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Quantifying the impact of key factors on the carbon mitigation potential of managed temperate forests Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Konstantin Gregor, Andreas Krause, Christopher P. O. Reyer, Thomas Knoke, Benjamin F. Meyer, Susanne Suvanto, Anja Rammig
Forests mitigate climate change by reducing atmospheric $$\mathrm {CO_2}$$ -concentrations through the carbon sink in the forest and in wood products, and substitution effects when wood products replace carbon-intensive materials and fuels. Quantifying the carbon mitigation potential of forests is highly challenging due to the influence of multiple important factors such as forest age and type, climate
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Black carbon in urban soils: land use and climate drive variation at the surface Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Molly Burke, Erika Marín-Spiotta, Alexandra G. Ponette-González
Black carbon (BC) encompasses a range of carbonaceous materials––including soot, char, and charcoal––derived from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass. Urban soils can become enriched in BC due to proximity to these combustion sources. We conducted a literature review of BC in urban soils globally and found 26 studies reporting BC and total organic carbon (TOC) content collected to
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Modeling wood product carbon flows in southern us pine plantations: implications for carbon storage Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Sarah J. Puls, Rachel L. Cook, Justin S. Baker, James L. Rakestraw, Andrew Trlica
Wood products continue to store carbon sequestered in forests after harvest and therefore play an important role in the total carbon storage associated with the forest sector. Trade-offs between carbon sequestration/storage in wood product pools and managed forest systems exist, and in order for forest sector carbon modeling to be meaningful, it must link wood product carbon with the specific forest
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The business case for carbon farming in the USA Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Alejandro Plastina, Haeun Jo, Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn
U.S. agricultural producers are increasingly able to participate in private voluntary carbon initiatives that compensate their efforts to sequester CO2, reduce GHG emissions, and provide ecosystem services through eligible conservation practices. This study examines the potential effects of alternative private payment regimes (per practice vs. per output), prices paid to farmers relative to out-of-pocket
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Predicting the spatial variation in cost-efficiency for agricultural greenhouse gas mitigation programs in the U.S Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Micah V. Cameron-Harp, Nathan P. Hendricks, Nicholas A. Potter
Two major factors that determine the efficiency of programs designed to mitigate greenhouse gases by encouraging voluntary changes in U.S. agricultural land management are the effect of land use changes on producers’ profitability and the net sequestration those changes create. In this work, we investigate how the interaction of these factors produces spatial heterogeneity in the cost-efficiency of
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Land use change and forest management effects on soil carbon stocks in the Northeast U.S. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Lucas E. Nave, Kendall DeLyser, Grant M. Domke, Scott M. Holub, Maria K. Janowiak, Adrienne B. Keller, Matthew P. Peters, Kevin A. Solarik, Brian F. Walters, Christopher W. Swanston
In most regions and ecosystems, soils are the largest terrestrial carbon pool. Their potential vulnerability to climate and land use change, management, and other drivers, along with soils’ ability to mitigate climate change through carbon sequestration, makes them important to carbon balance and management. To date, most studies of soil carbon management have been based at either large or site-specific
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Procedures to combine estimators of greenhouse gases emission factors Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Ernesto C. Marujo, Gleice G. Rodrigues, Arthur A. Covatti
This article describes a new procedure to estimate the mean and variance of greenhouse gases (GHG) emission factors based on different, possibly conflicting, estimates for these emission factors. The procedure uses common information such as mean and standard deviation usually reported in IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) database and other references in the literature that estimate
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Characteristics of soil organic carbon fractions in four vegetation communities of an inland salt marsh Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Manping Kang, ChengZhang Zhao, Min Ma, Xiaoya Li
The study of soil organic carbon characteristics and its relationship with soil environment and vegetation types is of great significance to the evaluation of soil carbon sink provided by inland salt marshes. This paper reports the characteristics of soil organic carbon fractions in 0–50 cm soil layers at four vegetation communities of the Qinwangchuan salt marsh. (1) The soil organic carbon content
