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Realizing mitigation efficiency of European commercial forests by climate smart forestry / Rasoul Yousefpour in Scientific reports, vol 8 (2018)

Public [article]  inScientific reports > vol 8 (2018) Titre : Realizing mitigation efficiency of European commercial forests by climate smart forestry Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Rasoul Yousefpour, Auteur ; Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik, Auteur ; Christopher P.O. Reyer, Auteur ; Petra Lasch-Born, Auteur ; Felicitas Suckow, Auteur ; Marc Hanewinkel, Auteur Année de publication : 2018 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] changement climatique [Termes IGN] croissance des arbres [Termes IGN] Europe (géographie politique) [Termes IGN] foresterie [Termes IGN] forêt boréale [Termes IGN] forêt tempérée [Termes IGN] Picea abies [Termes IGN] Pinus sylvestris [Termes IGN] puits de carbone [Termes IGN] ressources forestières [Vedettes matières IGN] Végétation et changement climatique Résumé : (auteur) European temperate and boreal forests sequester up to 12% of Europe’s annual carbon emissions. Forest carbon density can be manipulated through management to maximize its climate mitigation potential, and fast-growing tree species may contribute the most to Climate Smart Forestry (CSF) compared to slow-growing hardwoods. This type of CSF takes into account not only forest resource potentials in sequestering carbon, but also the economic impact of regional forest products and discounts both variables over time. We used the process-based forest model 4 C to simulate European commercial forests’ growth conditions and coupled it with an optimization algorithm to simulate the implementation of CSF for 18 European countries encompassing 68.3 million ha of forest (42.4% of total EU-28 forest area). We found a European CSF policy that could sequester 7.3–11.1 billion tons of carbon, projected to be worth 103 to 141 billion euros in the 21st century. An efficient CSF policy would allocate carbon sequestration to European countries with a lower wood price, lower labor costs, high harvest costs, or a mixture thereof to increase its economic efficiency. This policy prioritized the allocation of mitigation efforts to northern, eastern and central European countries and favored fast growing conifers Picea abies and Pinus sylvestris to broadleaves Fagus sylvatica and Quercus species. Numéro de notice : A2018-010 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET Nature : Article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=89003 [article]