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Reforestation can sequester two petagrams of carbon in US topsoils in a century

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Nave, Lucas E., Domke, Grant M., Hofmeister, Kathryn L., Mishra, Umakant, Perry, Charles H., Walters, Brian F., Swanston, Christopher W.·2018·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Significance: Forestland in the United States is a carbon (C) sink, offsetting ∼10% of annual greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating climate change. Most of the C in forests is held in soils, and the capacity of forest soils to sequester C makes them a major component of the US forest C sink. Where reforestation is presently occurring, either through deliberate replanting after forestland is disturbed (e.g., burned), or where previously nonforested lands (e.g., cultivated) are converting to forestland, topsoils are accumulating C. However, these C accumulation rates are poorly constrained; quantifying them with empirical data are critical to accurately represent the role of reforestation in the US C budget and forecast the longevity of the US forest C sink.

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Authors
Nave, L. E., Domke, G. M., Hofmeister, K. L., Mishra, U., Perry, C. H., Walters, B. F., & Swanston, C. W.
Affiliations
  • University of Michigan (US)
  • US Forest Service (US)
  • Cornell University (US)
  • Argonne National Laboratory (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2018-02-26
Volume
115
Issue
11
Pages
2776-2781
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
OpenAlex
W2788264769
Cited by
122
References
56
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13.08
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • USDA-Forest Service (13-CR-112306-077, 16-CR-112306-071)
  • National Science Foundation (EF-1340681)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Forest ecology and management
  • Social Sciences › Education › Forest, Soil, and Plant Ecology in China
Keywords
reforestation, carbon sequestration, forest soils, topsoil carbon, forest carbon sink, carbon accumulation rates, greenhouse gas emissions reduction, land use change, cultivated land conversion, United States forests
MeSH terms
Carbon, Environmental Monitoring, Soil, Trees, United States, Greenhouse Effect, Forests

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