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Forest-Atmosphere Interactions

A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Meteorology and Climate Change".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2021) | Viewed by 5164

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Ana María Yáñez Serrano

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Guest Editor
1. CREAF (Center of Ecological Research and Forestry Applications), Barcelona, Spain
2. IDAEA Institute for Environmental Assessment and Water Analysis, Barcelona, Spain
Interests: volatile organic compounds; forest-atmosphere interactions; atmospheric chemistry; forest gas emission; climate change; environmental stress
Prof. Dr. Anke Nölscher

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Atmospheric Chemistry Group, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Interests: biosphere-atmosphere exchange; volatile organic compounds; photooxidation; local air quality; anthropogenic impact
Dr. Eliane Gomes-Alves

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Max Plank Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Interests: plant ecophysiology of tropical species; biogenic volatile organic compound emissions; trace gases; interaction between tropical forests and atmospheric chemistry

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Forest ecosystems strongly interact with the atmosphere. These coupled processes alter atmospheric chemistry and physics and make the forest subject to changes in environmental factors. Despite their importance to global and local climate and air quality, to date, not all processes of forest–atmosphere interactions have been described or elucidated. This special issue will focus on solving this gap. As global temperatures increase and exacerbate climate change, it is important to understand how forested areas will react to such changes, since the feedback to the atmosphere can be very large: from a direct impact on the global radiation budget via aerosol and greenhouse gas production and a change in the atmospheric lifetime of pollutants to alterations in local precipitation. For this special issue we welcome investigations in order to constrain the processes governing the forest–atmosphere interactions on various scales. Only based on a solid database and a fundamental understanding can guidelines for mitigation and adaptation strategies be suggested to policy-makers.

Dr. Ana María Yáñez Serrano
Prof. Dr. Anke Nölscher
Dr. Eliane Gomes-Alves
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • forest ecosystem
  • atmosphere
  • gas exchange
  • climate change
  • forest–atmosphere interactions
  • ecosystems
  • air chemistry

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Land Cover and Land Use Change Decreases Net Ecosystem Production in Tropical Peatlands of West Kalimantan, Indonesia
by Imam Basuki, J. Boone Kauffman, James T. Peterson, Gusti Z. Anshari and Daniel Murdiyarso
Forests 2021, 12(11), 1587; https://doi.org/10.3390/f12111587 - 18 Nov 2021
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Deforested and converted tropical peat swamp forests are susceptible to fires and are a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, information on the influence of land-use change (LUC) on the carbon dynamics in these disturbed peat forests is limited. This study [...] Read more.
Deforested and converted tropical peat swamp forests are susceptible to fires and are a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, information on the influence of land-use change (LUC) on the carbon dynamics in these disturbed peat forests is limited. This study aimed to quantify soil respiration (heterotrophic and autotrophic), net primary production (NPP), and net ecosystem production (NEP) in peat swamp forests, partially logged forests, early seral grasslands (deforested peat), and smallholder-oil palm estates (converted peat). Peat swamp forests (PSF) showed similar soil respiration with logged forests (LPSF) and oil palm (OP) estates (37.7 Mg CO2 ha−1 yr−1, 40.7 Mg CO2 ha−1 yr−1, and 38.7 Mg CO2 ha−1 yr−1, respectively), but higher than early seral (ES) grassland sites (30.7 Mg CO2 ha−1 yr−1). NPP of intact peat forests (13.2 Mg C ha−1 yr−1) was significantly greater than LPSF (11.1 Mg C ha−1 yr−1), ES (10.8 Mg C ha−1 yr−1), and OP (3.7 Mg C ha−1 yr−1). Peat swamp forests and seral grasslands were net carbon sinks (10.8 Mg CO2 ha−1 yr−1 and 9.1 CO2 ha−1 yr−1, respectively). In contrast, logged forests and oil palm estates were net carbon sources; they had negative mean Net Ecosystem Production (NEP) values (−0.1 Mg CO2 ha−1 yr−1 and −25.1 Mg CO2 ha−1 yr−1, respectively). The shift from carbon sinks to sources associated with land-use change was principally due to a decreased Net Primary Production (NPP) rather than increased soil respiration. Conservation of the remaining peat swamp forests and rehabilitation of deforested peatlands are crucial in GHG emission reduction programs. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forest-Atmosphere Interactions)
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