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Carbon Stocks of Hardwood Floodplain Forests along the Middle Elbe: The Influence of Forest Age, Structure, Species, and Hydrological Conditions

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Carbon Stocks of Hardwood Floodplain Forests along the Middle Elbe: The Influence of Forest Age, Structure, Species, and Hydrological Conditions
المؤلفون: Heather A. Shupe, Timo Hartmann, Mathias Scholz, Kai Jensen, Kristin Ludewig
المصدر: Water; Volume 13; Issue 5; Pages: 670
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: carbon stocks, hardwood floodplain forest, hydrological conditions, floodplain ecology
جغرافية الموضوع: agris
الوصف: Hardwood floodplain (HF) forests can store a considerable amount of carbon (C), and floodplains may be good candidates for reforestation to provide natural C sinks. In this study, we use nondestructive inventory methods to estimate the C stocks of different tree species and C pools within HF forests of varying age and structure and located at sites differing in hydrological conditions (low and high active floodplain, seepage water zone, tributaries). The study was carried out along the Elbe river (Germany). Average C stocks for young plantations in the active floodplain were significantly lower (50.2 ± 10.8 SE Mg ha−1) than those of old dense (140.6 ± 11.6 SE Mg ha−1) and old sparse forests (180.4 ± 26.6 SE Mg ha−1) with comparable hydrological conditions. C stocks of old dense forests did not significantly vary from old sparse forests. Additionally, C stocks of old forests did not significantly vary according to hydrological conditions. The highest amount of C was stored in Quercus robur for all hydrological conditions. Ulmus laevis stored the second-highest amount of C on the active floodplain. We conclude that sparse and dense forests as well as forests under different hydrological conditions provide the same C storage function.
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اللغة: English
Relation: Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems; https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w13050670
DOI: 10.3390/w13050670
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/w13050670
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.188068C5
قاعدة البيانات: BASE