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Accounting for all territorial emissions and sinks is important for development of climate mitigation policies Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2021-04-10 Anders Lindroth, Lars Tranvik
The Paris agreement identifies the importance of the conservation, or better, increase of the land carbon sink. In this respect, the mitigation policies of many forest rich countries rely heavily on products from forests as well as on the land sink. Here we demonstrate that Sweden’s land sink, which is critical in order to achieve zero net emissions by 2045 and negative emissions thereafter, is reduced
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Wood product carbon substitution benefits: a critical review of assumptions Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Christina Howard, Caren C. Dymond, Verena C. Griess, Darius Tolkien-Spurr, G. Cornelis van Kooten
There are high estimates of the potential climate change mitigation opportunity of using wood products. A significant part of those estimates depends on long-lived wood products in the construction sector replacing concrete, steel, and other non-renewable goods. Often the climate change mitigation benefits of this substitution are presented and quantified in the form of displacement factors. A displacement
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Relationships between above- and below-ground carbon stocks in mangrove forests facilitate better estimation of total mangrove blue carbon Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2021-03-17 Yuchen Meng, Jiankun Bai, Ruikun Gou, Xiaowei Cui, Jianxiang Feng, Zheng Dai, Xiaoping Diao, Xiaoshan Zhu, Guanghui Lin
Although great efforts have been made to quantify mangrove carbon stocks, accurate estimations of below-ground carbon stocks remain unreliable. In this study, we examined the distribution patterns of mangrove carbon stocks in China and other countries using our own field survey data and datasets from published literature. Based on these data, we investigated the possible relationships between above-ground
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Comparison of carbon footprint and net ecosystem carbon budget under organic material retention combined with reduced mineral fertilizer Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Ying Liu, Haiying Tang, Pete Smith, Chuan Zhong, Guoqin Huang
Excessive application of chemical fertilizer has resulted in lower nitrogen uptake and utilization efficiency of crops, decreasing soil fertility, increasing greenhouse gas emissions, and worse environmental pollution. Organic material retention is regard as the key to solve these problems. The objective of this study is to conduct an assessment of carbon budget under Astragalus sinicus L. and rice
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Dramatic increase in water use efficiency with cumulative forest disturbance at the large forested watershed scale Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Krysta Giles-Hansen, Xiaohua Wei, Yiping Hou
Forest disturbance induced changes in the coupling of forest carbon and water have important implications for ecosystem functioning and sustainable forest management. However, this is rarely investigated at the large watershed scale with cumulative forest disturbance. We used a combination of techniques including modeling, statistical analysis, and machine learning to investigate the effects of cumulative
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Impacts of pine plantations on carbon stocks of páramo sites in southern Ecuador Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2021-02-09 Carlos Quiroz Dahik, Patricio Crespo, Bernd Stimm, Reinhard Mosandl, Jorge Cueva, Patrick Hildebrandt, Michael Weber
Since the 1990’s, afforestation programs in the páramo have been implemented to offset carbon emissions through carbon sequestration, mainly using pine plantations. However, several studies have indicated that after the establishment of pine plantations in grasslands, there is an alteration of carbon pools including a decrease of the soil organic carbon (SOC) pool. The aim of this study is to investigate
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The influence of near-field fluxes on seasonal carbon dioxide enhancements: results from the Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX) Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2021-01-30 Natasha L. Miles, Kenneth J. Davis, Scott J. Richardson, Thomas Lauvaux, Douglas K. Martins, A. J. Deng, Nikolay Balashov, Kevin R. Gurney, Jianming Liang, Geoff Roest, Jonathan A. Wang, Jocelyn C. Turnbull
Networks of tower-based CO2 mole fraction sensors have been deployed by various groups in and around cities across the world to quantify anthropogenic CO2 emissions from metropolitan areas. A critical aspect in these approaches is the separation of atmospheric signatures from distant sources and sinks (i.e., the background) from local emissions and biogenic fluxes. We examined CO2 enhancements compared
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Cumulative effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on the forest carbon balance in the oil sands region of Alberta, Canada; a pilot study (1985–2012) Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2021-01-19 C. H. Shaw, S. Rodrigue, M. F. Voicu, R. Latifovic, D. Pouliot, S. Hayne, M. Fellows, W. A. Kurz
Assessing cumulative effects of anthropogenic and natural disturbances on forest carbon (C) stocks and fluxes, because of their relevance to climate change, is a requirement of environmental impact assessments (EIAs) in Canada. However, tools have not been developed specifically for these purposes, and in particular for the boreal forest of Canada, so current forest C assessments in EIAs take relatively
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Can a shift to regional and organic diets reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the food system? A case study from Qatar Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2021-01-09 José Luis Vicente-Vicente, Annette Piorr
Qatar is one of the countries with the highest carbon (C) footprints per capita in the world with an increasing population and food demand. Furthermore, the international blockade by some countries that is affecting Qatar—which has been traditionally a highly-dependent country on food imports—since 2017 has led the authorities to take the decision of increasing food self-sufficiency. In this study
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Influence of landscape management practices on urban greenhouse gas budgets Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Wiley J. Hundertmark, Marissa Lee, Ian A. Smith, Ashley H. Y. Bang, Vivien Chen, Conor K. Gately, Pamela H. Templer, Lucy R. Hutyra
With a lack of United States federal policy to address climate change, cities, the private sector, and universities have shouldered much of the work to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions. This study aims to determine how landcover characteristics influence the amount of carbon (C) sequestered and respired via biological processes, evaluating the role of land management on
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Colonization by native species enhances the carbon storage capacity of exotic mangrove monocultures Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Ziying He, Huaye Sun, Yisheng Peng, Zhan Hu, Yingjie Cao, Shing Yip Lee
The fast-growing introduced mangrove Sonneratia apetala is widely used for mangrove afforestation and reforestation in China. Some studies suggested that this exotic species outperforms native species in terms of carbon sequestration potential. This study tested the hypothesis that multi-species mangrove plantations might have higher carbon sequestration potential than S. apetala monocultures. Our
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The effects of seaward distance on above and below ground carbon stocks in estuarine mangrove ecosystems Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Georgia de Jong Cleyndert, Aida Cuni-Sanchez, Hamidu A. Seki, Deo D. Shirima, Pantaleo K. T. Munishi, Neil Burgess, Kim Calders, Robert Marchant
Mangrove forests have gained recognition for their potential role in climate change mitigation due to carbon sequestration in live trees, and carbon storage in the sediments trapped by mangrove tree roots and pneumatophores. Africa hosts about 19% of the world’s mangroves, yet relatively few studies have examined the carbon stocks of African mangroves. The available studies report considerable differences
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What might it cost to increase soil organic carbon using no-till on U.S. cropland? Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-12-05 Mark Sperow
Existing research provides estimates of the biophysical potential for increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) stock, however additional research is needed to enhance our understanding of the economic potential for agricultural soils to offset or help reduce CO2 emissions. This study derives the marginal cost to increase SOC sequestration by combining SOC sequestration potential estimates developed using
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A city-level comparison of fossil-fuel and industry processes-induced CO2 emissions over the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region from eight emission inventories Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Pengfei Han, Ning Zeng, Tomohiro Oda, Wen Zhang, Xiaohui Lin, Di Liu, Qixiang Cai, Xiaolin Ma, Wenjun Meng, Guocheng Wang, Rong Wang, Bo Zheng
Quantifying CO2 emissions from cities is of great importance because cities contribute more than 70% of the global total CO2 emissions. As the largest urbanized megalopolis region in northern China, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (Jing-Jin-Ji, JJJ) region (population: 112.7 million) is under considerable pressure to reduce carbon emissions. Despite the several emission inventories covering the JJJ region
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Ecosystem services in vineyard landscapes: a focus on aboveground carbon storage and accumulation Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-11-03 J. N. Williams, J. A. Morandé, M. G. Vaghti, J Medellín-Azuara, J. H. Viers
Organic viticulture can generate a range of ecosystem services including supporting biodiversity, reducing the use of conventional pesticides and fertilizers, and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions through long-term carbon (C) storage. Here we focused on aboveground C storage rates and accumulation using a one-year increment analysis applied across different winegrape varietals and different-aged
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Responses of forest carbon and water coupling to thinning treatments from leaf to stand scales in a young montane pine forest Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-11-03 Yi Wang, Antonio D. del Campo, Xiaohua Wei, Rita Winkler, Wanyi Liu, Qiang Li
Water-use efficiency (WUE) represents the coupling of forest carbon and water. Little is known about the responses of WUE to thinning at multiple spatial scales. The objective of this research was to use field measurements to understand short-term effects of two thinning treatments (T1: 4500 stems ha−1; and T2: 1100 stems ha−1) and the control (NT: 27,000 stems ha−1) on WUE at the three spatial scales
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Informing urban climate planning with high resolution data: the Hestia fossil fuel CO2 emissions for Baltimore, Maryland Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-10-14 Geoffrey S. Roest, K. R. Gurney, S. M. Miller, J. Liang
Cities contribute more than 70% of global anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and are leading the effort to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through sustainable planning and development. However, urban greenhouse gas mitigation often relies on self-reported emissions estimates that may be incomplete and unverifiable via atmospheric monitoring of GHGs. We present the Hestia Scope 1 fossil
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Climate change mitigation in British Columbia’s forest sector: GHG reductions, costs, and environmental impacts Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 C. E. Smyth, Z. Xu, T. C. Lemprière, W. A. Kurz
The potential contributions from forest-based greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation actions need to be quantified to develop pathways towards net negative emissions. Here we present results from a comparative analysis that examined mitigation options for British Columbia’s forest sector. Mitigation scenarios were evaluated using a systems perspective that takes into account the changes in emissions and removals
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Remote sensing of the impact of flash drought events on terrestrial carbon dynamics over China. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-09-22 Miao Zhang,Xing Yuan,Jason A Otkin
Flash drought poses a great threat to terrestrial ecosystems and influences carbon dynamics due to its unusually rapid onset and increasing frequency in a warming climate. Understanding the response of regional terrestrial carbon dynamics to flash drought requires long-term observations of carbon fluxes and soil moisture at a large scale. Here, MODIS satellite observations of ecosystem productivity
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Soil carbon fluxes and balances of crop rotations under long-term no-till. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-09-16 João Paulo Gonsiorkiewicz Rigon,Juliano Carlos Calonego
A field study with the same crop rotations was conducted to test the hypothesis that the soil Carbon fluxes and balances could vary according to the crop species and also mitigate carbon dioxide (CO2) emission. This study aimed to assess the CO2 emission from crop rotations according to C and N inputs from crop residue, the influences on soil organic carbon (SOC) and total soil nitrogen (TN) stocks
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The potential of a constellation of low earth orbit satellite imagers to monitor worldwide fossil fuel CO2 emissions from large cities and point sources. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-09-04 Franck Lespinas,Yilong Wang,Grégoire Broquet,François-Marie Bréon,Michael Buchwitz,Maximilian Reuter,Yasjka Meijer,Armin Loescher,Greet Janssens-Maenhout,Bo Zheng,Philippe Ciais
Satellite imagery will offer unparalleled global spatial coverage at high-resolution for long term cost-effective monitoring of CO2 concentration plumes generated by emission hotspots. CO2 emissions can then be estimated from the magnitude of these plumes. In this paper, we assimilate pseudo-observations in a global atmospheric inversion system to assess the performance of a constellation of one to
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Estimation of aboveground and belowground carbon stocks in urban freshwater wetlands of Sri Lanka. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-09-02 Deekirikewage Dona Thamali Lushanya Dayathilake,Erandathie Lokupitiya,Vithana Pathirannehelage Indika Sandamali Wijeratne
The occurrence of climate change at an unprecedented scale has resulted in alterations of ecosystems around the world. Numerous studies have reported on the potential to slow down climate change through the sequestration of carbon in soil and trees. Freshwater wetlands hold significant potential for climate change mitigation owing to their large capacity to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2)
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Increases in soil and woody biomass carbon stocks as a result of rangeland riparian restoration. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Virginia Matzek,David Lewis,Anthony O'Geen,Michael Lennox,Sean D Hogan,Shane T Feirer,Valerie Eviner,Kenneth W Tate
Globally, vegetation in riparian zones is frequently the target of restoration efforts because of its importance in reducing the input of eroded sediment and agricultural nutrient runoff to surface waters. Here we examine the potential of riparian zone restoration to enhance carbon sequestration. We measured soil and woody biomass carbon stocks, as well as soil carbon properties, in a long-term chronosequence
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Improving aboveground biomass maps of tropical dry forests by integrating LiDAR, ALOS PALSAR, climate and field data. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-07-29 J Luis Hernández-Stefanoni,Miguel Ángel Castillo-Santiago,Jean Francois Mas,Charlotte E Wheeler,Juan Andres-Mauricio,Fernando Tun-Dzul,Stephanie P George-Chacón,Gabriela Reyes-Palomeque,Blanca Castellanos-Basto,Raúl Vaca,Juan Manuel Dupuy
Reliable information about the spatial distribution of aboveground biomass (AGB) in tropical forests is fundamental for climate change mitigation and for maintaining carbon stocks. Recent AGB maps at continental and national scales have shown large uncertainties, particularly in tropical areas with high AGB values. Errors in AGB maps are linked to the quality of plot data used to calibrate remote sensing
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Correction to: The impact of long dry periods on the aboveground biomass in a tropical forest: 20 years of monitoring. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-07-10 Milton Serpa de Meira Junior,José Roberto Rodrigues Pinto,Natália Oliveira Ramos,Eder Pereira Miguel,Ricardo de Oliveira Gaspar,Oliver L Phillips
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
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Modeling sediment diagenesis processes on riverbed to better quantify aquatic carbon fluxes and stocks in a small watershed of the Mid-Atlantic region. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-07-06 Junyu Qi,Xuesong Zhang,Sangchul Lee,Yiping Wu,Glenn E Moglen,Gregory W McCarty
Despite the widely recognized importance of aquatic processes for bridging gaps in the global carbon cycle, there is still a lack of understanding of the role of riverbed processes for carbon flows and stocks in aquatic environments. Here, we added a sediment diagenesis and sediment carbon (C) resuspension module into the SWAT-C model and tested it for simulating both particulate organic C (POC) and
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The impact of long dry periods on the aboveground biomass in a tropical forests: 20 years of monitoring. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-05-30 Milton Serpa de Meira Junior,José Roberto Rodrigues Pinto,Natália Oliveira Ramos,Eder Pereira Miguel,Ricardo de Oliveira Gaspar,Oliver L Phillips
Long-term studies of community and population dynamics indicate that abrupt disturbances often catalyse changes in vegetation and carbon stocks. These disturbances include the opening of clearings, rainfall seasonality, and drought, as well as fire and direct human disturbance. Such events may be super-imposed on longer-term trends in disturbance, such as those associated with climate change (heating
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Correction to: Building houses and managing lawns could limit yard soil carbon for centuries. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-05-23 Morgan E Peach,Laura A Ogden,Eleni A Mora,Andrew J Friedland
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
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Estimating New Zealand's harvested wood products carbon stocks and stock changes. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-05-21 Stephen J Wakelin,Nigel Searles,Daniel Lawrence,Thomas S H Paul
Reducing net greenhouse gas emissions through conserving existing forest carbon stocks and encouraging additional uptake of carbon in existing and new forests have become important climate change mitigation tools. The contribution of harvested wood products (HWPs) to increasing carbon uptake has been recognised and approaches to quantifying this pool developed. In New Zealand, harvesting has more than
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Comparing a global high-resolution downscaled fossil fuel CO2 emission dataset to local inventory-based estimates over 14 global cities. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-05-19 Jingwen Chen,Fang Zhao,Ning Zeng,Tomohiro Oda
Compilation of emission inventories (EIs) for cities is a whole new challenge to assess the subnational climate mitigation effort under the Paris Climate Agreement. Some cities have started compiling EIs, often following a global community protocol. However, EIs are often difficult to systematically examine because of the ways they were compiled (data collection and emission calculation) and reported
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Variability and uncertainty in forest biomass estimates from the tree to landscape scale: the role of allometric equations. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-05-14 Anthony G Vorster,Paul H Evangelista,Atticus E L Stovall,Seth Ex
