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Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration in Forest Ecosystems

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Forest ecosystems have been identified to be the largest land carbon sink and account for more than half of carbon stored in the terrestrial ecosystems. The influences of climate change on forest ecosystems could have significant implications on global carbon cycling. In this chapter, we reviewed research progresses about climate change impacts on forest ecosystem carbon cycling in the past 20 years. Our review is mostly on field experiments and modeling studies. This chapter starts with a brief description of climate change and forest ecosystems. Different experimental studies are then presented. The impacts of global change such as elevated CO2, global warming, and changes in precipitation and O3 on carbon cycling in forest ecosystems are synthesized. Next, we present some modeling studies of forest ecosystem carbon cycling at ecosystem, regional, and global scales. At the end of the chapter, we make some recommendations for future studies.

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Acknowledgments

Our work has been supported by grants from the Office of Science (BER), US Department of Energy, grant DE-FG03-99ER62800, National Science Foundation (1504886), National Natural Science Foundation of China (31428001), and the United State Department of Agriculture (USDA) Evans-Allen and CBG projects.

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    Dafeng Hui & Qi Deng

  2. International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, 602 Duncan Drive, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA

    Hanqin Tian

  3. Department of Microbiology and Plant Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 73019, USA

    Yiqi Luo

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Hui, D., Deng, Q., Tian, H., Luo, Y. (2017). Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration in Forest Ecosystems. In: Chen, WY., Suzuki, T., Lackner, M. (eds) Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14409-2_13

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