TY - JOUR
T1 - A new remote sensing-based carbon sequestration potential index (CSPI)
T2 - A tool to support land carbon management
AU - Pascual, Adrián
AU - Giardina, Christian P.
AU - Selmants, Paul C.
AU - Laramee, Leah J.
AU - Asner, Gregory P.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife (Collection Agreement 19-CO-11272136-048 to CPG), the USGS (Inter Agency Agreement # G17PG00107 to CPG) and the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest Service (Joint Venture Agreement 19-JV-11272136-019 to GPA). Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. We appreciate the support and vision of Dr. Zhiliang Zhu and the constructive comments of one reviewer. Finally, we acknowledge that this research examined and so supports the stewardship of lands that were ceded by the Kingdom of Hawai‘i, without consent or compensation, to the US Government; the majority of the ceded lands reviewed in this study are currently administered by the Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources and continue to held as culturally important geographies by the Native Hawaiian People.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife (Collection Agreement 19-CO-11272136-048 to CPG), the USGS (Inter Agency Agreement # G17PG00107 to CPG) and the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest Service (Joint Venture Agreement 19-JV-11272136-019 to GPA). Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. We appreciate the support and vision of Dr. Zhiliang Zhu and the constructive comments of one reviewer. Finally, we acknowledge that this research examined and so supports the stewardship of lands that were ceded by the Kingdom of Hawai‘i, without consent or compensation, to the US Government; the majority of the ceded lands reviewed in this study are currently administered by the Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources and continue to held as culturally important geographies by the Native Hawaiian People.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2021/8/15
Y1 - 2021/8/15
N2 - Integrating remote sensing into assessments of carbon stocks and fluxes has advanced our understanding of how global change affects landscapes and our capacity to support decision making about forest management. However, there remains a lack of detailed and actionable analyses conducted across widely ranging environmental conditions that are appropriate for tactical planning. We used airborne laser scanning data and multi-source satellite imagery to estimate forest aboveground carbon density and gross primary production, and to map forest cover across the main Hawaiian Islands. We used these measures to develop the Carbon Sequestration Potential Index (CSPI), which identifies where the potential for carbon sequestration following afforestation would be highest within a complex landscape of 304 management units. Variation in CSPI was high across islands and between ecosystems, with low values for cool, dry and largely intact forest systems and high values for warm, wet and largely non-forested systems. The CSPI provided a rapid, spatially-explicit and actionable assessment of Hawaiian forest reserves, which can help stewardship agencies contribute to state carbon neutrality goals through climate-smart and science-driven prescriptions that encompass conservation to restoration.
AB - Integrating remote sensing into assessments of carbon stocks and fluxes has advanced our understanding of how global change affects landscapes and our capacity to support decision making about forest management. However, there remains a lack of detailed and actionable analyses conducted across widely ranging environmental conditions that are appropriate for tactical planning. We used airborne laser scanning data and multi-source satellite imagery to estimate forest aboveground carbon density and gross primary production, and to map forest cover across the main Hawaiian Islands. We used these measures to develop the Carbon Sequestration Potential Index (CSPI), which identifies where the potential for carbon sequestration following afforestation would be highest within a complex landscape of 304 management units. Variation in CSPI was high across islands and between ecosystems, with low values for cool, dry and largely intact forest systems and high values for warm, wet and largely non-forested systems. The CSPI provided a rapid, spatially-explicit and actionable assessment of Hawaiian forest reserves, which can help stewardship agencies contribute to state carbon neutrality goals through climate-smart and science-driven prescriptions that encompass conservation to restoration.
KW - Carbon dynamics
KW - Carbon mapping
KW - Decision Support
KW - Gross primary production
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U2 - 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119343
DO - 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119343
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85106284872
SN - 0378-1127
VL - 494
JO - Forest Ecology and Management
JF - Forest Ecology and Management
M1 - 119343
ER -