Cited by 234Forest Management and PolicyAgricultural and Food SciencesEnvironmental Impact and Sustainability

Carbon, Fossil Fuel, and Biodiversity Mitigation With Wood and Forests

Open access
Oliver, Chadwick Dearing, Nassar, Nedal T., Lippke, Bruce R., McCarter, James B.·2014·Journal of Sustainable Forestry

Abstract

Life-cycle analyses, energy analyses, and a range of utilization efficiencies were developed to determine the carbon dioxide (CO2) and fossil fuel (FF) saved by various solid wood products, wood energy, and unharvested forests. Some products proved very efficient in CO2 and FF savings, while others did not. Not considering forest regrowth after harvest or burning if not harvested, efficient products save much more CO2 than the standing forest; but wood used only for energy generally saves slightly less. Avoided emissions (using wood in place of steel and concrete) contributes the most to CO2 and FF savings compared to the product and wood energy contributions. Burning parts of the harvested logs that are not used for products creates an additional CO2 and FF savings. Using wood substitutes could save 14 to 31% of global CO2 emissions and 12 to 19% of global FF consumption by using 34 to 100% of the world’s sustainable wood growth. Maximizing forest CO2 sequestration may not be compatible with biodiversity. More CO2 can be sequestered synergistically in the products or wood energy and landscape together than in the unharvested landscape. Harvesting sustainably at an optimum stand age will sequester more carbon in the combined products, wood energy, and forest than harvesting sustainably at other ages.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1080/10549811.2013.839386

Cites

74 of 74 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

1 of the 75 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Research works printed but not linked: 3

  1. Han, X., Oliver, C. D., Ge, J., Guo, Q., & Kou, X. (2012). Management forest stand structures to enhance conservation of the Amur tiger in northeast China's natural forest protection program. In J. A. Stanturf, D. Lamb, & P. Madsen (Eds.), Forest landscape restoration: Integrating natural and social sciences-World Forests (pp.93-128). New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.
  2. McArdle, R. E., Meyer, W. H., & Bruce, D. (1961). The yield of Douglas-fir in the Pacific Northwest (Technical Bulletin No. 201). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.
  3. Toumey, J. W. (1928). Foundations of silviculture upon and ecological basis (Volume 1). New York, NY: John Wiley.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Oliver, C. D., Nassar, N. T., Lippke, B. R., & McCarter, J. B.
Affiliations
  • Yale University (US)
  • University of Washington (US)
Corresponding author
Oliver, Chadwick Dearing
Venue
Journal of Sustainable Forestry
Published
2014-03-28
Volume
33
Issue
3
Pages
248-275
ISSN
  • 1054-9811 (ISSN-L)
  • 1540-756X
OpenAlex
W2046071902
Cited by
234
References
75
Citations by year
2026: 13 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 33 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 2
FWCI
4.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
Journal of Sustainable Forestry (publishedVersion)
Funders
U.S. Forest Service
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Forest Management and Policy
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Forestry › Agricultural and Food Sciences
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Environmental Impact and Sustainability
Keywords
wood products, wood energy, CO2 emissions, fossil fuel consumption, avoided emissions, wood substitute, forest carbon sequestration, biodiversity, sustainable harvesting, stand age, utilization efficiency, life cycle assessment

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review