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Research article
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19 Jan 2016
Research article |
| 19 Jan 2016
The relative contributions of forest growth and areal expansion to forest biomass carbon
P. Li
Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences,
and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Ministry of Education,
Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
J. Zhu
Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences,
and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Ministry of Education,
Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
H. Hu
State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change,
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
Z. Guo
Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences,
and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Ministry of Education,
Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Meteorological
Administration, Beijing 100081, China
Y. Pan
US Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Newtown Square, PA
19073, USA
R. Birdsey
US Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Newtown Square, PA
19073, USA
J. Fang
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences,
and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Ministry of Education,
Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Our findings suggest that the mechanisms underlying the carbon sinks for natural and planted forests of China differ markedly with various effects from areal expansion and increase in carbon density. The increasing trend in the relative contribution of forest growth to carbon sinks for planted forests highlights that afforestation will continue to increase the carbon sink of China's forests in the future, subject to persistently increasing forest growth after the establishment of plantations.
Our findings suggest that the mechanisms underlying the carbon sinks for natural and planted...
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