Drivers of carbon stocks in forest edges across Europe

Meeussen, Camille; Govaert, Sanne; Vanneste, Thomas; Haesen, Stef; Meerbeek, Koenraad Van; Bollmann, Kurt; Brunet, Jörg; Calders, Kim; Cousins, Sara A. O.; Diekmann, Martin; Graae, Bente Jessen; Iacopetti, Giovanni; Lenoir, Jonathan; Orczewska, Anna; Ponette, Quentin; Plue, Jan; Selvi, Federico; Spicher, Fabien; Sørensen, Mia Vedel; Verbeeck, Hans; Vermeir, Pieter; Verheyen, Kris; Vangansbeke, Pieter; Frenne, Pieter De

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143497

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“…Microclimates strongly influence soil decomposition, primary productivity, plant communities and forest density, which further influences groundwater and carbon sequestration—via its influence on soil dynamics. For example, forest edge to interior climatic gradients are primary drivers of carbon storage and cycling (Laurance, 2004; Meeussen et al, 2021; Uriarte et al, 2016). In temperate forests, carbon stocks are on average higher at the edge than in forest interiors (Meeussen et al, 2021).…”

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“…For example, forest edge to interior climatic gradients are primary drivers of carbon storage and cycling (Laurance, 2004; Meeussen et al, 2021; Uriarte et al, 2016). In temperate forests, carbon stocks are on average higher at the edge than in forest interiors (Meeussen et al, 2021). By contrast, in the tropics, forest fragmentation generally leads to a loss of aboveground carbon stocks due to drier and warmer conditions at forest edges (Silva Junior et al, 2020).…”

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Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda

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Luoto

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Global Change Biology

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Forest microclimates contrast strongly with the climate outside forests. To fully understand and better predict how forests' biodiversity and functions relate to climate and climate change, microclimates need to be integrated into ecological research. Despite the potentially broad impact of microclimates on the response of forest ecosystems to global change, our understanding of how microclimates within and below tree canopies modulate biotic responses to global change at the species, community and ecosystem level is still limited. Here, we review how spatial and temporal variation in forest microclimates result from an interplay of forest features, local water balance, topography and landscape composition. We first stress and exemplify the importance of considering forest microclimates to understand variation in biodiversity and ecosystem functions across forest landscapes. Next, we explain how macroclimate warming (of the free atmosphere) can affect microclimates, and vice versa, via interactions with land‐use changes across different biomes. Finally, we perform a priority ranking of future research avenues at the interface of microclimate ecology and global change biology, with a specific focus on three key themes: (1) disentangling the abiotic and biotic drivers and feedbacks of forest microclimates; (2) global and regional mapping and predictions of forest microclimates; and (3) the impacts of microclimate on forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the face of climate change. The availability of microclimatic data will significantly increase in the coming decades, characterizing climate variability at unprecedented spatial and temporal scales relevant to biological processes in forests. This will revolutionize our understanding of the dynamics, drivers and implications of forest microclimates on biodiversity and ecological functions, and the impacts of global changes. In order to support the sustainable use of forests and to secure their biodiversity and ecosystem services for future generations, microclimates cannot be ignored.

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Section: Consequences Of Microclimates On Forest Functioningmentioning

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Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda

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Lenoir

Luoto

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Global Change Biology

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“…Many environmental factors change drastically from the forest's edge to its interior (Gehlhausen et al, 2000;Matlack, 1993). Forest edges receive more atmospheric acidifying and eutrophying deposition (Devlaeminck et al, 2005;Wuyts et al, 2008) and have higher nitrogen and carbon stocks, compared to the interior (Meeussen et al, 2021;Remy et al, 2016).…”

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“…Many environmental factors change drastically from the forest's edge to its interior (Gehlhausen et al., 2000; Matlack, 1993). Forest edges receive more atmospheric acidifying and eutrophying deposition (Devlaeminck et al., 2005; Wuyts et al., 2008) and have higher nitrogen and carbon stocks, compared to the interior (Meeussen et al., 2021; Remy et al., 2016). Therefore, the increasing proportion of forest edges might accelerate the current homogenisation of understorey plant communities, which is characterised by an increasing presence of nutrient‐demanding species (Staude et al., 2020; Van den Berge et al., 2019; Verheyen et al., 2012).…”

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Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of understorey plants respond differently to environmental conditions in European forest edges

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1. Forest biodiversity world-wide is affected by climate change, habitat loss and fragmentation, and today 20% of the forest area is located within 100 m of a forest edge. Still, forest edges harbour a substantial amount of terrestrial biodiversity, especially in the understorey. The functional and phylogenetic diversity of forest edges have never been studied simultaneously at a continental scale, in spite of their importance for the forests' functioning and for communities' resilience to future change.2. We assessed nine metrics of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of understorey plant communities in 225 plots spread along edge-to-interior gradients in deciduous forests across Europe. We then derived the relative effects and importance of edaphic, stand and landscape conditions on the diversity metrics.3. Here, we show that taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity metrics respond differently to environmental conditions. We report an increase in functional diversity in plots with stronger microclimatic buffering, in spite of their lower taxonomic species richness. Additionally, we found increased taxonomic | 3

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“…The calculation of the C stocks requires multiple empirical parameters like C content, soil apparent density and rock content for the relevant depth, while all of them are affected by uncertainty given the sampling scheme and processing method [24,25] or the forests' particularity and spatial fragmentation [26]. Although some countries have long time series of robust monitoring and data on C stocks in all carbon pools of forests [27], they often have limited information on short term C stock change in mineral soils.…”

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Silvicultural Interventions Drive the Changes in Soil Organic Carbon in Romanian Forests According to Two Model Simulations

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Viskari

Kulmala

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We investigated the effects of forest management on the carbon (C) dynamics in Romanian forest soils, using two model simulations: CBM-CFS3 and Yasso15. Default parametrization of the models and harmonized litterfall simulated by CBM provided satisfactory results when compared to observed data from National Forest Inventory (NFI). We explored a stratification approach to investigate the improvement of soil C prediction. For stratification on forest types only, the NRMSE (i.e., normalized RMSE of simulated vs. NFI) was approximately 26%, for both models; the NRMSE values reduced to 13% when stratification was done based on climate only. Assuming the continuation of the current forest management practices for a period of 50 years, both models simulated a very small C sink during simulation period (0.05 MgC ha−1 yr−1). Yet, a change towards extensive forest management practices would yield a constant, minor accumulation of soil C, while more intensive practices would yield a constant, minor loss of soil C. For the maximum wood supply scenario (entire volume increment is removed by silvicultural interventions during the simulated period) Yasso15 resulted in larger emissions (−0.3 MgC ha−1 yr−1) than CBM (−0.1 MgC ha−1 yr−1). Under ‘no interventions’ scenario, both models simulated a stable accumulation of C which was, nevertheless, larger in Yasso15 (0.35 MgC ha−1 yr−1) compared to CBM-CSF (0.18 MgC ha−1 yr−1). The simulation of C stock change showed a strong “start-up” effect during the first decade of the simulation, for both models, explained by the difference in litterfall applied to each scenario compared to the spinoff scenario. Stratification at regional scale based on climate and forest types, represented a reasonable spatial stratification, that improved the prediction of soil C stock and stock change.

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Drivers of carbon stocks in forest edges across Europe

Cited by 30 publications

References 94 publications

Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda

Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda

Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of understorey plants respond differently to environmental conditions in European forest edges

Silvicultural Interventions Drive the Changes in Soil Organic Carbon in Romanian Forests According to Two Model Simulations

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