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Effects of 21st-century climate, land use, and disturbances on ecosystem carbon balance in California. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol, 2019
Terrestrial ecosystems are an important sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). However, the future direction and magnitude of the land sink is highly uncertain. For the state of California, we modeled 32 unique scenarios, spanning 4 land use and 2 radiative forcing scenarios as simulated by four global climate models.
Sleeter BM, Marvin DC, Cameron DR, Selmants PC, Westerling AL, Kreitler J, Daniel CJ, Liu J, Wilson TS.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Incorporating observed fire severity in refined emissions estimates for boreal and temperate forest fires in the carbon budget model CBM-CFS3 v1.2 [PDF]

Geoscientific Model Development
Among the many natural disturbances that affect Canada's boreal and temperate forest biomes, wildfire has the greatest impact on forest productivity, landscape structure, timber supply and greenhouse gas emissions.
Sasha Hararuk, Ellen Whitman, Chelene Hanes   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Under what circumstances can the forest sector contribute to 2050 climate change mitigation targets? A study from forest ecosystems to landfill methane emissions for the province of Quebec, Canada

GCB Bioenergy, Volume 15, Issue 9, Page 1119-1139, September 2023., 2023
Abstract Meeting climate change mitigation targets by 2050, as outlined in international pledges, involves determining optimal strategies for forest management, wood supply, the substitution of greenhouse gas‐intensive materials and energy sources, and wood product disposal. Our study quantified the cumulative mitigation potential by 2050 of the forest
Lucas Moreau, Evelyne Thiffault, Werner A. Kurz, Robert Beauregard   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging modelling and policymaking efforts to realize the European bioeconomy

GCB Bioenergy, Volume 14, Issue 11, Page 1183-1204, November 2022., 2022
Policymakers and modellers continuously interact to produce scenarios for environmentally, economically and socially desirable futures. This paper cross‐references 39 policies and 32 models to assess how they address the five objectives of the Bioeconomy Strategy in terms of accompanying sectors, value chains and multi‐dimensional indicators. Principle
Thomas Christensen, George Philippidis, Myrna van Leeuwen, Asha Singh, Calliope Panoutsou   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating carbon stocks and stock changes in Interior Wetbelt forests of British Columbia, Canada

Ecosphere, Volume 13, Issue 4, April 2022., 2022
Abstract The Interior Wetbelt (IWB) of British Columbia includes the globally rare Inland Temperate Rainforest (ITR) that if managed for its substantial carbon (C) stocks can contribute to Canada's Nationally Determined Commitment under the Paris Climate Agreement.
Dominick A. DellaSala, Heather Keith, Tim Sheehan, James Strittholt, Brendan Mackey, Michelle Connolly, Jeffery R. Werner, Arthur L. Fredeen   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Growing our future: Assessing the outcome of afforestation programs in Ontario, Canada

The Forestry Chronicle, 2021
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) requires its signatories, including Canada, to estimate and report their annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals.
Georgina K. Magnus, Elizabeth Celanowicz, Mihai Voicu, Mark Hafer, Juha M. Metsaranta, Andrew Dyk, Werner A. Kurz   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Carbon estimation using sampling to correct LiDAR-assisted enhanced forest inventory estimates

The Forestry Chronicle, 2020
Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) scanning has been increasingly applied in forest ecosystem surveys. Data from LiDAR describe forest structure and provide attribute information for forest inventory.
Yingbing Chen, John A. Kershaw, Yung-Han Hsu, Ting-Ru Yang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying the biophysical climate change mitigation potential of Canada's forest sector [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2014
The potential of forests and the forest sector to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is widely recognized, but challenging to quantify at a national scale.
C. E. Smyth, G. Stinson, E. Neilson, T. C. Lemprière, M. Hafer, G. J. Rampley, W. A. Kurz   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of carbon-stock changes, eddy-covariance carbon fluxes and model estimates in coastal Douglas-fir stands in British Columbia

Forest Ecosystems, 2015
Background The global network of eddy-covariance (EC) flux-towers has improved the understanding of the terrestrial carbon (C) cycle, however, the network has a relatively limited spatial extent compared to forest inventory data and plots.
Colin J Ferster, JA (Tony) Trofymow, Nicholas C Coops, Baozhang Chen, Thomas Andrew Black   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analytical review of modern studies of changes in the biotic components of the carbon cycle

RUDN Journal of Ecology and Life Safety, 2020
The research on changes in the spatial-temporal dynamics of carbon in natural ecosystems on land is explored. The works of Russian and foreign authors on the analysis of the depositing ability of the cover are presented.
Anna I. Kurbatova
doaj   +1 more source