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The importance of accounting method and sampling depth to estimate changes in soil carbon stocks Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Anna M. Raffeld, Mark A. Bradford, Randall D. Jackson, Daniel Rath, Gregg R. Sanford, Nicole Tautges, Emily E. Oldfield
As interest in the voluntary soil carbon market surges, carbon registries have been developing new soil carbon measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) protocols. These protocols are inconsistent in their approaches to measuring soil organic carbon (SOC). Two areas of concern include the type of SOC stock accounting method (fixed-depth (FD) vs. equivalent soil mass (ESM)) and sampling depth requirement
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Forest carbon stock development following extreme drought-induced dieback of coniferous stands in Central Europe: a CBM-CFS3 model application Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Emil Cienciala, Jan Melichar
We analyze the forest carbon stock development following the recent historically unprecedented dieback of coniferous stands in the Czech Republic. The drought-induced bark-beetle infestation resulted in record-high sanitary logging and total harvest more than doubled from the previous period. It turned Czech forestry from a long-term carbon sink offsetting about 6% of the country's greenhouse gas emissions
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Change and relationship between growing season metrics and net primary productivity in forestland and grassland in China Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Linli Cui, Jun Shi, Fengjin Xiao
Vegetation phenology can characterize ecosystem functions and plays a key role in the dynamics of plant productivity. Here we investigated the changes in growing season metrics (start of growing season, SOS; end of growing season, EOS; length of growing season, LOS) and their relationships with net primary productivity (NPP) in forestland and grassland in China during 1981–2016. SOS advanced, EOS delayed
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Growing-season carbon budget of alpine meadow ecosystem in the Qinghai Lake Basin: a continued carbon sink through this century according to the Biome-BGC model Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Meng-ya Zhang, Yu-jun Ma, Peng Chen, Fang-zhong Shi, Jun-qi Wei
The alpine meadow is one of the most important ecosystems in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP), and critically sensitive to climate change and human activities. Thus, it is crucial to precisely reveal the current state and predict future trends in the carbon budget of the alpine meadow ecosystem. The objective of this study was to explore the applicability of the Biome-BGC model (BBGC) in the Qinghai
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The impact of land cover change on the carbon stock of moist afromontane forests in the Majang Forest Biosphere Reserve Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Semegnew Tadese, Teshome Soromessa, Abreham Berta Aneseye, Getaneh Gebeyehu, Tomasz Noszczyk, Mengistie Kindu
Forest plays an important role in the global carbon cycle by sequestering carbon dioxide and thereby mitigating climate change. In this study, an attempt was made to investigate the effects of land use/land cover (LULC) change (1989–2017) on carbon stock and its economic values in tropical moist Afromontane forests of the Majang Forest Biosphere Reserve (MFBR), south-west Ethiopia. Systematic sampling
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Enteric methane emission factors of smallholder dairy farming systems across intensification gradients in the central highlands of Ethiopia Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Abraham Abera Feyissa, Feyera Senbeta, Adugna Tolera, Dawit Diriba, Kalaya Boonyanuwat
Following global pledges to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30% by 2030 compared to the baseline level of 2020, improved quantification of GHG emissions from developing countries has become crucial. However, national GHG inventories in most Sub-Saharan African countries use default (Tier I) emission factors (EFS) generated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to estimate
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Mind the gap: reconciling tropical forest carbon flux estimates from earth observation and national reporting requires transparency Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Viola Heinrich, Jo House, David A. Gibbs, Nancy Harris, Martin Herold, Giacomo Grassi, Roberta Cantinho, Thais M. Rosan, Barbara Zimbres, Julia Z. Shimbo, Joana Melo, Tristram Hales, Stephen Sitch, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
The application of different approaches calculating the anthropogenic carbon net flux from land, leads to estimates that vary considerably. One reason for these variations is the extent to which approaches consider forest land to be “managed” by humans, and thus contributing to the net anthropogenic flux. Global Earth Observation (EO) datasets characterising spatio-temporal changes in land cover and
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Comparative analysis of soil organic matter fractions, lability, stability ratios, and carbon management index in various land use types within bharatpur catchment, Chitwan District, Nepal Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Yves Theoneste Murindangabo, Marek Kopecký, Trong Nghia Hoang, Jaroslav Bernas, Tulsi Parajuli, Suman Dhakal, Petr Konvalina, Jean de Dieu Marcel UFITIKIREZI, Gisele Kaneza, Babu Ram Khanal, Shiva Chandra Dhakal, Arjun Kumar Shrestha
Land use and land cover changes have a significant impact on the dynamics of soil organic matter (SOM) and its fractions, as well as on overall soil health. This study conducted in Bharatpur Catchment, Chitwan District, Nepal, aimed to assess and quantify variations in total soil organic matter (TSOMC), labile organic matter fraction (CL), stable organic matter fraction (CS), stability ratio (SR),
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Spatial heterogeneity and scenario simulation of carbon budget on provincial scale in China Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Zhenyue Liu, Jinbing Zhang, Pengyan Zhang, Ling Jiang, Dan Yang, Tianqi Rong
Conducting an extensive study on the spatial heterogeneity of the overall carbon budget and its influencing factors and the decoupling status of carbon emissions from economic development, by undertaking simulation projections under different carbon emission scenarios is crucial for China to achieve its targets to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. There are large
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The fusion of multiple scale data indicates that the carbon sink function of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is substantial Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Jingyu Zeng, Tao Zhou, Yixin Xu, Qiaoyu Lin, E. Tan, Yajie Zhang, Xuemei Wu, Jingzhou Zhang, Xia Liu
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the “sensitive area” of climate change, and also the “driver” and “amplifier” of global change. The response and feedback of its carbon dynamics to climate change will significantly affect the content of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. However, due to the unique geographical environment characteristics of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, there is still much controversy about
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From political pledges to quantitative mapping of climate mitigation plans: Comparison of two European cities Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Ivonne Albarus, Giorgia Fleischmann, Patrick Aigner, Philippe Ciais, Hugo Denier van der Gon, Rianne Droge, Jinghui Lian, Miguel Andrey Narvaez Rincon, Hervé Utard, Thomas Lauvaux
Urban agglomerates play a crucial role in reaching global climate objectives. Many cities have committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, but current emission trends remain unverifiable. Atmospheric monitoring of greenhouse gases offers an independent and transparent strategy to measure urban emissions. However, careful design of the monitoring network is crucial to be able to monitor the
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Comprehensive evaluation of carbon sequestration potential of landscape tree species and its influencing factors analysis: implications for urban green space management Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Shanshan Jin, Ershan Zhang, Haotian Guo, Chuanwei Hu, Yaru Zhang, Dongfeng Yan
Continuous increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) has aggravated global warming and promoted urban tree planting projects for many countries. So it’s imperative to select high carbon sequestering landscape tree species while considering their aesthetic values of urban green space. 32 tree species were selected as test objects which were commonly used in landscaping in Zhengzhou, a typical northern city of
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Spatiotemporal evolution and influencing factors of China’s economic development performance under carbon emission constraints Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Zhixiang Xie, Rongqin Zhao, Liangang Xiao, Minglei Ding
China’s high-quality economic development depends on achieving sustainable economic development, reaching peak carbon emissions, achieving carbon neutrality, and intensifying the development of an industrial and energy structure that saves resources and protects the environment. This study used the data envelopment analysis (DEA) model and the Malmquist productivity index to measure the economic development
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The role of forests in the EU climate policy: are we on the right track? Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Anu Korosuo, Roberto Pilli, Raúl Abad Viñas, Viorel N. B. Blujdea, Rene R. Colditz, Giulia Fiorese, Simone Rossi, Matteo Vizzarri, Giacomo Grassi
The European Union (EU) has committed to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. This requires a rapid reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and ensuring that any remaining emissions are balanced through CO2 removals. Forests play a crucial role in this plan: they are currently the main option for removing CO2 from the atmosphere and additionally, wood use can store carbon durably and help reduce
