Land-Use Change in Temperate East Asia:  Land Cover Changes Impacts on Carbon Fluxes and Land Productivity

Start Date: 
01/01/2001
End Date: 
01/01/2004
Project Call: 
Land-Cover Land-Use Change
Science Theme: 
Carbon and Biogeochemical Cycle Impacts
Predictive Land Use Modeling
Synthesis Studies
Regional Initiative: 
Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study
Region: 
Asia
Central Asia
Distribution of Project Team Members Institutions
marker Principal Investigator   marker Co-Investigator   marker Collaborator   marker Postdoc Researcher   marker Graduate Student Researcher   marker Other
Team members: 
Person Name Person role on project Affiliation
Dennis Ojima Principal Investigator H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, Fort Collins, United States


Abstract: 

Changes in land use or land cover strongly influence ecosystem properties. One such property is net primary production (NPP), which may increase, as through human management of agricultural lands, or decrease, such as following deforestation or fire. In this study, we investigated changing NPP as computed from 21 years of 8-km satellite observations and a production efficiency model (CASA). Here we analyzed time series of satellite-derived NPP in conjunction with other data sets that describe land-use or land-cover change to evaluate the response of production.

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