Table 3 Fourteen independent datasets were integrated and used to produce net carbon change estimates by disturbance type

Tree cover

Tree cover change

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Complete CONUS

Tree cover: single snapshot in 2000

Loss: annual 2001–2010

Gain: 2000–2012

http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest/download_v1.1.html

Fire

Monitoring trends in burn severity

Complete CONUS

Annual 2006–2010

http://www.mtbs.gov/products.html

Wind

NOAA’s storm prediction center—tornado tracks

Complete CONUS

Annual 2006–2010

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/gis/svrgis/

Wind

NOAA’s storm prediction center—hurricane paths

Complete CONUS

Annual 2006–2010

http://nhc.noaa.gov/gis/

Insect

USFS aerial detection survey

Sub-set of CONUS

Annual 2006–2010

http://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/technology/adsm.shtml

Forest type

National land cover database—hardwood or softwood

Complete CONUS

Single snapshot in 2000

http://www.mrlc.gov/

Conversion

National land cover database

Complete CONUS

Snapshots in 2006 and 2011

http://www.mrlc.gov/

Drought

NDMC drought monitor

Complete CONUS

Weekly between 2006 and 2011

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

Timberlands

Mark Nelson USFS for 2007 resources planning act

Complete CONUS

Snapshot in 2007

N/A

Biomass density

Carbon stocks

Sassan Saatchi

Complete CONUS

Snapshot in 2005

http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1313)

Harvest

USFS timber products output

Combined county CONUS

Survey in 2007

http://www.fia.fs.fed.us/programfeatures/tpo/

FIA

USFS forest inventory and analysis program

Sites in CONUS

Between 1997 and 2013

http://www.fia.fs.fed.us/