We investigate the flux balance of managed and protected forests and the effects of using wood.
– Flux parameters of CO2 uptake and respiration do not differ between managed and protected forests.
– Accounting of harvest as immediate emission by IPCC guidelines results in a bias of forest climate mitigation towards storage and neglects the avoidance of fossil-fuel use by wood use.
Bioenergy; Climate; Carbon cycle; Wood-use for products and energy; Carbon storage; Atmospheric carbon dioxide; Biodiversity
Schulze, E.D., Bouriaud, O., Irslinger, R. et al. The role of wood harvest from sustainably managed forests in the carbon cycle. Annals of Forest Science 79, 17 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-022-01127-x
Data and/or Code availability
The datasets generated in this study are available from the corresponding author on request.