The Influence of Historical and Projected Land Use and Land Cover Changes on Land Surface Hydrology and Regional Weather and Climate Variability

Start Date: 
01/01/2004
End Date: 
01/01/2007
Project Call: 
Land-Cover Land-Use Change
Science Theme: 
Detection and Monitoring of LCLUC
Carbon and Biogeochemical Cycle Impacts
Region: 
Global
Solicitation: 
LCLUC-03
Distribution of Project Team Members Institutions
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Team members: 
Person Name Person role on project Affiliation
Tom Loveland Principal Investigator U.S. Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, United States


Abstract: 

The seven ecoregions we have studied so far indicated that: 1. Carbon dynamics varied greatly across ecoregions: from carbon neutral to strong carbon sinks 2. Carbon sink strength has been decreasing 3. The inter-annual variability of carbon dynamics is mainly determined by climatic variability Major uncertainties and knowledge gaps: • Uncertainty in soil database (STATSGO) at the local scale • Net primary production data of forests (MODIS and FIA) • Forest structural info (age, tree density, etc.)

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