Landscape carbon accumulation through reductions in emissions (L-CARE): developing brownfield managment protocols for carbon sequestration and habitat use

布朗菲尔德管理是碳（C）固存和储存的重要机会，有助于实现工业气候变化减缓目标。碳在陆地生物圈中的含量是大气中的四倍，但传统的生态系统管理对减缓气候变化的影响可能是有争议的。这项研究计划的目的是量化安大略省最大的采矿和冶炼中心的大量硫和金属排放量的减少，加上新的生态系统复垦实践，导致碳封存并影响初级生产，矿化，and C and energy能源transfer转移through通过ecosystems生态系统.该研究计划将为我们的合作伙伴淡水河谷和Sudbury-INO（嘉能可）带来重要的经济和环境机遇。我们初步估计，相对于未开垦的土地，管理的萨德伯里高地30年的碳储存潜力为5 Mt，相当于约5亿美元。然而，相对于其他碳固存计划，我们研究的一个独特而重要的焦点是碳库之间的流域联系，认识到碳不是静态的，而是在高地、湿地和湖泊（景观受体）与大气之间不断交换。我们将把重点放在高地，湿地和湖泊系统及其联系和数据将饲料的缩放和集成团队，谁将使用遥感方法和综合核算方法，以扩大试验地块的景观规模，以项目未来的碳固存潜力。这项工作也将作为一套重要的案例研究，以指导安大略和加拿大其他地方的碳封存的布朗菲尔德环境的工业管理。该研究计划将为复杂工业景观中的碳和温室气体循环和管理的应用和基础方面提供一个良好的培训环境，促进HQP与行业和政府合作伙伴以及8所大学的共同申请人和合作伙伴的互动，2个合作伙伴和2个合作公司，3个政府机构，并通过使用多学科方法，从基因到田间到景观（建模）规模。

Brownfield management represents an important opportunity for carbon (C) sequestration and storage to helpmeet industrial climate change mitigation targets. C is four times more plentiful in the terrestrial biosphere thanin the atmosphere, but conventional ecosystem management for climate change mitigation can be controversial.The OBJECTIVE of this research program is to quantify how massive sulfur and metal emissions reductions inOntario's largest mining and smelting centre, coupled with novel ecosystem reclamation practices, lead to Csequestration and influence the underlying processes of primary production, mineralization, and C and energytransfer through ecosystems. This research program will facilitate important economic and environmentalopportunities for our partners, Vale and Sudbury-INO (Glencore). Our preliminary estimate of 30y C storagepotential in managed Sudbury uplands relative to un-reclaimed lands is 5Mt representing ~$500 million.However a unique and important focus of our study relative to other C sequestration initiatives is onwatershed linkages between C pools, recognizing that C is not static, but continuously exchanging betweenuplands, wetlands and lakes (the landscape receptors) and the atmosphere. We will focus on upland, wetland,and lake systems and their linkages and the data will feed to a scaling and integration team, who will useremote sensing approaches and integrative accounting approaches to scale up trial plots to landscape scales toproject future C sequestration potentials. This work will also serve as an important set of case studies to guideindustrial management of brownfield environments for C sequestration elsewhere in Ontario and Canada.The research program will provide an excellent training environment for both applied and fundamentalaspects of C and GHG cycling and management across complex industrial landscapes, facilitating HQPinteractions with industry and government partners and with co-applicants and partners across 8 universities, 2partner and 2 collaborator companies, 3 government agencies and by using multidisciplinary approachesspanning from the gene-to-field-to-landscape (modelling) scales.