Grebenschikov, O.S., and Tishkov. A.A. 1986. Geographic regularities of ecosystem structure and functioning. Nauka. Moscow. (In Russian).

Bazilevich, N.I. and Davydova, M.V. 1988. Biological productivity of steppe landscapes for the Asian mountain systems of southern USSR. Plant Resources, 24(3): 321-334. (In Russian).

Bazilevich, N.I., Drozdov, A.V., and Rodin, L.E. 1968. Productivity of the Earth's plant cover, general regularities of distribution and its relation to climate. J. General Biology, 29(3): 261-271. (In Russian).

Bazilevich, N.I. and Rodin, L.Y. 1967. Global maps of productivity and of biological cycle in the main terrestrial vegetation types. Proceedings of the All-Union Geographical Society, 99(3): 190-194. (In Russian).

Bazilevich, N.I. and Rodin, L.Y. 1968. Below-ground organic matter of the World plant communities. In: Methods of productivity studies of root systems and rhyzosphere. Nauka. Leningrad. pp. 3-7. (In Russian).

Bazilevich, N.I. and Rodin, L.Y. 1969. Geographical distribution of primary productivity and cycles of chemical elements in the main types of global vegetation. In: General theoretical problems of biological productivity. Nauka. Leningrad. pp. 24-33. (In Russian).

Bazilevich, N.I and Rodin, L.Y. 1971. Productivity and nutrient cycle in natural and managed ecosystems. The USSR as an example. In: Biological productivity and cycle of the chemical elements in plant communities. Nauka. Leningrad. pp. 5-32. (In Russian).

Bazilevich, N.I. and Rodin, L.Y. 1971. Geographical regularities in productivity and the circulation of chemical elements in the Earth's main vegetation types. Soviet Geography: Review and Translation, 12(1): 24-53.

Bazilevich, N.I., Rodin, L.Y., and Rozov, N.N. 1970. Geographical aspects of biological productivity. Proceedings of the 5th Congress of the Geographical Society of the USSR. Includes 9 maps. (In Russian). (For English translation see Bazilevich, Rodin, and Rozov, 1971.)

Bazilevich, N.I., Rodin, L.Y., and Rozov, N.N. 1971. Geographical aspects of biological productivity. Soviet Geography: Review and Translation. May: 293-317.

Bazilevich, N.I. and Tishkov, A.A. 1983. Productivity of forest ecosystems of Boreal and Subboreal belts of the USSR. In: Problems of ecological monitoring and modeling of ecosystems, 3. Leningrad. (In Russian).

Bazilevich, N.I. and Titlyanova, A.A. 1978. Comparative studies of ecosystem function. In: A.J. Breymeyer and G.M. Van Dyne. (Eds.) Grasslands, systems analysis and man. IBP, 19: 713-758.

Bazilevich, N.I. and Shmakova, E.I. 1987. Comparative-Geographic analysis of productivity of the meadow steppes. Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Geographical ser., 1: 54-63. (In Russian).

Fedorova, I.T. and Volkova, Y.A. 1990. World vegetation cover map. 1:80,000,000. Unpublished.

Fedorova, I.T., Volkova, Y.A., and Varlyguin, Dl.L. 1994. World Vegetation Cover. Digital Raster Data on a 10-minute Geographic (lat/long) 1080x2160 grid. In: Global Ecosystems Database Version 2.0. Boulder, CO: NOAA National Geographical Data Center. 3 independent single-attribute spatial layers and one tabular attribute data file on CD-ROM, 11,075,991 MB.

Gerasimov, I.P. (ed.) 1964. Physical Geographic Atlas of the World. GUGK. Moscow. (In Russian). (Text for the Atlas was translated in Soviet Geography: Review and Translation, 1965, 6(5-6): 1-403.).

Pospeschil, F. 1992. Micro World Databank II (MWDB-II): Coastlines, Country Boundaries, Islands, Lakes, and Rivers. Digital vector data at 1-minute resolution. In: Global Ecosystems Database Version 1.0: Disc A. Boulder, CO: NOAA National Geophysical Data Center. 6 independent single-attribute spatial layers on CD-ROM, 2.5 MB.

Rodin, L.E. and Bazilevich, N.I. 1964. Biological productivity of the main vegetation types of the North Hemisphere of the Old World. Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 157(1): 215-218. (In Russian).

Rodin, L.E. and Bazilevich, N.I. 1965. Dynamic of the organic matter and biological turnover of ash elements and nitrogen in the main types of the world vegetation. Nauka. Leningrad. (In Russian). (For English translation see: Rodin, L.E. and N.I. Bazilevich. 1967.)

Rodin, L.E. and Bazilevich, N.I. 1967. Production and mineral cycling in terrestrial vegetation. Oliver and Boyd. London.

Rodin, L.E. and Bazilevich, N.I. 1968. World distribution of plant biomass. In: F.E. Eckardt (ed.). Functioning of terrestrial ecosystems at the primary production level. UNESCO. Paris. pp. 45-52.

Rodin, L.E., Bazilevich, N.I., and Rozov, N.N. 1975. Productivity of the World's main ecosystems. In: J.K. Franklin and D.W. Goodall. (eds.) Productivity of World Ecosystems. Washington, D.C. pp. 13-26. 

Dataset Description

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Bazilevich Global Primary Productivity

Phytomass

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Raster: 10-minute Cartesian Geodetic (latitude/longitude) single-attribute raster grid produced from the polygon attribute data.

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Net Primary Production

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Raster: 10-minute Cartesian Geodetic (latitude/longitude) single-attribute raster grid produced from the polygon attribute data.

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Mortmass

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Raster: 10-minute Cartesian Geodetic (latitude/longitude) single-attribute raster grids produced from the polygon attribute data.

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Bazilevich Global Primary Productivity

Data Development at Clark University

Dataset Integration at NGDC

Data Development at Clark University

Natalia I. Bazilevich's primary productivity source data came as paper manuscripts of 1:80,000,000 scale maps in an unknown Russian polyconical lat/long projection. Quantitative data came from the 1990 version of the Global Primary Productivity Database (Bazilevich, unpublished), while map contour lines were derived from the World Vegetation Cover map (Fedorova, Volkova, and Varlyguin, 1994). For each vegetation type, primary productivity values were extracted from the database, extreme or suspicious values were omitted and the range of phytomass, NPP, and mortmass values (classes) was calculated. Classes were assigned to each vegetation type in the vegetation map.

For the project, the World Vegetation Cover map (see B01 on this CD) was digitized using PC Arc/Info software, re-sampled into Plate Carree lat/long projection, and overlapped with coastlines from the MWDB-II dataset (Pospeschil, 1992). The PAT.dbf (DBase) file of the Arc/Info coverage (FVVVEG) was edited to include numeric and descriptive information for each polygon.

To produce Idrisi raster images, the Arc/Info coverage was opened in Arc/View3.0 software and converted into a "shapefile." This produced a vector file with an associated attribute tabular file in Access format. The SHAPEIDR module in Idrisi for Windows ver. 2.0 was used to import the Arc/View file and its associated database into Idrisi to produce the Idrisi vector file FVVVEG.vec and BAZPP.mdb (Access) file.

The Idrisi vector file was rasterized and primary productivity values from the BAZPP.mdb file were assigned to the image to produce BAZPHYT.img, BAZNPP.img, and BAZMORT.img image files.

[Note: BAZ and FVV datasets were separated to respect authorship. The World Vegetation Cover data, including vector polygon coverage, is stored only in the FVV dataset. Also, file names were altered to be consistent with naming conventions in this product.]

Technical Report

DATA INTEGRATION

The dataset was received from Dmitry Varlyguin in a compatible form for publication in the Global Ecosystems Database, greatly minimizing the integration work required for publication. Only minor processing was required for publication purposes. File names and some of the fileld names were changed for consistency and clarity. The tabular database was separated into two portions to go with the Fedorova, et. al and Bazilevich datasets individually. Although these datasets are related, they have different authorship and so are documented separately. Other than these editorial changes, the dataset is included as contributed.

Documentation was also provided by the Investigators in a GED compatible form, again minimizing the editorial work needed for publication. Because of modifications in the GED documentation template, some editing was required for final publication.