Carbon sequestration in Savanna Ecosystems

Assess the role of Savanna ecosystems in global carbon accounting measures. Review the current state of knowledge in this field, and assess the practical implementation using study sites in Kenya and the Kruger National Park. The carbon credit market has grown exponentially in the past few years. Savannas represent the third largest global store of carbon after tropical and temperate forests. Due to the relative difficulty in estimating carbon stores in savanna systems, which are subject to much higher environmental variability, limited research has focussed here. Despite these challenges, we will explore the use of remote sensing of savanna carbon stores, an active field of research, using different machine learning, mechanistic and traditional parametric approaches.

Date: November 2023