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Wood products provide a relatively long-term carbon storage mechanism. Due to lack of consistent datasets on these products, however, it is difficult to determine their carbon contents. The main purpose of this study was to quantify forest disturbance and timber product output (TPO) using time series Landsat observations for North Carolina. The results revealed that North Carolina had an average forest disturbance rate of 178,000 ha per year from 1985 to 2010. The derived disturbance products were found to be highly correlated with TPO survey data, explaining up to 87% of the total variance of county level industrial roundwood production. State level TPO estimates derived using the Landsat-based disturbance products...
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Nature-based solutions is a leading policy option for mitigating climate change. We mapped areas of potential restoration and conservation opportunities in the conterminous U.S. (CONUS). The potential for five scenarios were examined: increasing forest cover in urban centers, restoring historically forested areas that have been converted to grasslands, conserving pristine grasslands, rewetting peatlands, and conserving vulnerable tidal wetlands.
Tags: Ecology,
Environmental Health,
Forestry,
Hydrology,
Land Use Change, All tags...
Remote Sensing,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
conservation,
environment,
grassland,
grassland ecosystems,
natural resource management,
peatland,
reforestation,
remediation,
restoration,
wetland,
wetland restoration,
wetlands, Fewer tags
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