How does thinning affect the carbon budget of a subtropical coniferous plantation?
Mingjie Xu, Shengtong Li, Fengting Yang, Tao Zhang, Xiao Liu, Hui Zhang, Yuting Wang, Jiaxin Song, Ziyi Wang, Xianjin Zhu, Chuanpeng Cheng, Jianlei Wang, Huimin Wang · 2025
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Mingjie Xu and co-authors asked in 2025 how thinning a subtropical conifer plantation in China affects its carbon budget. China has planted vast forests that soak up carbon, but aging plantations need management. Thinning helps in the long run yet disturbs the forest at first, which can cost carbon.
The team compared three ways of measuring carbon flows, and judged the two-tower method most dependable for tracking seasonal patterns. All three agreed that moderate thinning raised the forest's carbon uptake, its breathing, and its net gain. Uptake rose more in the second year, but breathing rose even faster then. The study gives managers a firmer basis for carbon accounting after thinning.
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| CREATOR | Mingjie Xu, Shengtong Li, Fengting Yang, Tao Zhang, Xiao Liu, Hui Zhang, Yuting Wang, Jiaxin Song, Ziyi Wang, Xianjin Zhu, Chuanpeng Cheng, Jianlei Wang, Huimin Wang |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |