Forest carbon storage: ecology, management, and policy

Fahey, Timothy J.; Woodbury, Peter B.; Battles, John J.; Goodale, Christine L.; Hamburg, Steven P.; Ollinger, Scott V.; Woodall, Christopher W.

doi:10.1890/080169

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“…The aboveground biomass for all individual trees was scaled to the stand-level using plot size and it was converted to AGC by assuming that 50 % of the dry mass was carbon. Aboveground tree carbon storage is not the only carbon pool but it usually represents the most dynamic carbon pool in forest ecosystems and it is most directly influenced by forest management (Fahey et al 2010). …”

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Trade-off analyses of multiple ecosystem services by plantations along a precipitation gradient across Loess Plateau landscapes

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Trade-off is defined as a situation where one ecosystem service (ES) increases while another decreases. In a broader sense, trade-off also refers to unidirectional changes with uneven paces or rates in ESs. Although trade-off analysis for multiple ESs is more integral for ecosystem assessment and management, studies regarding trade-offs are rare in the literature, especially at the landscape scale or across large environmental gradients. Here, we evaluated the co-variations of multiple ESs of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) plantations along a precipitation gradient (400-650 mm) on the Loess Plateau using a quantitative trade-off approach. The multiple ESs had complex relationships, with significant regional variations along the gradient. Aboveground carbon, soil organic carbon (SOC), soil total nitrogen (STN), and soil water content (SWC) showed increasing trends with precipitation, but understory plant diversity (UPD) did not. The highest trade-offs were between UPD and SWC and the lowest trade-offs were between SOC and STN among all of the ES pairs. The differences in the trade-offs of varied ES combinations could be the result of unique competition relationships, mass allocation strategies, and time lags. Stand age appeared to be another critical variable in determining the values of ESs and their trade-offs along the precipitation gradient. The decreasing SWC with stand age indicated that the gaining of the other ESs was at the cost of SWC consumption. Because multiple ESs and their trade-offs exhibit high spatial variations across the landscape, spatially explicit management is needed to maintain the benefits while mitigating negative impacts in this water-limited landscape.

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Section: Aboveground Carbon (Agc) Storagementioning

confidence: 99%

Trade-off analyses of multiple ecosystem services by plantations along a precipitation gradient across Loess Plateau landscapes

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“…Recent national or global assessments of forest C lack any mention of mineral soil C [15][16][17], implicitly assuming that soil C remains constant after forest harvest. Furthermore, carbon monitoring programs include soil C inconsistently.…”

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The Effect of Harvest on Forest Soil Carbon: A Meta-Analysis

James

Harrison

2016

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Forest soils represent a substantial portion of the terrestrial carbon (C) pool, and changes to soil C cycling are globally significant not only for C sequestration but also for sustaining forest productivity and ecosystem services. To quantify the effect of harvesting on soil C, we used meta-analysis to examine a database of 945 responses to harvesting collected from 112 publications from around the world. Harvesting reduced soil C, on average, by 11.2% with 95% CI [14.1%, 8.5%].There was substantial variation between responses in different soil depths, with greatest losses occurring in the O horizon (−30.2%). Much smaller but still significant losses (−3.3%) occurred in top soil C pools (0-15 cm depth). In very deep soil (60-100+ cm), a significant loss of 17.7% of soil C in was observed after harvest. However, only 21 of the 945 total responses examined this depth, indicating a substantial need for more research in this area. The response of soil C to harvesting varies substantially between soil orders, with greater losses in Spodosol and Ultisol orders and less substantial losses in Alfisols and Andisols. Soil C takes several decades to recover following harvest, with Spodosol and Ultisol C recovering only after at least 75 years. The publications in this analysis were highly skewed toward surface sampling, with a maximum sampling depth of 36 cm, on average. Sampling deep soil represents one of the best opportunities to reduce uncertainty in the understanding of the response of soil C to forest harvest.

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“…Biomass is an important carbon pool in forest ecosystems [7], especially tree biomass, including the trunk, branches, foliage, and roots. Most of the total carbon in plantations is stored in aboveground biomass (trunk, branches, foliage) [8,9].…”

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“…Soil C stocks are determined by the balance between inputs of C through litter-fall and roots, and loss of C, mainly through decomposition of soil organic matter. Carbon fluxes are influenced by numerous factors, including topography, climate, soil properties, tree species, management regime, previous land use, and stand age [7,26,27]. Thus, understanding the dynamics of soil carbon storage in forest ecosystems is an important undertaking.…”

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Carbon Storage in a Eucalyptus Plantation Chronosequence in Southern China

Zeng

Peng

et al. 2015

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Patterns of carbon (C) allocation across different stages of stand development in Eucalyptus urophylla × E. grandis plantations are not well understood. In this study, we examined biomass and mineral soil C content in five development stages (1, 2, 3, 4-5, and 6-8 years old) of a Eucalyptus stand in southern China. The tree biomass C pool increased with stand age and showed a high annual rate of accumulation. Stems accounted for the highest proportion of biomass C sequestered. The C pool in mineral soil increased initially after afforestation and then declined gradually, with C density decreasing with soil depth. The upper 50 cm of soil contained the majority (57%-68%) of sequestered C. The other biomass components (shrubs, herbaceous plants, litter, and fine roots) accounted for <5% of the total ecosystem C pool. Total C pools in the Eucalyptus plantation ecosystem were 112.9, 172.5, 203.8, 161.1, in the five developmental stages, respectively, with most of the C sequestered below ground. We conclude that Eucalyptus plantations have considerable biomass C sequestration potential during stand development. OPEN ACCESSForests 2015, 6 1764

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Forest carbon storage: ecology, management, and policy

Cited by 280 publications

References 41 publications

Trade-off analyses of multiple ecosystem services by plantations along a precipitation gradient across Loess Plateau landscapes

Trade-off analyses of multiple ecosystem services by plantations along a precipitation gradient across Loess Plateau landscapes

The Effect of Harvest on Forest Soil Carbon: A Meta-Analysis

Carbon Storage in a Eucalyptus Plantation Chronosequence in Southern China

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