The Carbon Balance of Forest Biomes, Volume 57Howard Griffith, Paul Jarvis Garland Science, 2004 M08 15 - 720 pages The Carbon Balance of Forest Biomes provides an informed synthesis on the current status of forests and their future potential for carbon sequestration. This volume is timely, since convincing models which scale from local to regional carbon fluxes are needed to support these international agreements, whilst criticisms have been levelled at existing empirical approaches. One key question is to determine how well eddy-flux measurements at the stand-level represent regional-scale processes. This may be related to specific management practices (age, plantation, fertilisation) or simple bias in choosing representative sites (ease of access, roughness, proximity to physical barriers). The ecology and regeneration state of temperate, tropical and boreal forests under current climatic conditions are discussed, together with partitioning of photosynthetic and respiratory fluxes from soils and vegetation. The volume considers how to integrate contrasting methodologies, and the latest approaches for scaling from stand to the planetary boundary layer. |
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... approaches undertaken by Peter Högberg and colleagues (Chapter 12). Soils are important both for regulating fluxes of greenhouse gases (other than CO2) with relatively higher warming potential, such as CH4 and N2O, and revised estimates ...
... approach to monitoring is allowed in that 'a Party may choose not to account for a given pool in a commitment period, if transparent and verifiable information is provided that the pool is not a source'. Under Article 3.3 of the Kyoto ...
... approaches for quantifying net emissions from a range of LULUCF activities, including: (i) the basis for a consistent representation of land areas to keep track of the land and its carbon; (ii) good practice guidelines on how to measure ...
... approach) or limited to a restricted range of activities, circumstances, and locations (here called the 'project approach'). A major consequence of a wall-to-wall approach is that that most of the free-ride and its year-by-year ...
... approach is to include sinks, but only through a project approach. This would severely limit the area of land subject to reporting because projects would only cover a small fraction of the land area within a country. Each project would ...
Contents
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3 Carbon Sequestration in European Croplands | 49 |
The UK Experience | 59 |
5 RegionalScale Estimates of Forest CO2 and Isotope Flux Based on Monthly CO2 Budgets of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer | 81 |
6 Regional Measurement and Modelling of Carbon Balances | 98 |
7 The Potential for Risking CO2 to Account for the Observed Uptake of Carbon by Tropical Temperate and Boreal Forest Biomes | 115 |
8 Measurement of CO2 Exchange Between Boreal Forest and the Atmosphere | 156 |
10 The Carbon Balance of the Tropical Forest Biome | 232 |
Detectability of Changes in Soil Carbon Stocks in Temperate and Boreal Forests | 252 |
12 Fractional Contributions by Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Respiration to Soilsurface CO2 Effluxin Boreal Forests | 269 |
13 Trace Gas and CO2 Contributions of Northern Peatlands to Global Warming Potential | 288 |
14 Contribution of Trace Gases Nitrous Oxide N2O and Methane CH4 to the Atmospheric Warming Balance of Forest Biomes | 313 |
15 Effects of Reforestation Deforestation and Afforestation on Carbon Storage in Soils | 342 |
Managing Forests to Conserve Carbon | 356 |
Index | 378 |
9 Carbon Exchange of Deciduous Broadleaved Forests in Temperate and Mediterranean Regions | 196 |