Palmero-Barrachina et al. (2025): Estimating medium-term (40 years) carbon uptake in living biomass from Life Terra’s afforestation and reforestation actions: Challenges and recommendations

Jorge Palmero-Barrachina, Petr Blazek, Santi Sabaté, Teresa Sauras-Yera, Samuel Allasia-Grau, Daniel Nadal-Sala, Sven Kallen, Tiago de Santana, Emil Cienciala, IN: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2025.1586743

This study presents a comprehensive methodology for estimating potential biomass and carbon accumulation in European afforestation activities expected over a 40-year timespan, developed for the Life Terra project (LIFE19 CCM/NL/001200). The authors synthesized data from allometric equations, Yield tables, National Forest Inventories, and National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Reports across four European biogeographic regions: Alpine, Atlantic, Continental, and Mediterranean. While Life Terra encompasses six planting categories (ecological restoration, timber plantations, agroforestry/food forests, gardens, green infrastructure, and others), the analysis focused primarily on timber plantations due to data availability and reliability constraints.

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