Predicting impacts of climate change on the aboveground carbon sequestration rate of a temperate forest in northeastern China.

ABSTRACT: The aboveground carbon sequestration rate (ACSR) reflects the influence of climate change on forest dynamics. To reveal the long-term effects of climate change on forest succession and carbon sequestration, a forest landscape succession and disturbance model (LANDIS Pro7.0) was used to simulate the ACSR of a temperate forest at the community and species levels in northeastern China based on both current and predicted climatic data. On the community level, the ACSR of mixed Korean pine hardwood forests and mixed larch hardwood forests, fluctuated during the entire simulation, while a large decline of ACSR emerged in interim of simulation in spruce-fir forest and aspen-white birch forests, respectively. On the species level, the ACSR of all conifers declined greatly around 2070s except for K

SUBMITTER: Ma J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3999096 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature