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[Carbon storage and sequestration potential of five typical plantation ecosystems in Gansu Province, China]
Ran Ran Cheng1, Jin Hong Guan2,3, Jian Guo Zhang1,4
1State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China.
Abstract:
Based on the data of the field investigation and laboratory and the database of the 8th national forestry inventory, ecosystem carbon density, storage amount, and sequestration potential of tree layer were estimated for five typical plantation ecosystems (Robinia pseudoacacia, Populus spp., Pinus tabuliformis Pinus armandii, which were grouped as one kind of ecosystems, Larix principis-rupprechtii, and Picea asperata) in Gansu Province. The results showed that the average carbon density and total carbon storage of the five typical plantation ecosystems were 139.65 t·hm-2 and 85.78 Tg, respectively. Ecosystem carbon density varied among ecosystems. It followed the sequence of premature (250.70 t·hm-2) > mature (175.97 t·hm-2) > middle-aged (156.92 t·hm-2) > young (117.56 t·hm-2) forest. Meanwhile, carbon storage in these plantations ranked in the order of young (45.47 Tg) > middle-aged (19.54 Tg) > mature (11.84 Tg) > pre-mature (8.93 Tg) forest. Specifically, young and middle-aged plantations contributed the most and accounted for 75.9% of the total carbon storage. The realistic carbon sequestration potential (CPr) by tree layer of the five typical plantation ecosystems in Gansu Province was estimated as 7.27 Tg. The two largest contributors toCPr were R. pseudoacacia (2.49 Tg) and Populus spp. (2.10 Tg). Young plantations (3.78 Tg) showed the largest CPr, followed by middle-aged plantations (2.04 Tg), and the value of premature plantations (0.45 Tg) was the smallest. The maximum carbon sequestration potential (CPmax) might be up to 27.55 Tg, the CPmax with different plantations ranked in the order of R. pseudoacacia (9.42 Tg)> L. principis-rupprechtii (6.22 Tg) ≈ P. asperata (6.36 Tg) > Populus spp. (3.18 Tg) >P. tabuliformis P. armandii (2.37 Tg). The CPmax of young and middle-aged plantations was estimated as 18.48 and 6.89 Tg, respectively, which accounted for 92% of the total maximum carbon sequestration potential.
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