Aboveground Carbon Stock

May 11, 2021 (Last modified Jun 4, 2021)
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Carbon density values represent the metric tons of carbon in aboveground biomass per 900 square meter pixel. Carbon density estimates used are published by the California Air Resources Board. We used these estimates with LANDFIRE's Existing Vegetation Height (EVH), Existing Vegetation Cover (EVC) and Existing Vegetation Type (EVT) to estimate the aboveground carbon stocks in Santa Barbara County in 2016.
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Data layer prepared by Bren Carbon Counters (Alicia Fennell, Gavriella Keyles, Madeline Oliver, Minerva Ringland, and Michael Wells).
Content date:
2016
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LANDFIRE, Existing Vegetation Type (2016), U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of the Interior.

LANDFIRE, Existing Vegetation Height (2016), U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of the Interior.

LANDFIRE, Existing Vegetation Cover (2016), U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of the Interior.

Battles JJ, Gonzalez P, Collins BM, Robards T, Saah DS. Aboveground live carbon stock changes of California wildland ecosystems, 2001–2010. For Ecol Manag. 2015 Jul;348:68–77.

California Department of Conservation, The Nature Conservancy, Tukman Geospatial, Climate Action Reserve, Merced County. Resilient Merced [Internet]. 2018. Available from: https://maps.conservation.ca.gov/terracount/downloads/ResilientCountiesGuide.pdf
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30x30 meters
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Bren School of Environmental Science & Management; contact: gp-carboncounters@bren.ucsb.edu
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Carbon Counters
Student with Bren School of Environmental Science & Management

We are a group of five master's graduates at the Bren School at UC Santa Barbara. Our master's group project was evaluating the climate mitigation potential of natural & working lands in Santa Barbara County, conducted in partnership with the County's Sustainability Division.