Biomass maps are valuable tools for estimating forest carbon and forest planning. Individual-tree biomass estimates made using allometric equations are the foundation for these maps, yet the potentially-high uncertainty and bias associated with individual-tree estimates is commonly ignored in biomass map error. We developed allometric equations for lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), ponderosa pine (P
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The impact of increasing land productivity on groundwater dynamics: a case study of an oasis located at the edge of the Gobi Desert. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-05-02 Wu Lei,Li Changbin,Xie Xuhong,He Zhibin,Wang Wanrui,Zhang Yuan,Wei Jianmei,Lv Jianan
Intensification of agricultural systems may result in overexploitation of water resources in arid regions because enhanced productivity of crops is often associated with increased actual evapotranspiration (AET). The aim of this study was to quantify the effect of increased regional AET on the groundwater level in a case study of the oasis located within the Shiyang River Basin near the edge of the
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Remotely monitoring ecosystem respiration from various grasslands along a large-scale east-west transect across northern China. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-04-24 Xuguang Tang,Yanlian Zhou,Hengpeng Li,Li Yao,Zhi Ding,Mingguo Ma,Pujia Yu
Grassland ecosystems play an important role in the terrestrial carbon cycles through carbon emission by ecosystem respiration (Re) and carbon uptake by plant photosynthesis (GPP). Surprisingly, given Re occupies a large component of annual carbon balance, rather less attention has been paid to developing the estimates of Re compared to GPP. Based on 11 flux sites over the diverse grassland ecosystems
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Hundred year projected carbon loads and species compositions for four National Forests in the northwestern USA. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-03-28 Patrick A Fekety,Nicholas L Crookston,Andrew T Hudak,Steven K Filippelli,Jody C Vogeler,Michael J Falkowski
Forests are an important component of the global carbon balance, and climate sensitive growth and yield models are an essential tool when predicting future forest conditions. In this study, we used the dynamic climate capability of the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) to simulate future (100 year) forest conditions on four National Forests in the northwestern USA: Payette National Forest (NF), Ochoco
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Mapping deep peat carbon stock from a LiDAR based DTM and field measurements, with application to eastern Sumatra. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-03-23 Ronald Vernimmen,Aljosja Hooijer,Rizka Akmalia,Natan Fitranatanegara,Dedi Mulyadi,Angga Yuherdha,Heri Andreas,Susan Page
Reduction of carbon emissions from peatlands is recognized as an important factor in global climate change mitigation. Within the SE Asia region, areas of deeper peat present the greatest carbon stocks, and therefore the greatest potential for future carbon emissions from degradation and fire. They also support most of the remaining lowland swamp forest and its associated biodiversity. Accurate maps
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Effects of spatial-temporal land cover distribution on gross primary production and net primary production in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-03-19 Liwei Ma
Annual total Gross Primary Production (GPP) and Net Primary Production (NPP) and the annual total stored GPP and NPP are tightly coupled to land cover distributions because the distinct vegetation conditions of different land cover classes strongly affect GPP and NPP. Spatial and statistical analysis tools using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were used to investigate the spatial distribution
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Changing soil carbon: influencing factors, sequestration strategy and research direction. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-02-17 Shangqi Xu,Chunlei Sheng,Chunjie Tian
Soil carbon (C) plays a critical role in the global C cycle and has a profound effect on climate change. To obtain an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of global soil C changes and better manage soil C, all meta-analysis results published during 2001–2019 relative to soil C were collected and synthesized. The effects of 33 influencing factors on soil C were analyzed, compared and classified
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Release of coarse woody detritus-related carbon: a synthesis across forest biomes. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2020-01-15 Mark E Harmon,Becky G Fasth,Misha Yatskov,Douglas Kastendick,Joachim Rock,Christopher W Woodall
Recent increases in forest tree mortality should increase the abundance coarse woody detritus (CWD) and ultimately lead to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. However, the time course of carbon release from CWD is not well understood. We compiled CWD decomposition rate-constants (i.e., k) to examine how tree species, piece diameter, position (i.e., standing versus downed), canopy openness, and macroclimate
