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| DOI | 10.1186/s13021-020-00160-5 |
| Influence of landscape management practices on urban greenhouse gas budgets | |
| Hundertmark W.J.; Lee M.; Smith I.A.; Bang A.H.Y.; Chen V.; Gately C.K.; Templer P.H.; Hutyra L.R. | |
| 发表日期 | 2021 |
| ISSN | 17500680 |
| 卷号 | 16期号:1 |
| 英文摘要 | Background: With a lack of United States federal policy to address climate change, cities, the private sector, and universities have shouldered much of the work to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions. This study aims to determine how landcover characteristics influence the amount of carbon (C) sequestered and respired via biological processes, evaluating the role of land management on the overall C budget of an urban university. Boston University published a comprehensive Climate Action Plan in 2017 with the goal of achieving C neutrality by 2040. In this study, we digitized and discretized each of Boston University’s three urban campuses into landcover types, with C sequestration and respiration rates measured and scaled to provide a University-wide estimate of biogenic C fluxes within the broader context of total University emissions. Results: Each of Boston University’s three highly urban campuses were net sources of biogenic C to the atmosphere. While trees were estimated to sequester 0.6 ± 0.2 kg C m−2 canopy cover year−1, mulch and lawn areas in 2018 emitted C at rates of 1.7 ± 0.4 kg C m−2 year−1 and 1.4 ± 0.4 kg C m−2 year−1, respectively. C uptake by tree canopy cover, which can spatially overlap lawn and mulched landcovers, was not large enough to offset biogenic emissions. The proportion of biogenic emissions to Scope 1 anthropogenic emissions on each campus varied from 0.5% to 2%, and depended primarily on the total anthropogenic emissions on each campus. Conclusions: Our study quantifies the role of urban landcover in local C budgets, offering insights on how landscaping management strategies—such as decreasing mulch application rates and expanding tree canopy extent—can assist universities in minimizing biogenic C emissions and even potentially creating a small biogenic C sink. Although biogenic C fluxes represent a small fraction of overall anthropogenic emissions on urban university campuses, these biogenic fluxes are under active management by the university and should be included in climate action plans. © 2021, The Author(s). |
| 英文关键词 | Biogenic fluxes; Climate action plan; Landscaping; Nature-based solution; Soil respiration; Urban carbon cycling |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| scopus关键词 | action plan; anthropogenic effect; biogenic emission; carbon sequestration; emission; federal system; greenhouse gas; land management; landscape protection; management practice; pollution policy; university sector; urban area; Boston; Massachusetts; United States |
| 来源期刊 | Carbon Balance and Management
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| 来源机构 | Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, United States ; Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United States ; Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, United States |
| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/175961 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hundertmark W.J.； Lee M.； Smith I.A.； Bang A.H.Y.； Chen V.； Gately C.K.； Templer P.H.； Hutyra L.R.. Influence of landscape management practices on urban greenhouse gas budgets[J]. Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, United States, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United States, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, United States,2021,16(1). |
| APA | Hundertmark W.J.； Lee M.； Smith I.A.； Bang A.H.Y.； Chen V.； Gately C.K.； Templer P.H.； Hutyra L.R..(2021).Influence of landscape management practices on urban greenhouse gas budgets.Carbon Balance and Management,16(1). |
| MLA | Hundertmark W.J.； Lee M.； Smith I.A.； Bang A.H.Y.； Chen V.； Gately C.K.； Templer P.H.； Hutyra L.R.."Influence of landscape management practices on urban greenhouse gas budgets".Carbon Balance and Management 16.1(2021). |
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