Silvicultural Interventions Drive the Changes in Soil Organic Carbon in Romanian Forests According to Two Model Simulations
Blujdea, Viorel N. B., Viskari, Toni, Kulmala, Liisa, Gârbacea, George, Dutcă, Ioan, Miclăuș, Mihaela, Marin, Gheorghe and Liski, Jari (2021) Silvicultural Interventions Drive the Changes in Soil Organic Carbon in Romanian Forests According to Two Model Simulations. Forests, 12 (6). e795. ISSN 1999-4907
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Abstract
We investigated the effects of forest management on the carbon (C) dynamics in Romanian forest soils, using two model simulations: CBM-CFS3 and Yasso15. Default parametrization of the models and harmonized litterfall simulated by CBM provided satisfactory results when compared to observed data from National Forest Inventory (NFI). We explored a stratification approach to investigate the improvement of soil C prediction. For stratification on forest types only, the NRMSE (i.e., normalized RMSE of simulated vs. NFI) was approximately 26%, for both models; the NRMSE values reduced to 13% when stratification was done based on climate only. Assuming the continuation of the current forest management practices for a period of 50 years, both models simulated a very small C sink during simulation period (0.05 MgC ha−1 yr−1). Yet, a change towards extensive forest management practices would yield a constant, minor accumulation of soil C, while more intensive practices would yield a constant, minor loss of soil C. For the maximum wood supply scenario (entire volume increment is removed by silvicultural interventions during the simulated period) Yasso15 resulted in larger emissions (−0.3 MgC ha−1 yr−1) than CBM (−0.1 MgC ha−1 yr−1). Under ‘no interventions’ scenario, both models simulated a stable accumulation of C which was, nevertheless, larger in Yasso15 (0.35 MgC ha−1 yr−1) compared to CBM-CSF (0.18 MgC ha−1 yr−1). The simulation of C stock change showed a strong “start-up” effect during the first decade of the simulation, for both models, explained by the difference in litterfall applied to each scenario compared to the spinoff scenario. Stratification at regional scale based on climate and forest types, represented a reasonable spatial stratification, that improved the prediction of soil C stock and stock change.
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| Additional Information: | ** From MDPI via Jisc Publications Router ** History: accepted 13-06-2021; pub-electronic 16-06-2021. ** Licence for this article: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | model intercomparison, CBM-CFS3, Yasso15, silvicultural scenarios, litterfall dynamic |
| SWORD Depositor: | JISC Router |
| Depositing User: | JISC Router |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jul 2021 08:04 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2021 08:04 |
| URI: | https://bnu.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/18313 |
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