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Carbon Storages in Plantation Ecosystems in Sand Source Areas of North Beijing, China

Afforestation is a mitigation option to reduce the increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels as well as the predicted high possibility of climate change. In this paper, vegetation survey data, statistical database, National Forest Resource Inventory database, and allometric equations were used to...

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Autores principales: Liu, Xiuping, Zhang, Wanjun, Cao, Jiansheng, Shen, Huitao, Zeng, Xinhua, Yu, Zhiqiang, Zhao, Xin
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3861385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24349223
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0082208
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author Liu, Xiuping
Zhang, Wanjun
Cao, Jiansheng
Shen, Huitao
Zeng, Xinhua
Yu, Zhiqiang
Zhao, Xin
author_facet Liu, Xiuping
Zhang, Wanjun
Cao, Jiansheng
Shen, Huitao
Zeng, Xinhua
Yu, Zhiqiang
Zhao, Xin
author_sort Liu, Xiuping
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description Afforestation is a mitigation option to reduce the increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels as well as the predicted high possibility of climate change. In this paper, vegetation survey data, statistical database, National Forest Resource Inventory database, and allometric equations were used to estimate carbon density (carbon mass per hectare) and carbon storage, and identify the size and spatial distribution of forest carbon sinks in plantation ecosystems in sand source areas of north Beijing, China. From 2001 to the end of 2010, the forest areas increased more than 2.3 million ha, and total carbon storage in forest ecosystems was 173.02 Tg C, of which 82.80 percent was contained in soil in the top 0–100 cm layer. Younger forests have a large potential for enhancing carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems than older ones. Regarding future afforestation efforts, it will be more effective to increase forest area and vegetation carbon density through selection of appropriate tree species and stand structure according to local climate and soil conditions, and application of proper forest management including land-shaping, artificial tending and fencing plantations. It would be also important to protect the organic carbon in surface soils during forest management.
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spelling pubmed-38613852013-12-17 Carbon Storages in Plantation Ecosystems in Sand Source Areas of North Beijing, China Liu, Xiuping Zhang, Wanjun Cao, Jiansheng Shen, Huitao Zeng, Xinhua Yu, Zhiqiang Zhao, Xin PLoS One Research Article Afforestation is a mitigation option to reduce the increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels as well as the predicted high possibility of climate change. In this paper, vegetation survey data, statistical database, National Forest Resource Inventory database, and allometric equations were used to estimate carbon density (carbon mass per hectare) and carbon storage, and identify the size and spatial distribution of forest carbon sinks in plantation ecosystems in sand source areas of north Beijing, China. From 2001 to the end of 2010, the forest areas increased more than 2.3 million ha, and total carbon storage in forest ecosystems was 173.02 Tg C, of which 82.80 percent was contained in soil in the top 0–100 cm layer. Younger forests have a large potential for enhancing carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems than older ones. Regarding future afforestation efforts, it will be more effective to increase forest area and vegetation carbon density through selection of appropriate tree species and stand structure according to local climate and soil conditions, and application of proper forest management including land-shaping, artificial tending and fencing plantations. It would be also important to protect the organic carbon in surface soils during forest management. Public Library of Science 2013-12-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3861385/ /pubmed/24349223 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0082208 Text en © 2013 Liu et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Liu, Xiuping
Zhang, Wanjun
Cao, Jiansheng
Shen, Huitao
Zeng, Xinhua
Yu, Zhiqiang
Zhao, Xin
Carbon Storages in Plantation Ecosystems in Sand Source Areas of North Beijing, China
title Carbon Storages in Plantation Ecosystems in Sand Source Areas of North Beijing, China
title_full Carbon Storages in Plantation Ecosystems in Sand Source Areas of North Beijing, China
title_fullStr Carbon Storages in Plantation Ecosystems in Sand Source Areas of North Beijing, China
title_full_unstemmed Carbon Storages in Plantation Ecosystems in Sand Source Areas of North Beijing, China
title_short Carbon Storages in Plantation Ecosystems in Sand Source Areas of North Beijing, China
title_sort carbon storages in plantation ecosystems in sand source areas of north beijing, china
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3861385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24349223
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0082208
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