Carbon sequestration of black locust forests in the Yellow River Delta region, China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19499384 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jianfeng Zhang (0000-0003-2596-5143, Chinese Academy of Forestry, corresponding author), Guang-Cai Chen (Chinese Academy of Forestry), Guangcai Chen (0000-0001-6564-1798, Chinese Academy of Forestry), Shangjun Xing (Shandong Academy of Forestry), Qixiang Sun (0000-0001-7659-5053, Chinese Academy of Forestry), Qihua Shan (Chinese Academy of Forestry), Jinxing Zhou (0000-0003-2182-9849, Chinese Academy of Forestry), Ying Wang (0000-0003-3126-1134, Chinese Academy of Forestry) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 475-480 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-26 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-4509 • E-ISSN: 1745-2627 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13504509.2010.520855 |
| OpenAlex | W2167548872 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
The Yellow River Delta region in China is a land area of 1,200,000 ha with rich natural resources. Adverse environmental conditions, such as low rainfall and high salinity, promote the dominance of black locust trees for afforestation. With the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere, this forest and others throughout the world have become valued for their ability to sequester and store carbon. Forests store carbon in aboveground biomass (i.e. trees), belowground biomass (i.e. roots), soils and standing litter crop (i.e. forest floor and coarse woody debris). There are well-developed methods to sample forest ecosystems, including tree inventories that are used to quantify carbon in aboveground tree biomass. Such inventories are used to estimate the types of roundwood products removed from the forest during harvesting. Based on standard plot inventories and stem analyses, carbon sequestration estimates of trees were 222.41 t ha−1 for the Yellow River Delta region accounted for 67.12% of the whole forest. Similarly, carbon storage by herbaceous matter and soil was 0.50 and 50.34 t ha−1, respectively. The results suggest that carbon sequestration in the forest ecosystem was performed by most of the forest, which plays an increasingly important role in sequestering carbon as the stand grows
Afforestation · Agroforestry · Agronomy · Biology · Carbon dioxide · Carbon sequestration · Carbon sink · Ecosystem · Geography · Environmental Science · Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies · Forest ecology and management · Forest Management and Policy · Ecology · Forestry
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 2011 - 2013 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |