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EarthEnv-TCF-2021

Description

EarthEnv Tropical Cloud Forests

citation

Karger, D.N., Kessler, M., Lehnert, M. et al. Limited protection and ongoing loss of tropical cloud forest biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide. Nat Ecol Evol (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01450-y Wilson AM, Jetz W (2016) Remotely Sensed High-Resolution Global Cloud Dynamics for Predicting Ecosystem and Biodiversity Distributions. PLoS Biol 14(3): e1002415. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002415. Dataset available on-line

data preparation

source ~/proyectos/CES/cesdata/env/project-env.sh
mkdir -p $GISDATA/ecosystems/global/EarthEnv-TCF-2021
cd $GISDATA/ecosystems/global/EarthEnv-TCF-2021

wget --continue https://data.earthenv.org/tcf/tcf_ensemble_mnv16_2001-2018.tif
wget --continue https://data.earthenv.org/tcf/tcf_ensemble_mn_sd_2001-2018_v16.zip

# for the older data:
wget http://www.earthenv.org//cloud
grep .tif cloud > links
wget --continue --force-html -i links

The model used locations of known cloud forests were obtained from the Tropical Montane Cloud Forest Sites database Tropical Montane Cloud Forest Sites database. This data can be obtained from https://www.unep-wcmc.org/resources-and-data/tropical-montane-cloud-forest-sites, download requires registration. Once downloaded we move the data to this directory:

scp Tropical_Montane_Cloud_Forest_Sites_1997.zip $zID@kdm.restech.unsw.edu.au:/srv/scratch/cesdata/gisdata/ecosystems/global/EarthEnv-TCF-2021

This dataset is used for...

IUCN RLE assessment of tropical glaciers