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Albedo impacts (time-dependent emissions equivalent, TDEE; Bright et al., 2016) were developed by applying atmospheric kernels (Bright and O'Halloran) to a new Landsat blue sky albedo product for the Landsat archive (Erb et al., 2022), as described by Healey et al. (in review). Standard error is supplied for each age/forest type bin for carbon storage, but upper and lower standard error bounds are specified for TDEE because log transformation creates an asymmetrical uncertainty envelope. Bright, Bogren, Bernier, Astrup, (2016). Carbon-equivalent metrics for albedo changes in land management contexts: Relevance of the time dimension. Ecol. Appl. 26, 1868\u20131880 Bright, R. M., & O'Halloran, T. L. (2019). Developing a monthly radiative kernel for surface albedo change from satellite climatologies of Earth's shortwave radiation budget: CACK v1. 0. Geoscientific Model Development, 12(9), 3975-3990. Domke, Walters, Nowak, Greenfield, Smith, Nichols, Ogle, Coulston, Wirth (2022). Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals From Forest Land, Woodlands, Urban Trees, and Harvested Wood Products in the United States, 1990\u20132020. (US Dept. Ag. For. Service, Madison, WI; https://doi.org/10.2737/FS-RU-382). Erb, Li, Sun, Paynter, Wang, & Schaaf, (2022). Evaluation of the Landsat-8 Albedo Product across the Circumpolar Domain. Remote Sensing, 14(21), 5320. Healey, Yang, Erb, Bright, Domke, Frescino, Schaaf, (in review) New satellite observations expose albedo dynamics offsetting half of carbon storage benefits in US forests.", "keywords": ["climate change", "forest carbon", "13. Climate action", "15. 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In doing so, state agencies will be challenged to design REDD plus policies that value and conserve forest carbon in ways that align with national policies and local priorities for managing forest landscapes defined by complex property rights regimes. However, as with other market-based policies, the expeditious delivery of REDD could bypass critical analysis of potential interactions with national tenure regimes, customary property rights, and local livelihoods. Drawing on the case of Palawan Island\u2014a forested frontier island in the Philippines\u2014we examine how nascent REDD policies can articulate with state sanctioned tenure, customary tenure, and forest uses in changing livelihood contexts. This paper draws on research among Tagbanua and Pala\u2019wan people to illustrate how complex and changing tenure structures, commodity markets and livelihood dynamics may influence how REDD plus interventions affect indigenous customary lands and forest use. 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Researchers have observed climate-driven shifts of forest types to higher elevations in the Southwestern US and predict further migration coupled with large-scale mortality events proportional to increases in radiative forcing. Range contractions of forests are likely to impact the total carbon stored within a stand. This study examines the dynamics of Pinus ponderosa stands under three climate change scenarios in Northern Arizona using the Climate Forest Vegetation Simulator (Climate-FVS) model to project changes in carbon pools. A sample of 90 stands were grouped according to three elevational ranges; low- (1951 to 2194 m), mid- (2194 to 2499 m), and high- (2499 to 2682 m.) elevation stands. Growth, mortality, and carbon stores were simulated in the Climate-FVS over a 100 year timespan. We further simulated three management scenarios for each elevational gradient and climate scenario. Management included (1) a no-management scenario, (2) an intensive-management scenario characterized by thinning from below to a residual basal area (BA) of 18 m2/ha in conjunction with a prescribed burn every 10 years, and (3) a moderate-management scenario characterized by a thin-from-below treatment to a residual BA of 28 m2/ha coupled with a prescribed burn every 20 years. Results indicate that any increase in aridity due to climate change will produce substantial mortality throughout the elevational range of ponderosa pine stands, with lower elevation stands projected to experience the most devastating effects. Management was only effective for the intensive-management scenario; stands receiving this treatment schedule maintained moderately consistent levels of basal area and demonstrated a higher level of resilience to climate change relative to the two other management scenarios. The results of this study indicate that management can improve resiliency to climate change, however, resource managers may need to employ more intensive thinning treatments than currently proposed to achieve the best results.

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Siberian boreal forests have experienced increases in fire extent and intensity in recent years, which may threaten their role as carbon (C) sinks. Larch forests (Larix spp.) cover approximately 2.6 million km2 across Siberia, yet little is known about the magnitude and drivers of carbon combustion in these ecosystems. To address the paucity of field\uffe2\uff80\uff90based estimates of fuel load and consumption in Siberian larch forests, we sampled 41 burned plots, one to two years after fire, in Cajander larch (Larix cajanderi) forests in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia. We estimated pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90fire carbon stocks and combustion with the objective of identifying the main drivers of carbon emissions. Pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90fire aboveground (trees and woody debris) and belowground carbon stocks at our study plots were 3.12\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff891.26\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 (mean\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff89standard deviation) and 3.50\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff890.93\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922. We found that combustion averaged 3.20\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff890.75\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922, of which 78% (2.49\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff890.56\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922) stemmed from organic soil layers. These results suggest that severe fires in Cajander larch forests can result in combustion rates comparable to those observed in North American boreal forests and exceeding those previously reported for other forest types and burning conditions in Siberia. Carbon combustion was driven by both fire weather conditions and landscape variables, with pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90fire organic soil depth being the strongest predictor across our plots. Our study highlights the need to better account for Siberian larch forest fires and their impact on the carbon balance, especially given the expected climate\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced increase in fire extent and severity in this region.The new European Union Forest Strategy for 2030 aims to plant an additional 3 billion trees on non-forest land to mitigate climate change. However, the choice of tree species for afforestation to achieve the maximum climate benefit is unclear. We compared the climate benefit of six different species in terms of carbon (C) sequestration in biomass and the harvested wood substitution in products to avoid carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil-based materials over the 100-year period by afforesting about \uffc2\uffbc of the available area in northern Europe. The highest climate benefit was observed for larch, both at a stand scale (1626 Mg CO2 eqv. ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921) and at the landscape level for the studied scenario (579 million Mg CO2 eqv.). Larch was followed by Norway spruce, poplar, hybrid aspen and birch, showing a climate benefit about 40\uffe2\uff80\uff9350% lower than that for larch. The climate benefit of willow was about 70% lower than larch. Willow showed 6\uffe2\uff80\uff9314-fold lower C stocks at the landscape level after 100 years than other tree species. The major climate benefit over the 100-year period comes from wood substitution and avoided emissions, but C stock buildup at the landscape level also removes significant amounts of CO2 already present in the atmosphere. The choice of tree species is important to maximize climate change mitigation.

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Abstract. Partial cutting, which removes some individual trees from a forest, is one of the major and widespread forest management practices that can significantly alter both forest structure and carbon (C) storage. Using 746 observations from 82 publications, we synthesized the impacts of partial cutting on three variables associated with forest structure (i.e. mean annual growth of diameter at breast height (DBH), basal area (BA), and volume) and four variables related to various C stock components (i.e. aboveground biomass C (AGBC), understory C, forest floor C, and mineral soil C). Results shows that the growth of DBH elevated by 112% after partial cutting, compared to the uncut control, while stand BA and volume reduced immediately by 34% and 29%, respectively. On average, partial cutting reduced AGBC by 43%, increased understory C storage by 392%, but did not show significant effects on C storages on forest floor and in mineral soil. All the effects on DBH growth, stand BA, volume, and AGBC intensified linearly with cutting intensity (CI) and decreased linearly with the number of recovery years (RY). In addition to the strong impacts of CI and RY, other factors such as climate zone and forest type also affected forest responses to partial cutting. The data assembled in this synthesis were not sufficient to determine how long it would take for a complete recovery after cutting because long-term experiments were rare. Future efforts should be tailored to increase the duration of the experiments and balance geographic locations of field studies.

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Siberian boreal forests have experienced increases in fire extent and intensity in recent years, which may threaten their role as carbon (C) sinks. Larch forests (Larix spp.) cover approximately 2.6 million km2 across Siberia, yet little is known about the magnitude and drivers of carbon combustion in these ecosystems. To address the paucity of field\uffe2\uff80\uff90based estimates of fuel load and consumption in Siberian larch forests, we sampled 41 burned plots, one to two years after fire, in Cajander larch (Larix cajanderi) forests in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia. We estimated pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90fire carbon stocks and combustion with the objective of identifying the main drivers of carbon emissions. Pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90fire aboveground (trees and woody debris) and belowground carbon stocks at our study plots were 3.12\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff891.26\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 (mean\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff89standard deviation) and 3.50\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff890.93\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922. We found that combustion averaged 3.20\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff890.75\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922, of which 78% (2.49\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff890.56\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922) stemmed from organic soil layers. These results suggest that severe fires in Cajander larch forests can result in combustion rates comparable to those observed in North American boreal forests and exceeding those previously reported for other forest types and burning conditions in Siberia. Carbon combustion was driven by both fire weather conditions and landscape variables, with pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90fire organic soil depth being the strongest predictor across our plots. Our study highlights the need to better account for Siberian larch forest fires and their impact on the carbon balance, especially given the expected climate\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced increase in fire extent and severity in this region.