Forests, carbon cycle, and climate change / / edited by Denis Loustau.

• Superior document: Update sciences & technologies
• TeilnehmendeR: Loustau, Denis.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: French; English
• Series: Collection Update sciences & technologies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The results presented in this book summarize the main findings of the CARBOFOR project, which brought together 52 scientists from 14 research units to investigate the effects of future climate on the carbon cycle, the productivity and vulnerability of French forests. This book explains the current forest carbon cycle in temperate and Mediterranean climates, including the dynamics of soil carbon and the total carbon stock of French forests, based on forest inventories. It reviews and illustrates the main ground-based methods for estimating carbon stocks in tree biomass. Spatial variations in projected climate change over metropolitan France throughout the 21st century are described. The book then goes on to consider the impacts of climate change on tree phenology and forest carbon balance, evapotranspiration and production as well as their first order interaction with forest management alternatives. The impact of climate change on forest vulnerability is analysed. A similar simulation study was carried out for a range of pathogenic fungi, emphasizing the importance of both warming and precipitation changes. The consequences of climate change on the occurrence of forest fires and the forest carbon cycle in the Mediterranean zone are also considered.A valuable reference for researchers and academics, forest engineers and managers, and graduate level students in forest ecology, ecological modelling and forestry.

Table of Contents

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Executive summary""; ""Part I The carbon cycle in temperate and Mediterranean forests""; ""Chapter 1. The forest carbon cycle: generalities, definitions and scales""; ""Chapter 2. Environmental control of carbon fluxes in forest ecosystems in France: a comparison of temperate, Mediterranean and tropical forests""; ""Chapter 3. Dynamics of soil carbon and moder horizons related to age in pine and beech stands""; ""Chapter 4. Estimating carbon stocks in forest stands: 1. Methodological developments""

""Chapter 5. Estimating carbon stocks and fluxes in forest biomass: 2. Application to the French case based upon National Forest Inventory data""""Part II Forest under a changing climate""; ""Chapter 6. Possible future climates in France""; ""Chapter 7. Forest tree phenology and climate change""; ""Chapter 8. Forest tree phenology in the French Permanent Plot Network (RENECOFOR, ICP forest network)""; ""Chapter 9. Modelling tools for predicting the carbon cycle""

""Chapter 10. How will the production of French forests respond to climate change? An integrated analysis from site to country scale""""Part III Climate change and forest vulnerability""; ""Chapter 11. Climate change and the biogeography of French tree species: first results and perspectives""; ""Chapter 12. Simulating the effects of climate change on geographical distribution and impact of forest pathogenic fungi""; ""Chapter 13. Mediterranean forests, fire and carbon budget:the threats of global change""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Contributors""