Impact of land-use change on carbon sequestration in Alabama: Interdisciplinary research linking ecosystem processes with economic development.
Hanqin Tian, Professor
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The overall goal of this interdisciplinary study is to examine how economic development-driven land-use changes and projected future land-use changes influence carbon sequestration of terrestrial ecosystems in Alabama. The objectives are to (1) reconstruct annual landcover data sets with 1 km spatial resolution from 1970 to 2004 in Alabama using remotely sensed data, US Census and Agricultural Census data, and other statistical data of land-use change; (2) project future land-cover change from 2005 to 2030 in Alabama using an Econometric model and spatial explicitly land-use change models such as GEOMOD model; (3) simulate the effects of the past and future land-use change on carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems during 1970-2030 in Alabama using Dynamic Land Ecosystem Model (DLEM); and (4) analyze the interactions between economic development and carbon sequestration in Alabama.
