Carbon sequestration for different management alternatives in sweet chestnut coppice in northern Spain

Prada, Marta; Bravo, Felipe; Berdasco, Lorena; Canga, Elena; Martínez-Alonso, Celia

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.041

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“…Thinning interventions provide better quality roundwood at final harvesting [37], which can be used for long-term products [63], it is a costly operation, although using the most effective monitoring system can offset some of the costs of thinning operations. Also, [64] showed a positive influence on the quantity of carbon stored in longand medium-term products, which store carbon for a long time and have more and better market possibilities than the short-term products that are usually obtained from unmanaged sweet chestnut sites. As such, this study presents a tool for the sustainable management of forests, which can assess the recovery of the sweet chestnut forest stand following thinning operations.…”

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Assessing Canopy Responses to Thinnings for Sweet Chestnut Coppice with Time-Series Vegetation Indices Derived from Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 Imagery

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Cabo

Hernández-Clemente

et al. 2020

Remote Sensing

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Forest management treatments often translate into changes in forest structure. Understanding and assessing how forests react to these changes is key for forest managers to develop and follow sustainable practices. A strategy to remotely monitor the development of the canopy after thinning using satellite imagery time-series data is presented. The aim was to identify optimal remote sensing Vegetation Indices (VIs) to use as time-sensitive indicators of the early response of vegetation after the thinning of sweet chestnut (Castanea Sativa Mill.) coppice. For this, the changes produced at the canopy level by different thinning treatments and their evolution over time (2014–2019) were extracted from VI values corresponding to two trials involving 33 circular plots (r = 10 m). Plots were subjected to one of the following forest management treatments: Control with no intervention (2800–3300 stems ha−1), Treatment 1, one thinning leaving a living stock density of 900–600 stems ha−1 and Treatment 2, a more intensive thinning, leaving 400 stems ha−1. Time series data from Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 were collected to calculate values for different VIs. Canopy development was computed by comparing the area under curves (AUCs) of different VI time-series annually throughout the study period. Soil-Line VIs were compared to the Normalized Vegetation Index (NDVI) revealing that the Second Modified Chlorophyll Absorption Ratio Index (MCARI2) more clearly demonstrated canopy evolution tendencies over time than the NDVI. MCARI2 data from both L8 and S2 reflected how the influence of treatment on the canopy cover decreases over the years, providing significant differences in the thinning year and the year after. Metrics derived from the MCARI2 time-series also demonstrated the capacity of the canopy to recovery to pretreatment coverage levels. The AUC method generates a specific V-shaped time-signature, the vertex of which coincides with the thinning event and, as such, provides forest managers with another tool to assist decision making in the development of sustainable forest management strategies.

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Assessing Canopy Responses to Thinnings for Sweet Chestnut Coppice with Time-Series Vegetation Indices Derived from Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 Imagery

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Hernández-Clemente

et al. 2020

Remote Sensing

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“…Nevertheless, the products obtained at the final harvest might be of smaller size than those obtained where thinning from below is employed, which could affect the lifespan of the product and the substitution effect (avoiding carbon fossil fuel emissions). Hence, thinning regimes and product lifespan should be taken into account in order to determine the most suitable forest management for carbon sequestration (Perez-García et al, 2007;Fortin et al, 2012;Prada et al, 2016).…”

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“…Longer rotation lengths have been simulated using models such as CO2fix (Nabuurs & Schelhass, 2002;Masera et al, 2003), which have pointed to the effectiveness of this strategy in achieving higher amounts of carbon (e.g., Kaipainen et al, 2004;Kaul et al, 2010;Nizami et al, 2014;Prada et al, 2016). However, the existing literature on this subject contains scarce real examples of extended rotation periods, which would be necessary to confirm the model predictions.…”

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Forest management and carbon sequestration in the Mediterranean region: A review

