Adding Tree Rings to North America's National Forest Inventories: An Essential Too to Guide Drawdown of Atmospheric CO2
Por:
Evans, Margaret E. K., Derose, Justin, Klesse, Stefan, Girardin, Martin P., Heilman, Kelly A., Alexander, M. Ross, Arsenault, Andre, Babst, Flurin, Bouchard, Mathieu, Cahoon, Sean M. P., Campbell, Elizabeth M., Dietze, Michael, Duchesne, Louis, Frank, David C., Giebink, Courtney L., Gomez-Guerrero, Armando, Gutierrez Garcia, Genaro, Hogg, Edward H., Metsaranta, Juha, Ols, Clementine, Rayback, Shelly A., Reid, Anya, Ricker, Martin, Schaberg, Paul G., Shaw, John D., Sullivan, Patrick F., Villela Gaytan, Sergio Armando
Publicada:
2 mar 2022
Categoría:
Agricultural and biological sciences (miscellaneous)
Resumen:
Tree-ring time series provide long-term, annually resolved information
on the growth of trees. When sampled in a systematic context, tree-ring
data can be scaled to estimate the forest carbon capture and storage of
landscapes, biomes, and-ultimately- the globe. A systematic effort to
sample tree rings in national forest inventories would yield
unprecedented temporal and spatial resolution of forest carbon dynamics
and help resolve key scientific uncertainties, which we highlight in
terms of evidence for forest greening (enhanced growth) versus browning
(reduced growth, increased mortality). We describe jump-starting a
tree-ring collection across the continent of North America, given the
commitments of Canada, the United States, and Mexico to visit forest
inventory plots, along with existing legacy collections. Failing to do
so would be a missed opportunity to help chart an evidence-based path
toward meeting national commitments to reduce net greenhouse gas
emissions, urgently needed for climate stabilization and repair.
Filiaciones:
Univ Arizona, Lab Tree Ring Res, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
Utah State Univ, Quinney Coll Nat Resources, Logan, UT 84322 USA
Swiss Fed Inst Forest Snow & Landscape Res, Zurich, Switzerland
Laurentian Forestry Ctr, Canadian Forest Serv, Quebec City, PQ, Canada
Argonne Natl Lab, Lemont, IL USA
Nat Resources Canada, Atlant Forestry Ctr, Canadian Forest Serv, Corner Brook, NF, Canada
Univ Arizona, Sch Nat Resources & Environm, Tucson, AZ USA
Laval Univ, Dept Wood Sci & Forestry, Quebec City, PQ, Canada
US Forest Serv, USDA, Pacific Northwest Res Stn, Anchorage, AK USA
Pacific Forestry Ctr, Canadian Forest Serv, Victoria, BC, Canada
Boston Univ, Dept Earth & Environm, Boston, MA 02215 USA
Minist Forets Faune & Parcs Quebec, Direct Rech Forestiere, Quebec City, PQ, Canada
Colegio Postgrad, Texcoco, Estado De Mexic, Mexico
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Geol, Dept Ciencias Ambientales & Suelo, Ciudad Univ, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
Northern Forestry Ctr, Canadian Forest Serv, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Inst Natl Informat Geog & Forestiere, Nancy, France
Univ Vermont, Dept Geog, Burlington, VT USA
British Columbia Minist Forests, Victoria, BC, Canada
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Biol, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
US Forest Serv, USDA, Northern Res Stn, Burlington, VT USA
US Forest Serv, USDA, Rocky Mt Res Stn, Ogden, UT USA
Univ Alaska Anchorage, Environm & Nat Resources Inst, Anchorage, AK USA
Sistema Nacl Monitoreo Forestal, Comis Nacl Forestal, San Juan De Ocotan, Jalisco, Mexico
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