Where ALCES is applied

Ecosystem Carbon Modelling

A comprehensive perspective of ecosystem carbon dynamics, incorporating multiple land use sectors and natural disturbances, to help prioritize management issues.

To assess the climate impacts of land use, we model the response of ecosystem carbon to landscape change. By incorporating multiple land use sectors and natural disturbances, our modelling provides a comprehensive perspective of ecosystem carbon dynamics that can help prioritize management issues. To test potential solutions, simulations can assess a range of management strategies including afforestation, restoration, protection, conservation agriculture and densification.

Strategies a simulation can test

Afforestation

Establishing forest on land that was not previously forested.

Restoration

Returning developed or degraded land toward a natural state.

Protection

Constraining harvest and development within defined zones.

Conservation agriculture

Farming practices that retain carbon in agricultural soils.

Densification

Concentrating settlement growth rather than spreading it.

Selected work

Much of our work is confidential to the clients who commission it. The projects below are a selection that we are able to discuss publicly.

New Brunswick

Natural Climate Solutions Scenario Analysis

Assessment of land-based mitigation options at a provincial scale, across land use sectors and natural disturbance.

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We build each ALCES site around the questions its organization needs to answer, so no two are alike. If this is close to your own work, we would be glad to hear about it. The demonstration sites on alces.ca are open to anyone with an account.