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Wildfire national carbon accounting: how natural and anthropogenic landscape fires emissions are treated in the 2020 Australian government greenhouse gas accounts report to the UNFCCC Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 David MJS Bowman, Grant J. Williamson, Mercy Ndalila, Stephen H. Roxburgh, Shaun Suitor, Rodney J. Keenan
Greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting of emissions from land use, land-use change, and forestry necessarily involves consideration of landscape fire. This is of particular importance for Australia given that natural and human fire is a common occurrence, and many ecosystems are adapted to fire, and require periodic burning for plant regeneration and ecological health. Landscape fire takes many forms, can
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Temporal dynamics of ecosystem, inherent, and underlying water use efficiencies of forests, grasslands, and croplands and their responses to climate change Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Wei Chen, Shuguang Liu, Shuqing Zhao, Yu Zhu, Shuailong Feng, Zhao Wang, Yiping Wu, Jingfeng Xiao, Wenping Yuan, Wende Yan, Hui Ju, Qinyi Wang
Understanding temporal trends and varying responses of water use efficiency (WUE) to environmental changes of diverse ecosystems is key to predicting vegetation growth. WUE dynamics of major ecosystem types (e.g., forest, grassland and cropland) have been studied using various WUE definitions/metrics, but a comparative study on WUE dynamics and their driving forces among different ecosystem types using
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Deriving emission factors for mangrove blue carbon ecosystem in Indonesia Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Daniel Murdiyarso, Haruni Krisnawati, Wahyu C. Adinugroho, Sigit D. Sasmito
Using ‘higher-tier’ emission factors in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories is essential to improve quality and accuracy when reporting carbon emissions and removals. Here we systematically reviewed 736 data across 249 sites (published 2003–2020) to derive emission factors associated with land-use change in Indonesian mangroves blue carbon ecosystems. Four management regimes—aquaculture, degraded mangrove
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A national assessment of urban forest carbon storage and sequestration in Canada Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 James W. N. Steenberg, Melissa Ristow, Peter N. Duinker, Lyna Lapointe-Elmrabti, J. Douglas MacDonald, David J. Nowak, Jon Pasher, Corey Flemming, Cameron Samson
During a time of rapid urban growth and development, it is becoming ever more important to monitor the carbon fluxes of our cities. Unlike Canada’s commercially managed forests that have a long history of inventory and modelling tools, there is both a lack of coordinated data and considerable uncertainty on assessment procedures for urban forest carbon. Nonetheless, independent studies have been carried
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Estimating biomass and soil carbon change at the level of forest stands using repeated forest surveys assisted by airborne laser scanner data Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Victor F. Strîmbu, Erik Næsset, Hans Ole Ørka, Jari Liski, Hans Petersson, Terje Gobakken
Under the growing pressure to implement mitigation actions, the focus of forest management is shifting from a traditional resource centric view to incorporate more forest ecosystem services objectives such as carbon sequestration. Estimating the above-ground biomass in forests using airborne laser scanning (ALS) is now an operational practice in Northern Europe and is being adopted in many parts of
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An integrated view of correlated emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants in China Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Xiaohui Lin, Ruqi Yang, Wen Zhang, Ning Zeng, Yu Zhao, Guocheng Wang, Tingting Li, Qixiang Cai
Air pollution in China has raised great concerns due to its adverse effects on air quality, human health, and climate. Emissions of air pollutants (APs) are inherently linked with CO2 emissions through fossil-energy consumption. Knowledge of the characteristics of APs and CO2 emissions and their relationships is fundamentally important in the pursuit of co-benefits in addressing air quality and climate
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Challenges and lessons learned for REDD+ finance and its governance Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Kanako Morita, Ken’ichi Matsumoto
Discussion on reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries began at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties in 2005, and the agenda for “reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+)”
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Aboveground live tree carbon stock and change in forests of conterminous United States: influence of stand age Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Coeli M. Hoover, James E. Smith
Sequestration of carbon on forest land is a common and practical component within many climate action plans developed by state or municipal governments. Initial planning often identifies the general magnitude of sequestration expected given the scope of the project. Because age plays a key role in forest carbon dynamics, we summarize both the carbon stock and accumulation rates in live trees by age
