Planted forest is catching up with natural forest in China in terms of carbon density and carbon storage.

ABSTRACT: Over the last several decades, China has taken multiple measures for afforestation and natural forest protection, including setting the goal of carbon neutrality by the middle of 21th century. In order to support the practice of relevant policies from the scientific perspective, it is essential to precisely estimate the carbon storage of arbor forest, as it plays an important role in the carbon cycle of ecosystems. In this study, we first used the latest four phases of national forest inventory data to investigate the variation of carbon storage for both natural and planted arbor forest in China during the covered period (1999-2018). Then we used machine leaning methods to simulate the carbon density based on various kinds of environmental factors and analyzed the contribution of each infl

SUBMITTER: Liang B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11197602 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature