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  1. Climate change has emerged as one of the most important environmental issues worldwide. As the world’s biggest developing country, China is participating in combating climate change by promoting a low carbon e...

    Authors: Wenjuan Yang, Rongqin Zhao, Xiaowei Chuai, Liangang Xiao, Lianhai Cao, Zhanping Zhang, Qinglin Yang and Lunguang Yao
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2019 14:14
  2. It is important to quantify changes in CO2 sources and sinks with land use and land cover change. In the last several decades, carbon sources and sinks in East Asia have been altered by intensive land cover chang...

    Authors: Je-Woo Hong, Jinkyu Hong, Junghwa Chun, Yong Hee Lee, Lim-Seok Chang, Jae-Bum Lee, Keewook Yi, Young-San Park, Young-Hwa Byun and Sangwon Joo
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2019 14:13
  3. To reduce the uncertainty in estimates of carbon emissions resulting from deforestation and forest degradation, better information on the carbon density per land use/land cover (LULC) class and in situ carbon ...

    Authors: Adéyèmi Chabi, Sven Lautenbach, Jérôme Ebagnerin Tondoh, Vincent Oladokoun Agnila Orekan, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Nicholas Kyei-Baffour, Vincent Joseph Mama and John Fonweban
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2019 14:12
  4. Brazilian Amazon forests contain a large stock of carbon that could be released into the atmosphere as a result of land use and cover change. To quantify the carbon stocks, Brazil has forest inventory plots fr...

    Authors: Graciela Tejada, Eric Bastos Görgens, Fernando Del Bon Espírito-Santo, Roberta Zecchini Cantinho and Jean Pierre Ometto
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2019 14:11
  5. In 2018, the European Union (EU) adopted Regulation 2018/841, which sets the accounting rules for the land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector for the period 2021–2030. This regulation is part of...

    Authors: Nicklas Forsell, Anu Korosuo, Mykola Gusti, Sebastian Rüter, Petr Havlik and Michael Obersteiner
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2019 14:10
  6. Comparisons of soil carbon (C) pools across land uses can be confounded by site-specific history. To better quantify the response of soil C pools to residential development and use, we compared yard soils (n =...

    Authors: Morgan E. Peach, Laura A. Ogden, Eleni A. Mora and Andrew J. Friedland
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2019 14:9

    The Correction to this article has been published in Carbon Balance and Management 2020 15:11

  7. A recent article by Luyssaert et al. (Nature 562:259–262, 2018) analyses the climate impact of forest management in the European Union, considering both biogeochemical (i.e., greenhouse gases, GHG) and biophysica...

    Authors: Giacomo Grassi, Alessandro Cescatti, Robert Matthews, Gregory Duveiller, Andrea Camia, Sandro Federici, Jo House, Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré, Roberto Pilli and Matteo Vizzarri
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2019 14:8
  8. In order to use in situ measurements to constrain urban anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), we use a Lagrangian methodology based on diffusive backward trajectory tracer reconstructions and Bayesian ...

    Authors: Ignacio Pisso, Prabir Patra, Masayuki Takigawa, Toshinobu Machida, Hidekazu Matsueda and Yousuke Sawa
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2019 14:6
  9. The Cerrado is the second largest biome in Brazil and the most biodiverse tropical savannah in the world and acts as a great sequester of atmospheric carbon. The lack of studies related to the quantification o...

    Authors: Camila Paula de Oliveira, Márcio Rocha Francelino, Mayara Daher, Emanuel José Gomes de Araújo, Leonardo de Souza Sanches, Kauanna Domingues Cabral de Andrade and Júlia Santos Nunes de Campos
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2019 14:5
  10. Developing countries participating in the mitigation mechanism of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+), are required to establish a forest reference emission level (FREL), if th...

    Authors: Ernest William Mauya, Wilson Ancelm Mugasha, Marco Andrew Njana, Eliakimu Zahabu and Rogers Malimbwi
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2019 14:4
  11. The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector is responsible for almost a quarter of the global Greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. The emissions associated with AFOLU activities are projected to i...

    Authors: Bijay Bahadur Pradhan, Achiraya Chaichaloempreecha and Bundit Limmeechokchai
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2019 14:3
  12. Wet tropical forests of Chocó, along the Pacific Coast of Colombia, are known for their high plant diversity and endemic species. With increasing pressure of degradation and deforestation, these forests have b...

    Authors: Victoria Meyer, Sassan Saatchi, António Ferraz, Liang Xu, Alvaro Duque, Mariano García and Jérôme Chave
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2019 14:2
  13. Unlike in the developed countries, Ethiopia does not have carbon inventories and databank to monitor and enhance carbon sequestration potential of different forests. Only small efforts have been made so far to...

    Authors: Abyot Dibaba, Teshome Soromessa and Bikila Workineh
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2019 14:1
  14. There has been growing interest in the development of waste-specific decay factors for estimation of greenhouse gas emissions from landfills in national greenhouse gas inventories. Although engineered wood pro...

    Authors: Fabiano A. Ximenes, Amrit Kathuria, Morton A. Barlaz and Annette L. Cowie
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:27
  15. Concern about climate change has motivated France to reduce its reliance on fossil fuel by setting targets for increased biomass-based renewable energy production. This study quantifies the carbon costs and be...

