Estimating biomass and soil carbon change at the level of forest stands using repeated forest surveys assisted by airborne laser scanner data

Carbon Balance and Management

Methodology

Jari Liski¹  Hans Petersson²  Victor F. Strîmbu³  Terje Gobakken³  Erik Næsset³  Hans Ole Ørka³ 

[1] Climate System Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 00101, Helsinki, Finland;Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901 83, Umeå, Sweden;Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1432, Ås, Norway;

关键词: Forest carbon pools;    Carbon change estimation;    Forest inventory;    Forest management;    Model-based estimation;    Soil carbon;    Forest biomass;    Yasso15;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13021-023-00222-4

 received in 2022-11-04, accepted in 2023-02-26,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundUnder the growing pressure to implement mitigation actions, the focus of forest management is shifting from a traditional resource centric view to incorporate more forest ecosystem services objectives such as carbon sequestration. Estimating the above-ground biomass in forests using airborne laser scanning (ALS) is now an operational practice in Northern Europe and is being adopted in many parts of the world. In the boreal forests, however, most of the carbon (85%) is stored in the soil organic (SO) matter. While this very important carbon pool is “invisible” to ALS, it is closely connected and feeds from the growing forest stocks. We propose an integrated methodology to estimate the changes in forest carbon pools at the level of forest stands by combining field measurements and ALS data.ResultsALS-based models of dominant height, mean diameter, and biomass were fitted using the field observations and were used to predict mean tree biophysical properties across the entire study area (50 km2) which was in turn used to estimate the biomass carbon stocks and the litter production that feeds into the soil. For the soil carbon pool estimation, we used the Yasso15 model. The methodology was based on (1) approximating the initial soil carbon stocks using simulations; (2) predicting the annual litter input based on the predicted growing stocks in each cell; (3) predicting the soil carbon dynamics of the annual litter using the Yasso15 soil carbon model. The estimated total carbon change (standard errors in parenthesis) for the entire area was 0.741 (0.14) Mg ha−1 yr−1. The biomass carbon change was 0.405 (0.13) Mg ha−1 yr−1, the litter carbon change (e.g., deadwood and leaves) was 0.346 (0.027) Mg ha−1 yr−1, and the change in SO carbon was − 0.01 (0.003) Mg ha−1 yr−1.ConclusionsOur results show that ALS data can be used indirectly through a chain of models to estimate soil carbon changes in addition to changes in biomass at the primary level of forest management, namely the forest stands. Having control of the errors contributed by each model, the stand-level uncertainty can be estimated under a model-based inferential approach.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s) 2023

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