Preparing emission reporting from forests: use of National Forest Inventories in European countries

Cienciala, Emil; Tomppo, Erkki; Snorrason, Arnór; Broadmeadow, M. S. J.; Colin, Antoine; Dunger, Karsten; Exnerová, Z.; Lasserre, Bruno; Petersson, Hans; Priwitzer, Tibor; Peña, Gerardo Sánchez; Ståhl, Göran

doi:10.14214/sf.265

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“…Deadwood is usually divided into coarse and fine woody debris, although the minimum threshold diameter value varies a lot (0-35 cm, Cienciala et al 2008). According to IPCC (2003), the border diameter is 10 cm.…”

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Coarse woody debris carbon stocks in natural spruce forests of Babia hora

Merganičová¹,

Merganič²

2010

J. For. Sci.

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Although coarse woody debris (CWD) represents one of the major carbon pools in natural forest ecosystems, little information is available about its CWD carbon stocks. This study demonstrates the importance of proper estimation of carbon stocks in CWD, which accounts for the decay process of CWD, on an example of a natural mountainous spruce forest located in Central Europe. The study accounts for aboveground coarse woody debris including standing dead trees, lying deadwood, and naturally formed stumps. Basic mensurational information (diameter, height, decay class) about dead wood was collected in the field during the inventory of the forests of the nature reserve Babia hora. The data were used for the calculation of CWD timber volume. In the next step, CWD timber volume was converted to carbon stock using the carbon proportion of 50.1% and density values of decay classes derived from the information published elsewhere. The analysis revealed that when CWD timber volume was converted to carbon stocks using the basic wood density of fresh wood, C stocks were overestimated by 40% or more depending on the developmental stage and elevation. The results also revealed that as the elevation increases, CWD carbon stocks decrease and the differences between the developmental stages diminish.

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Coarse woody debris carbon stocks in natural spruce forests of Babia hora

Merganičová¹,

Merganič²

2010

J. For. Sci.

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“…From this report, it became obvious that national forest inventories had a great po ten tial to be key sources of information. Later this was confirmed by, e.g., Cienciala et al (2008), Dunger et al (2012) and GFOI (2014).…”

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“…A major portion of the data needed for the greenhouse gas reporting for the forest and land-use sector (LULUCF) can be obtained from NFIs (Cienciala et al 2008), since many of the ongoing measurements of land use, trees and soils can be analyzed in new ways to meet the reporting requirements (Ståhl et al 2004;Ellison et al 2011). However, some modifications were introduced to improve the applicability of the combined NFI and SFSI in this context:…”

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Adapting National Forest Inventories to changing requirements – the case of the Swedish National Forest Inventory at the turn of the 20th century

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Holm²,

Nilsson³

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Silva Fenn.

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• National Forest Inventories supply invaluable long term time series of forest state. Recent developments and international harmonization of modern NFIs widen the scope to even include ecosystem goods, e.g. biodiversity and carbon sequestration. The combination of NFI field data with remote sensing techniques can give good estimates for areas smaller than national and regional level. AbstractNational Forest Inventories (NFIs) are becoming increasingly important worldwide in order to provide information about the multiple functions of forests, e.g. their provision of raw materials to industry, biodiversity and their capacity to store carbon for mitigating climate change. In several countries the history of NFIs is very long. For these countries a specific challenge is to keep the inventories up-to-date without sacrificing the advantages associated with long time series. At the turn of the 20th century European NFIs faced some major challenges. In this article we describe the history and the recent developments of the Swedish NFI as an example from which general observations are made and discussed. The Swedish NFI started in 1923 and has evolved from an inventory with a narrow focus on wood resources to an inventory today which aims to provide information about all major forest ecosystem services. It can be concluded that the traditional approaches of most European NFIs, e.g. to collect data through sample plot field inventories, has proved to be applicable even for a wide range of new information requirements. Specifically, detailed data about land use, trees, vegetation, and soils has found new important uses in connection with biodiversity assessments and the estimation of greenhouse gas emissions. Though time-consuming and difficult, making NFI information comparable across countries through harmonization appears to be a useful approach. The European National Forest Inventory Network (ENFIN) was formed in 2003 and has been successful in pan-European NFI harmonization.

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“…According to the agreements, information should be provided annually from many different sectors of which one is land use, land-use change, and forestry sector. Cienciala et al (2008) demonstrate the importance of forest inventory information for this sector and point to promising ongoing harmonisation efforts. Within the framework of the CBD (CBD 2007), the European Environmental Agency (EEA) has coordinated an initiative with the objective of reducing the rate of loss of biodiversity in European forests (EEA, 2008).…”

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