Carbon Balance of Forest Biomes

Griffith, Howard; Jarvis, Paul

• 1. The Global Imperative and Policy for Carbon Sequestration. 2. Role of Forest Biomes in the Global Carbon Balance. 3. Carbon Sequestration in European Croplands. 4. Estimating Forest and Other Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes at a National Scale: the UK Experience. 5. Regional-Scale Estimates of Forest CO2 and Isotope Flux Based on Monthly CO2 Budgets of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer. 6. Regional Measurement and Modelling of Carbon Balances. 7. The Potential for Rising CO2 to Account for the Observed Uptake of Carbon by Tropical, Temperate and Boreal Forest Biomes. 8. Measurement of CO2 exchange between Boreal Forest and the Atmosphere. 9. Carbon Exchange of Decidous Broadleaved Forests in Temperature and Mediterranean Regions. 10. The Carbon Balance of the Tropical Forest Biome. 11. The Carbon Balance of Forest Soils: Detectability of Changes in Soil Carbon Stocks in Temperate and Boreal Forests. 12. Fractional Contributions Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Respiration to Soil-surface CO2 Efflux in Boreal Forests. 13. Trace Gas and Contributions of Peatlands to Global Warming Potential. 14. Contribution of Trace Gases Nitrous Oxide (N2O) and Methane (CH4) to the Atmospheric Warming Balance of Forest Biomes. 15. Effects of Reforestation, Deforestation and Afforestation on Carbon Storage in Soils. 16. Carbon Forestry.