New forest biomass carbon stock estimates in Northeast Asia based on multisource data
| Autor: | Chunyu Zhang, Daun Ryu, Xiuhai Zhao, Hyun-Seok Kim, Nancy L. Harris, Sayon Ghosh, Jingjing Liang, Ilbin Jung, Weixue Luo, Hyunkook Cho |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
Carbon Sequestration China 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Sustainable forest management Climate change Forests 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Trees Environmental Chemistry Humans Biomass Stock (geology) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science Global and Planetary Change Ecology Carbon sink Reforestation Forestry Biomass carbon Carbon Spatial ecology Environmental science |
| Zdroj: | Global change biologyREFERENCES. 26(12) |
| ISSN: | 1365-2486 |
| Popis: | Forests play an important role in both regional and global C cycles. However, the spatial patterns of biomass C density and underlying factors in Northeast Asia remain unclear. Here, we characterized spatial patterns and important drivers of biomass C density for Northeast Asia, based on multisource data from in situ forest inventories, as well as remote sensing, bioclimatic, topographic, and human footprint data. We derived, for the first time, high-resolution (1 km × 1 km) maps of the current and future forest biomass C density for this region. Based on these maps, we estimated that current biomass C stock in northeastern China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Republic of Korea to be 2.53, 0.40, and 0.35 Pg C, respectively. Biomass C stock in Northeast Asia has increased by 20%-46% over the past 20 years, of which 40%-76% was contributed by planted forests. We estimated the biomass C stock in 2080 to be 6.13 and 6.50 Pg C under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios, respectively, which exceeded the present region-wide C stock value by 2.85-3.22 Pg C, and were 8%-14% higher than the baseline C stock value (5.70 Pg C). The spatial patterns of biomass C densities were found to vary greatly across the Northeast Asia, and largely decided by mean diameter at breast height, dominant height, elevation, and human footprint. Our results suggest that reforestation and forest conservation in Northeast Asia have effectively expanded the size of the carbon sink in the region, and sustainable forest management practices such as precision forestry and close forest monitoring for fire and insect outbreaks would be important to maintain and improve this critical carbon sink for Northeast Asia. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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