A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests

By Sustainable Forestry, Pekka E. Kauppi, Yude Pan, R. Birdsey, Jingyun Fang, Richard A. Houghton, W. Kurz, Oliver L. Phillips, A. Shvidenko, Simon L. Lewis and 10 more. Science, 2011

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science

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Effect of increasing CO2 on the terrestrial carbon cycle (2014, background): “(35) from 1990 to 2007, and GCP from 1992 to 2004.”
Detection and attribution of vegetation greening trend in China over the last 30 years (2015, background): “Additionally, human activities such as afforestation and agricultural management can potentially contribute to the satellite-observed greening in China's vegetation over the last three decades (Pan et al., 2011).”
Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (2021, background): “1); (2) whether recent changes of policies and human activities in 2019 have a detectable effect on forest area and AGB; and (3) the relative contribution of deforestation and forest degradation (forest fragmentation, edge-effects, logging, forest fire and drought) to inter-annual variation of AGB l”
Liana Impacts on Carbon Cycling, Storage and Sequestration in Tropical Forests (2013, background): “TROPICAL FORESTS WORLDWIDE CONSTITUTE THE LARGEST POOL OF TERRESTRIAL BIOMASS CARBON STOCKS, contribute more than half of the planet’s terrestrial biodiversity and a third of its terrestrial global net primary productivity (Beer et al. 2010, Pan et al. 2011).”
The Amazon basin in transition (2012, background): “Although secondary forests may be significant carbon sinks in other parts of the worl”
Dynamics of aboveground phytomass of the circumpolar Arctic tundra during the past three decades (2012, background): “This likely overestimated annual value represents <10% of the annual terrestrial carbon sink; the land sink for carbon is rather variable interannually, but has been estimated at 2.3 ± 0.4 Pg C yr−1 for 2008 (Le Quéré et al 2009) and 2.3 ± 0.4 Pg C yr−1 for 2000 (Pan et al 2011).”
Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species (2015, background): “More specifically, live biomass is estimated to store 42% of the current global terrestrial carbon stock, and another 8% and 5% are stored in dead wood and fine litter (Pan et al. 2011).”
Aboveground carbon storage is driven by functional trait composition and stand structural attributes rather than biodiversity in temperate mixed forests recovering from disturbances (2018, background): “Forests harbor about two thirds of the terrestrial biodiversity and account for 44% of the world’s forest carbon pool (Pan et al. 2011).”
Large‐scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral (2012, background): “…on the following multipliers (gross/net): coal 1.1, oil 1.06, natural gas 1.11 and biomass 1.1 (Haberl et al., 2006) Global C-flux (PgC yr 1) Energy equivalent (EJ yr 1) Source (1) Current NPP of forest ecosystems 27–29 1030–1100 Haberl et al. (2007a) and Pan et al. (2011) (1a) Belowground NPP (40”
Increasing human dominance of tropical forests (2015, background): “This latest phase is defined by permanent intensive agriculture, often driven by distant socioeconomics directing land-use change, frontier industrial logging for export, cross-continental species invasions, and the early impacts of global atmospheric and climatic changes, where even the most remote”