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The sink of carbon sequestration in forests and wood products helps to offset sources of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, such as deforestation, forest fires, and fossil fuel emissions.
Depending on their characteristics and local circumstances, forests can play different roles in the carbon cycle, from net emitters to net sinks of carbon. Forests sequester carbon by capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and transforming it into biomass through photosynthesis.
We developed the Forest Carbon Management Menu to identify a range of potential actions that adapt forests to a changing climate and benefit forest carbon by reducing climate-related carbon losses, sustaining forest health, or enhancing future productivity of forest ecosystems.
Carbon sequestration in forests and forest soils holds paramount significance in the context of climate actions and mitigation. This chapter highlights the potential of forests and forest soils in sequestering carbon and climate change mitigation. In efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions, forest ecosystems’ carbon capture and storage ...
Two-thirds of the benefit of the global forest carbon sink has been offset by tropical deforestation that averaged 2.2 ±0.5 billion metric tons of carbon per year between 1990 and 2019, reducing the net carbon sink in the world’s forests to 1.3 ±0.5 billion metric tons of carbon per year (Fig. 1).
Here, we present a review of carbon sequestration and stock dynamics, following three strategies that are widely used in boreal, temperate and tropical forests: extensive forest management, intensive forest management and old-growth forest conservation.
The new study found that these generalized IPCC defaults underestimate sequestration rates in young forests by 32 percent globally, and by a full 50 percent for tropical forests.
Global forests sequester 662 Pg C in plant biomass and soils and play an important role in mitigating the increasing atmospheric CO 2 concentration. Planted forests, accounting for 7% of the world's forests, make a great contribution to forest carbon (C) sink (Pugh et al., 2019).
Carbon Sequestration in Forest Ecosystems is a comprehensive book describing the basic processes of carbon dynamics in forest ecosystems, their contribution to carbon sequestration and implications for mitigating abrupt climate change.
Carbon sequestration is the process by which forests capture and store atmospheric carbon dioxide, reducing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. This is important for climate change mitigation because it helps to balance greenhouse gas emissions, which are a primary driver of global warming.