Climate Change Impacts on Future Carbon Stores and Management of Warm Deserts of the United States

Abstract

Reducing concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHG) is a pressing environmental issue that has increased the necessity to quantify the exchange of GHG between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the primary anthropogenic greenhouse gases. Reductions in atmospher- ic CO2 concentration through enhanced terrestrial carbon storage may help slow or reverse the rate of global climate change.1 As a result, federal land management agencies, for example the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Manage- ment, are now beginning to implement management policies to increase carbon storage.

DOI: 10.2458/azu_rangelands_v35i6_thomey