Forest harvests and wood products: Sources and sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide

Forest Science

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 272-284

  Winjum, Jack K ^a   Brown, Sandra ^b   Schlamadinger, Bernhard ^c  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Atmospheric flow method; Carbon balance; Commodities; Fuelwood; Greenhouse gas inventory; Roundwood; Stock change method

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; ESTIMATION; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HARVESTING; WOOD PRODUCTS;

ATMOSPHERIC FLOW METHOD; CARBON BALANCE; COMMODITIES; FOREST HARVESTS; FUELWOOD; GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY; STOCK CHANGE METHOD;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0032071212     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. BIRDSEY, R.A. 1992. Carbon storage and accumulation in United States forest ecosystems. USDA For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep WO-59. 51 p.
2. BROWN, S. 1997. Estimating biomass and biomass change of tropical forests: a primer. FAO For. Pap. 134, FAO, Rome.
3. BROWN, S., AND A.E. LUGO. 1992. Aboveground biomass estimates for tropical moist forests of the Brazilian Amazon. Interciencia 17:8-18.
4. BURSCHEL, P., E. KÜRSTEN, B.C. LARSON, AND M. WEBER. 1993. Present role of German forests and forestry in the national carbon budget and options to its increase. Water, Air, Soil Poll. 70:325-340.
5. CHUDNOFF, M. 1984. Tropical timbers of the world. Agric. Handb. No. 607, USDA Forest Service, Madison WI. 464 p.
6. DEWAR, R.C. 1990. A model of carbon storage in forests and forest products. Tree Phys. 6:417-428.
7. DIXON, R.K., ET AL. 1994. Carbon pools and flux of global forest ecosystems. Science 263:185-190.
8. DIXON, R.K., ET AL. 1996 Greenhouse gas mitigation strategies: Preliminary results from the U.S. Country Studies Program. Ambio 25(1):26-32.
9. FAO. 1993. Forest resources assessment 1990: Tropical countries. FAO For. Pap. 112, FAO, Rome. 103 p.
10. FAO. 1995. FAO Yearbook: Forest products. FAO For. Serv. No. 28, FAO, Rome. 422 p.
11. HAYGREEN, J.G., AND J.L. BOWYER. 1989. Forest products and wood science. Iowa State Univ. Press, Ames, IA. 500 p.
12. HEATH, L.S., R.A. BIRDSEY, C. ROW, AND A.J. PLANTINGA. 1996. Carbon pools and fluxes in U.S. forest products. P 271-278 in Forest ecosystems, forest management and the global carbon cycle, Apps, M.J., and D.T. Price (eds.). NATO ASI Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
13. IPCC (INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE). 1995. IPCC guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories: Volumes 1, 2, and 3. IPCC Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland.
14. KARJALAINEN, T. 1996. Dynamics of the carbon flow through forest ecosystems and the potential of carbon sequestration in forests and wood products in Finland. Res. Notes, Fac. of For., Univ. of Joensuu, Finland. 31 p.
15. KARJALAINEN, T., S. KELLOMÄKI, AND A. PUSSINEN. 1994. Role of wood-based products in absorbing atmospheric carbon. Silva Fennica 28(2):67-80.
16. KARJALAINEN, T., S. KELLOMÄKI, AND A. PUSSINEN. 1995. Carbon balance in the forest sector in Finland during 1990-2039. Climatic Change 30:451-478.
17. KURZ, W.A., M.J. APPS, T.M. WEBB, AND P.J. MCNAMEE. 1992. The carbon budget of the Canadian forest sector: Phase I. Inf. Rep. NOR-X-326, Forestry Canada, Edmonton, Alberta. 93 p.
18. LAARMAN, J.G., AND R.A. SEDJO. 1992. Global forests, issues for six billion people. McGraw-Hill, New York. 337 p.
19. 2 emissions. P. 505-584 in Trends '93: A compendium of data on global change, Boden, T.A., et al. (eds.). ORNL/CDIAC-65. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN.
20. NABUURS, G.J., AND G.M.J. MOHREN. 1993. Carbon fixation through forestation activities. IBN Res. Rep. 93/4, Inst. for For. and Nature Res., Wangeningen, The Netherlands. 205 p.
21. PINARD, M.A., AND F.E. PUTZ. 1996. Retaining forest biomass by reducing logging damage. Biotropica 28(3):278-295.
22. POWELL, D.S., J.L. FAULKNER, D.R. DARR, Z. ZHU, AND D.W. MACCLEERY. 1993. Forest resources of the United States, 1992. USDA For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-234. 132 p.
23. REYES, G., S. BROWN, J. CHAPMAN, AND A.E. LUGO. 1992. Wood densities of tropical tree species. USDA For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. S0-88. 15 p.
24. ROW, C., AND R.B. PHELPS. 1996. Wood carbon flows and storage after timber harvest. P. 27-58 in Forest and global change: Vol. II, Forest management opportunities for mitigating and adapting to climate change, Sampson, R.N., and D. Hair (eds.). American Forests, Washington, DC.
25. 2 and the carbon cycle. P. 35-71 in IPCC Climate change 1994: Radiative forcing of climate change and an evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
26. SCHROEDER, P.E., S. BROWN, J. MO, R. BIRDSEY, AND C. CIESZEWSKI. 1997. Biomass estimation for temperate broadleaf forests of the U.S. using inventory data. For. Sci. 43:424-434.
27. SUBAK, S., P. RASKIN, AND D. VON HIPPEL. 1993. National greenhouse gas accounts: Current anthropogenic sources and sinks. Climatic Change 25:15-58.
28. USDA FOREST SERVICE. 1987. Wood handbook: Wood as an engineering material. Agric. Handb. No. 72, USDA For. Serv., For. Prod. Lab., Madison WI. 220 p.
29. UNITED NATIONS ECE/FAO. 1992. The forest resources of the temperate zones. The UN-ECE/FAO 1990 forest resource assessment. Vol. 1. United Nations, New York. 348 p.
30. UNITED NATIONS. 1994. 1992 demographic yearbook. 44th Issue. United Nations, New York. 823 p.
31. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY. 1994. Voluntary reporting of greenhouse gases under Section 1605(b) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (3 vol.). DOE/ PO-0028, Washington, DC.