Quantifying the effects of multiple land management practices, land cover change, and wildfire on the California landscape carbon budget with an empirical model.

ABSTRACT: The effectiveness of land-based climate mitigation strategies is generally estimated on a case-by-case basis without considering interactions with other strategies or influencing factors. Here we evaluate a new, comprehensive approach that incorporates interactions among multiple management strategies, land use/cover change, wildfire, and climate, although the potential effects of climate change are not evaluated in this study. The California natural and working lands carbon and greenhouse gas model (CALAND) indicates that summing individual practice estimates of greenhouse gas impacts may underestimate emission reduction benefits in comparison with an integrated estimate. Annual per-area estimates of the potential impact of specific management practices on landscape emissions can vary bas

SUBMITTER: Di Vittorio AV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8104402 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature