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A group of 麻豆无码版 researchers are working with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to find out how much greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced just through land-management strategies.

Professors Stephen Hart and Martha Conklin and postdoctoral researcher Jian Lin are analyzing 1,445 peer-reviewed articles related to natural climate solutions, investigating possibilities for increasing how much carbon dioxide certain lands can sequester. They will synthesize data on carbon stock and flux outcomes of land-management activities that do or can occur on California鈥檚 natural and working lands.

鈥淎lthough not an immediate goal of this information-gathering project, we would like ultimately to come up with some recommendations for actions that could be implemented right away,鈥� Hart said.

California鈥檚 natural and working lands and the multitude of benefits they provide are changing and, in many areas, deteriorating or disappearing. These lands 鈥� including rangeland, forests, woodlands, wetlands and coastal areas, grasslands, shrubland, farmland, riparian areas and urban green space 鈥� cover a large majority of California.

鈥淲ith their potential to sequester carbon, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and increase the capacity of California to withstand inevitable climate impacts, these lands are also a critical component of California鈥檚 integrated climate change strategy,鈥� the researchers wrote. However, some sources, including CARB and the Natural and Working Lands Greenhouse Gas Inventory, show that some lands are a net GHG source, losing more carbon than they sequester.

鈥淥ur main goal is to assess and compare the efficacy of a diverse set of land-management activities on carbon outcomes, and how the efficacy is moderated by different external factors, such as ecozone, elevation and land cover type,鈥� Lin said. 鈥淪uch knowledge is critical to provide guidance for prioritizing future investment in land management and developing land-managing-related models.鈥�

Lin leads the project and is responsible for data collecting, processing, analyzing, result interpreting and report writing. Conklin, a hydrologist with the , and Hart, an ecologist with the , serve as co-mentors. The report must be finished by Oct. 31.

This work is part of a larger project to support CARB鈥檚 integration of the sector of natural and working lands into California鈥檚 natural climate strategies, along with scenario analysis of statewide ecosystem carbon stocks. The work is also closely related to another project under the Center for Ecosystem Climate Solutions (CECS), supported by California Strategic Growth Council鈥檚 Climate Change Research Program and featuring several different research universities. Both CARB鈥檚 and CECS鈥檚 research should help land managers gain more information about how their decisions and actions affect different ecosystems, Hart said.

The recent indicates a serious urgency to not only reduce GHG emissions, but to find ways to mitigate as many effects of climate change as possible.

鈥淲e will perform a meta-analysis to aggregate findings from different articles that are based on different experiment designs and methodologies, and conducted in different locations and ecosystems,鈥� Lin said. 鈥淒ifferent articles report results for different carbon pools, for different time scales and in different units. We will normalize these results through the concept of the effect size that is calculated based on rigorous statistical methods.鈥�

Lin鈥檚 postdoctoral work is supported by both CARB and CECS projects, and he鈥檚 part of the led by Professor Roger Bales and Conklin, as well as the .

鈥淚 like to investigate the relationship between humans and nature. Both my past and ongoing studies focus on the intersection between forest ecology and social science,鈥� Lin said. 鈥淢y main postdoc research examines the impacts of forest management on carbon outcomes and forest vulnerability.鈥