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- Title
Biomass carbon storages and carbon sequestration potentials of the Grain for Green Program‐Covered Forests in China.
- Authors
Wang, Kaibo; Hu, Dongfeng; Deng, Juan; Shangguan, Zhouping; Deng, Lei
- Abstract
Abstract: The Grain for Green Program (GGP) was the most all‐embracing program of ecological reconstruction implemented in China. To estimate carbon storages and carbon sequestration potentials of the GGP forests, the study presented in the paper collected data spanning from 1999 to 2010, such as tree species, tree planting area relevant to the GGP, empirical growth curves suitable for different planted tree species in China, as well as wood density (WD), biomass expansion factor (BEF), carbon fraction (CF) of different trees species, and estimated the carbon storages of the biomasses of GGP forests from 1999 to 2050. It showed that the total carbon storage of the biomass of GGP forests was 320.29 Tg upon the GGP completion in 2010; the total carbon sequestration is higher during the early GGP‐implementation stage than at the late GGP‐implementation stage, and the annual mean carbon sequestration of GGP forests was 26.69 Tg/year. The potential of GGP forests as carbon sink presented an increasing increment. In China, the potential increments of GGP forests as carbon sinks were estimated to be 397.34, 604.00, 725.53, and 808.90 Tg in 2020, 2030, 2040, and 2050, respectively, and the carbon sequestration rates were 1.72, 0.89, 0.52, and 0.36 Mg ha−1 year−1, respectively, corresponding to 2010s, 2020s, 2030s, and 2040s. Therefore, the GGP forests had bigger carbon sequestration capacities and potentials in China.
- Subjects
CHINA; BIOMASS &; the environment; CARBON sequestration in forests; FORESTS &; forestry; TREE planting &; the environment; WOOD density; ECOSYSTEM management
- Publication
Ecology & Evolution (20457758), 2018, Vol 8, Issue 15, p7451
- ISSN
2045-7758
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ece3.4228