Integrated carbon analysis of forest management practices and wood substitution

Eriksson, Erik; Gillespie, Andrew R.; Gustavsson, Leif; Langvall, Ola; Olsson, Mats; Stendahl, Johan

doi:10.1139/x06-257

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“…Research is ongoing to develop approaches to factor out direct human effects from natural and indirect human effects (15) and account for harvested carbon in the forest product sector (49,60). Future climate mitigation agreements that have successfully negotiated solutions to these issues are a prerequisite to encouraging increased involvement of the forest sector in climate mitigation.…”

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Risk of natural disturbances makes future contribution of Canada's forests to the global carbon cycle highly uncertain

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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A large carbon sink in northern land surfaces inferred from global carbon cycle inversion models led to concerns during Kyoto Protocol negotiations that countries might be able to avoid efforts to reduce fossil fuel emissions by claiming large sinks in their managed forests. The greenhouse gas balance of Canada's managed forest is strongly affected by naturally occurring fire with high interannual variability in the area burned and by cyclical insect outbreaks. Taking

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Risk of natural disturbances makes future contribution of Canada's forests to the global carbon cycle highly uncertain

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Stinson

Rampley

et al. 2008

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…An abnormal change of NPP is likely to deplete soil nutrients (and in turn, have negative impacts on growth), or to allocate biomass to rapid turnover tissues (e.g., fine roots or foliage) rather than stem wood and coarse roots (Schlesinger and Lichter 2001). Forest management plans (e.g., thinning, fertilization, harvesting, and replanting) have been recommended to maintain the resilience of forest NPP fluxes and growth (Eriksson et al 2007).…”

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Assessing vulnerability of forests to climate change in South Korea

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This study demonstrated a framework to assess vulnerability of forests to climate change. We focused on how alterations of temperature and precipitation might affect forest type distributions and carbon-related functions. In particular, our framework considered three sectors of forest type distribution, net primary production, and soil carbon storage. Future projections were derived from mechanistic models for South Korean forests under the A1B scenarios of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Forest type distributions were simulated by the Hydrological and thermal analogy group model, while the MAPSS and CENTURY1 models estimated forest carbon flux/storage. We quantified normalized vulnerability indices for each sector. Our results indicate that the overall vulnerability of forest type distribution is greater in the west central regions and southeastern inlands. The vulnerabilities of carbon flux/storage show that net primary production of South Korean forests is relatively less susceptible to climate change, but a highly vulnerable area of soil carbon storage mainly spreads from the west central to the south east region. The spatio-temporal vulnerability map with a synoptic overview from this study might be useful for policy makers in preparing adaptive measures and identifying management priorities.

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“…In particular, the changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) and the CO 2 fluxes between soil, biomass and atmosphere have been shown to highly influence the result [23,20,[24][25][26][27]. To model the forest carbon balance, process-based models were used in this study.…”

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Time-Dynamic Effects on the Global Temperature When Harvesting Logging Residues for Bioenergy

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The climate mitigation potential of using logging residues (tree tops and branches) for bioenergy has been debated. In this study, a time-dependent life cycle assessment (LCA) was performed using a single-stand perspective. Three forest stands located in different Swedish climate zones were studied in order to assess the global temperature change when using logging residues for producing district heating. These systems were compared with two fossil reference systems in which the logging residues were assumed to remain in the forest to decompose over time, while coal or natural gas was used for energy. The results showed that replacing coal with logging residues gave a direct climate benefit from a single-stand perspective, while replacing natural gas gave a delayed climate benefit of around 8-12 years depending on climate zone. A sensitivity analysis showed that the time was strongly dependent on the assumptions for extraction and combustion of natural gas. The LCA showed that from a single-stand perspective, harvesting logging residues for bioenergy in the south of Sweden would give the highest temperature change mitigation potential per energy unit. However, the differences between the three climate zones studied per energy unit were relatively small. On a hectare basis, the southern forest stand would generate more biomass compared to the central and northern locations, which thereby could replace more fossil fuel and give larger climate benefits.

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Integrated carbon analysis of forest management practices and wood substitution

Cited by 200 publications

References 33 publications

Risk of natural disturbances makes future contribution of Canada's forests to the global carbon cycle highly uncertain

Risk of natural disturbances makes future contribution of Canada's forests to the global carbon cycle highly uncertain

Assessing vulnerability of forests to climate change in South Korea

Time-Dynamic Effects on the Global Temperature When Harvesting Logging Residues for Bioenergy

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