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Thinning effects on stand growth, carbon stocks, and soil properties in Brutia pine plantations Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Neşat Erkan, Şükrü Teoman Güner, Ali Cem Aydın
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of thinning on stand growth, carbon (C) sequestration, and soil properties in Brutia pine (Pinus brutia Ten.) plantations. The study was conducted at two experimental sites -the Antalya-Kaş and Isparta-Eğirdir plantation areas- in Turkey between 1985 and 2015. Different thinning intensities -unthinned (control), moderate, and heavy- were replicated
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Effects of climate and plant functional types on forest above-ground biomass accumulation Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Xia Chen, Mingyu Luo, Markku Larjavaara
Forest above-ground biomass (AGB) accumulation is widely considered an important tool for mitigating climate change. However, the general pattern of forest AGB accumulation associated with age and climate gradients across various forest functional types at a global scale have remained unclear. In this study, we compiled a global AGB data set and applied a Bayesian statistical model to reveal the age-related
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Construction of land-use change matrix and estimation of greenhouse gas inventory focusing on settlements in South Korea Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Sol-E Choi, Segi Hong, Cholho Song, Jiwon Kim, Whijin Kim, Ram Ha, Woo-Kyun Lee
Five ministries are involved in estimating the greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory in the South Korean land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF) sectors. However, these ministries have not established a consistent land classification standard between land-use categories. Therefore, the GHG inventory is estimated at the approach 1 level with no spatial clarity between land-use categories. Moreover
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Carbon stock potential of highland bamboo plantations in northwestern Ethiopia Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Ayana A. Jember, Mintesinot A. Taye, Getaneh Gebeyehu, Gashaw Mulu, Trinh Thang Long, Durai Jayaraman, Shiferaw Abebe
In Ethiopia, highland bamboo has been cultivated in various niches: farmlands, riverbanks, woodlot boundaries, and homesteads, and agroforestry systems. However, the biomass and carbon storage of potential of bamboo forests across niches is not well characterized in Ethiopia. Therefore, this study was conducted to estimate the biomass and carbon storage potential of highland bamboo plantations in northwestern
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Effects of forest degradation classification on the uncertainty of aboveground carbon estimates in the Amazon Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Ekena Rangel Pinagé, Michael Keller, Christopher P. Peck, Marcos Longo, Paul Duffy, Ovidiu Csillik
Tropical forests are critical for the global carbon budget, yet they have been threatened by deforestation and forest degradation by fire, selective logging, and fragmentation. Existing uncertainties on land cover classification and in biomass estimates hinder accurate attribution of carbon emissions to specific forest classes. In this study, we used textural metrics derived from PlanetScope images
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A life cycle and product type based estimator for quantifying the carbon stored in wood products Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Wei, Xinyuan, Zhao, Jianheng, Hayes, Daniel J., Daigneault, Adam, Zhu, He
Timber harvesting and industrial wood processing laterally transfer the carbon stored in forest sectors to wood products creating a wood products carbon pool. The carbon stored in wood products is allocated to end-use wood products (e.g., paper, furniture), landfill, and charcoal. Wood products can store substantial amounts of carbon and contribute to the mitigation of greenhouse effects. Therefore
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Socio-economic factors influencing the adoption of low carbon technologies under rice production systems in China Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Chen, Zhong-Du, Chen, Fu
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) production, such as farmers’ livelihood and the soil quality, has been identified to be strong influenced by climate change in China. However, the benefits of low carbon technologies (LCTs) are still debatable in rice production for farmers, which have been identified to tackle agricultural challenges. The choice of potential LCTs relevant to the case study is based on a literature
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Response of soil respiration to changes in soil temperature and water table level in drained and restored peatlands of the southeastern United States Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-19 Swails, E. E., Ardón, M., Krauss, K. W., Peralta, A. L., Emanuel, R. E., Helton, A. M., Morse, J. L., Gutenberg, L., Cormier, N., Shoch, D., Settlemyer, S., Soderholm, E., Boutin, B. P., Peoples, C., Ward, S.
