Enhancing the terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink (referred to as terrestrial C sink) is an
important way to slow down the continuous increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) …

BACKGROUND Forests have considerable potential to help mitigate human-caused climate
change and provide society with a broad range of cobenefits. Local, national, and …

Canada's boreal forests, which occupy approximately 30% of boreal forests worldwide, play
an important role in the global carbon budget. However, there is little quantitative information …

Production of biochar (the carbon (C)-rich solid formed by pyrolysis of biomass) and its
storage in soils have been suggested as a means of abating climate change by …

Forest systems cover more than 4.1× 109 hectares of the Earth's land area. Globally, forest
vegetation and soils contain about 1146 petagrams of carbon, with approximately 37 …

The terrestrial biosphere plays an important role in the global carbon cycle. In the 1994
Intergovernmental Panel Assessment on Climate Change (IPCC), an effort was made to …

The rates at which lands in the United States were cleared for agriculture, abandoned,
harvested for wood, and burned were reconstructed from historical data for the period 1700 …

Rates of land‐use change, including clearing for agriculture and harvest of wood, were
reconstructed from statistical and historic documents for 9 world regions and used, along …

Forested ecosystems have been identified as potential C sinks. However, the accuracy of
measurement and understanding of the underlying mechanisms for soil organic C (SOC) …

Using forests to mitigate climate change has gained much interest in science and policy
discussions. We examine the evidence for carbon benefits, environmental and monetary …