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Ensemble outputs from Ecosystem Service models for water supply, aboveground carbon storage and use of water, grazing, charcoal and firewood by beneficiaries in sub-Saharan Africa

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

This dataset contains the gridded estimates per 1 km2 for mean and median ensemble outputs from 4-6 individual ecosystem service models for Sub-Saharan Africa, for above ground Carbon stock, firewood use, charcoal use and grazing use. Water use and supply are identically supplied as polygons. Individual model outputs are taken from previously published research. Making ensembles results in a smoothing effect whereby the individual model uncertainties are cancelled out and a signal of interest is more likely to emerge. Included ecosystem service models were: InVEST, Co$ting Nature, WaterWorld, Monetary value benefits transfer, LPJ-GUESS and Scholes models. Ensemble outputs have been normalised, therefore these ensembles project relative levels of service across the full area and can be used, for example, for optimisation or assignment of most important or sensitive areas. The work was completed under the "EnsemblES - Using ensemble techniques to capture the accuracy and sensitivity of ecosystem service models" project (NE/T00391X/1) funded by the UKRI Landscape Decisions programme. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/11689000-f791-4fdb-8e12-08a7d87ad75f

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
24 July 2026
Harvest GUID
11689000-f791-4fdb-8e12-08a7d87ad75f
Extent (Latitude)
18.448° to -35.344°
Extent (Longitude)
-17.688° to 52.273°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2020-06-25
Access constraints
© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology/Bangor University
Responsible party
Lactuca: Environmental Data Analyses and Modelling (author, pointOfContact); Bangor University (author); University of Southampton (author); (author, publisher, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng