Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Carbon stocks and changes of dead organic matter in China's forests

  • Jianxiao Zhu,
  • Huifeng Hu,
  • Shengli Tao,
  • Xiulian Chi,
  • Peng Li,
  • Lai Jiang,
  • Chengjun Ji,
  • Jiangling Zhu,
  • Zhiyao Tang,
  • Yude Pan,
  • Richard A. Birdsey,
  • Xinhua He,
  • Jingyun Fang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00207-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Reliable estimates of the total forest carbon (C) pool are lacking due to insufficient information on dead organic matter (DOM). Here, the authors estimate that the current DOM C stock in China is 925 ± 54 Tg and that it grew by 6.7 ± 2.2 Tg C/yr over the past two decades primarily due to increasing forest area