Carbon stocks and accumulation rates in tropical secondary forests at the scale of community, landscape and forest type

Orihuela-Belmonte, D.E.; Jong, Bernardus Hendricus jozeph De; Mendoza‐Vega, Jorge; Wal, Hans van der; Pellat, Fernando Paz; Pinto, Lorena Soto; Flamenco-Sandoval, Alejandro

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2013.03.012

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“…Organic coffee polyculture showed similar carbon stocks to low tropical forests in Guatemala (Schmitt-Harsh et al, 2012), medium semi-humid forest in Mexico (Orihuela-Belmonte et al, 2013), and other high covered agroforestry systems in Mexico, such as improved fallows, Taungya, and silvopastoral systems (Soto-Pinto et al, 2010;Soto-Pinto & Armijo-Florentino, 2014). Thus, the organic management could be much more important to increase not only the carbon in shade vegetation, but significantly, in the soil; litter deposition, humus content in the first soil layer, and the role of shade vegetation to preserve soil and carbon content are of paramount importance at landscape and global scales (Soto-Pinto et al, 2010;Häger, 2012;Palm et al, 2014).…”

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Carbon Stocks in Organic Coffee Systems in Chiapas, Mexico

Pinto¹,

Aguirre-Dávila²

2014

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Carbon Stocks in Organic Coffee Systems in Chiapas, Mexico

Pinto¹,

Aguirre-Dávila²

2014

JAS

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“…57). For example, a study calculating a net zero impact of the cessation of farming in the Americas 122 included a large soil carbon flux to the atmosphere, which contradicts field evidence 120,123 , and had the effect of offsetting the uptake from growing trees 122 . Carbon cycle models with robust representations of land-use change and subsequent vegetation regeneration following the Americas population catastrophe will be required to improve estimates of carbon uptake compared with carbon accounting studies.…”

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Defining the Anthropocene

Lewis

Maslin

2015

Nature

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Time is divided by geologists according to marked shifts in Earth's state. Recent global environmental changes suggest that Earth may have entered a new human-dominated geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Here we review the historical genesis of the idea and assess anthropogenic signatures in the geological record against the formal requirements for the recognition of a new epoch. The evidence suggests that of the various proposed dates two do appear to conform to the criteria to mark the beginning of the Anthropocene: 1610 and 1964. The formal establishment of an Anthropocene Epoch would mark a fundamental change in the relationship between humans and the Earth system.

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“…Successional vegetation is the regrowth of forest in deforested regions and there is not an obvious boundary between adjacent successional stages. In the Amazonian deforested regions, successional vegetation plays an important role in the carbon budget and soil fertility restoration due to its increasing area and high growth rate (Feldpausch et al 2004;Orihuela-Belmonte et al uncertainties are created when successional vegetation is mapped as a homogenous group. Successional stages have a large variation in biomass density from less than 2 kg/m 2 in initial stages to greater than 20 kg/m 2 in advanced successional stage (Vieira et al 2003;Lu 2005) due to the influence of soil fertility, land-use history and vegetation age.…”

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A comparative analysis of approaches for successional vegetation classification in the Brazilian Amazon

Moran

et al. 2014

GIScience & Remote Sensing

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Research on separation of successional stages has been an active topic for the past two decades because successional vegetation plays an important role in the carbon budget and restoration of soil fertility in the Brazilian Amazon. This article examines classification of successional stages by conducting a comparative analysis of classification algorithms (maximum likelihood classifier -MLC, artificial neural network -ANN, K-nearest neighbour -KNN, support vector machine -SVM, classification tree analysis -CTA, and object-based classification -OBC) on varying remote-sensing data-sets (Landsat and ALOS PALSAR). Through this research we obtained the following four major conclusions: (1) Landsat data provide higher classification accuracy than ALOS PALSAR data, and individual PALSAR data cannot effectively separate successional stages; (2) Fusion of Landsat and PALSAR data provides better classification than individual sensor data; (3) Depending on the data-set, the best classification algorithm varies, MLC and CTA are recommended for Landsat or fusion images; and KNN is recommended for the combination of Landsat and PALSAR data as extra bands; (4) the MLC based on fusion images is recommended for vegetation classification in the moist tropical region when sufficiently representative training samples are available.

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Carbon stocks and accumulation rates in tropical secondary forests at the scale of community, landscape and forest type

Cited by 64 publications

References 53 publications

Carbon Stocks in Organic Coffee Systems in Chiapas, Mexico

Carbon Stocks in Organic Coffee Systems in Chiapas, Mexico

Defining the Anthropocene

A comparative analysis of approaches for successional vegetation classification in the Brazilian Amazon

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