Southern
Research Station

• Authors: Keyser, Tara
• Publication Year: 2011
• Publication Series: Book Chapter
• Source: Sustaining Young Forest Communities: Ecology and Management of Early Successional Habitats in the Central Hardwood Region, USA. Managing Forest Ecosystems Volume 21.

Abstract

Across a forested landscape, stand-level management actions or natural disturbances that create early successional habitats result in a short-term loss of carbon in any given stand, but are often offset by carbon gains in other, undisturbed stands. Standing carbon stocks and rates of sequestration vary with species, site productivity, stand age, and stand structure. The age distribution of forest stands has a particularly large effect on landscape-level carbon storage. Consequently, forest management activities, including creation of early successional habitats, have short-term implications for stand-level carbon storage, but their impact on forest- or landscapelevel carbon storage ultimately depends upon the temporal distribution and spatial scale of young forest stands on the landscape.

• Citation: Keyser, Tara L. 2011 Chapter 15 Carbon Dynamics Following the Creation of Early Successional Habitats in Forests of the Central Hardwood Region. In: C.H Greenberg et al. (eds.), Sustaining Young Forest Communities. Managing Forest Ecosystems 21, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1620-9_11, © US Government 2011. page 271-287
• Keywords: early successional habitat, Central Hardwood Region, forest landscape, stand-level, carbon, carbon stocks, sequestration, carbon storage, temporal, spatial, distribution
• Posted Date: March 30, 2022
• Modified Date: March 31, 2022

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