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Carbon accumulation in European forests

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal , Other literature type 22 Jun 2008 France, France, France, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Russian Federation Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature Geoscience, volume 1, pages 425-429 (issn: 1752-0894, eissn: 1752-0908,

Authors: Riccardo Valentini; Ernst Detlef Schulze; Gert-Jan Nabuurs; Mart-Jan Schelhaas; Sebastiaan Luyssaert; Sebastiaan Luyssaert; Alessandro Cescatti; +8 Authors

doi: 10.1038/ngeo233

handle: 1871.1/b690134b-8525-444b-8cb5-11f37e5aea2a , 10067/697310151162165141

Carbon accumulation in European forests

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Abstract

European forests are intensively exploited for wood products, yet they also form a sink for carbon. European forest inventories, available for the past 50 years, can be combined with timber harvest statistics to assess changes in this carbon sink. Analysis of these data sets between 1950 and 2000 from the EU-15 countries excluding Luxembourg, plus Norway and Switzerland, reveals that there is a tight relationship between increases in forest biomass and forest ecosystem productivity but timber harvests grew more slowly. Encouragingly, the environmental conditions in combination with the type of silviculture that has been developed over the past 50 years can efficiently sequester carbon on timescales of decades, while maintaining forests that meet the demand for wood. However, a return to using wood as biofuel and hence shorter rotations in forestry could cancel out the benefits of carbon storage over the past five decades

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France, France, France, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Russian Federation

Related Organizations

French National Centre for Scientific Research
France
Peking University
China (People's Republic of)
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
Germany
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Netherlands
Max Planck Society
Germany

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Keywords

boreal forests, Photosynthèse, database, SDG 15 - Life on Land, [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, Inventaire forestier, dynamics, [SDU.ENVI] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment, séquestration du carbone, P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières, ecosystems, environment, forêt tempérée, temperate, 570, Earth and Planetary Sciences(all), E10 - Economie et politique agricoles, land-use, SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy, [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment, climate, 580, [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, biomass, Atmosphere, [SDU.OCEAN] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, turnover, sylviculture, Centrum Ecosystemen, K10 - Production forestière, pinus-cembra, Politique forestière, [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, Dioxyde de carbone, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_331583, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_2724, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_1302, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_7071, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_5812, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_35649, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_24174, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_3060

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