Influence of tree species composition, thinning intensity and climate change on carbon sequestration in Mediterranean mountain forests: a case study using the CO2Fix model

Álvarez, Sergio; Ortiz, Carlos; Díaz‐Pinés, Eugenio; Sánchez, Alfonso Emilio Pérez

doi:10.1007/s11027-014-9565-4

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“…Forest thinning affects soil processes by altering key microclimatic conditions, root and microbial respiration, soil organic matter turnover and N mineralization rates , Olajuyigbe et al 2012, Alvarez et al 2014. Thinning and its variants (i.e., type, intensity, timing and interactions with other forest practices) can affect soil respiration (Cheng et al 2014).…”

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Thinning effects on soil and microbial respiration in a coppice-originated Carpinus betulus L. stand in Turkey

Akburak¹,

Makineci²

2016

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. However, there were no significant differences in either the second year or the 2-year study period. In the thinned plots during the research period, RS was linearly correlated with GC, Ts and FRB. Thinning treatments did not affect RSM, but interestingly, they did affect RFFM, which was greater in the control plots than in the thinned plots. RSM had a significant and positive correlation with soil N and soil pH, while R FFM was linearly correlated with FFC and C/N ratio of the forest floor in both thinned and control plots during the research period.

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Thinning effects on soil and microbial respiration in a coppice-originated Carpinus betulus L. stand in Turkey

Akburak¹,

Makineci²

2016

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“…Other research articles had similar results. Schroeder 30 for thinning treatment of loblolly pine ( Pinus taeda ) plantations found that thinning did not increase net carbon stocks and Schaedel 31 found that early forest thinning only changed aboveground carbon distribution among pools. Alvarez et al .…”

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“…Alvarez et al . 31 showed that thinning has a negligible effect of thinning intensity for Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris L .) and Pyrenean oak ( Quercus pyrenaica Willd .).…”

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Thinning Effects on Biomass and Carbon Stock for Young Taiwania Plantations

Lin

Chiu

et al. 2018

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Forests play an important role as carbon sinks by sequestrating carbon through photosynthesis. Thinning treatments have large impacts on carbon storage, in addition to strengthening quality and quantity of plantations. This study analyzed the effects of different thinning treatments on carbon stocks in both individual trees and stands of Taiwania (Taiwania cryptomerioides) plantations. Repeated field measurements and allometric equations were used to calculate total C storage and sequestration rates of live trees. The results of this study showed that the total carbon stock of stands with thinning treatments was less than that of the non-thinned stands. The non-thinned 23-year old stands had an estimated carbon stock of 96.8 Mg C ha−1, which is higher than the carbon stock found in either medium- (84.1 Mg C ha−1) or heavily-thinned (74.7 Mg C ha−1) treatment plots of the same age. If the objective of Taiwania plantations was to store large amounts of carbon in the young growth stage, without regard to the initial rate of storage, a better option is no-thinning. However, the medium thinned forests seem to be more promising for carbon sequestration than the no-thinned forests if a longer period is considered.

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“…The estimation and analysis of C stocks and flows in forest ecosystems requires use of carbon simulation models for below-ground and above-ground C stocks (Chiti et al 2012;Alvarez et al 2014). A number of simulation models for C sequestration were developed in the late twentieth century, examples including CO2FIX (Mohren and Goldewijk 1990), CBM-CFS (Kurz et al 1993), BIOME3 (Haxeltine and Prentice 1996), HYBRID 3.0 (Friend et al 1997), 3-PG (Landsberg and Waring 1997), FINNFOR (Kellomäki and Väisänen 1997) and GOTILWA?…”

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Wood Use and Forest Management for Carbon Sequestration in Community Forestry in Sierra Juárez, Mexico

Álvarez

Sánchez²

2016

Small-scale Forestry

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Forest managers and policy-makers are being encouraged to incorporate carbon sequestration as a criterion for decision-making. This is a great challenge for small-scale forestry where the conspicuous lack of practical knowledge available for managers prevents the implementation of criteria to promote carbon sequestration. The carbon simulation model CO2FIX combined with local data could provide valuable information for C sequestration in these small-scale forestry systems. The research reported here focuses on community forestry located in the Juarez Mountain Range (Oaxaca State, Mexico), and analyzes the influences of forest management and wood-use (20 scenarios based on five forest management plans and four wood-use strategies) on the changes of C stock (biomass C, soil organic C, products C and fuelwood C) over time. The comparison of the whole stocks to reference results show that group-selection, based on an uneven-aged forest management system involving small patches, has only about half the C benefit relative to clear-cutting harvesting. A forest management strategy focused on oak logwood has a lower C benefit (70 %), and a forest management strategy focused on oak fuelwood has a higher C benefit (120 %) relative to the average of the studied wooduse strategies. Thus, in the study area forest managers and policy-makers who wish to mitigate climate change should increase the rotation period from 40 to 50 years in clear-cutting areas, continue with 40 years in group-selection areas, and promote the use of oak for bioenergy.

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Influence of tree species composition, thinning intensity and climate change on carbon sequestration in Mediterranean mountain forests: a case study using the CO2Fix model

Cited by 28 publications

References 35 publications

Thinning effects on soil and microbial respiration in a coppice-originated Carpinus betulus L. stand in Turkey

Thinning effects on soil and microbial respiration in a coppice-originated Carpinus betulus L. stand in Turkey

Thinning Effects on Biomass and Carbon Stock for Young Taiwania Plantations

Wood Use and Forest Management for Carbon Sequestration in Community Forestry in Sierra Juárez, Mexico

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