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Net aboveground biomass declines of four major forest types with forest ageing and climate change in western Canada's boreal forests
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Biomass change of the world's forests is critical to the global carbon cycle. Despite storing nearly half of global forest carbon, the boreal biome of diverse forest types and ages is a poorly understood component of the carbon cycle. Using data from 871 permanent plots in the western boreal forest of Canada, we examined net annual aboveground biomass change (Δ AGB) of four major forest types between 1958 and 2011. We found that Δ AGB was higher for deciduous broadleaf (DEC) (1.44 Mg ha−1 year−1, 95% Bayesian confidence interval (CI), 1.22–1.68) and early‐successional coniferous forests (ESC) (1.42, CI, 1.30–1.56) than mixed forests (MIX) (0.80, CI, 0.50–1.11) and late‐successional coniferous (LSC) forests (0.62, CI, 0.39–0.88). Δ AGB declined with forest age as well as calendar year. After accounting for the effects of forest age, Δ AGB declined by 0.035, 0.021, 0.032 and 0.069 Mg ha−1 year−1 per calendar year in DEC, ESC, MIX and LSC forests, respectively. The Δ AGB declines resulted from increased tree mortality and reduced growth in all forest types except DEC, in which a large biomass loss from mortality was accompanied with a small increase in growth. With every degree of annual temperature increase, Δ AGB decreased by 1.00, 0.20, 0.55 and 1.07 Mg ha−1 year−1 in DEC, ESC, MIX and LSC forests, respectively. With every cm decrease of annual climatic moisture availability, Δ AGB decreased 0.030, 0.045 and 0.17 Mg ha−1 year−1 in ESC, MIX and LSC forests, but changed little in DEC forests. Our results suggest that persistent warming and decreasing water availability have profound negative effects on forest biomass in the boreal forests of western Canada. Furthermore, our results indicate that forest responses to climate change are strongly dependent on forest composition with late‐successional coniferous forests being most vulnerable to climate changes in terms of aboveground biomass.
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- Authors
- Chen, H. Y. H., & Luo, Y.
- Venue
- Global Change Biology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2015-07-02
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 3675-3684
- ISSN
- 1354-1013 (ISSN-L)
- 1365-2486
- OpenAlex
- W2128431779
- Cited by
- 163
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 19.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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