Chapter 4 Community and Ecosystem Ecology

Forests make up 45% of terrestrial carbon (Bonan 2008; Stovall, Anderson-Teixeira, and Shugart 2018). The amount of carbon held in by trees can have a negative impact due to the emissions that are released into the air caused by deforestation. The rise in carbon emissions is attributed to the rise in tree mortality.

References

Bonan, Gordon. 2008. Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests. Vol. 320. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1155121.

Stovall, Atticus E. L., Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, and Herman H. Shugart. 2018. “Assessing Terrestrial Laser Scanning for Developing Non-Destructive Biomass Allometry.” Forest Ecology and Management 427 (November): 217–29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.06.004.