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Modeling the CO2-effects of forest management and wood usage on a regional basis

Overview of attention for article published in Carbon Balance and Management, June 2015
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Title
Modeling the CO2-effects of forest management and wood usage on a regional basis
Published in
Carbon Balance and Management, June 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13021-015-0024-7
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Authors

Marcus Knauf, Michael Köhl, Volker Mues, Konstantin Olschofsky, Arno Frühwald

Abstract

At the 15(th) Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Copenhagen, 2009, harvested wood products were identified as an additional carbon pool. This modification eliminates inconsistencies in greenhouse gas reporting by recognizing the role of the forest and timber sector in the global carbon cycle. Any additional CO2-effects related to wood usage are not considered by this modification. This results in a downward bias when the contribution of the forest and timber sector to climate change mitigation is assessed. The following article analyses the overall contribution to climate protection made by the forest management and wood utilization through CO2-emissions reduction using an example from the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Based on long term study periods (2011 to 2050 and 2100, respectively). Various alternative scenarios for forest management and wood usage are presented. In the mid- to long-term (2050 and 2100, respectively) the net climate protection function of scenarios with varying levels of wood usage is higher than in scenarios without any wood usage. This is not observed for all scenarios on short and mid term evaluations. The advantages of wood usage are evident although the simulations resulted in high values for forest storage in the C pools. Even the carbon sink effect due to temporal accumulation of deadwood during the period from 2011 to 2100 is outbalanced by the potential of wood usage effects. A full assessment of the CO2-effects of the forest management requires an assessment of the forest supplemented with an assessment of the effects of wood usage. CO2-emission reductions through both fuel and material substitution as well as CO2 sink in wood products need to be considered. An integrated assessment of the climate protection function based on the analysis of the study's scenarios provides decision parameters for a strategic approach to climate protection with regard to forest management and wood use at regional and national levels. The short-term evaluation of subsystems can be misleading, rendering long-term evaluations (until 2100, or even longer) more effective. This is also consistent with the inherently long-term perspective of forest management decisions and measures.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
India 1 1%
South Africa 1 1%
Vietnam 1 1%
Unknown 97 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 22 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 14%
Student > Master 10 10%
Student > Bachelor 9 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 5%
Other 13 13%
Unknown 27 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 27 27%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 10%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 6 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 5%
Social Sciences 4 4%
Other 12 12%
Unknown 36 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 January 2022.
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#5,720,134
of 22,811,321 outputs
Outputs from Carbon Balance and Management
#92
of 236 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#66,359
of 264,930 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Carbon Balance and Management
#2
of 7 outputs
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