Forest landscapes used for recreation also provide climate-regulating services that are often absent from spatial planning. We mapped aboveground biomass density (AGBD) and aboveground carbon storage in the Postavaru-Piatra Mare mountain landscape ne...
National forest parks play an important role in maintaining the integrity of ecosystems, the sustainability of biodiversity, and the improvement of ecological service functions. Aboveground carbon storage (AGC) is an important indicator for evaluatin...
Monitoring spatiotemporal dynamics of aboveground carbon (AGC) storage at the tree species level is crucial for evaluating the ecological impacts of large-scale infrastructure projects and facilitating accurate ecological environmental management. Ho...
Tropical old-growth forests are essential for global carbon regulation. Although there is increasing evidence that species and functional diversity, stand structural diversity, functional compositions, and elevation play roles in ecosystem functionin...
Forests regulate air quality and respond to climate change by storing carbon. Assessing the driving factors of forest aboveground carbon (AGC) storage is of great importance for forest management. We assumed that different forest types would affect t...
Carbon storage of urban woody vegetation is crucial for climate change mitigation. Biomass structure and species composition have been shown to be important determinants of carbon storage in woody vegetation. In this study, allometric equations were...
Dynamic monitoring of carbon storage in forests resources is important for tracking ecosystem functionalities and climate change impacts. In this study, we used multi-year Landsat data combined with a Random Forest (RF) algorithm to estimate the fore...
Sacred forests contribute to biodiversity conservation and forest carbon storage, yet quantitative information on their carbon and nutrient characteristics remains limited. This study quantified standing aboveground biomass (AGB) and aboveground carb...
Forest restoration sites have a critical role in the maintenance and improvement of forest ecosystem health and resilience, as well as increasing carbon storage capacity. However, previous studies on forest restoration sites have primarily focused on...
Forest ecosystems can be regarded as huge carbon sinks. In order to effectively assess carbon balance in such ecosystems, rapid and accurate estimation of the aboveground biomass of a forest is critically needed. However, the current methods for biom...
The assessment of forest biomass has been a focus of research, aiming to understand matter–energy relationships in forest ecosystems and address forestry practice issues. In recent decades there has been increased societal interest in rational...
As coastal land use intensifies and sea levels rise, the fate of coastal forests becomes increasingly uncertain. Synergistic anthropogenic and natural pressures affect the extent and function of coastal forests, threatening valuable ecosystem service...
For assessing forest resource quality and carbon sequestration, both optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing data have been widely used to map forest aboveground carbon storage (AGC), demonstrating considerable potential across dive...
Konishii fir (Cunninghamia konishii Hayata) is an important conifer in Taiwan. The purpose of this study was to predict stand volume (V), aboveground biomass accumulation (AGB), and aboveground carbon storage (AGCST) for a Konishii fir plantation. Th...
The aboveground contributions of mangroves to global carbon sequestration reinforce the need to estimate biomass in these systems. The objective was to determine the aboveground biomass storage and quantify the carbon and CO2e content in Rhizophora m...
Tropical forests and savanna (cerrado) are important carbon (C) sinks; however, few data exist for seasonally flooded forests. We quantified the annual rates of aboveground net primary production (ANPP) over a five-year period for two forests, an upl...
Plant functional traits help us understand forest carbon storage. We quantified eight functional traits that reflect plant life history strategies: leaf area (LA), specific leaf area (SLA), leaf dry matter content (LDMC), leaf carbon (LC), nitrogen (...
China is one of the countries with the most abundant bamboo forest resources in the world, and Zhejiang province is among the top-3 Chinese provinces with richest bamboo forests. For rational bamboo forests management, it is of great significance to...
Accurate estimation of forest aboveground carbon (AGC) is crucial for understanding the carbon cycle and formulating climate policies, yet it remains challenging in complex mountainous regions. This study used machine learning framework to estimate t...
The Mayombe tropical forest has experienced dramatic changes over several decades due to human activities. However, the impact of these changes on tree biodiversity and ecosystem services has not been studied yet. Such a study could advance the curre...
In recent years, accurate estimation and spatial mapping of above-ground carbon (AGC) storage in forests have been crucial for formulating carbon trading policies and promoting sustainable development strategies. Forest structure complexities mean th...
Maximizing the ability of forests to capture carbon (C) from the atmosphere is critical to mitigate global warming. This is a daunting task as the warming climate is adversely affecting forests with increasing forest fires, pests, and a shift to tree...
Land use and land cover (LULC) change is the variable with the maximum influence on carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems, due to a fundamental alteration of the ecosystem, structure, function, and variability over time. Understanding the dynamics...
Declines in the global extent and condition of tropical forests have reduced carbon storage potential and caused biodiversity loss. However, the magnitude of these problems within individual countries may depend on the extent of the reserved forest e...
As an essential part of terrestrial ecosystems, convenient and accurate reconstruction of the past carbon sequestration capacity of forests is critical to assess future trends of aboveground carbon storage and ecosystem carbon cycles. In addition, th...
