The interaction between landuse change, nitrogen deposition, water recharge and carbon sequestration was investigated in the EU 5th Framework Programme project called AFFOREST. An important aspect of the project was the development of the AFFOREST spatial Decision Support System, designed to look at these issues simultaneously. The development of the nitrogen deposition module is described in t...

We present a modeling framework for simulating afforestation, deforestation and sustainable forest management that is composed of an interlinked economic model and a spatially explicit forestry model. The linkage of models allows addressing a number of important issues relevant to REDD+, in particular, estimation of cross-country comparable CO2 mitigation potential for individual countries and ...

Carbon sequestration strategies highlight tree plantations without considering their full environmental consequences. We combined field research, synthesis of more than 600 observations, and climate and economic modeling to document substantial losses in stream flow, and increased soil salinization and acidification, with afforestation. Plantations decreased stream flow by 227 millimeters per y...

Afforestation is one of the most effective processes for removing carbon dioxide from atmosphere and combating global warming. Landsat data machine learning approaches can be used to map afforestation (i) indirectly, by constructing two maps same area over different periods then predicting changes, or (ii) directly, a single analyzing observations change in both response remotely sensed variabl...

Afforestation can modify terrestrial carbon (C) pools, some of which are primarily fixed in the plant dead biomass and then incorporated into microbial biomass. Soil microorganisms exert a critical role C flow potentially influence balance through degradation Here, we compared sites along 45-year Robinia pseudoacacia (RP) afforestation chronosequence on Loess Plateau China. Subsequently, trends ...

There have been discussions of scaling up offshore seaweed cultivation and sinking it exclusively for carbon sequestration (‘ocean afforestation’) thereby help mitigate climate change, but is this concept feasible? Here we investigate the feasibility ocean afforestation across five perspectives: 1) Ecological feasibility; 2) Technical 3) Economic 4) Co-benefits risks; 5) Governance social consi...