Modeling wood product carbon flows in southern us pine plantations: implications for carbon storage.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Wood products continue to store carbon sequestered in forests after harvest and therefore play an important role in the total carbon storage associated with the forest sector. Trade-offs between carbon sequestration/storage in wood product pools and managed forest systems exist, and in order for forest sector carbon modeling to be meaningful, it must link wood product carbon with the specific forest system from which the products originate and have the ability to incorporate in situ and ex situ carbon synchronously over time.

Results

This study uses elements of a life cycle assessment approach, tracing carbon from US southern pine timber harvests to emission, to create a decision support tool that practitioners can use to inform policy design around land- and biop

SUBMITTER: Puls SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10882772 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature