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Global Wetlands Map: Help us map the world's wetlands

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Wetlands play a fundamental role in climate change mitigation, and provide essential ecosystem services. Yet there is still a lot we don't know about their precise distribution, extent and inter-annual variability around the world, particularly in the tropics.

Global Wetlands Map Help us map the world's wetlands The Global Wetlands Map is a new initiative to collect and share information on tropical wetlands in a visual format. Users can access data and contribute their own, using standard geographic information systems software such as ArcGIS.


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https://doi.org/10.17528/cifor/006412
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    Publication year

    2017

    Authors

    CIFOR

    Language

    English

    Keywords

    wetlands, maps, databases, carbon sinks

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