Managing Forests for Carbon in the Specter of Climate Change
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 2150
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ecosystem carbon recovery; carbon pools; forest restoration; forest management; forest stand dynamics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forest ecosystems are the largest terrestrial C sink on earth and have great potential to reverse increase of CO2. According to the sixth report of International Panel on Climate Change, CO2 is the main greenhouse gas released to atmosphere by human activities that is now warming the earth surface to a critical level. Evidence suggests that managing forests for C is among the most effective strategies for climate change mitigation. Although studies have shown that C sequestration capacity varies with site quality, species, soil type, climate, disturbances, and land-use history, appropriate management treatments can also significantly increase C uptake and storage. In addition, C partitioning varies among forest components and these carbon pools change during stand developmental stages. How accurate are we able to describe C uptake and storage in forests? In this special issue, we invite you to submit your work on comparing and contrasting carbon sequestration potentials in managed plantations and/or natural stands. These management treatments can be, (but need not be limited to) planting stocks, genotype selection, site preparation, vegetation control, nutrient management, thinning, and so on. In addition, due to large variation among the ways of measurements, method comparison is also encouraged especially the assessments of the accuracy and our ability to close the budgets of forest C. Under these contents, we welcome any manuscripts as an experimental report, meta-analyses, reviews, or modeling analyses.
Dr. Jianwei Zhang
Dr. Kim Mattson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbon budget
- carbon partitioning
- climate change
- detrital carbon
- disturbance
- forest management
- forest type
- silvicultural treatments
- soil carbon
- understory vegetation
- woody debris
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