Forest Carbon Sequestration, Pathogens and the Costs of the EU’s 2050 Climate Targets

Gren, Ing‐Marie; Aklilu, Abenezer Zeleke; Elofsson, Katarina

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“…Accurately and efficiently quantifying forest carbon stocks is crucial in understanding their response in mitigating rising climate change issues [4]. Mitigation through activities in the forest sector, either by increasing the removal of greenhouse gases (GHG) or by reducing emissions from carbon sources, can be comparatively cost-effective [5,6]. Thus, a precise estimation of the carbon storage in carbon pools is required in soil and litter organic carbon stocks [7].…”

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Assessing the Carbon Storage of Soil and Litter from National Forest Inventory Data in South Korea

Lee

Shin

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Forests

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Research Highlights: The estimation of soil and litter carbon stocks by the Land Use, Land-Use Changes, and Forestry (LULUCF) sectors has the potential to improve reports on national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories. Background and Objectives: Forests are carbon sinks in the LULUCF sectors and therefore can be a comparatively cost-effective means and method of GHG mitigation. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted to assess soil at 0–30 cm and litter carbon stocks using the National Forest Inventory (NFI) data and random forest (RF) models, mapping their carbon stocks. The three main types of forest in South Kora were studied, namely, coniferous, deciduous, and mixed. Results: The litter carbon stocks (t C ha−1) were 4.63 ± 0.18 for coniferous, 3.98 ± 0.15 for mixed, and 3.28 ± 0.13 for deciduous. The soil carbon stocks (t C ha−1) were 44.11 ± 1.54 for deciduous, 35.75 ± 1.60 for mixed, and 33.96 ± 1.62 for coniferous. Coniferous forests had higher litter carbon stocks while deciduous forests contained higher soil carbon stocks. The carbon storage in the soil and litter layer increased as the forest grew older; however, a significant difference was found in several age classes. For mapping the soil and litter carbon stocks, we used four random forest models, namely RF1 to RF4, and the best performing model was RF2 (root mean square error (RMSE) (t C ha−1) = 1.67 in soil carbon stocks, 1.49 in soil and litter carbon stocks). Our study indicated that elevation, accessibility class, slope, diameter at breast height, height, and growing stock are important predictors of carbon stock. Soil and litter carbon stock maps were produced using the RF2 models. Almost all prediction values were appropriated to soil and litter carbon stocks. Conclusions: Estimating and mapping the carbon stocks in the soil and litter layer using the NFI data and random forest models could be used in future national GHG inventory reports. Additionally, the data and models can estimate all carbon pools to achieve an accurate and complete national GHG inventory report.

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Assessing the Carbon Storage of Soil and Litter from National Forest Inventory Data in South Korea

Lee

Shin

et al. 2020

Forests

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“…The present study is similar to the literature on the economics of management of multifunctional forests, which can be traced to the novel contribution by Hartman [13]. Several studies have added carbon sequestration to timber values [9,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. The studies differ with respect to the choice of forest growth functions, inclusion of carbon sequestration, and empirical application.…”

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Multifunctional Forestry and Interaction with Site Quality

Gren

Amuakwa–Mensah

2019

Forests

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Several studies have shown the economic value of various ecosystem services provided by the forest. However, the economic value of how site-specific ecological conditions interact with other functions provided by the forest, such as timber value and carbon sequestration, has been less studied. As a result, this paper constructs a numerical discrete dynamic optimization model to estimate the economic value of site quality, taking into account its interaction with timber value and carbon sequestration, in Swedish forests. Analytical results show that the inclusion of the interaction of site quality with forest growth affects the optimal volume of harvest per year, compared to the case without consideration of site quality. The empirical results show that net present value, when considering timber values plus carbon sequestration and site quality interaction, is higher than the case where only timber and carbon sequestration were considered. However, the calculated net present value is sensitive to, in particular, the price of carbon sequestration and discount rate.

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“…The forest carbon sink is often seen as an effective means of climate change mitigation, whether through increased afforestation or through maintaining and natural regeneration of forested areas. Diseases may threaten the benefits of carbon sequestration and a recent economic analysis has estimated the annual value of carbon sequestration to be in the range of €6-15 billion in Europe, dependent on the extent of spread and impact of pathogens (Gren et al, 2018). The analysis did not separate the benefits for natural forested areas compared with plantation forestry.…”

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The impact of climate change on disease in wild plant populations and communities

Jeger

2021

Plant Pathology

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Climate change will have potential impacts on disease in wild plant populations and communities as much as is projected for the managed plants in agriculture, horticulture, and plantation forestry, or grown for amenity purposes. Impacts will arise from effects on the wild plant hosts, pathogens both native and introduced, and associated micro-and macrobiota, including disease vectors. The purpose here is to review the evidence for such impacts. First, it is important to identify the spatial and temporal scales over which

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Forest Carbon Sequestration, Pathogens and the Costs of the EU’s 2050 Climate Targets

Cited by 6 publications

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Assessing the Carbon Storage of Soil and Litter from National Forest Inventory Data in South Korea

Assessing the Carbon Storage of Soil and Litter from National Forest Inventory Data in South Korea

Multifunctional Forestry and Interaction with Site Quality

The impact of climate change on disease in wild plant populations and communities

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