Forests, as the largest terrestrial carbon sink, play a critical role in mitigating climate change. Accurately estimating forest vegetation carbon storage and identifying its drivers are essential for evaluating regional carbon sink functions and sup...
Improving the precision of remote sensing estimation and implementing the fusion and analysis of multi-source data are crucial for accurately estimating the aboveground carbon storage in forests. Using the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform in conjun...
Tropical and subtropical mangrove swamps, under normal conditions, can sequester large amounts of carbon in their soils but as coastal wetlands, they are prone to hurricane disturbances. This study adds to the understanding of carbon storage capabili...
The Tumen River Basin, located in the cross-border region of China, North Korea, and Russia, constitutes an important ecological barrier in China. Forest here is mainly distributed around wetland, with the distribution of wetland having the potential...
The mountainous region of southwest China has the largest karst geomorphology in China and in the world. Quantifying the forest aboveground biomass in this karst region is of great significance for the investigation of carbon storage and carbon cycli...
Understanding whether vegetation greening corresponds to changes in estimated forest carbon storage is important for evaluating ecological restoration under coupled climate change and human pressures. However, existing studies often rely on vegetatio...
Secondary forests provide essential ecosystem services, especially in helping to mitigate climate change with the storage of carbon in the aboveground biomass of tree species. In this context, the present research aimed to analyze the spatial distrib...
Sub-Andean forests of the Colombian Central Cordillera are among the most biodiverse and threatened Neotropical ecosystems, yet their floristic composition, vegetation structure, and aboveground carbon storage remain poorly documented. We characteriz...
Natural disturbances shape forest ecosystem characteristics, including carbon storage and structure. Often, natural disturbances are compounded with anthropogenic disturbances, which may alter the trajectory of forest carbon stock recovery. Heterogen...
Background and Objectives: The continuous increase in the amount of atmospheric CO2 is a factor that significantly contributes to global warming. Forests can be used to mitigate climate change by absorbing carbon and storing it. Scots pine (Pinus syl...
Remote sensing is an important tool for the quantitative estimation of forest carbon stock. This study presents a multiscale, object-based method for the estimation of aboveground carbon stock in Moso bamboo forests. The method differs from conventio...
Forest aboveground live biomass carbon storage (hereafter referred to as “forest carbon storage”) is an important indicator of forest vegetation carbon sequestration, and its spatial patterns and associated factors are highly heterogeneou...
China’s forests act as a large carbon sink and play a vital role in achieving the carbon neutrality goal by the 2060s. To achieve this goal, the magnitude and spatial patterns of forest carbon sinks must be accurately quantified. In this study,...
Considering in situ carbon storage in forest management has gained momentum under increasing pressure to decarbonize our economies. Here, we present results from case studies in Portugal and Germany showing the opportunity costs of in situ carbon sto...
Fragmentation has long been considered the primary cause for ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss worldwide. Forest fragmentation affects ecosystem functioning and biodiversity in multiple ways. Here, we ask how forest fragmentation influences...
As an essential blue carbon ecosystem, mangroves play a vital role in coastal protection, biodiversity conservation, and climate regulation. However, their complex and variable growth environments pose challenges for precise monitoring. Hainan Island...
Exploration of the biodiversity–environmental factors–carbon storage relationships have been a central research question in the changing global climate over the last few decades. However, in comparison to other forest ecosystems, very few...
Biomass and carbon stocks are key information criteria to understand the role of forests in regulating global climate. However, for a bio-rich continent like Africa, ground-based measurements for accurate estimation of carbon are scarce, and the vari...
Typhoons are major climate disturbances that significantly impact coastal ecosystems, particularly mangrove forests. This study examines the effects of typhoons on mangrove communities at different stages of recovery, focusing on how environmental fa...
Pyrogenic carbon (PyC) is generated from the incomplete combustion of biomass and fossil fuels. Pyrogenic carbon is highly stable and is often referred to as a missing carbon sink. It plays a crucial role in global carbon cycling and climate change r...
Forest plantations have a large potential for carbon sequestration, playing an important role in the global carbon cycle. However, despite the large amount of research carried out worldwide, the absolute contribution of forest plantations is still in...
Forest thinning is a critical silvicultural practice for managing forest structure and enhancing various ecosystem services, yet its long-term impacts on trade-offs among these services remain complex. This study evaluated ecosystem services 17 years...
We analyzed and compared the effects of biotic factors (species diversity, structural diversity, and aboveground biomass) and abiotic factors (topography and soil properties) on soil organic carbon in selected mountainous areas of Beijing China. An o...
Tropical forests are critical for ecosystem functioning and are the major provider of global ecosystem services. The combined effects of climate change and anthropogenic disturbances in the tropics, however, have caused a mass decline in major ecosys...
We analyze here how much carbon is being accumulated annually by secondary tropical dry forests (TDFs) and how structure, composition, time since abandonment, and climate can influence the dynamics of forest carbon accumulation. The study was carried...
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