Carbon sequestration and nutrient cycling implications of the evergreen understory layer in Appalachian forests

Around 1.6 billion people in the world are directly dependent on forests for food, fodder, fuel, shelter, and livelihood, out of which 60 million are entirely dependent on forests. Forests silently provide us with ecosystem services such as climate regulation, carbon sequestration, harbouring biodiversity, synchronizing nutrient cycling, and many more. Tropical Dry Forests (TDF's) occupy around 42% of total forest area of the tropics and subtropics and facilitate sustenance of world's marginalized populations. Change in vegetation composition and distribution, deflected succession, carbon sequestration potential, nutrient cycling and symbiotic associations would affect TDF at ecosystem level. At species level, climate change will impact photosynthesis, phenology, physiognomy, seed germination, and temperature-sensitive physiological processes. In order to mitigate the effects of climate change, specific mitigation and adaptation strategies are required for TDF that need to be designed with concerted efforts from scientists, policy makers and local stakeholders.

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Effect of Climate Change on Tropical Dry Forests

10.4018/978-1-6684-3686-8.ch055 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 1132-1149

Author(s):

Pooja Gokhale Sinha

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Carbon Sequestration ◽

Nutrient Cycling ◽

Tropical Dry Forests ◽

Temperature Sensitive ◽

Dry Forests ◽

Symbiotic Associations ◽

Carbon Sequestration Potential ◽

Mitigation And Adaptation ◽

Total Forest Area

Around 1.6 billion people in the world are directly dependent on forests for food, fodder, fuel, shelter, and livelihood, out of which 60 million are entirely dependent on forests. Forests silently provide us with ecosystem services such as climate regulation, carbon sequestration, harbouring biodiversity, synchronizing nutrient cycling, and many more. Tropical Dry Forests (TDF's) occupy around 42% of total forest area of the tropics and subtropics and facilitate sustenance of world's marginalized populations. Change in vegetation composition and distribution, deflected succession, carbon sequestration potential, nutrient cycling and symbiotic associations would affect TDF at ecosystem level. At species level, climate change will impact photosynthesis, phenology, physiognomy, seed germination, and temperature-sensitive physiological processes. In order to mitigate the effects of climate change, specific mitigation and adaptation strategies are required for TDF that need to be designed with concerted efforts from scientists, policy makers and local stakeholders.

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Long-term Piliostigma reticulatum intercropping in the Sahel: Crop productivity, carbon sequestration, nutrient cycling, and soil quality

Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ◽

10.1016/j.agee.2017.03.007 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 242 ◽

pp. 9-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Matthew B.H. Bright ◽

Ibrahima Diedhiou ◽

Roger Bayala ◽

Komi Assigbetse ◽

Lydie Chapuis-Lardy ◽

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Keyword(s):

Carbon Sequestration ◽

Nutrient Cycling ◽

Soil Quality ◽

Crop Productivity ◽

Piliostigma Reticulatum

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Trees enhance soil carbon sequestration and nutrient cycling in a silvopastoral system in south-western Nicaragua

Agroforestry Systems ◽

10.1007/s10457-016-0049-2 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Marcel R. Hoosbeek ◽

Roy P. Remme ◽

Graciela M. Rusch

Keyword(s):

Carbon Sequestration ◽

Nutrient Cycling ◽

Soil Carbon ◽

Soil Carbon Sequestration ◽

Silvopastoral System

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