scholarly journals Forest Biodiversity, Carbon Sequestration, and Wood Production: Modeling Synergies and Trade-Offs for Ten Forest Landscapes Across Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Biber ◽  
Adam Felton ◽  
Maarten Nieuwenhuis ◽  
Matts Lindbladh ◽  
Kevin Black ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Forest Biodiversity ◽  
Wood Production ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Production Modeling

scholarly journals Natural disturbance impacts on trade-offs and co-benefits of forest biodiversity and carbon

2021 ◽  
Vol 288 (1961) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Mikoláš ◽  
Marek Svitok ◽  
Radek Bače ◽  
Garrett W. Meigs ◽  
William S. Keeton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Carbon Storage ◽  
Carbon Dynamics ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Forest Biodiversity ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Old Growth Forest ◽  
Trade Offs

With accelerating environmental change, understanding forest disturbance impacts on trade-offs between biodiversity and carbon dynamics is of high socio-economic importance. Most studies, however, have assessed immediate or short-term effects of disturbance, while long-term impacts remain poorly understood. Using a tree-ring-based approach, we analysed the effect of 250 years of disturbances on present-day biodiversity indicators and carbon dynamics in primary forests. Disturbance legacies spanning centuries shaped contemporary forest co-benefits and trade-offs, with contrasting, local-scale effects. Disturbances enhanced carbon sequestration, reaching maximum rates within a comparatively narrow post-disturbance window (up to 50 years). Concurrently, disturbance diminished aboveground carbon storage, which gradually returned to peak levels over centuries. Temporal patterns in biodiversity potential were bimodal; the first maximum coincided with the short-term post-disturbance carbon sequestration peak, and the second occurred during periods of maximum carbon storage in complex old-growth forest. Despite fluctuating local-scale trade-offs, forest biodiversity and carbon storage remained stable across the broader study region, and our data support a positive relationship between carbon stocks and biodiversity potential. These findings underscore the interdependencies of forest processes, and highlight the necessity of large-scale conservation programmes to effectively promote both biodiversity and long-term carbon storage, particularly given the accelerating global biodiversity and climate crises.

scholarly journals Trade-offs between wood production and forest grouse habitats in two regions with distinctive landscapes

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Haakana ◽  
Esa Huhta ◽  
Hannu Hirvelä ◽  
Tuula Packalen
Keyword(s):  
Wood Production ◽  
Trade Offs

Response and Simulation of Trade-offs/synergies Among Ecosystem Services to Ecological Restoration Program: a Case Study of the Chengdu-Chongqing Urban Agglomeration, China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiantian Chen ◽  
Li Peng ◽  
Qiang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Habitat Quality ◽  
Soil Conservation ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Water Yield ◽  
Ecological Security ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Synergistic Relationships

Abstract The Grain to Green Program (GTGP), as a policy tool for advancing ecological progress, has been operating for 20 years and has played an important role in improving ecosystem service values. However, there are few studies on the trade-off/synergy changes in ecosystem services during the implementation of the GTGP and how to select the optimal scheme for regional ecological security based on the trade-off relationship. Thus, we took the Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration (CCUA) in southwestern China as the study area; we used multisource data and the corresponding models and methods to estimate the regional food production, carbon sequestration, water yield, soil conservation and habitat quality services. Then, we clarified the trade-off/synergy relationships among ecosystem services from 2000 to 2015 by spatial analysis and statistical methods and evaluated the influential mechanism of the GTGP on trade-offs between ecosystem services. Finally, different risk scenarios were constructed by the ordered weighted average algorithm (OWA), and the regional ecological security pattern was simulated under the principle of the best protection efficiency and the highest trade-off degree. We found that (1) the trade-offs/synergies of regional ecosystem services changed significantly from 2000 to 2015. Among them, food production, water yield and soil conservation have always had trade-off relationships, while carbon sequestration, soil conservation and habitat quality have all had synergistic relationships. The relationships between carbon sequestration and water yield and food production changed from non-correlated to trade-off/synergistic, and the relationship between habitat quality and food production and water yield was not obvious. (2) Except for carbon sequestration service, the trade-off intensity between other ecosystem services decreased, indicating that the change trend of ecosystem services in the same direction was obvious. (3) The GTGP has been an important factor affecting the trade-off intensity of regional ecosystem services. On the one hand, it has strengthened the synergistic relationships among carbon sequestration, soil conservation and habitat quality; on the other hand, it has increased the constraints of water resources on soil conservation and vegetation restoration. (4) The decision risk coefficient α = 1.6 was the most suitable scenario, the total amount of regional ecosystem services was high, and the allocation was balanced under this scenario. The ecological security area corresponding to this scenario was also the area with high carbon sequestration and habitat quality services. The purpose of this study was to provide a scientific reference for the precise implementation of the GTGP.

Assessing trade-offs between carbon sequestration and timber production within a framework of multi-purpose forestry in Austria

2007 ◽  
Vol 248 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 64-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rupert Seidl ◽  
Werner Rammer ◽  
Dietmar Jäger ◽  
William S. Currie ◽  
Manfred J. Lexer
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Timber Production ◽  
Trade Offs

Which rotation length is favourable to carbon sequestration?

2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (11) ◽  
pp. 2004-2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jari Liski ◽  
Ari Pussinen ◽  
Kim Pingoud ◽  
Raisa Mäkipää ◽  
Timo Karjalainen
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Carbon Stock ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Energy Budgets ◽  
Wood Production ◽  
Annual Increment ◽  
Rotation Length ◽  
Fossil Carbon

Regulating the rotation length of tree stands is an effective way to manage the carbon budget of forests. We analyzed, using models, how a 30-year change in rotation length from the recommended 90 years would change the carbon and energy budgets of typical wood-production and wood-use chains in Finland. Shortening the rotation length towards the culmination age of mean annual increment decreased the carbon stock of trees but increased the carbon stock of soil, because the production of litter and harvest residues increased. Changes in the carbon stock of wood products varied with tree species depending on volumes and timber sorts harvested, manufacturing processes and products manufactured. The Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) chain stored the largest total amount of carbon when applying the longest rotation length and the Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) chain, when applying the shortest rotation length. Fossil carbon emissions and energy use in harvesting and manufacture increased when the rotation length was shortened and pulpwood harvests increased, especially in the spruce chain. We concluded that longer rotation length at the sites of both tree species would be favourable to carbon sequestration. The costs of this would be decreased timber harvests and decreased revenues of landowners. Our results demonstrate the importance of accounting for the whole wood-production and wood-use chain, including fossil carbon emissions, when analysing the effects of rotation length on forest carbon sequestration.

scholarly journals Carbon Sequestration in Community Forests: Trade‐offs, Multiple Outcomes and Institutional Diversity in the Bolivian Amazon

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Bottazzi ◽  
David Crespo ◽  
Harry Soria ◽  
Hy Dao ◽  
Marcelo Serrudo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Institutional Diversity ◽  
Multiple Outcomes ◽  
Community Forests ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Bolivian Amazon
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