Forest management for timber and carbon sequestration in the presence of climate change: The case of Pinus Sylvestris |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Girona, Campus Montilivi, s/n, 17071 Girona, Spain;2. Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX, USA;3. Houston Baptist University, Houston, TX, USA;1. Agroscope, Climate and Air Pollution Group, Reckenholzstrasse 191, Zürich, Switzerland;2. Forest Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, St. Kliment Ohridski Blvd. 132, Sofia, Bulgaria;3. University of Bern, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freiestrasse 3, Bern, Switzerland;4. University of Bern, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Freiestrasse 3, Bern, Switzerland;5. Ecology Department, SLU, Ulls Väg 17, 75651 Uppsala, Sweden;1. CNR, Institute for Agricultural and Forest Systems in the Mediterranean (ISAFOM), Via Cavour 4/6, 87036 Rende, CS, Italy;2. Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences (DiBEST), University of Calabria, Via. P. Bucci 15/B, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, CS, Italy;1. Department of Economics, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, Stn CSC, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada;2. Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, United Kingdom;3. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Climatic changes will affect the dynamics of a forest ecosystem. Consequently, carbon sequestration costs can only be estimated correctly if changes in climatic conditions are considered. This article determines the changes in mitigation costs of an optimal forest management regime in the presence of climatic changes and varying prices, and takes account of substitution processes between timber production and carbon sequestration at the stand level. The study demonstrates that in the presence of climate change the sequestration costs per ton of carbon increase with higher amounts of carbon sequestered per hectare. This finding can be used to identify a threshold for the amount of sequestered carbon per hectare below which the costs of carbon sequestration are hardly influenced by climate change. |
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