NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Tropical Dryland Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes, 2000–2024
Where might dryland ecosystems gain or lose carbon?
Researchers modelled annual fluxes and uncertainty for five carbon pools using observations from 424 permanent plots and climate, fire, soil, and human-pressure inputs. Coverage is limited to suitable intact dry-tropical areas; this is not a year-by-year measured map.
“Across trees, grasses, and soil, where might carbon be increasing or decreasing?”
Fixed study · released 2026-09-28
Modelled intact tropical dry forests and savannas · 10-km cells · mean annual change across 2000–2024
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Cite Godlee et al. (2026), the full dataset title, NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre, DOI 10.5285/b5486372-a0f2-4cd5-b017-0916418ad2ce; link OGL v3 and identify modifications.
Read the methods and uncertainty notes before publication. Flux is mean annual change across 2000–2024, with positive/negative values denoting net gain/loss, not a measurement in a single year. The model covers about 74% of intact dry-tropical extent; do not extrapolate to rainforests, converted land, or excluded pixels.