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  1. Determining national carbon stocks is essential in the framework of ongoing climate change mitigation actions. Presently, assessment of carbon stocks in the context of greenhouse gas (GHG)-reporting on a natio...

    Authors: Silvania Avelar, Tessa S. van der Voort and Timothy I. Eglinton
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:10
  2. Europe has warmed more than the global average (land and ocean) since pre-industrial times, and is also projected to continue to warm faster than the global average in the twenty-first century. According to th...

    Authors: Jinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais, Nicolas Viovy, Jean-François Soussana, Katja Klumpp and Benjamin Sultan
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:11
  3. Forest degradation is a global phenomenon and while being an important indicator and precursor to further forest loss, carbon emissions due to degradation should also be accounted for in national reporting wit...

    Authors: Anthea L. Mitchell, Ake Rosenqvist and Brice Mora
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:9
  4. Soil carbon and biomass depletion can be used to identify and quantify degraded soils, and by using remote sensing, there is potential to map soil conditions over large areas. Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager...

    Authors: Mikael Egberth, Gert Nyberg, Erik Næsset, Terje Gobakken, Ernest Mauya, Rogers Malimbwi, Josiah Katani, Nurudin Chamuya, George Bulenga and Håkan Olsson
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:8
  5. Human-caused disturbance to tropical rainforests—such as logging and fire—causes substantial losses of carbon stocks. This is a critical issue to be addressed in the context of policy discussions to implement ...

    Authors: Rafael B. de Andrade, Jennifer K. Balch, Amoreena L. Parsons, Dolors Armenteras, Rosa Maria Roman-Cuesta and Janette Bulkan
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:6
  6. Quantifying terrestrial carbon (C) stocks in vineyards represents an important opportunity for estimating C sequestration in perennial cropping systems. Considering 7.2 M ha are dedicated to winegrape producti...

    Authors: Jorge Andres Morandé, Christine M. Stockert, Garrett C. Liles, John N. Williams, David R. Smart and Joshua H. Viers
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:5
  7. Accurate estimation of aboveground forest biomass (AGB) and its dynamics is of paramount importance in understanding the role of forest in the carbon cycle and the effective implementation of climate change mi...

    Authors: Mariano Garcia, Sassan Saatchi, Antonio Ferraz, Carlos Alberto Silva, Susan Ustin, Alexander Koltunov and Heiko Balzter
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:4
  8. The degradation of forests in developing countries, particularly those within tropical and subtropical latitudes, is perceived to be an important contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions. However, the im...

    Authors: Timothy R. H. Pearson, Sandra Brown, Lara Murray and Gabriel Sidman
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:3
  9. Carbon storage potential has become an important consideration for land management and planning in the United States. The ability to assess ecosystem carbon balance can help land managers understand the benefi...

    Authors: Rachel Sleeter, Benjamin M. Sleeter, Brianna Williams, Dianna Hogan, Todd Hawbaker and Zhiliang Zhu
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2017 12:2
  10. In preparation for the 2015 international climate negotiations in Paris, Parties submitted Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNF...

    Authors: Nicklas Forsell, Olga Turkovska, Mykola Gusti, Michael Obersteiner, Michel den Elzen and Petr Havlik
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:26
  11. Savanna fire is a major source of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In Australia, savanna fire contributes about 3% of annual GHG emissions reportable to the Kyoto Protocol. In order to reduce GHG emissio...

    Authors: Tek Narayan Maraseni, Kathryn Reardon-Smith, Greg Griffiths and Armando Apan
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:25
  12. Locating terrestrial sources and sinks of carbon (C) will be critical to developing strategies that contribute to the climate change mitigation goals of the Paris Agreement. Here we present spatially resolved ...

    Authors: N. L. Harris, S. C. Hagen, S. S. Saatchi, T. R. H. Pearson, C. W. Woodall, G. M. Domke, B. H. Braswell, B. F. Walters, S. Brown, W. Salas, A. Fore and Y. Yu
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:24
  13. Understanding and quantifying carbon (C) exchanges between the biosphere and the atmosphere—specifically the process of C removal from the atmosphere, and how this process is changing—is the basis for developi...

    Authors: Céline Boisvenue, Byron P. Smiley, Joanne C. White, Werner A. Kurz and Michael A. Wulder
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:23
  14. It is essential that the human race limits the environmental damage created by our consumption. A realistic pathway to limiting consumption would be to transition to a system where materials are conserved and ...

    Authors: Kimberley Pratt, Michael Lenaghan and Edward T. A. Mitchard
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:21
  15. Forests and the forest sector may play an important role in mitigating climate change. The Paris Agreement and the recent legislative proposal to include the land use sector in the EU 2030 climate targets refl...