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Greenhouse gas emissions from synthetic nitrogen manufacture and fertilization for main upland crops in China. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Rushan Chai,Xinxin Ye,Chao Ma,Qingyun Wang,Renfeng Tu,Ligan Zhang,Hongjian Gao
A significant source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions comes from the manufacture of synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizers consumed in crop production processes. And the application of synthetic N fertilizers is recognized as the most important factor contributing to direct N2O emissions from agricultural soils. Based on statistical data and relevant literature, the GHG emissions associated with synthetic
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Controlling CO2 emissions for each area in a region: the case of Japan. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-12-27 Tetsuya Tamaki,Wataru Nozawa,Shunsuke Managi
Global warming is the most serious problem we face today. Each country is expected to ensure international cooperation toward minimizing risk. To evaluate the countermeasures, many researchers have developed integrated assessment models (IAMs). Then, how can each country achieve its emission quota? This study proposes models that analyze the economic impact of global warming in a region based on the
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The accuracy of species-specific allometric equations for estimating aboveground biomass in tropical moist montane forests: case study of Albizia grandibracteata and Trichilia dregeana. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-12-19 Damena Edae Daba,Teshome Soromessa
Application of allometric equations for quantifying forests aboveground biomass is a crucial step related to efforts of climate change mitigation. Generalized allometric equations have been applied for estimating biomass and carbon storage of forests. However, adopting a generalized allometric equation to estimate the biomass of different forests generates uncertainty due to environmental variation
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How can forest management increase biomass accumulation and CO2 sequestration? A case study on beech forests in Hesse, Germany. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-12-17 Joachim H A Krug
While the capability of forests to sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) is acknowledged as an important component in fighting climate change, a closer look reveals the difficulties in determining the actual contribution by forest management when indirect and natural impacts are to be factored out. The goal of this study is to determine the direct human-induced impacts on forest growth by cumulative biomass
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Optimizing sequestered carbon in forest offset programs: balancing accounting stringency and participation. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-12-03 Lindsey Wise,Eric Marland,Gregg Marland,Jason Hoyle,Tamara Kowalczyk,Tatyana Ruseva,Jeffrey Colby,Timothy Kinlaw
Although there is broad agreement that negative carbon emissions may be required in order to meet the global climate change targets specified in the Paris Agreement and that carbon sequestration in the terrestrial biosphere can be an important contributor, there are important accounting issues that often discourage forest carbon sequestration projects. The legislation establishing the California forest
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Assessing the contribution of harvested wood products under greenhouse gas estimation: accounting under the Paris Agreement and the potential for double-counting among the choice of approaches. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-11-26 Atsushi Sato,Yukihiro Nojiri
There are multiple approaches for estimating emissions and removals arising from harvested wood products (HWP) based on differences between when and where a given carbon stock change is calculated. At this moment, countries are free to use any HWP approach to prepare their annual greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory and determine emission reduction targets for their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
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China's pathway to a low carbon economy. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-11-21 Wenjuan Yang,Rongqin Zhao,Xiaowei Chuai,Liangang Xiao,Lianhai Cao,Zhanping Zhang,Qinglin Yang,Lunguang Yao
Climate change has emerged as one of the most important environmental issues worldwide. As the world’s biggest developing country, China is participating in combating climate change by promoting a low carbon economy within the context of global warming. This paper summarizes the pathways of China’s low carbon economy including the aspects of energy, industry, low carbon cities, circular economy and
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Comparative assessment of net CO2 exchange across an urbanization gradient in Korea based on eddy covariance measurements. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-09-11 Je-Woo Hong,Jinkyu Hong,Junghwa Chun,Yong Hee Lee,Lim-Seok Chang,Jae-Bum Lee,Keewook Yi,Young-San Park,Young-Hwa Byun,Sangwon Joo
It is important to quantify changes in CO2 sources and sinks with land use and land cover change. In the last several decades, carbon sources and sinks in East Asia have been altered by intensive land cover changes due to rapid economic growth and related urbanization. To understand impact of urbanization on carbon cycle in the monsoon Asia, we analyze net CO2 exchanges for various land cover types
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The relevance of using in situ carbon and nitrogen data and satellite images to assess aboveground carbon and nitrogen stocks for supporting national REDD + programmes in Africa. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-09-10 Adéyèmi Chabi,Sven Lautenbach,Jérôme Ebagnerin Tondoh,Vincent Oladokoun Agnila Orekan,Stephen Adu-Bredu,Nicholas Kyei-Baffour,Vincent Joseph Mama,John Fonweban
To reduce the uncertainty in estimates of carbon emissions resulting from deforestation and forest degradation, better information on the carbon density per land use/land cover (LULC) class and in situ carbon and nitrogen data is needed. This allows a better representation of the spatial distribution of carbon and nitrogen stocks across LULC. The aim of this study was to emphasize the relevance of
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Evaluating spatial coverage of data on the aboveground biomass in undisturbed forests in the Brazilian Amazon. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-09-03 Graciela Tejada,Eric Bastos Görgens,Fernando Del Bon Espírito-Santo,Roberta Zecchini Cantinho,Jean Pierre Ometto
Brazilian Amazon forests contain a large stock of carbon that could be released into the atmosphere as a result of land use and cover change. To quantify the carbon stocks, Brazil has forest inventory plots from different sources, but they are unstandardized and not always available to the scientific community. Considering the Brazilian Amazon extension, the use of remote sensing, combined with forest
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Impact of modelling choices on setting the reference levels for the EU forest carbon sinks: how do different assumptions affect the country-specific forest reference levels? Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-09-03 Nicklas Forsell,Anu Korosuo,Mykola Gusti,Sebastian Rüter,Petr Havlik,Michael Obersteiner
In 2018, the European Union (EU) adopted Regulation 2018/841, which sets the accounting rules for the land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector for the period 2021–2030. This regulation is part of the EU’s commitments to comply with the Paris Agreement. According to the new regulation, emissions and removals for managed forest land are to be accounted against a projected forest reference
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Building houses and managing lawns could limit yard soil carbon for centuries. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-08-16 Morgan E Peach,Laura A Ogden,Eleni A Mora,Andrew J Friedland
Comparisons of soil carbon (C) pools across land uses can be confounded by site-specific history. To better quantify the response of soil C pools to residential development and use, we compared yard soils (n = 20) to adjacent mown fields and second-growth forests within land-use clusters (LUC; n = 12). Land uses within clusters shared site-specific legacies (land use and other soil forming history)
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On the realistic contribution of European forests to reach climate objectives. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-06-14 Giacomo Grassi,Alessandro Cescatti,Robert Matthews,Gregory Duveiller,Andrea Camia,Sandro Federici,Jo House,Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré,Roberto Pilli,Matteo Vizzarri
A recent article by Luyssaert et al. (Nature 562:259–262, 2018) analyses the climate impact of forest management in the European Union, considering both biogeochemical (i.e., greenhouse gases, GHG) and biophysical (e.g., albedo, transpiration, etc.) effects. Based on their findings, i.e. that additional net overall climate benefits from forest management would be modest, the authors conclude that the
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Carbon stock under major land use/land cover types of Hades sub-watershed, eastern Ethiopia. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-05-22 Tessema Toru,Kibebew Kibret
Developing land management scenarios that have the potential to sequester carbon and reduce greenhouse gasses (GHG) emission on a sustainable basis entails quantifying the current carbon stock under different land uses. In light of this, a study was conducted in Hades sub-watershed, eastern Ethiopia, to explore the carbon stock under four major land uses: natural forest, coffee agroforestry, grazing
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Assessing Lagrangian inverse modelling of urban anthropogenic CO2 fluxes using in situ aircraft and ground-based measurements in the Tokyo area. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-05-17 Ignacio Pisso,Prabir Patra,Masayuki Takigawa,Toshinobu Machida,Hidekazu Matsueda,Yousuke Sawa
In order to use in situ measurements to constrain urban anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), we use a Lagrangian methodology based on diffusive backward trajectory tracer reconstructions and Bayesian inversion. The observations of atmospheric CO2 were collected within the Tokyo Bay Area during the Comprehensive Observation Network for TRace gases by AIrLiner (CONTRAIL) flights, from the
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Estimation of the aboveground biomass and carbon stocks in open Brazilian Savannah developed on sandy soils. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Camila Paula de Oliveira,Márcio Rocha Francelino,Mayara Daher,Emanuel José Gomes de Araújo,Leonardo de Souza Sanches,Kauanna Domingues Cabral de Andrade,Júlia Santos Nunes de Campos
The Cerrado is the second largest biome in Brazil and the most biodiverse tropical savannah in the world and acts as a great sequester of atmospheric carbon. The lack of studies related to the quantification of its total biomass compromises the understanding of the dynamics of CO2 in this biome. Thus, it is relevant to develop studies aiming at obtaining accurate estimates of the carbon stock in the
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Carbon stocks for different land cover types in Mainland Tanzania. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-04-27 Ernest William Mauya,Wilson Ancelm Mugasha,Marco Andrew Njana,Eliakimu Zahabu,Rogers Malimbwi
Developing countries participating in the mitigation mechanism of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+), are required to establish a forest reference emission level (FREL), if they wish to seek financial support to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. However, establishment of FREL relies heavily on the accurate estimates of carbon stock
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GHG mitigation in Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector in Thailand. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-04-23 Bijay Bahadur Pradhan,Achiraya Chaichaloempreecha,Bundit Limmeechokchai
The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector is responsible for almost a quarter of the global Greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. The emissions associated with AFOLU activities are projected to increase in the future. The agriculture sector in Thailand accounted for 21.9% of the country’s net GHG emissions in 2013. This study aims to estimate the GHG emissions in the AFOLU sector and
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Forest degradation and biomass loss along the Chocó region of Colombia. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-03-23 Victoria Meyer,Sassan Saatchi,António Ferraz,Liang Xu,Alvaro Duque,Mariano García,Jérôme Chave
Wet tropical forests of Chocó, along the Pacific Coast of Colombia, are known for their high plant diversity and endemic species. With increasing pressure of degradation and deforestation, these forests have been prioritized for conservation and carbon offset through Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) mechanisms. We provide the first regional assessment of forest structure
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Carbon stock of the various carbon pools in Gerba-Dima moist Afromontane forest, South-western Ethiopia. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2019-02-02 Abyot Dibaba,Teshome Soromessa,Bikila Workineh
Unlike in the developed countries, Ethiopia does not have carbon inventories and databank to monitor and enhance carbon sequestration potential of different forests. Only small efforts have been made so far to assess the biomass and soil carbon sequestration at micro-level. This study was carried out to obtain sufficient information about the carbon stock potential of Gerba-Dima forest in south-western
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Carbon dynamics of paper, engineered wood products and bamboo in landfills: evidence from reactor studies. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2018-12-27 Fabiano A Ximenes,Amrit Kathuria,Morton A Barlaz,Annette L Cowie
There has been growing interest in the development of waste-specific decay factors for estimation of greenhouse gas emissions from landfills in national greenhouse gas inventories. Although engineered wood products (EWPs) and paper represent a substantial component of the solid waste stream, there is limited information available on their carbon dynamics in landfills. The objective of this study was
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Carbon costs and benefits of France's biomass energy production targets. Carbon Balance Manag. (IF 4.067) Pub Date : 2018-12-13 Aude Valade,Sebastiaan Luyssaert,Patrick Vallet,Sylvestre Njakou Djomo,Ingride Jesus Van Der Kellen,Valentin Bellassen
Concern about climate change has motivated France to reduce its reliance on fossil fuel by setting targets for increased biomass-based renewable energy production. This study quantifies the carbon costs and benefits for the French forestry sector in meeting these targets. A forest growth and harvest simulator was developed for French forests using recent forest inventory data, and the wood-use chain
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