Modeling Forest Carbon Budgets toward Ecological Forest Management: Challenges and Future Directions

2016 ◽  
pp. 287-300
Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 1033
Author(s):  
Lloyd C. Irland ◽  
John Hagan

Why have a special issue on North American options for reducing national CO2 footprints through forest management [...]


2012 ◽  
Vol 427 ◽  
pp. 203-207
Author(s):  
Yu Shu Cui ◽  
Hong Ling Shao ◽  
Li Yan Ma

The forest carbon sinks play an important role in controlling the Greenhouse Gas emissions. The project management of wood carbon sequestration materials will be helpful to attract more and more enterprises to step into forestation, reforestation and technology development for improvement of forest management. That will create a sustainable situation that governments, NGO and corporations join together. Based on the domestic and foreign literature, the paper sorts out the current literature in the direction of forest carbon sequestration managements are from five aspects such as, carbon policy, carbon sequestration, carbon conservation, carbon substitution, carbon benefits. Based on this, the paper puts forward the policy and the long-term objectives of wood carbon sequestration materials should be integration of the implementation.


2011 ◽  
Vol 108 (23) ◽  
pp. 9508-9512 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Melillo ◽  
S. Butler ◽  
J. Johnson ◽  
J. Mohan ◽  
P. Steudler ◽  
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2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald L. Phillips ◽  
Sandra L. Brown ◽  
Paul E. Schroeder ◽  
Richard A. Birdsey

Author(s):  
Abderrahmane Ameray ◽  
Yves Bergeron ◽  
Osvaldo Valeria ◽  
Miguel Montoro Girona ◽  
Xavier Cavard

Abstract Purpose of Review Carbon sequestration and storage in forest ecosystems is often promoted as a solution for reducing CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. Yet, our understanding is lacking regarding how forest management strategies affect the net removal of greenhouse gases and contribute to climate change mitigation. Here, we present a review of carbon sequestration and stock dynamics, following three strategies that are widely used in boreal, temperate and tropical forests: extensive forest management, intensive forest management and old-growth forest conservation. Recent Findings Several studies show that specific forest management strategies can improve carbon sequestration capacity and soil carbon storage. Within these studies, the old-growth forest conservation strategy results in greater carbon storage in soils than do extensive and intensive forest management. Intensive forest management enhances forest carbon sequestration capacity through afforestation using fast-growing species, mechanical soil preparation from low to moderate intensity and N fertilization. Extensive forest management is an intermediate compromise regarding carbon sequestration and soil carbon storage, between conservation and intensive forest management strategies. With respect to silvicultural treatments, partial cutting is a practice that increases forest carbon sequestration rates and maintains higher carbon storage in soils compared to clear-cuts. Each silvicultural practice that is discussed in this review showed a similar effect on forest carbon in all biomes, although the magnitude of these effects differs mainly in terms of heterotrophic respiration. Summary To achieve sustainable management and fulfill industrial demand and profitability, specific gaps must be dealt with to improve our scientific knowledge regarding forest carbon sequestration in a climate change context, mainly through the integration of the three aforementioned strategies in a functional zoning approach at the landscape scale. We present a review with promising strategies for guiding sustainable forest management in such a global context.


2010 ◽  
Vol 260 (5) ◽  
pp. 795-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos A. Gonzalez-Benecke ◽  
Timothy A. Martin ◽  
Wendell P. Cropper ◽  
Rosvel Bracho

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