Moisture Dynamics and Carbon Sequestration in Boreal Forest Soils
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecophysiology and Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2020) | Viewed by 3612
Special Issue Editor
Interests: terrestrial carbon dynamics; carbon fluxes; EC fluxtowers; soil carbon modelling; remote sensing; time series analysis; nonlinear statistics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Carbon sequestration in soils represents an important ecosystem service with global climate impact. Most soil C resides in the boreal zone; here, soils have higher concentrations and total C stocks than in temperate and tropical forests.
The carbon sequestration capacity and the resulting climate mitigation potential of boreal ecosystems depends on many factors, where soil temperature is considered as the most important one, and many approaches and models describe this relationship in detail (e.g., the classic Q10 model). However, C sequestration is inhibited both in very dry as well as very dry conditions; a nonlinear dependence on soil moisture must be assumed. This Special Issue has a focus on the functionality of boreal forest soils along a large soil moisture gradient, from well-drained upland soils to hydromorphic soils as found in forested peatlands. Although the feedback between climate and the turnover of carbon is strongly dependent on the hydrological cycle, Earth system models (ESMs) do not reproduce these relationships well when precipitation is used to estimate carbon accumulation, presumably due to inappropriate soil moisture representations.
We are asking for contributions investigating carbon cycle–soil moisture feedback, ranging from continuous measurements of local soil climate and respiration to a range of modeling approaches at different scales.
Prof. Dr. Holger Lange
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Carbon sequestration;
- Soil moisture;
- Boreal forests;
- Earth system models.
