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Effects of national ecological restoration projects on carbon sequestration in China from 2001 to 2010

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Lu, Fei, Hu, Huifeng, Sun, Wenjuan, Zhu, Jiaojun, Liu, Guobin, Zhou, Wangming, Zhang, Quanfa, Shi, Peili, Liu, Xiuping, Wu, Xing, Zhang, Lu, Wei, Xiaohua, Dai, Limin, Zhang, Kerong, Sun, Yirong, Xue, Sha, Zhang, Wanjun, Xiong, Dingpeng, Deng, Lei, Liu, Bojie, Zhou, Li, Zhang, Chao, Zheng, Xiao, Cao, Jiansheng, Huang, Yao, He, Nianpeng, Zhou, Guoyi, Bai, Yongfei, Xie, Zongqiang, Tang, Zhiyao, Wu, Bingfang, Fang, Jingyun, Liu, Guohua, Yu, Guirui·2018·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Significance China has launched six key ecological restoration projects since the late 1970s, but the contribution of these projects to terrestrial C sequestration remains unknown. In this study we examined the ecosystem C sink in the project area (∼16% of the country’s land area) and evaluated the project-induced C sequestration. The total annual C sink in the project area between 2001 and 2010 was estimated to be 132 Tg C per y, over half of which (74 Tg C per y, 56%) was caused by the implementation of the six projects. This finding indicates that the implementation of the ecological restoration projects in China has significantly increased ecosystem C sequestration across the country.

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Authors: Lu, F., Hu, H., Sun, W., Zhu, J., Liu, G., Zhou, W., Zhang, Q., Shi, P., Liu, X., Wu, X., Zhang, L., Wei, X., Dai, L., Zhang, K., Sun, Y., Xue, S., Zhang, W., Xiong, D., Deng, L., Liu, B., Zhou, L., Zhang, C., Zheng, X., Cao, J., Huang, Y., He, N., Zhou, G., Bai, Y., Xie, Z., Tang, Z., Wu, B., Fang, J., Liu, G., & Yu, G.
Affiliations: Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus (CA)
State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau (CN)
Peking University (CN)
ORCID: Lu, Fei
Hu, Huifeng
Sun, Wenjuan
Zhu, Jiaojun
Liu, Guobin
Zhou, Wangming
Zhang, Quanfa
Shi, Peili
Liu, Xiuping
Wu, Xing
Zhang, Lu
Wei, Xiaohua
Zhang, Kerong
Sun, Yirong
Xue, Sha
Zhang, Wanjun
Deng, Lei
Zhou, Li
Zhang, Chao
Zheng, Xiao
Cao, Jiansheng
Huang, Yao
He, Nianpeng
Zhou, Guoyi
Bai, Yongfei
Xie, Zongqiang
Tang, Zhiyao
Wu, Bingfang
Liu, Guohua
Yu, Guirui
Venue: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
Published: 2018-04-16
Volume: 115
Issue: 16
Pages: 4039-4044
ISSN: 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1700294115
PMC: PMC5910802
OpenAlex: W2801549624
Cited by: 924
References: 28
Citations by year: 2026: 105 · 2025: 160 · 2024: 164 · 2023: 148 · 2022: 147 · 2021: 92 · 2020: 55 · 2019: 34 · 2018: 18
FWCI: 161.24
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: www.pnas.org/site/aboutpnas/licenses.xhtml (vor, 183 d)
Locations: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Institute of Botany, CAS Institutional Repository (submittedVersion)
Institute of Hydrobiology, CAS Institutional Repository (submittedVersion)
Funders: Strategic Priority Programme of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA05060000, XDA05050700)
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2016YFC0503403, 2017YFA0604702)
Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NA)
Topics: Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Forestry › Forest, Soil, and Plant Ecology in China
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Environmental Changes in China
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Keywords: carbon sequestration, terrestrial carbon sink, ecosystem carbon storage, China, land use change, afforestation
MeSH terms: Carbon, China, Conservation of Natural Resources, Humans, Plants, Soil, Water Movements, Program Evaluation, Ecosystem, Biomass, Carbon Sequestration, Forests, Grassland

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