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AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY
Volume 327, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.109203
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Adaptive forest management; modeling; virtual forests; climate change; carbon sequestration
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- COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) [FP1304 PROFOUND]
- EFI
- Italian Ministry of University and Research [CNR DTA.AD003.474.029, 2020E52THS, 20202WF530]
- LANDSUPPORT Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [774234]
- H2020 Societal Challenges Programme [774234] Funding Source: H2020 Societal Challenges Programme
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This study uses a bio-geochemically based forest growth model to assess the effects of various forest management scenarios on net primary productivity and potential carbon sequestration. The findings suggest that moderate forest management practices can enhance both productivity capacity and carbon storage potential in forests.
Forest management practices might act as nature-based methods to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and slow anthropogenic climate change and thus support an EU forest-based climate change mitigation strategy. However, the extent to which diversified management actions could lead to quantitatively important changes in carbon sequestration and stocking capacity at the tree level remains to be thoroughly assessed. To that end, we used a state-of-the-science bio-geochemically based forest growth model to simulate effects of multiple forest management scenarios on net primary productivity (NPP) and potential carbon woody stocks (pCWS) under twenty scenarios of climate change in a suite of observed and virtual forest stands in temperate and boreal European forests. Previous modelling experiments indicated that the capacity of forests to assimilate and store atmospheric CO2 in woody biomass is already being attained under business-as-usual forest management practices across a range of climate change scenarios. Nevertheless, we find that on the long-term, with increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration and warming, managed forests show both higher productivity capacity and a larger potential pool size of stored carbon than unmanaged forests as long as thinning and tree harvesting are of moderate intensity.
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