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Aim of study: TTo review and acknowledge the value of carbon sequestration by forest management in the Mediterranean area. Material and methods:We review the main effects of forest management by comparing the effects of silvicultural systems (even-aged vs. uneven-aged stands, coppice systems, agroforestry systems), silvicultural options (thinning, rotation period, species composition), afforestation, harvesting, fire impact or effects of shrub layer on carbon sequestration in the Mediterranean area.Main results: We illustrate as forest management can clearly improve forest carbon sequestration amounts. We conclude that forest management is an effective way to maintain and enhance high carbon sequestration rates in order to cope with climate change and provision of ecosystem services. We also think that although much effort has been put into this topic research, there are still certain gaps that must be dealt with to increase our scientific knowledge and in turn transfer this knowledge to forest practitioners in order to achieve sustainable management aimed at mitigating climate change.Research highlights: It is important to underline the importance of forests in the carbon cycle as this role can be enhanced by forest managers through sustainable forest management. The effects of different management options or disturbances can be critical as regards mitigating climate change. Understanding the effects of forest management is even more important in the Mediterranean area, given that the current high climatic variability together with historical human exploitation and disturbance events make this area more vulnerable to the effects of climate change.Additional keywords: global carbon cycle; forest sink; forest mitigation strategies; carbon sequestration potential; climate change mitigation; Mediterranean forests.

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“…We found the following gradient of SOC accumulation under different management practices: 40-year-interval clearcut with tending and thinning < 40-year-interval clearcut without tending and thinning < 80-year-interval clearcut with tending and thinning < 80-year-interval clearcut without tending and thinning. These results are obviously related to the increasing amount of the incoming organic C to the soil when eliminating tending and thinning activities and when increasing the cutting age from 40 to 80 years [51].…”

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A Holistic View of Soils in Delivering Ecosystem Services in Forests: A Case Study in South Korea

Vicente-Vicente

Fuss

Song

et al. 2019

Forests

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In 1955, after the Korean War, only 35% of the national land area in South Korea was covered by forests. In the 1960s, the Korean Government implemented the national forestation program in order to increase the extent of the forest surface and thereby counteract the negative ecological consequences from deforestation, such as erosion and ground instability. According to previous studies, this led to an increase in carbon (C) accumulated in the forest biomass of 1.48 Gt CO 2 (0.40 Gt C) in the period 1954-2012. However, these studies did not take into account the amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) that was accumulated during that period and the influence of management practices on soil ecosystem services. Currently, South Korean authorities are considering the idea of implementing some forest management practices in order to increase timber extraction (e.g., by reducing the cutting age of the trees or by applying thinning and tending measures). In this study, we assess the influence of these management regimes on SOC dynamics and propose a theoretical framework to assess the influence of forest management practices on three ecosystem services, namely, C sequestration, water supply, and biomass production, while considering soil functioning, and especially SOC, as a group of supporting services underpinning the three named ecosystem services. We find that, in terms of SOC sequestration, reducing the cutting age from 80 to 40 years would be suitable only in the case of high biomass production forests, whereas in the case of lower biomass production forests reducing the cutting age would achieve very low SOC levels. However, we propose that increasing tree species diversity, even though it would not lead to a direct increase in the SOC content, could help to lessen the negative effects of reducing the cutting age by improving other soil properties, which in turn positively affect soil functioning (e.g., soil biodiversity, nutrient availability) and the resilience of the forest ecosystem. Finally, we discuss potential policy approaches to incentivize sustainable management practices in South Korean forests from a soil protection perspective.

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Carbon sequestration for different management alternatives in sweet chestnut coppice in northern Spain

Cited by 16 publications

References 35 publications

Assessing Canopy Responses to Thinnings for Sweet Chestnut Coppice with Time-Series Vegetation Indices Derived from Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 Imagery

Assessing Canopy Responses to Thinnings for Sweet Chestnut Coppice with Time-Series Vegetation Indices Derived from Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 Imagery

Forest management and carbon sequestration in the Mediterranean region: A review

A Holistic View of Soils in Delivering Ecosystem Services in Forests: A Case Study in South Korea

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