Carbon, Climate and Managed Land in Ukraine: Integrating Data and Models of Land Use for NEESPI

Start Date:

01/01/2004

End Date:

01/01/2007

Project Call:

Carbon Cycle

Science Theme:

Carbon and Biogeochemical Cycle Impacts

Predictive Land Use Modeling

Regional Initiative:

Northern Eurasian Earth Science Partnership Initiative

Region:

Europe

Western Europe

European Russia

Siberia and Russian Far East

Solicitation:

LCLUC-03

Team members:

Person Name	Person role on project	Affiliation
Francesco Tubiello	Principal Investigator	United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, , United States

Abstract:

This NEESPI project focuses on assessing, currently and over thenext 30 years, potential impacts of climate and land use change on agriculture and forestry. In Ukraine, a bread basket of the former Soviet Union, a large portion of land is managed for agriculture and forestry. Key patterns of the last 15 years have been land abandonment, together with recent developments of new cultivations for exports, including bio-energy crops. Within this scenario, interactions between carbon cycle, competing land use for agriculture and forestry need to be considered in order to predict potentials for bio-energy and carbon sequestration. The modeling tools developed to date include dynamic crop models (DSSAT), agro-ecological zone (AEZ-IIASA), and forestry statistical

Project Documents

Year	Authors	Type	Title
2006		NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation	Carbon, climate and managed land in Ukraine: Integrating land use data and models for NEESPI