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Development and technical paper
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12 Oct 2021
Development and technical paper |
| 12 Oct 2021
| 12 Oct 2021
Accounting for forest management in the estimation of forest carbon balance using the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS (v4.0, r9710): implementation and evaluation of simulations for Europe
Mats Lindeskog
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund
University, Lund, Sweden
Benjamin Smith
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund
University, Lund, Sweden
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University,
Penrith NSW, Australia
Fredrik Lagergren
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund
University, Lund, Sweden
Ekaterina Sycheva
TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of
Munich, Freising, Germany
Andrej Ficko
Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Hans Pretzsch
TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of
Munich, Freising, Germany
Anja Rammig
TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of
Munich, Freising, Germany
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Short summary
Forests play an important role in the global carbon cycle and for carbon storage. In Europe, forests are intensively managed. To understand how management influences carbon storage in European forests, we implement detailed forest management into the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS. We test the model by comparing model output to typical forestry measures, such as growing stock and harvest data, for different countries in Europe.
Forests play an important role in the global carbon cycle and for carbon storage. In Europe,...
