Figure 1
From: Projecting the spatiotemporal carbon dynamics of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem from 2006 to 2050
Study area of Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). The left is a Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image composite (showing band 1 as red, band 4 as green, and band 3 as blue) from July 21, 2006. Dark green indicates unburned forest, white indicates high-mountain bare rock or glacier, dark blue indicates water bodies, and light green indicates regenerating forest or non-forested area. The yellows polygons are national parks. On the right is 2006 land cover, where young lodgepole pine is an evergreen area burned in 1988 and mature lodgepole pine is a large unburned evergreen forest.