Carbon in Canada's boreal forest—a synthesis

WA Kurz, CH Shaw, C Boisvenue… - Environmental …, 2013 - cdnsciencepub.com
Canada's managed boreal forest, 54% of the nation's total boreal forest area, stores 28 Pg
carbon (C) in biomass, dead organic matter, and soil pools. The net C balance is dominated …

Boreal forest soil carbon: distribution, function and modelling

TH Deluca, C Boisvenue - Forestry, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Increasing accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere has led to calls for terrestrial
mechanisms for CO2 abatement and given that soils represent the largest terrestrial body of …

Map** the irrecoverable carbon in Earth's ecosystems

ML Noon, A Goldstein, JC Ledezma… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Avoiding catastrophic climate change requires rapid decarbonization and improved
ecosystem stewardship at a planetary scale. The carbon released through the burning of …

[HTML][HTML] A nationwide annual characterization of 25 years of forest disturbance and recovery for Canada using Landsat time series

JC White, MA Wulder, T Hermosilla, NC Coops… - Remote Sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
In the context of complex demands on forest resources and climate change, synoptic and
spatially-explicit baseline data characterizing national trends in forest disturbance and …

Global estimates of boreal forest carbon stocks and flux

CJA Bradshaw, IG Warkentin - Global and Planetary Change, 2015 - Elsevier
The boreal ecosystem is an important global reservoir of stored carbon and a haven for
diverse biological communities. The natural disturbance dynamics there have historically …

Effects of salvage logging on soil properties and vegetation recovery in a fire-affected Mediterranean forest: a two year monitoring research

F García-Orenes, V Arcenegui, K Chrenková… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Post-fire management can have an additional impact on the ecosystem; in some cases,
even more severe than the fire. Salvage logging (SL) is a common practice in most fire …

[HTML][HTML] How do forest fires affect soil greenhouse gas emissions in upland boreal forests? A review

C Ribeiro-Kumara, E Köster, H Aaltonen… - Environmental Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Wildfires strongly regulate carbon (C) cycling and storage in boreal forests and account for
almost 10% of global fire C emissions. However, the anticipated effects of climate change on …

Fine root dynamics with stand development in the boreal forest

ZY Yuan, HYH Chen - Functional Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Despite greater importance of below ground in influencing terrestrial carbon and nutrient
cycling than above ground, how below‐ground biomass, production, turnover and mortality …

Recovery in fungal biomass is related to decrease in soil organic matter turnover time in a boreal fire chronosequence

K Köster, F Berninger, A Lindén, E Köster, J Pumpanen - Geoderma, 2014 - Elsevier
Fire is one of the most important natural disturbances in the boreal forest. It strongly
influences boreal forest structure and function, and alters microbial biomass and species …

Carbon storage declines in old boreal forests irrespective of succession pathway

B Gao, AR Taylor, EB Searle, P Kumar, Z Ma… - Ecosystems, 2018 - Springer
The boreal forest plays a critical role in regulating global atmospheric carbon dioxide and is
highly influenced by wildfire. However, the long-term recovery of forest carbon (C) storage …