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Forest management required for consistent carbon sink in China’s forest plantations

Forest Ecosystems, 2021
Background Forest is the largest biomass carbon (C) pool in China, taking up a substantial amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Although it is well understood that planted forests (PFs) act as a large C sink, the contribution of human management to C ...
Zhen Yu, Weibin You, Evgenios Agathokleous, Guoyi Zhou, Shirong Liu   +4 more
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Complexity of Forest Management: Exploring Perceptions of Dutch Forest Managers [PDF]

Forests, 2015
Challenges of contemporary forest management are frequently referred to as complex. This article empirically studies complexity in forest management decision-making. In contrast to what is often assumed in the literature, this article starts by assuming that complexity does not just consist of an external descriptive element, but also depends on how ...
de Bruin, J.O., Hoogstra, M.A., Mohren, G.M.J., Arts, B.J.M.   +3 more
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Hierarchical forest management planning and sustainable forest management in the boreal forest [PDF]

The Forestry Chronicle, 2001
In keeping with international efforts to encourage sustainable forest management, new legislation, regulations, and certification criteria have been brought into effect across boreal regions of the world in the past decade or less. These initiatives have established hierarchical systems of forest management planning that consider multiple uses of the ...
Tittler, R., Messier, C., Burton, P.J.
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Impacts of Soil Properties, Topography, and Environmental Features on Soil Water Holding Capacities (SWHCs) and Their Interrelationships

Land, 2021
Soil water holding capacities (SWHCs) are among the most important factors for understanding the water cycle in forested catchments because they control available plant water that supports evapotranspiration.
Hyunje Yang, Hyeonju Yoo, Honggeun Lim, Jaehoon Kim, Hyung Tae Choi   +4 more
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Comprehensive collection of genes and comparative analysis of full-length transcriptome sequences from Japanese larch (Larix kaempferi) and Kuril larch (Larix gmelinii var. japonica)

BMC Plant Biology, 2022
Background Japanese larch (Larix kaempferi) is an economically important deciduous conifer species that grows in cool-temperate forests and is endemic to Japan. Kuril larch (L. gmelinii var.
Kentaro Mishima, Hideki Hirakawa, Taiichi Iki, Yoko Fukuda, Tomonori Hirao, Akira Tamura, Makoto Takahashi   +6 more
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Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration

Nature Communications, 2020
Land use policies have turned southern China into one of the most intensively managed forest regions in the world, with actions maximizing forest cover on soils with marginal agricultural potential while concurrently increasing livelihoods and mitigating
Xiaowei Tong, M. Brandt, Y. Yue, P. Ciais, Martin Rudbeck Jepsen, J. Peñuelas, J. Wigneron, Xiangming Xiao, Xiao-Peng Song, S. Horion, K. Rasmussen, S. Saatchi, L. Fan, Kelin Wang, Bing Zhang, Zhengchao Chen, Yu-hang Wang, Xiaojun Li, R. Fensholt   +18 more
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Carbon Sequestration Potential of Trees Planted Along Roadsides: A Case From Bhopal City, India

International Journal of Environment, 2020
In the present article, we have discussed one such example from Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal campus where the amount of carbon stored, and carbon dioxide sequestered by the trees along roadside has been estimated.
Dharmendra Dugaya, S. Srirag, Ankit Kumar Pandey, Ankita Paul, Deependra Dev Shukla, Krishna Deo, Nidhi Sharma, Shivani Verma, Shourya Nagaria, Shruti Guhaprasad, Pradeep Chaudhry   +10 more
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PARTICIPATORY FOREST MANAGEMENT FOR THE SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF THE SUNDARBANS MANGROVE FOREST [PDF]

American Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2012
Peoples participation in forest management has become successful in many countries of the world. The Sundarbans is the single largest mangrove forest in the world, bearing numerous values and holding importance from economic, social and ecological perspectives. It is the direct and indirect sources of the livelihood of 3.5 million people.
Roy, Anjan Kumer Dev, Alam, Khorshed
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Collaborative management of forests [PDF]

, 2004
Governments around the world increasingly seek to manage their forests with the collaboration of the people living nearby. Ministries of forestry or their equivalents usually do this by offering local people access to selected forest products or forest land, income from forest resources, or opportunities for communicating with government forestry ...
Wollenberg, Eva, Campbell, Bruce, Shackleton, Sheona, Edmunds, David, Shanley, Patricia, Wollenberg, Eva, Campbell, Bruce, Shackleton, Sheona, Edmunds, David, Shanley, Patricia   +9 more
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Sustainable Forest Management Beyond the Timber-Oriented Status Quo: Transitioning to Co-production of Timber and Non-wood Forest Products—a Global Perspective

Current Forestry Reports, 2020
Purpose of Review This review provides perspectives and insights of forest researchers from four continents representing a range of geo-regions, with examples from diverse and dynamic use of forest products that are undervalued and often misrepresented ...
Jonathan P. Sheppard, J. Chamberlain, D. Agúndez, P. Bhattacharya, P. Chirwa, A. Gontcharov, W. Sagona, Hai-long Shen, W. Tadesse, S. Mutke   +9 more
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