    Authors: Roberto Pilli, Giacomo Grassi, Werner A. Kurz, Jose V. Moris and Raúl Abad Viñas
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:20
  16. Mapping tropical forest structure is a critical requirement for accurate estimation of emissions and removals from land use activities. With the availability of a wide range of remote sensing imagery of vegeta...

    Authors: Liang Xu, Sassan S. Saatchi, Yan Yang, Yifan Yu and Lee White
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:18
  17. The promotion of cacao agroforestry is one of the ways of diversifying farmer income and creating incentives through their inclusion in REDD+ interventions. We estimated the aboveground carbon stocks in cacao ...

    Authors: Evans Dawoe, Winston Asante, Emmanuel Acheampong and Paul Bosu
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:17
  18. The estimation of forest biomass changes due to land-use change is of significant importance for estimates of the global carbon budget. The accuracy of biomass density maps depends on the availability of relia...

    Authors: Adéyèmi Chabi, Sven Lautenbach, Vincent Oladokoun Agnila Orekan and Nicholas Kyei-Baffour
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:16

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  19. Managed forests are a major component of tropical landscapes. Production forests as designated by national forest services cover up to 400 million ha, i.e. half of the forested area in the humid tropics. Fores...

    Authors: Camille Piponiot, Antoine Cabon, Laurent Descroix, Aurélie Dourdain, Lucas Mazzei, Benjamin Ouliac, Ervan Rutishauser, Plinio Sist and Bruno Hérault
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:15
  20. Implementation of REDD+ requires measurement and monitoring of carbon emissions from forest degradation in developing countries. Dry forests cover about 40 % of the total tropical forest area, are home to larg...

    Authors: Klaus Dons, Sushma Bhattarai, Henrik Meilby, Carsten Smith-Hall and Toke Emil Panduro
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:14
  21. A functional forest carbon measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) system to support climate change mitigation policies, such as REDD+, requires estimates of forest biomass carbon, as an input to estimate ...

    Authors: Belachew Gizachew, Svein Solberg, Erik Næsset, Terje Gobakken, Ole Martin Bollandsås, Johannes Breidenbach, Eliakimu Zahabu and Ernest William Mauya
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:13
  22. The German greenhouse gas inventory in the land use change sector strongly depends on national forest inventory data. As these data were collected periodically 1987, 2002, 2008 and 2012, the time series on emi...

    Authors: Steffi Röhling, Karsten Dunger, Gerald Kändler, Susann Klatt, Thomas Riedel, Wolfgang Stümer and Johannes Brötz
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:12
  23. Recent studies have shown that fragmentation is an increasing threat to global forests, which has major impacts on biodiversity and the important ecosystem services provided by forested landscapes. Several too...

    Authors: Aurélie C. Shapiro, Naikoa Aguilar-Amuchastegui, Patrick Hostert and Jean-François Bastin
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:11
  24. Human activities have diverse and profound impacts on ecosystem carbon cycles. The Piedmont ecoregion in the eastern United States has undergone significant land use and land cover change in the past few decad...

    Authors: Jinxun Liu, Benjamin M. Sleeter, Zhiliang Zhu, Linda S. Heath, Zhengxi Tan, Tamara S. Wilson, Jason Sherba and Decheng Zhou
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:10
  25. To improve estimates of net primary production for terrestrial ecosystems of the continental United States, we evaluated a new image fusion technique to incorporate high resolution Landsat land cover data into...

    Authors: Steven Jay, Christopher Potter, Robert Crabtree, Vanessa Genovese, Daniel J. Weiss and Maggi Kraft
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:8
  26. Monitoring and managing carbon stocks in forested ecosystems requires accurate and repeatable quantification of the spatial distribution of wood volume at landscape to regional scales. Grid-based forest invent...

    Authors: Shaun R. Levick, Dominik Hessenmöller and E-Detlef Schulze
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:7
  27. The recent inclusion of the cocoa sector as an option for carbon storage necessitates the need to quantify the C stocks in cocoa systems of Ghana.

    Authors: Askia M. Mohammed, James S. Robinson, David Midmore and Anne Verhoef
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:6
  28. According to the post-2012 rules under the Kyoto protocol, developed countries that are signatories to the protocol have to estimate and report the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals from forest manag...

    Authors: Roberto Pilli, Giacomo Grassi, Werner A. Kurz, Raúl Abad Viñas and Nuria Hue Guerrero
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:5
  29. The focus of REDD+ is sensu stricto on maintaining forest carbon stocks. We extend the scope of sustainable management of forest from forests to timber utilization, and study carbon offsets resulting from the ...

