Forest carbon stocks and fluxes in physiographic zones of India

Forest carbon stocks and fluxes in physiographic zones of India

BACKGROUND Reducing carbon Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) is of central importance to combat climate change. Foremost among the challenges is quantifying nation's carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation, which requires information on forest carbon storage. Here we estimated carbon storage in India's forest biomass for the years 2003, 2005 and 2007 and the net f...

Comprehensive assessment of carbon stocks and fluxes in a Boreal–Cordilleran forest management unit

A carbon budget model of the Canadian forest sector (CBM-CFS2), was modified to investigate past and possible future impacts of management on C sequestration in forest biomass, soils, and harvested wood products, for a forest management unit in the western Canadian Boreal–Cordilleran ecoregions. The model showed that total suppression of natural disturbances, and their replacement by harvesting...

Soil carbon fluxes and stocks in a Great Lakes forest chronosequence Running title: Soil carbon in a chronosequence

Simulating Carbon Stocks and Fluxes of an African Tropical Montane Forest with an Individual-Based Forest Model

Tropical forests are carbon-dense and highly productive ecosystems. Consequently, they play an important role in the global carbon cycle. In the present study we used an individual-based forest model (FORMIND) to analyze the carbon balances of a tropical forest. The main processes of this model are tree growth, mortality, regeneration, and competition. Model parameters were calibrated using for...

2.3 Estimation of Forest Carbon Stocks