Three Decades of Forest Carbon Dynamics Modeling Using CO2FIX: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Forest carbon modeling is essential in climate change mitigation activities. Projection of forest carbon for a certain period can be used to develop other actions to mitigate climate change, such as public policy, forest management scenarios, and other interventions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The CO2FIX model estimates carbon content through empirical growth data that is a user-friendly measurement for forest managers. This review article aims to describe the research trends in forest carbon dynamics modeling using CO2FIX. Our findings show that CO2FIX has been applied to a wide range of forest types in 27 countries. The most productive researchers have come from China, India, the Netherlands, and Spain. However, collaboration among researchers across countries has been limited. The number of articles related to CO2FIX indexed by the Scopus or the Web of Science (WoS) database has gradually increased since the first was published in 1995. Furthermore, the top five items used in the CO2FIX publications were carbon sequestration, CO2FIX, carbon, forestry, and forest management. In conclusion, CO2FIX is a user-friendly, forest carbon dynamics model that is used widely by researchers for various types of forests and results in a precise estimation. Furthermore, based on 63 articles indexed by the Scopus database and 50 articles indexed by WoS, collaboration among researchers should increase to solve more complex problems related to climate change mitigation in the forestry sector.

Forest Carbon Modeling in Poplar and Black Locust Short Rotation Coppice Plantation in Hungary

“…In the early development of CO2FIX software for forest carbon modeling, this software has been applied in 16 forest types (Masera et al 2003). Furthermore, for three decades, the CO2FIX software has been applied in 27 countries and various forest types (Mulyana et al 2023b). The parameters of carbon dynamic simulation were divided into biomass, soil, products, and bioenergy cohorts (Masera et al 2003;Schelhaas et al 2004b).…”

“…In Europe, the CO2FIX has been implemented in sixteen forest types (Masera et al 2003). Globally, the CO2FIX software has been applied in forest plantations and agroforestry systems to estimate the forest carbon dynamics (Mulyana et al 2023b). In this study, CO2FIX was used to simulate forest carbon dynamics at SRC black locust and poplar bioenergy plantations.…”