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Avoided Forest Conversion as a Climate and Conservation Opportunity in the United States
Avoiding forest conversion contributes to biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation, with substantial benefits to wildlife and human sustainability. This project aims to support measurable positive impacts by identifying and mapping hotspots of deforestation (forest conversion), linking these hotspots to drivers of land use change, developing a forest loss tracking interface, and examining the efficacy…
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Avoided Deforestation as a Climate Opportunity in the U.S.
Forests are a globally-significant store of carbon, but this store is vulnerable to release from disturbance processes such as harvesting or fires that contribute to global warming. At the same time, intact forests serve as a major offset to rising CO2 concentrations as forest growth becomes stimulated by rising CO2 levels, enabling forests to absorb…
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NFCMS Update and Carbon Assessment for Forest Conservation Planning and Action
Climate change can disrupt wildlife habitat and other natural amenities supported by land trusts and other conservation organizations. However, these organizations require good data upon which to base their land protection decisions. This project will update the National Forest Carbon Monitoring System (NFCMS) to establish a data timestamp for 2020, or the most recent possible…
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