Extensive drainage of peatlands in the southeastern United States coastal plain for the purposes of agriculture and timber harvesting has led to large releases of soil carbon as carbon dioxide (CO2) due to enhanced peat decomposition. Growth in mechanisms that provide financial incentives for reducing emissions from land use and land-use change could increase funding for hydrological restoration that
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The impact of human and livestock respiration on CO2 emissions from 14 global cities Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Cai, Qixiang, Zeng, Ning, Zhao, Fang, Han, Pengfei, Liu, Di, Lin, Xiaohui, Chen, Jingwen
The CO2 released by humans and livestock through digestion and decomposition is an important part of the urban carbon cycle, but is rarely considered in studies of city carbon budgets since its annual magnitude is usually much lower than that of fossil fuel emissions within the boundaries of cities. However, human and livestock respiration may be substantial compared to fossil fuel emissions in areas
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China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance during the 20th century: an analysis with a process-based biogeochemistry model Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Lu, Yanyu, Huang, Yao, Zhuang, Qianlai, Sun, Wei, Chen, Shutao, Lu, Jun
China’s terrestrial ecosystems play a pronounced role in the global carbon cycle. Here we combine spatially-explicit information on vegetation, soil, topography, climate and land use change with a process-based biogeochemistry model to quantify the responses of terrestrial carbon cycle in China during the 20th century. At a century scale, China’s terrestrial ecosystems have acted as a carbon sink averaging
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On the use of Earth Observation to support estimates of national greenhouse gas emissions and sinks for the Global stocktake process: lessons learned from ESA-CCI RECCAP2 Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Bastos, Ana, Ciais, Philippe, Sitch, Stephen, Aragão, Luiz E. O. C., Chevallier, Frédéric, Fawcett, Dominic, Rosan, Thais M., Saunois, Marielle, Günther, Dirk, Perugini, Lucia, Robert, Colas, Deng, Zhu, Pongratz, Julia, Ganzenmüller, Raphael, Fuchs, Richard, Winkler, Karina, Zaehle, Sönke, Albergel, Clément
The Global Stocktake (GST), implemented by the Paris Agreement, requires rapid developments in the capabilities to quantify annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals consistently from the global to the national scale and improvements to national GHG inventories. In particular, new capabilities are needed for accurate attribution of sources and sinks and their trends to natural and anthropogenic
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Required displacement factors for evaluating and comparing climate impacts of intensive and extensive forestry in Germany Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Christian, Buschbeck, Stefan, Pauliuk
Forestry plays a major role in climate change mitigation. However, which intensity of logging is best suited for that task remains controversial. We contribute to the debate by quantitatively analyzing three different forest management scenarios in Germany—a baseline scenario which represents a continuation of current forest management practice as well as an intensive and an extensive logging scenario
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Towards a low carbon ASEAN: an environmentally extended MRIO optimization model Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Amheka, Adrianus, Nguyen, Hoa Thi, Yu, Krista Danielle, Noach, Robert Mesakh, Andiappan, Viknesh, Dacanay, Vincent Joseph, Aviso, Kathleen
Economic growth is dependent on economic activity, which often translates to higher levels of carbon emissions. With the emergence of technologies that promote sustainable production, governments are working towards achieving their target economic growth while minimizing environmental emissions to meet their commitments to the international community. The IPCC reports that economic activities associated
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Integrating spaceborne LiDAR and Sentinel-2 images to estimate forest aboveground biomass in Northern China Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Jiang, Fugen, Deng, Muli, Tang, Jie, Fu, Liyong, Sun, Hua
Fast and accurate forest aboveground biomass (AGB) estimation and mapping is the basic work of forest management and ecosystem dynamic investigation, which is of great significance to evaluate forest quality, resource assessment, and carbon cycle and management. The Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), as one of the latest launched spaceborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors
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GHG Monitoring Project for the Global Stocktake 2023: implications of the COP26 Japan Pavilion seminar Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Oda, Tomohiro
During the 2021 Glasgow Climate Change Conference (COP26), a hybrid seminar event “Greenhouse gas (GHG) Monitoring Project for the Global Stocktake 2023” was held at the COP26 Japan Pavilion on 2nd of November 2011. The participants presented and discussed science-based GHG monitoring approaches in support of the Global Stocktake. This report summarizes the five research talks given at the event.
