Figure 4
From: Total carbon accumulation in a tropical forest landscape
Effects of carbon legacies on total carbon accumulation and net ecosystem carbon balance ( NECB ). a) Temporal behavior of legacy carbon (colored lines) and new carbon accumulation (black line). b) Total carbon stocks (TCS) under different assumptions of carbon legacies. c) Net ecosystem carbon balance (NECB) under different assumptions of C legacies. d) Effects of C legacies on the maximum accumulation rates (max(NECB)), and the age at which this rate is reached (Age max(NECB)). % C legacy represents the percentage of C left in situ to decompose from the total carbon mass (TM) present in undisturbed forests. Decomposition of C legacies according to decomposition rates reported by [24].