Forest carbon budgets and climate change

Malhi, Yadvinder, Christmann, Tina, Deng, Xiongjie, Zhang-Zheng, Huanyuan, Moore, Sam and Riutta, Terhi (2024) Forest carbon budgets and climate change. In, Peh, Kelvin S.-H., Corlett, Richard T. and Bergeron, Yves (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology. 2 ed. Routledge. (doi:10.4324/9781003324072-44).

Abstract

This chapter reviews the biome-level carbon budgets of the major forest biomes, tropical, temperate and boreal. First, it introduces the key carbon balance concepts and processes, defining terms such as “Gross and Net Primary Productivity”, “Net Ecosystem Productivity”, “Net Biome Productivity” and “Residence Time”. It then summarises available knowledge of carbon stocks in vegetation and soil, productivity, carbon residence time and disturbance regime in each major forest biome. The chapter then moves onto examining evidence for net carbon sources or sinks in each biome, and the climatic and anthropogenic factors that may be driving forest carbon dynamics. Lastly, it explores how 21st-century atmospheric changes, disturbances and processes of regrowth and recovery are affecting the carbon balance of forest biomes.

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Author: Tina Christmann

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