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of forest ecosystem carbon budget in Guizhou: customisation and application of the CBM-CFS3 model for China Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-07-02 Tang, Yuzhi, Shao, Quanqin, Shi, Tiezhu, Lu, Zhensheng, Wu, Guofeng
Countries seeking to mitigate climate change through forests require suitable modelling approaches to predict carbon (C) budget dynamics in forests and their responses to disturbance and management. The Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3) is a feasible and comprehensive tool for simulating forest C stock dynamics across broad levels, but discrepancies remain to be addressed
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An empirical model for estimating daily atmospheric column-averaged CO2 concentration above São Paulo state, Brazil Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-06-11 da Costa, Luis Miguel , de Araújo Santos, Gustavo André, Panosso, Alan Rodrigo, de Souza Rolim, Glauco, La Scala , Newton
The recent studies of the variations in the atmospheric column-averaged CO2 concentration ( $${\text{X}}_{{{\text{CO}}_{{2}} }}$$ ) above croplands and forests show a negative correlation between $${\text{X}}_{{{\text{CO}}_{{2}} }}$$ and Sun Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence (SIF) and confirmed that photosynthesis is the main regulator of the terrestrial uptake for atmospheric CO2. The remote sensing
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Uncertainties of soil organic carbon stock estimation caused by paleoclimate and human footprint on the Qinghai Plateau Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Liu, Xia, Zhou, Tao, Shi, Peijun, Zhang, Yajie, Luo, Hui, Yu, Peixin, Xu, Yixin, Zhou, Peifang, Zhang, Jingzhou
Quantifying the stock of soil organic carbon (SOC) and evaluating its potential impact factors is important to evaluating global climate change. Human disturbances and past climate are known to influence the rates of carbon fixation, soil physiochemical properties, soil microbial diversity and plant functional traits, which ultimately affect the current SOC storage. However, whether and how the paleoclimate
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Carbon dioxide and particulate emissions from the 2013 Tasmanian firestorm: implications for Australian carbon accounting Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Ndalila, Mercy N., Williamson, Grant J., Bowman, David M. J. S.
Uncontrolled wildfires in Australian temperate Eucalyptus forests produce significant smoke emissions, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2) and particulates. Emissions from fires in these ecosystems, however, have received less research attention than the fires in North American conifer forests or frequently burned Australian tropical savannas. Here, we use the 2013 Forcett–Dunalley fire that caused the
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Stand carbon storage and net primary production in China’s subtropical secondary forests are predicted to increase by 2060 Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Jin, Jia, Xiang, Wenhua, Zeng, Yelin, Ouyang, Shuai, Zhou, Xiaolu, Hu, Yanting, Zhao, Zhonghui, Chen, Liang, Lei, Pifeng, Deng, Xiangwen, Wang, Hui, Liu, Shirong, Peng, Changhui
Forest ecosystems play an important role in carbon sequestration, climate change mitigation, and achieving China's target to become carbon (C) neutral by 2060. However, changes in C storage and net primary production (NPP) in natural secondary forests stemming from tree growth and future climate change have not yet been investigated in subtropical areas in China. Here, we used data from 290 inventory
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Application of integrated Korean forest growth dynamics model to meet NDC target by considering forest management scenarios and budget Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Hong, Mina, Song, Cholho, Kim, Moonil, Kim, Jiwon, Lee, Sle-gee, Lim, Chul-Hee, Cho, Kijong, Son, Yowhan, Lee, Woo-Kyun
Forests are atmospheric carbon sinks, whose natural growth can contribute to climate change mitigation. However, they are also affected by climate change and various other phenomena, for example, the low growth of coniferous forests currently reported globally, including in the Republic of Korea. In response to the implementation of the Paris Agreement, the Korean government has proposed 2030 greenhouse
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Substitution impacts of Nordic wood-based multi-story building types: influence of the decarbonization of the energy sector and increased recycling of construction materials Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Myllyviita, Tanja, Hurmekoski, Elias, Kunttu, Janni
The building and construction sectors represent a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Replacing concrete and steel with wood is one potential strategy to decrease emissions. On product level, the difference in fossil emissions per functional unit can be quantified with displacement factors (DFs), i.e., the amount of fossil emission reduction achieved per unit of wood use when replacing
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Spatiotemporal variations in urban CO2 flux with land-use types in Seoul Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Park, Chaerin, Jeong, Sujong, Park, Moon-Soo, Park, Hoonyoung, Yun, Jeongmin, Lee, Sang-Sam, Park, Sung-Hwa
Cities are a major source of atmospheric CO2; however, understanding the surface CO2 exchange processes that determine the net CO2 flux emitted from each city is challenging owing to the high heterogeneity of urban land use. Therefore, this study investigates the spatiotemporal variations of urban CO2 flux over the Seoul Capital Area, South Korea from 2017 to 2018, using CO2 flux measurements at nine
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Wood Vault: remove atmospheric CO2 with trees, store wood for carbon sequestration for now and as biomass, bioenergy and carbon reserve for the future Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Zeng, Ning, Hausmann, Henry
Wood harvesting and storage (WHS) is a hybrid Nature-Engineering combination method to combat climate change by harvesting wood sustainably and storing it semi-permanently for carbon sequestration. To date, the technology has only been purposefully tested in small-scale demonstration projects. This study aims to develop a concrete way to carry out WHS at large-scale. We describe a method of constructing
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Operational assessment tool for forest carbon dynamics for the United States: a new spatially explicit approach linking the LUCAS and CBM-CFS3 models Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Sleeter, Benjamin M., Frid, Leonardo, Rayfield, Bronwyn, Daniel, Colin, Zhu, Zhiliang, Marvin, David C.