    Authors: Tunggul Butarbutar, Michael Köhl and Prem Raj Neupane
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:4
  30. Spatially explicit forest carbon (C) monitoring aids conservation and climate change mitigation efforts, yet few approaches have been developed specifically for the highly heterogeneous landscapes of oceanic i...

    Authors: Gregory P. Asner, Sinan Sousan, David E. Knapp, Paul C. Selmants, Roberta E. Martin, R. Flint Hughes and Christian P. Giardina
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2016 11:1
  31. Remote sensing products can provide regular and consistent observations of the Earth´s surface to monitor and understand the condition and change of forest ecosystems and to inform estimates of terrestrial car...

    Authors: Vanessa S. Mascorro, Nicholas C. Coops, Werner A. Kurz and Marcela Olguín
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2015 10:30
  32. Participatory forest monitoring has been promoted as a means to engage local forest-dependent communities in concrete climate mitigation activities as it brings a sense of ownership to the communities and henc...

    Authors: Virpi Junttila, Basanta Gautam, Bhaskar Singh Karky, Almasi Maguya, Katri Tegel, Tuomo Kauranne, Katja Gunia, Jarno Hämäläinen, Petri Latva-Käyrä, Ekaterina Nikolaeva and Jussi Peuhkurinen
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2015 10:29
  33. Airborne laser scanning (ALS) has emerged as one of the most promising remote sensing technologies for estimating aboveground biomass (AGB) in forests. Use of ALS data in area-based forest inventories relies o...

    Authors: Ernest William Mauya, Liviu Theodor Ene, Ole Martin Bollandsås, Terje Gobakken, Erik Næsset, Rogers Ernest Malimbwi and Eliakimu Zahabu
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2015 10:28
  34. The success of satellites in mapping deforestation has been invaluable for improving our understanding of the impacts and nature of land cover change and carbon balance. However, current satellite approaches ...

    Authors: T. C. Hill, C. M. Ryan and M. Williams
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2015 10:27
  35. Net carbon sinks capable of avoiding dangerous perturbation of the climate system and preventing ocean acidification have been identified, but they are likely to be limited by resource constraints (Nature 463:...

    Authors: Brian J. Walsh, Felicjan Rydzak, Amanda Palazzo, Florian Kraxner, Mario Herrero, Peer M. Schenk, Philippe Ciais, Ivan A. Janssens, Josep Peñuelas, Anneliese Niederl-Schmidinger and Michael Obersteiner
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2015 10:26
  36. Accounting for carbon gains and losses in young-growth forests is a key part of carbon assessments. A common silvicultural practice in young forests is thinning to increase the growth rate of residual trees. H...

    Authors: David V. D’Amore, Kiva L. Oken, Paul A. Herendeen, E. Ashley Steel and Paul E. Hennon
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2015 10:25
  37. Efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in tropical Asia require accurate high-resolution mapping of forest carbon stocks and predictions of their likely future variation. Here we...

    Authors: Rajesh Bahadur Thapa, Takeshi Motohka, Manabu Watanabe and Masanobu Shimada
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2015 10:23
  38. In West Africa, natural ecosystems such as woodlands are the main source for energy, building poles and livestock fodder. They probably behave like net carbon sinks, but there are only few studies focusing on ...

    Authors: Expedit Evariste Ago, Dominique Serça, Euloge Kossi Agbossou, Sylvie Galle and Marc Aubinet
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2015 10:22
  39. Biomass and carbon estimation has become a priority in national and regional forest inventories. Biomass of individual trees is estimated using biomass equations. A covariance matrix for the parameters in a bi...

    Authors: Steen Magnussen and Oswaldo Ismael Carillo Negrete
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2015 10:21
  40. Refined estimation of carbon (C) stocks within forest ecosystems is a critical component of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate the effects of projected climate change through forest C mana...

    Authors: Matthew B. Russell, Grant M. Domke, Christopher W. Woodall and Anthony W. D’Amato
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2015 10:20
  41. Continental-scale aboveground biomass maps are increasingly available, but their estimates vary widely, particularly at high resolution. A comprehensive understanding of map discrepancies is required to improv...

    Authors: Wenli Huang, Anu Swatantran, Kristofer Johnson, Laura Duncanson, Hao Tang, Jarlath O’Neil Dunne, George Hurtt and Ralph Dubayah
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2015 10:19
  42. Anthropogenic uses of fire play a key role in regulating fire regimes in African savannas. These fires contribute the highest proportion of the globally burned area, substantial biomass burning emissions and t...

    Authors: Beatrice Tarimo, Øystein B Dick, Terje Gobakken and Ørjan Totland
    Citation: Carbon Balance and Management 2015 10:18

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