Biomass carbon storage and its sequestration potential of afforestation under natural forest protection program in China

Forest Carbon Sequestration: The Impact of Forest Management

“…From 1970 to 1998, afforestation and reforestation programs were implemented to increase forest land and, subsequently, stored carbon (Fang et al, 2001). This effort continues and its impact on forest carbon stocks will be relevant in future decades (Zhou et al, 2014). Bellassen and Luyssaert (2014) pointed out how assessments of forests as carbon sinks or sources rely on specific hypotheses about processes, including the carbon-neutral role of mature forests and the life-cycle of wood products.…”

Biomass, Carbon and Nutrient Storage in a 30-Year-Old Chinese Cork Oak (Quercus Variabilis) Forest on the South Slope of the Qinling Mountains, China

“…A growing number of studies have addressed C storage and sequestration in key national ecological restoration programs in China, such as the Sloping Land Conversion program, Three-North Sheltbelt Forest program, Changjiang (Yangtze) River Basin Forest Protection program, Beijing-Tianjin Sandstorm Source Control program, Natural Forest Protection program (NFP), and other programs [2,[5][6][7][8][9].…”

“…The NFP program was implemented in 1998 with the goal of promoting natural forest resource protection and cultivation to improve the ecological environment, has been implemented since 1998 [6,10]. It covers about 6.0 × 10 7 ha of natural forest land, which accounts for 50% of the total natural forest area within 17 provincial-level administrative units in China [10].…”

“…The results of Wei et al [10] showed that the tree C pool under the NFP program in northeastern China increased from 1998 to 2008, by 6.3 Tg C, which was mainly sequestrated by natural forests (5.1 Tg C year −1 ). It has been projected that biomass C storage from afforestation under the NFP program could potentially increase from 33.67 Tg in 2011 to 96.03 Tg in 2020 [6]. However, most of these previous studies were mainly conducted on forest biomass C storage at the national and regional scales with different estimation methods and different forest resource data.…”

Carbon storage and sequestration of national key ecological restoration programs in China: An introduction to special issue

“…This case study clearly demonstrated that soil was the largest carbon storage component, contributing 69.5%-77.8% of ecosystem carbon storage; while tree and forest floor carbon pools accounted for 16.3%-23.0% and 5.0%-6.5% of total carbon storage, respectively. Zhou et al (2014) calculated the biomass carbon storage in the first-stage (1998-2010) of the NEP program by using China′s seventh forest inventory dataset, stand volume of different types and age-classes of forest plantations. Moreover, they estimated the carbon sequestration potential for the second-stage (2011-2020) of the NEP program.…”