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FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
Volume 257, Issue 3, Pages 1004-1013Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.11.002
Keywords
Greenhouse gas inventory; LULUCF; AFOLU; Climate change; Forest inventory; Kyoto protocol; UNFCCC; BEF
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- CarboEurope IP
- European Commission [GOCE-CT-2003-505572]
- JRC-IES-CCU-Action 24002-Greenhouse Gases in Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (GHG-AFOLU)
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Parties to the Kyoto Protocol and/or the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are required to account for their direct human-induced carbon emissions and removals including those from forestry and other land use related activities. In most European countries, the forestry related greenhouse gas inventories are largely or exclusively based on converting tree volume data from national forest inventories to biomass using biomass conversion and expansion factors (BCEFs). However, country specific data for many species are often lacking, which considerably increases the uncertainties of the greenhouse gas inventories. The focus of this research was to develop, using internationally published datasets that cover a large geographical area, an extended set of generalized curves of such biomass expansion factors for several species or species groups by age, growing stock and site index. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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