NATURE BASED CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
Radiation measurements over an oak savannah ecosystem in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
How do we measure the impact of ‘nature based climate solutions’?
Due to the large scale and rapid pace necessary for biological carbon dioxide removal to meet ambitious climate mitigation goals, new tools that integrate spatially explicit remote sensing observations and ground-based ‘anchors’ of direct carbon flux measurement are needed to elucidate the carbon performance of natural climate solution strategies.
Despite serving as the de facto standard for direct CO2 flux observations of ecosystems, and for estimates of land-atmosphere carbon exchange globally, eddy covariance flux measurement systems have rarely been intentionally applied to quantify the mitigation potential of emerging NCS strategies. In newly published work, we develop a framework for how to reorient ecosystem scale flux measurements for natural climate solutions.