Conceptual approaches for incorporating climatic change into the development of forest management options for sequestering carbon

Technical Report · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:7235726

King, G A

The potential for significant enviromental change over the next 100 years has resulted in efforts to develop mitigation options for reducing the rate of increase of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. One of the more promising options is management of forest and agroforestry systems. However, most of the assessments of the potential of forest management options to sequester carbon have not factored in future environmental change (climate and CO2 concentration) into their analyses. Climate and ecological models that could be used to incorporate environmental change into forest mitigation planning efforts are reviewed in the paper in terms of their relative strengths and limitations for this particular application. Recommendations are then made as to how to use the available models to estimate the global and regional potential for sequestering carbon in the terrestrial biosphere, incorporating future environmental change into the analyses. Recommendations are also made as to how to target the most promising regions for reforestation efforts given the likelihood of future environmental change. (Copyright (c) Inter-Research 1993.)

• Research Organization: ManTech Environmental Technology, Inc., Corvallis, OR (United States)
• OSTI ID: 7235726
• Report Number(s): PB-94-159340/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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