Forest Carbon Sequestration and Climate Change Mitigation

Dear Colleagues,

Forests are the most important carbon pool in terrestrial ecosystems and store 80% of terrestrial carbon stocks (forest vegetation) and 40% of belowground carbon stocks (soil, humus and roots). Thus, slight changes in forest carbon pools could lead to significant impacts on atmospheric CO₂ concentration, which in turn has strong positive feedback on climate warming. However, proper management and vegetation restoration are thought to be able to store more organic carbon in forests and, thus, to be able to mitigate climate change. This Topic aims to understand the mechanisms behind forest carbon sequestration and control and to clarify their roles in climate change mitigation. We invite submissions of studies on forest C cycling and its associated climate change mitigation. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Forest carbon formation processes and underlying mechanisms;
• Forest quality and sink enhancement technology;
• Forest carbon sink measurement and monitoring methods;
• Forest carbon sink and climate change mitigation potential predictions;
• Temporal and spatial dynamic variation characteristics and research methods of forest ecosystem carbon storage;
• Future evolution trend of carbon storage in forest ecosystems.

Prof. Dr. Tianxiang Yue
Dr. Zhe Xu
Dr. Zong Wang
Topic Editors