Forest Ecosystems, Forest Management and the Global Carbon Cycle

✍ Scribed by Michael J. Apps, David T. Price (auth.), Michael J. Apps, David T. Price (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 454
• Series: NATO ASI Series 40
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Globally, forest vegetation and soils are both major stores of terrestrial organic carbon, and major contributors to the annual cycling of carbon between the atmosphere and the biosphere. Forests are also a renewable resource, vital to the everyday existence of millions of people, since they provide food, shelter, fuel, raw materials and many other benefits. The combined effects of an expanding global population and increasing consumption of resources, however, may be seriously endangering both the extent and future sustainability of the world's forests. About thirty chapters cover four main themes: the role of forests in the global carbon cycle; effects of past, present and future changes in forest land use; the role of forest management, products and biomass on carbon cycling, and socio-economic impacts.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Introduction....Pages 19-24
The global carbon cycle and the atmospheric record: “The problem definition”....Pages 25-34
Nutrient constraints on carbon storage in forested ecosystems....Pages 35-45
Estimated extent of forested peatlands and their role in the global carbon cycle....Pages 47-58
Sequestration of carbon in the Finnish boreal forest ecosystem managed for timber production....Pages 59-68
Carbon storage and climate change in Swedish forests: a comparison of static and dynamic modelling approaches....Pages 69-78
Climate change and management of insect defoliators in boreal forest ecosystems....Pages 79-87
Some potential carbon budget implications of fire management in the boreal forest....Pages 89-96
WG1 Summary: Natural and anthropogenically-induced variations in terrestrial carbon balance....Pages 97-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Introduction....Pages 111-115
Land-use change and terrestrial carbon: the temporal record....Pages 117-134
Tropical forests and the global carbon cycle: estimating state and change in biomass density....Pages 135-144
Carbon budget of the Russian boreal forests: a systems analysis approach to uncertainty....Pages 145-152
Conflicting objectives while maximising carbon sequestration by forests....Pages 163-172
Retrospective assessment of carbon flows in Canadian boreal forests....Pages 173-182
The carbon pulse resulting from forest dieback related to insect outbreaks: case study of a forest district in the Sudety Mountains (southwest Poland)....Pages 183-189
Carbon budget of temperate zone forests during 1851-2050....Pages 191-198
WG2 Summary: Forests and the global carbon cycle: past, present, and future role....Pages 199-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
Introduction....Pages 211-216
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
Carbon implications of forest management strategies....Pages 217-229
The influence of carbon budget methodology on assessments of the impacts of forest management on the carbon balance....Pages 233-243
Significance of wood products in forest sector carbon balances....Pages 245-256
Plantation forestry-its role as a carbon sink: conclusions from calculations based on New Zealand’s planted forest estate....Pages 257-270
Carbon pools and fluxes in U.S. forest products....Pages 271-278
Effects of forest management, harvesting and wood processing on ecosystem carbon dynamics: a boreal case study....Pages 279-292
WG3 Summary: Evaluating the role of forest management and forest products in the carbon cycle....Pages 293-301
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
Introduction....Pages 305-314
The economics of increased carbon storage through plantations and forest management....Pages 315-326
Costs of forest-sector mitigation options....Pages 327-334
Integrating the socio-economic and physical dimensions of degraded tropical lands in global climate change mitigation assessments....Pages 335-348
Socio-economic factors in the management of tropical forests for carbon....Pages 349-361
Economic aspects of carbon sequestration—some findings from Norway....Pages 363-374
People and forests in Canada: fitting carbon into a perplexing future....Pages 375-386
Forests and global carbon management: a policy perspective....Pages 387-400
WG4 Summary: Human dimensions of the forest-carbon issue....Pages 401-412
Front Matter....Pages 413-413
Summary....Pages 415-425
Epilogue: Forests and the human habitat: the case for building a global consensus....Pages 427-434
Back Matter....Pages 435-452

✦ Subjects

Geoecology/Natural Processes; Nature Conservation; Ecology; Agriculture; Forestry; Mineralogy