Baseline and Projected Future Carbon Storage and Greenhouse-Gas Fluxes in Ecosystems of the Eastern United States

摘要

This regional assessment was conducted to achieve two primary objectives: (1) to contribute to the EISA mandate for a national assessment of carbon sequestration and GHG fluxes, and (2) to help improve the understanding of carbon cycling at a regional scale by focusing on different ecosystems and their relations with natural and anthropogenic controlling processes (such as climate change, LULC, land management, and wildland fires). To meet the objectives, the assessment was designed to provide answers to such questions as How much carbon was stored in ecosystems of the Eastern United States and how would storage of carbon change over space and time, and How might the stored carbon and carbon fluxes be affected by the natural and anthropogenic processes that affect the region.