| Title | Responses of the carbon storage and sequestration potential of forest vegetation to temperature increases in Yunnan Province, SW China |
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| Author | Zhou, R; Li, W; Zhang, Y; Peng, M; Wang, C; Sha, L; Liu, Y; Song, Q; Fei, X; Jin, Y; Gao, J ; Lin, Y; Grace, J; Wang, S |
| Source | Forests vol. 9, no. 5, 227, 2018., https://doi.org/10.3390/f9050227  Open Access |
| Year | 2018 |
| Alt Series | Natural Resources Canada, Contribution Series 20181071 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Subjects | geophysics; Nature and Environment; remote sensing |
| Program | Public Safety Geoscience
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| Released | 2018 04 25 |
| Abstract | The distribution of forest vegetation and forest carbon sequestration potential are significantly influenced by climate change. In this study, a map of the current distribution of vegetation in Yunnan
Province was compiled based on data from remote sensing imagery from the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) from 2008 to 2011. A classification and regression tree (CART) model was used to predict the potential distribution of the main forest
vegetation types in Yunnan Province and estimate the changes in carbon storage and carbon sequestration potential (CSP) in response to increasing temperature. The results show that the current total forest area in Yunnan Province is 1.86 × 107 ha and
that forest covers 48.63% of the area. As the temperature increases, the area of forest distribution first increases and then decreases, and it decreases by 11% when the temperature increases from 1.5 to 2 °C. The mean carbon density of the seven
types of forest vegetation in Yunnan Province is 84.69 Mg/ha. The total carbon storage of the current forest vegetation in Yunnan Province is 871.14 TgC, and the CSP is 1100.61 TgC. The largest CSP (1114.82 TgC) occurs when the temperature increases
by 0.5 °C. Incremental warming of 2 °C will sharply decrease the forest CSP, especially in those regions with mature coniferous forest vegetation. Semi-humid evergreen broad-leaved forests were highly sensitive to temperature changes, and the CSP of
these forests will decrease with increasing temperature. Warm-hot coniferous forests have the greatest CSP in all simulation scenarios except the scenario of a 2 °C temperature increase. These results indicate that temperature increases can influence
the CSP in Yunnan Province, and the largest impact emerged in the 2 °C increase scenario. © 2018 by the author. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 311425 |
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