    Authors: Aude Valade, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Patrick Vallet, Sylvestre Njakou Djomo, Ingride Jesus Van Der Kellen and Valentin Bellassen
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:26
  16. Biomass models are useful for several purposes, especially for quantifying carbon stocks and dynamics in forests. Selecting appropriate equations from a fitted model is a process which can involves several cr...

    Authors: Carlos Roberto Sanquetta, Ana Paula Dalla Corte, Alexandre Behling, Luani Rosa de Oliveira Piva, Sylvio Péllico Netto, Aurélio Lourenço Rodrigues and Mateus Niroh Inoue Sanquetta
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:25
  17. Pasture enclosures play an important role in rehabilitating the degraded soils and vegetation, and may also influence the emission of key greenhouse gasses (GHGs) from the soil. However, no study in East Afric...

    Authors: Collins O. Oduor, Nancy Karanja, Richard Onwong’a, Stephen Mureithi, David Pelster and Gert Nyberg
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:24
  18. Worldwide, forests are an important carbon sink and thus are key to mitigate the effects of climate change. Mountain moist evergreen forests in Mozambique are threatened by agricultural expansion, uncontrolled...

    Authors: Sá Nogueira Lisboa, Benard Soares Guedes, Natasha Ribeiro and Almeida Sitoe
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:23
  19. REDD+ is being questioned by the particular status of High Forest/Low Deforestation countries. Indeed, the formulation of reference levels is made difficult by the confrontation of low historical deforestation...

    Authors: Camille Dezécache, Jean-Michel Salles and Bruno Hérault
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:21
  20. We analyzed the dynamics of carbon (C) stocks and CO2 removals by Brazilian forest plantations over the period 1990–2016. Data on the extent of forests compiled from various sources were used in the calculations....

    Authors: Carlos Roberto Sanquetta, Ana Paula Dalla Corte, Allan Libanio Pelissari, Margarida Tomé, Greyce Charllyne Benedet Maas and Mateus Niroh Inoue Sanquetta
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:20
  21. Malaysia typically suffers from frequent cloud cover, hindering spatially consistent reporting of deforestation and forest degradation, which limits the accurate reporting of carbon loss and CO2 emissions for red...

    Authors: Hamdan Omar and Muhamad Afizzul Misman
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:19
  22. In June 2018, the European Parliament and Council of the European Union adopted a legislative regulation for incorporating greenhouse gas emissions and removals from Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (EU-...

    Authors: Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Eric J. M. M. Arets and Mart-Jan Schelhaas
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:18
  23. The environmental costs of fossil fuel consumption are globally recognized, opening many pathways for the development of regional portfolio solutions for sustainable replacement fuel and energy options. The pu...

    Authors: Meghan Pawlowski, Manyowa N. Meki, James R. Kiniry and Susan E. Crow
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:17
  24. Peatlands are an important component of Canada’s landscape, however there is little information on their national-scale net emissions of carbon dioxide [Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE)] and methane (CH4). This study...

    Authors: K. L. Webster, J. S. Bhatti, D. K. Thompson, S. A. Nelson, C. H. Shaw, K. A. Bona, S. L. Hayne and W. A. Kurz
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:16
  25. Satellite-based aboveground forest biomass maps commonly form the basis of forest biomass and carbon stock mapping and monitoring, but biomass maps likely vary in performance by region and as a function of spa...

    Authors: David M. Bell, Matthew J. Gregory, Van Kane, Jonathan Kane, Robert E. Kennedy, Heather M. Roberts and Zhiqiang Yang
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:15
  26. Forests play an important role in mitigating global climate change by capturing and sequestering atmospheric carbon. Quantitative estimation of the temporal and spatial pattern of carbon storage in forest ecos...

    Authors: Negasi Solomon, Opoku Pabi, Ted Annang, Isaac K. Asante and Emiru Birhane
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:14
  27. We determine the potential of forests and the forest sector to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by changes in management practices and wood use for two regions within Canada’s managed forest from 2018 t...

    Authors: C. E. Smyth, B. P. Smiley, M. Magnan, R. Birdsey, A. J. Dugan, M. Olguin, V. S. Mascorro and W. A. Kurz
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:11
  28. United States forests can contribute to national strategies for greenhouse gas reductions. The objective of this work was to evaluate forest sector climate change mitigation scenarios from 2018 to 2050 by appl...

    Authors: Alexa J. Dugan, Richard Birdsey, Vanessa S. Mascorro, Michael Magnan, Carolyn E. Smyth, Marcela Olguin and Werner A. Kurz
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:13
  29. Forests and forest products can significantly contribute to climate change mitigation by stabilizing and even potentially decreasing the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. Harvested wood pro...

    Authors: Cristina-Maria Iordan, Xiangping Hu, Anders Arvesen, Pekka Kauppi and Francesco Cherubini
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:12
  30. Urban trees have long been valued for providing ecosystem services (mitigation of the “heat island” effect, suppression of air pollution, etc.); more recently the potential of urban forests to store significan...

    Authors: Phil Wilkes, Mathias Disney, Matheus Boni Vicari, Kim Calders and Andrew Burt
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:10
  31. Land use and management activities have a substantial impact on carbon stocks and associated greenhouse gas emissions and removals. However, it is challenging to discriminate between anthropogenic and non-anth...

    Authors: Stephen M. Ogle, Grant Domke, Werner A. Kurz, Marcelo T. Rocha, Ted Huffman, Amy Swan, James E. Smith, Christopher Woodall and Thelma Krug
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:9
  32. The credibility and effectiveness of country climate targets under the Paris Agreement requires that, in all greenhouse gas (GHG) sectors, the accounted mitigation outcomes reflect genuine deviations from the ...

    Authors: Giacomo Grassi, Roberto Pilli, Jo House, Sandro Federici and Werner A. Kurz
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:8
  33. The quantification and spatially explicit mapping of carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems is important to better understand the global carbon cycle and to monitor and report change processes, especially in ...

    Authors: M. Schwieder, P. J. Leitão, J. R. R. Pinto, A. M. C. Teixeira, F. Pedroni, M. Sanchez, M. M. Bustamante and P. Hostert
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:7
  34. Natural wetlands can mitigate ongoing increases in atmospheric carbon by storing any net balance of organic carbon (peat) between plant production (carbon uptake) and microbial decomposition (carbon release). ...

    Authors: Eunji Byun, Sarah A. Finkelstein, Sharon A. Cowling and Pascal Badiou
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:6
  35. Information on the spatial distribution of aboveground biomass (AGB) over large areas is needed for understanding and managing processes involved in the carbon cycle and supporting international policies for c...

    Authors: Mikhail Urbazaev, Christian Thiel, Felix Cremer, Ralph Dubayah, Mirco Migliavacca, Markus Reichstein and Christiane Schmullius
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:5
  36. The changes in land use and land cover have a strong effect on the total soil organic carbon, its fractions and its overall soil health. This study carried out in Olesharo Catchment, Kenya, was to quantify the...

    Authors: Bernice M. Sainepo, Charles K. Gachene and Anne Karuma
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2018 13:4
  37. Upon publication of the original article [1], the authors noticed that the figure labelling for Fig. 4 in the online version was processed wrong. The top left panel should be panel a, with the panels to its right...

    Authors: Simon Willcock, Oliver L. Phillips, Philip J. Platts, Andrew Balmford, Neil D. Burgess, Jon C. Lovett, Antje Ahrends, Julian Bayliss, Nike Doggart, Kathryn Doody, Eibleis Fanning, Jonathan M. H. Green, Jaclyn Hall, Kim L. Howell, Rob Marchant, Andrew R. Marshall…
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:20

    The original article was published in Carbon Balance and Management 2014 9:2

  38. The reliable monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of carbon emissions and removals from the forest sector is an important part of the efforts on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degrada...

    Authors: M. S. R. Murthy, Hammad Gilani, Bhaskar Singh Karky, Eklabya Sharma, Marieke Sandker, Upama Ashish Koju, Shiva Khanal and Mohan Poudel
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:19
  39. Carbon accounting in forests remains a large area of uncertainty in the global carbon cycle. Forest aboveground biomass is therefore an attribute of great interest for the forest management community, but the ...

    Authors: Laura Duncanson, Wenli Huang, Kristofer Johnson, Anu Swatantran, Ronald E. McRoberts and Ralph Dubayah
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:18
  40. Livestock play an important role in carbon cycling through consumption of biomass and emissions of methane. Recent research suggests that existing bottom-up inventories of livestock methane emissions in the US...

    Authors: Julie Wolf, Ghassem R. Asrar and Tristram O. West
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:16
  41. To address how natural disturbance, forest harvest, and deforestation from reservoir creation affect landscape-level carbon (C) budgets, a retrospective C budget for the 8500 ha Sooke Lake Watershed (SLW) from...

    Authors: B. P. Smiley and J. A. Trofymow
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:15
  42. Authors: Carlos Alberto Silva, Andrew Thomas Hudak, Carine Klauberg, Lee Alexandre Vierling, Carlos Gonzalez-Benecke, Samuel de Padua Chaves Carvalho, Luiz Carlos Estraviz Rodriguez and Adrián Cardil
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:14

    The original article was published in Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:13

  43. LiDAR remote sensing is a rapidly evolving technology for quantifying a variety of forest attributes, including aboveground carbon (AGC). Pulse density influences the acquisition cost of LiDAR, and grid cell s...

    Authors: Carlos Alberto Silva, Andrew Thomas Hudak, Carine Klauberg, Lee Alexandre Vierling, Carlos Gonzalez-Benecke, Samuel de Padua Chaves Carvalho, Luiz Carlos Estraviz Rodriguez and Adrián Cardil
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:13

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:14

  44. A large proportion of the world’s tropical peatlands occur in Indonesia where rapid conversion and associated losses of carbon, biodiversity and ecosystem services have brought peatland management to the foref...

    Authors: Matthew Warren, Kristell Hergoualc’h, J. Boone Kauffman, Daniel Murdiyarso and Randall Kolka
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:12

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