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SUBMITTER: Hu H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4480144 | biostudies-other | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Hu Huifeng H Wang Shaopeng S Guo Zhaodi Z Xu Bing B Fang Jingyun J
Scientific reports 20150625
China's forests are characterized by young age, low carbon (C) density and a large plantation area, implying a high potential for increasing C sinks in the future. Using data of provincial forest area and biomass C density from China's forest inventories between 1994 and 2008 and the planned forest coverage of the country by 2050, we developed a stage-classified matrix model to predict biomass C stocks of China's forests from 2005 to 2050. The results showed that total forest biomass C stock wou ...[more]