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Co-benefits of Sustainable Forest Management for Carbon Sequestration

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Co-benefits of Sustainable Forestry

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Tropical forests sequester a large amount of carbon in the vegetation and soils (approximately 25 % of the carbon in the terrestrial ecosystems) (Bonan 2008). The conversion of tropical forests through forestry and land-use change results in an enormous emission of carbon to the atmosphere. In the past decade, deforestation and forest degradation in Southeast Asia and elsewhere in the tropics accounted for approximately 20 % of global anthropogenic carbon emissions (Gullison et al. 2007). The important roles of natural tropical forests in carbon storage and climate change mitigation are increasingly recognized.

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  1. Laboratory of Forest Ecology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Oiwake-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan

    Nobuo Imai & Kanehiro Kitayama

  2. Tsukuba Research Institute, Sumitomo Forestry CO., LTD., 3-2 Midorigahara, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 300-2646, Japan

    Satoshi Kita

  3. Sabah Forestry Department, Forest Research Centre, 1407, Sandakan, 90715, Sabah, Malaysia

    Jupiri Titin & Robert C. Ong

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Imai, N., Titin, J., Kita, S., Ong, R.C., Kitayama, K. (2012). Co-benefits of Sustainable Forest Management for Carbon Sequestration. In: Kitayama, K. (eds) Co-benefits of Sustainable Forestry. Ecological Research Monographs. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54141-7_7

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