Impact of Global Warming on the Carbon Sequestration Potential and Stand Dynamics of Chir Pine Forests
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https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2017/v143i9/118895Keywords:
Forest Stand, Global Warming, Climate Change Mitigation, Modelling, Simulation, Species Selection.Abstract
A process-based in silico simulation study of the impact of carbon dioxide fertilisation and temperature escalation on the carbon sequestration potential and stand dynamics of Chir Pine forests of Almora district of Uttarakhand, India was undertaken utilising allometric equations and physiological process equations to discern carbon flows, assimilation and allocation as affected by site, environment, soil water, stocking and mortality inputs under varying representative concentration pathways (RCPs) of the IPCC. The simulation predicted that carbon dioxide fertilisation and temperature escalation shall have opposing ramifications on stand volume, mean annual increment, leaf area index, gross primary productivity and carbon sequestration potential of the Chir Pine stands. Which of these two factors shall dominate was found to be contingent upon their relative strengths, the age of the stand, and other parameters. The carbon sequestration potential of the Chir Pine forests under this study got augmented with successive RCPs; thus they were found to be suitable candidates for substantiating climate change mitigation efforts.References
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