Influence of landscape management practices on urban greenhouse gas budgets.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With a lack of United States federal policy to address climate change, cities, the private sector, and universities have shouldered much of the work to reduce carbon dioxide (CO₂) and other greenhouse gas emissions. This study aims to determine how landcover characteristics influence the amount of carbon (C) sequestered and respired via biological processes, evaluating the role of land management on the overall C budget of an urban university. Boston University published a comprehensive Climate Action Plan in 2017 with the goal of achieving C neutrality by 2040. In this study, we digitized and discretized each of Boston University's three urban campuses into landcover types, with C sequestration and respiration rates measured and scaled to provide a University

SUBMITTER: Hundertmark WJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7792215 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature