Modelling the Impact of Land Cover Changes on Carbon Storage and Sequestration in the Central Zagros Region, Iran Using Ecosystem Services Approach

Central Zagros region in Iran is a major hotspot of carbon storage and sequestration which has experienced severe land cover change recent decades that led to emission. In this research, using temporal Landsat images, maps were produced used Land Change Modeler predict changes 2020, 2030, 2040 2050 Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network Markov Chain techniques. Next, resultant as inputs Ecosystem Services Modeler. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate (IPCC) report data was extract data. Results show between 1989–2013 about half forests have been destroyed. Prediction results by 75% existing will be lost 2013–2020 157,000 Mg 565,000 with more than US$1.9 million 2020 AU$3.2 economic compensation.