Changes in Forest Biomass Carbon Storage in China Between 1949 and 1998

By Jingyun Fang, Anping Chen, C. Peng, Shuqing Zhao, L. Ci. Science, 2001

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Aboveground carbon storage is driven by functional trait composition and stand structural attributes rather than biodiversity in temperate mixed forests recovering from disturbances (2018, methodology): “To test the potential effects of other variables such as stand density and climate on biomass estimations, we applied an alternative biomass expansion factor method through converting timber volume derived from DBH to forest biomass (Fang et al. 1998, 2001).”
A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests (2011, positive): “This was caused primarily by increasing areas of newly planted forests, the consequence of an intensive national afforestation/ reforestation program in the last few decades (table S2) ( 19 ).”
Aboveground litter quality changes may drive soil organic carbon increase after shrub encroachment into mountain grasslands (2010, background): “Woody proliferation into grasslands is ubiquitous (e.g. Archer et al. 1995; Fang et al. 2001), affecting not only arid and semiarid grasslands (Van Auken 2009; Maestre et al. 2009), but also mesic ones (Briggs et al. 2005).”