Increasing carbon stocks in the forest soils of western Europe

Liski, Jari; Perruchoud, Daniel; Karjalainen, Timo

doi:10.1016/s0378-1127(02)00306-7

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“…The carbon pools of litter (including deadwood) and soil organic matter as well as the cycling of carbon in these pools are simulated using a dynamic model. The basic concepts of this calculation method were presented earlier [37], but here we demonstrate a more advanced version of the method consisting of new models shown to be appropriate for regional and national scale inventories.…”

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Carbon accumulation in Finland's forests 1922–2004 – an estimate obtained by combination of forest inventory data with modelling of biomass, litter and soil

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-Comparable regional scale estimates for the carbon balance of forests are needed for scientific and political purposes. We developed a method for deriving these estimates from readily available forest inventory data by using statistical biomass models and dynamic modelling of litter and soil. Here, we demonstrate this method and apply it to Finland's forests between 1922 and 2004. The method was reliable, since the results obtained were comparable to independent data. The amount of carbon stored in the forests increased by 29%, 79% of which was found in the biomass and 21% in the litter and soil. The carbon balance varied annually, depending on the climate and level of harvesting, with each of these factors having effects on the biomass differing from those on the litter and soil. Our results demonstrate the importance of accounting for all forest carbon pools to avoid misleading pictures of short-and long-term forest carbon balance.carbon inventory / forest biomass / greenhouse gas inventory / litter / soil modelling Résumé -Accumulation de carbone dans les forêts finlandaises entre 1922 et 2004, une estimation obtenue en combinant les données de l'inventaire forestier avec une modélisation de la biomasse de la litière et du sol. Une estimation comparable à l'échelle régionale du bilan de carbone des forêts était nécessaire pour des objectifs scientifiques et politiques. Nous avons développé une méthode pour déduire ces estimations de données facilement disponibles de l'inventaire forestier en utilisant des modèles statistique de la biomasse et une modélisation dynamique de la litière et du sol. Ici nous présentons cette méthode et l'appliquons aux forêts de Finlande entre 1922 et 2004. La méthode a été fiable, puisque les résultats obtenus ont été comparables à des données indépendantes. La quantité de carbone accumulée dans les forêts s'est accrue de 29 %,79 % de ce qui a été trouvé dans la biomasse et 21 % dans la litière et le sol. Le bilan de carbone varie annuellement, selon le climat et l'importance de la récolte, chacun de ces facteurs ayant des effets sur la biomasse différents de ceux qui agissent sur la litière et sur le sol. Nos résultats démontrent l'importance de comptabiliser tous les réservoirs de carbone en forêt pour éviter des images trompeuses du bilan de carbone des forêts à court et moyen terme.inventaire du carbone / biomasse forestière / inventaire des gaz à effet de serre / litière / sol

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“…Measuring the carbon balances of litter and soil organic matter is particularly difficult because the expected changes [37,60] are one or two orders of magnitude smaller than the spatial variability inside forest sites [33]. For this reason, various modelling approaches were applied to obtain these estimates [14,25,37,58].…”

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Carbon accumulation in Finland's forests 1922–2004 – an estimate obtained by combination of forest inventory data with modelling of biomass, litter and soil

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“…Increased forest area in Europe in the last quarter of the twentieth century, prior to similar trends in the US, has led to increased carbon reserves in living biomass as well as in the soil (Liski et al, 2002). , though less than that of previous years (Keenan et al, 2015) Living biomass carbon stocks decreased steadily from 1990 to 2005, but by 2010 had recovered to year 2000 levels (Table 4) (FAO, 2006 and2010).…”

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Forest Carbon Sequestration: The Impact of Forest Management

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Managing Forest Ecosystems: The Challenge of Climate Change

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“…The potential of soils as long-term C * Corresponding author: mibalboa@lugo.usc.es sinks is, however, much less well understood than that of tree C [29,38], even though mineral soil is the compartment of the system that stores most stable C.…”

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Carbon and nutrient stocks in matureQuercus roburL. stands in NW Spain

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-In the present study, the distribution of C and nutrients in biomass (above-and below-ground) and soil were estimated in native Quercus robur stands in NW Spain. This information can be used to design future strategies to preserve and improve these forests, which are subjected to severe degradation as a consequence of poor management and fire damage. Biomass equations for tree components were fitted simultaneously using the data corresponding to 31 trees felled in 4 representative mature stands. The C accumulated in aerial biomass, roots, litter layer and mineral soil made up 40, 10, 8 and 42% respectively, of the C in the whole forest system. Tree biomass contained higher amounts of macronutrients than the available reserves in the soil. Stem wood was the major tree compartment for most nutrients, with the exception of Ca, which was mainly accumulated in stem bark. In comparison with commercial forest plantations in the region, particularly high amounts of nutrients were accumulated in the litter layer because of the high amounts of litterfall and higher foliar concentrations of nutrients. Quercus robur L. / biomasse / nutrition forestière / carbone / régression apparemment sans rapport

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Increasing carbon stocks in the forest soils of western Europe

Cited by 264 publications

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Carbon accumulation in Finland's forests 1922–2004 – an estimate obtained by combination of forest inventory data with modelling of biomass, litter and soil

Carbon accumulation in Finland's forests 1922–2004 – an estimate obtained by combination of forest inventory data with modelling of biomass, litter and soil

Forest Carbon Sequestration: The Impact of Forest Management

Carbon and nutrient stocks in matureQuercus roburL. stands in NW Spain

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