Quantifying the carbon balance of forested ecosystems has been the subject of intense study involving the development of numerous methodological approaches. Forest inventories, processes-based biogeochemical models, and inversion methods have all been used to estimate the contribution of U.S. forests to the global terrestrial carbon sink. However, estimates have ranged widely, largely based on the
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The default methods in the 2019 Refinement drastically reduce estimates of global carbon sinks of harvested wood products Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Kayo, Chihiro, Kalt, Gerald, Tsunetsugu, Yuko, Hashimoto, Seiji, Komata, Hirotaka, Noda, Ryu, Oka, Hiroyasu
The stock dynamics of harvested wood products (HWPs) are a relevant component of anthropogenic carbon cycles. Generally, HWP stock increases are treated as carbon removals from the atmosphere, while stock decreases are considered emissions. Among the different approaches suggested by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for accounting HWPs in national greenhouse gas inventories, the
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Modelling the disappearance of coarse woody debris, following a land clearing event Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Pringle, Matthew J., Bray, Steven G., Carter, John O.
Land clearing generates coarse woody debris (CWD), much of which ultimately becomes atmospheric CO2. Schemes for greenhouse gas accounting must consider the contribution from land clearing, but the timing of the contribution will have large uncertainty, due to a paucity of knowledge about the rate of CWD disappearance. To better understand above-ground CWD disappearance following a land clearing event—through
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Correction to: Multi‑predictor mapping of soil organic carbon in the alpine tundra: a case study for the central Ecuadorian páramo Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Ayala Izurieta, Johanna Elizabeth, Márquez, Carmen Omaira, García, Víctor Julio, Jara Santillán, Carlos Arturo, Sisti, Jorge Marcelo, Pasqualotto, Nieves, Van Wittenberghe, Shari, Delegido, Jesús
Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported errors in the reference citation. Due to a mistake during the editing process, in the reference numbering of the cited literature, all references from the sentence "Different studies use the visible region considering that soils with higher carbon content have a darker appearance [63] " on page 5 onward refer to the reference number
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Allometric equations for selected Acacia species (Vachellia and Senegalia genera) of Ethiopia Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Aneseyee, Abreham Berta, Soromessa, Teshome, Elias, Eyasu, Feyisa, Gudina Legese
Allometric equations are used to estimate biomass and carbon stock of forests. In Ethiopia, despite the presence of large floral diversity, only a few site-specific allometric equations have been developed so far. This study was conducted in the Omo-Gibe woodland of south-western Ethiopia to develop an allometric equation to estimate the Above-ground Biomass (AGB) of the four Acacia species (Senegalia polyacantha
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Degradation-driven changes in fine root carbon stocks, productivity, mortality, and decomposition rates in a palm swamp peat forest of the Peruvian Amazon Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Dezzeo, Nelda, Grandez-Rios, Julio, Martius, Christopher, Hergoualc’h, Kristell
Amazon palm swamp peatlands are major carbon (C) sinks and reservoirs. In Peru, this ecosystem is widely threatened owing to the recurrent practice of cutting Mauritia flexuosa palms for fruit harvesting. Such degradation could significantly damage peat deposits by altering C fluxes through fine root productivity, mortality, and decomposition rates which contribute to and regulate peat accumulation