Understanding and securing the resilience of forest-based climate change mitigation
Climate mitigation in forest systems is critical for limiting global warming and has important implications for biosphere functions such as freshwater and biodiversity.
However, there are major knowledge gaps concerning the future resilience of forest-based interventions - i.e., their capacity to remain functional in delivering desirable water-climate-biodiversity functions despite natural and anthropogenic perturbations. This project aims to generate knowledge on how to safeguard the biophysical and social-ecological resilience of forest-based climate change mitigation measures under shifting hydro-climatic conditions including ecological droughts.
This project contains
- designing forest-based mitigation scenarios in close collaboration with stakeholders,
- quantifying the resilience and sustainability of the biosphere integrity of forest-based climate mitigation measures,
- analyzing the local and remote effects of hydro-climatic adaptation, and
- holistically assessing the social-ecological resilience of forest-based climate change mitigation measures.
Both modeling and empirical analyses will be applied to comprehensively account for water-climate-forest dynamics, including the coupling of a state-of-the-art dynamic vegetation model with an Earth system model and an atmospheric moisture tracking tool. The proposed project will help enhance both the biophysical and social-ecological resilience of water-climate-biodiversity functions from forest-based mitigation measures.
Project period
2024–2028
Funding
Contact person
Other SATORI participants
Sara Anamaghi, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran
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Understanding and securing the resilience of forest-based climate change mitigation