Supplemental Material for Precipitation, Soils, NPP, and Biodiversity: Resurrection of Albrecht's Curve. Supplement 1 Data used for Figures 3 and 4. Half-degree Global PET Maps (720 x 360) provided with the permission of Joshua B. Fisher, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cal Tech University, jbjbfisher@jpl.nasa.gov. Annual total PET for 10 years (1986-1995) calculated using Thornthwaite, Priestley-Taylor, and Penman-Monteith algorithms (see Fisher et al. 2011). These files were averaged to create a 10 year mean for each PET algorithm. Files: Thornthwaite PET in PETFisherTh/ , files: LEyrsum_1986.txt ... LEyrsum_1995.txt Priestley-Taylor PET in PETFisherPT/ , files: LEyrsum_1986.txt ... LEyrsum_1995.txt Penman-Monteith PET in PETFisherPM/ , files: LEyrsum_1986.txt ... LEyrsum_1995.tx Five minute Global Precipitation Maps from www.worldclim.org, file: bio12.bil, (4320 x 1800) (Hijmans et al. 2005). Note this file has data from -60 to +90 degrees latitude, cutting off Antarctica and part of the Southern Ocean. Data values are provided for land area only. Downloaded Jan. 1, 2006. Files: AnnualPpt/bio12.hdr AnnualPpt/bio12.bil Annual water balance was calculated by expanding the PET files to 4320 x 1800 (retaining the original "block" structure, and subtracting the PET array (map) from the precipitation array (map). TEB data are from the FAO Harmonized World Soil Database v 1.0 (FAO, 2008), downloaded Nov.1, 2007 in ESRI .adf Format (4320 x 2160) Files in directories: FAOTEB/info - arc files FAOTEB/teb_t - adf files FAOTEB/teb_images - jpg and tiff images of data FAO Documentation: FAOTEB/SoilFAOHarmonizedDataHWSD_Documentation.pdf References: Fisher, J. B., R. J. Whittaker, and Y. Malhi. 2011. ET come home: potential evapotranspiration in geographical ecology. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20:1-18. Hijmans, R. J., S. E. Cameron, J. L. Parra, P. G. Jones, and A. Jarvis. 2005. Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology 25:1965-1978. (data available at www.worldclim.org). Supplement 2 Data used for Figure 5 Country-level Agricultural Production data Values Extracted from Table AF1. Food and Agricultural Production from World Resources 2000-2001. Data obtained from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), FAOSTAT On-line Statistical Service (FAO, Rome, 1999) Files: TableAF1WRI2000-2001.pdf CountryAgProd1999.csv Country-level Water Balance data Annual Water Balance calculated from sources in Supplement 1. Median value per country for annual water balance based on Penman-Monteith and Thornthwaite PET was extracted using raster mask for countries. Files: CountryWatBalMedians.csv Supplement 3 Data used for Figure 6 Natural ecosystem NPP data from ORNL DAAC Global Primary Productivity Data Initiative (GDDPI) Class A and Class B data. Files: GDDPI_ClassA_NPP_162_R1.csv - original DAAC file GDDPI_ClassA_NPP_162_RMH.csv - file edited for input GDDPI_ClassB_NPP_2363.csv - original DAAC file GDDPI_ClassB_NPP_2363MH.csv - file edited for input GlobalNPP_ORNL_DAAC_TM196.pdf - Documentation Annual water balance calculated from Penman-Monteith PET and worldclim.org Annual Precipitation as described in Supplement 1. Water balance and elevation values (from ETOPO5) were extracted for NPP sites using latitude and longitude values converted to 5 minute raster grid (4320 x 2160). Values are mean of 9 cells in 3 x 3 array centered on lat-long of NPP site. Note that many of the NPP lat-long values are not very precise and are probably not very accurate, either. Files; ETOPO5.DOS - global topography (4320 x 2160) ETOPO5ReadMe.txt Derived values used in Figure 6 are found in File: Fig6ValuesoutforpetDec32011.csv Column headings identify variables. Columns A - I are from the combined GDDPI class A and B datasets listed above. Columns J - Q are derived values. -999 for missing values J - AbvGrNPP_Biom - Aboveground carbon NPP converted to biomass by dividing carbon value by 0.475 K - TotNPP_Biom - Total carbon NPP converted to biomass as above L - eNPP - aboveground biomass NPP converted to g m-2 mon-1 by dividing by estimated length of growing season in months (column M). M - GrSeason(mon) - estimated woody plant growing season in months, from Huston and Wolverton (2009) N - MnAnnPpt - mean annual precipitation in mm extracted from file bio12.bil O - MnAnnPET - mean annual Penman-Monteith PET extracted from 10 year mean from Fisher estimates described in Supplement 1 P - MnAnnWatBal - mean annual water balance obtained by subtracting column O from N Q - MeanElev in meters extracted from ETOPO5 Huston, M. A. and S. Wolverton. 2009. The global distribution of net primary production: resolving the paradox. Ecological Monographs 79:343-377.