Forest carbon management: A review of silvicultural practices and management strategies across boreal, temperate and tropical forests

A Ameray, Y Bergeron, O Valeria… - Current Forestry …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Carbon sequestration and storage in forest ecosystems is often
promoted as a solution for reducing CO 2 concentrations in the atmosphere. Yet, our …

European forests under global climate change: Review of tree growth processes, crises and management strategies

Z Vacek, S Vacek, J Cukor - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
The ongoing global climate change is challenging all sectors, forestry notwithstanding. On
the one hand, forest ecosystems are exposed to and threatened by climate change, but on …

Integrating terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to constrain estimates of land-atmosphere carbon exchange

JP Casas-Ruiz, P Bodmer, KA Bona, D Butman… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In this Perspective, we put forward an integrative framework to improve estimates of land-
atmosphere carbon exchange based on the accumulation of carbon in the landscape as …

Commercial afforestation can deliver effective climate change mitigation under multiple decarbonisation pathways

EJ Forster, JR Healey, C Dymond, D Styles - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Afforestation is an important greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation strategy but the efficacy of
commercial forestry is disputed. Here, we calculate the potential GHG mitigation of a UK …

Natural disturbance impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity in temperate and boreal forests

D Thom, R Seidl - Biological Reviews, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In many parts of the world forest disturbance regimes have intensified recently, and future
climatic changes are expected to amplify this development further in the coming decades …

Changes in land use and management led to a decline in Eastern Europe's terrestrial carbon sink

K Winkler, H Yang, R Ganzenmüller, R Fuchs… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Land-based mitigation is essential in reducing net carbon emissions. Yet, the attribution of
carbon fluxes remains highly uncertain, in particular for the forest-rich region of Eastern …

A large and persistent carbon sink in the world's forests

Y Pan, RA Birdsey, J Fang, R Houghton, PE Kauppi… - science, 2011 - science.org
The terrestrial carbon sink has been large in recent decades, but its size and location remain
uncertain. Using forest inventory data and long-term ecosystem carbon studies, we estimate …

Anticipating the consequences of climate change for Canada's boreal forest ecosystems

DT Price, RI Alfaro, KJ Brown… - Environmental …, 2013 - cdnsciencepub.com
Canadian boreal woodlands and forests cover approximately 3.09× 106 km2, located within
a larger boreal zone characterized by cool summers and long cold winters. Warming since …

Mapping forest change using stacked generalization: An ensemble approach

SP Healey, WB Cohen, Z Yang, CK Brewer… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The ever-increasing volume and accessibility of remote sensing data has spawned many
alternative approaches for mapping important environmental features and processes. For …

Global estimates of boreal forest carbon stocks and flux

CJA Bradshaw, IG Warkentin - Global and Planetary Change, 2015 - Elsevier
The boreal ecosystem is an important global reservoir of stored carbon and a haven for
diverse biological communities. The natural disturbance dynamics there have historically …