Data for wetlandscapes and their changes around the world
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2020-05-13Author
Ghajarnia, Navid
Destouni, Georgia
Thorslund, Josefin
Kalantari, Zahra
Åhlén, Imenne
Anaya-Acevedo, Jesús A.
Blanco-Libreros, Juan F.
Borja, Sonia
Chalov, Sergey
Chalova, Aleksandra
Chun, Kwok P.
Clerici, Nicola
Desormeaux, Amanda
Garfield, Bethany B.
Girard, Pierre
Gorelits, Olga
Hansen, Amy
Jaramillo, Fernando
Jarsjö, Jerker
Labbaci, Adnane
Livsey, John
Maneas, Giorgos
Pisarello, Kathryn McCurley
Palomino-Ángel, Sebastián
Pietroń, Jan
Price, René M.
Rivera-Monroy, Victor H.
Salgado, Jorge
Sannel, A. Britta K.
Seifollahi-Aghmiuni, Samaneh
Sjöberg, Ylva
Terskii, Pavel
Vigouroux, Guillaume
Licero-Villanueva, Lucia
Zamora, David
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Copernicus Publications
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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Geography and associated hydrological, hydroclimate and land-use conditions and their changes determine the states and dynamics of wetlands and their ecosystem services. The influences of these controls are not limited to just the local scale of each individual wetland but extend over larger landscape areas that integrate multiple wetlands and their total hydrological catchment – the wetlandscape. However, the data and knowledge of conditions and changes over entire wetlandscapes are still scarce, limiting the capacity to accurately understand and manage critical wetland ecosystems and their services under global change. We present a new Wetlandscape Change Information Database (WetCID), consisting of geographic, hydrological, hydroclimate and land-use information and data for 27 wetlandscapes around the world. This combines survey-based local information with geographic shapefiles and gridded datasets of large-scale hydroclimate and land-use conditions and their changes over whole wetlandscapes. Temporally, WetCID contains 30-year time series of data for mean monthly precipitation and temperature and annual land-use conditions. The survey-based site information includes local knowledge on the wetlands, hydrology, hydroclimate and land uses within each wetlandscape and on the availability and accessibility of associated local data. This novel database (available through PANGAEA https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.907398; Ghajarnia et al., 2019) can support site assessments; cross-regional comparisons; and scenario analyses of the roles and impacts of land use, hydroclimatic and wetland conditions, and changes in whole-wetlandscape functions and ecosystem services.
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Ghajarnia, N., Destouni, G., Thorslund, J., Kalantari, Z., Åhlén, I., Anaya-Acevedo, J. A., Blanco-Libreros, J. F., Borja, S., Chalov, S., Chalova, A., Chun, K. P., Clerici, N., Desormeaux, A., Garfield, B. B., Girard, P., Gorelits, O., Hansen, A., Jaramillo, F., Jarsjö, J., Labbaci, A., Livsey, J., Maneas, G., McCurley Pisarello, K., Palomino-Ángel, S., Pietroń, J., Price, R. M., Rivera-Monroy, V. H., Salgado, J., Sannel, A. B. K., Seifollahi-Aghmiuni, S., Sjöberg, Y., Terskii, P., Vigouroux, G., Licero-Villanueva, L., and Zamora, D.: Data for wetlandscapes and their changes around the world, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 1083–1100, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1083-2020, 2020.
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