Schlagwort: carbon sequestration

Peer-reviewed Publications

Banerjee et al. (2026): Carbon Sequestration Potentials and Land Management Approaches Along the Fringes of the Mangrove Forest in the Indian Sundarbans

Sinchan Banerjee, Abhisek Santra, Tuhin Bhadra, Roshan Das, Rupayan Sardar, Soumak Roy, Kasturi Mukherjee and Abinit Saha, IN: Springer Nature, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-00704-9_18

The Sundarbans, a complex coastal mangrove ecosystem, is important for climate change mitigation because it has a significant potential to sequester carbon. The study aims to evaluate the stored and potential threats to blue carbon stocks along the fringe areas of the Indian Sundarbans and to propose effective land management strategies to conserve and restore these stocks. This research used historical data, field measurements, remote sensing data, and different modeling techniques to quantify carbon stocks and project future scenarios.

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Dong et al. (2026): Enhancing carbon sinks in China using a spatially-optimized forestation strategy

Yanli Dong, Zhen Yu, Thomas Pugh, Evgenios Agathokleous, Fangmin Zhang, Stephen Sitch, Weibin You, Wangya Han, Stefan Olin, Shirong Liu, Guoyi Zhou, Pedro Cabral and Pengsen Sun, IN: Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-68288-5

China plans expanding 49.5 million hectares of new forests by 2050 to strengthen carbon sequestration. However, estimates of the carbon benefits from this expansion rarely consider the effect of ‘forest edge’, where tree mortality increases under intensified stress from wind, drought, pests, and fire. Here the authors show that proximity to forest edges substantially reduces biomass carbon storage, and develop a spatial optimization strategy that prioritizes planting in areas that minimize edge effects.

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Abubakari & Abubakari (2025): Carbon Sequestration in Ghana: Challenges, Opportunities and Policy Implications

Fariya Abubakari and Farida Abubakari, IN: International Journal of Environment and Climate Change, https://doi.org/10.9734/ijecc/2025/v15i125202

Ghana is increasingly affected by deforestation, land degradation, agricultural expansion, mining, and urbanisation, leading to significant carbon losses and growing vulnerability to climate change. Carbon sequestration has emerged as an important nature-based solution for climate change mitigation while supporting sustainable land management and livelihoods. Although Ghana hosts diverse ecosystems—including forests, savannahs, wetlands, agroforestry systems, and agricultural soils—evidence on their carbon sequestration potential and the effectiveness of related policy interventions remains fragmented. This review provides a timely synthesis to support informed decision-making and national climate commitments.
Objectives of the Study: The objectives are to evaluate the carbon sequestration potential of Ghana’s major ecosystems, identify key drivers of carbon loss, assess existing policies and institutional frameworks supporting carbon sequestration, and synthesise challenges, opportunities, and policy-relevant recommendations.
Methodology: A systematic review of peer-reviewed literature, national policy documents, and international reports was conducted. The analysis integrates biophysical evidence on ecosystem carbon storage with socio-economic drivers and governance mechanisms, including REDD+, agroforestry, conservation agriculture, and wetland restoration.

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Peer-reviewed Publications

Kiziridis et al. (2026): Agroforestry Optimisation for Climate Policy: Mapping Silvopastoral Carbon Sequestration Trade-Offs in the Mediterranean

Diogenis A. Kiziridis, Ilias Karmiris and Dimitrios Fotakis, IN: Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.3390/su18010439

Effective implementation of silvopastoralism, a key Nature-Based Solution for Europe’s climate goals, is hindered by a lack of decision-support tools clarifying trade-offs between efficiency and extent of carbon sequestration. To address this, the authors developed a multi-objective scenario analysis (4064 scenarios) to identify optimal strategies for silvopastoral expansion across the EU27 Mediterranean bioregion.

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Peer-reviewed Publications

Amoah et al. (2025): AI-powered measurement verification and reporting system for agroforestry trees to estimate carbon sequestration potential

Edward Idun Amoah, Peter McCloskey, Rimnoma Serge Ouedraogo, John Chelal, Chelsea Akuleut, Binti Ibrahim Mwambumba, Brian Kipchirchir Meli, Christabel Akinyi Oyugi, et al., IN: Carbon Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/27658511.2025.2607826

This study presents the DiameterAlgorithm, a non-contact method for tree diameter estimation using semantic segmentation and two-dimensional photogrammetry.

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Yang et al. (2025): Spatial distributions, driving factors, and future changes of soil organic carbon in China: arid regions vs. humid regions

Bin Yang, Shihang Zhang and Xiaoguo Wang, IN: Nature – Scientific Reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-32482-0

Soil carbon sequestration is of great significance for achieving China’s 2060 carbon neutrality goal. However, differences in carbon sequestration between arid and humid regions remain unclear. Here, based on the Chinese terrestrial ecosystems carbon density dataset, this study employed the random forest (RF) model to map soil organic carbon density (SOCD) (1 km × 1 km) in arid and humid regions, and assessed the spatial uncertainty.

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Peer-reviewed Publications

Buzacott et al. (2025): Afforestation-Related Fertilisation Quickly Turns Barren Cutaway Peatland Into a Carbon Dioxide Sink

Alexander J. V. Buzacott, Kari Laasasenaho, Risto Lauhanen, Kari Minkkinen, Paavo Ojanen, Gopal Adhikari, Liisa Jokelainen, Lassi Päkkilä, Hannu Marttila, Annalea Lohila, IN: Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70644

Energy peat extraction has declined rapidly in Europe in recent years, leaving thousands of hectares of land requiring after-use management and planning. A popular after-use option, afforestation, is understudied and there is a limited understanding of its overall effect on greenhouse gas (GHG) and energy exchange. In this study, the authors present a multi-year record of eddy covariance fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO₂), energy fluxes and surface albedo, chamber measurements of methane (CH₄) and N₂O, and estimates of lateral carbon (C) losses from dissolved organic carbon (DOC) measurements from a cutaway peatland in Finland during the first 3 years of afforestation.

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Hou et al. (2025): Ecological regime shifts weaken sedimentary carbon sequestration in shallow Lake Liangzi

Jinglin Hou, Qi Lin, Jiasheng Zhang, Shixin Huang, Yuan Jin, Yanhua Wang, Haibo He, Pierre Taillardat, David Taylor, Ke Zhang and Michael E. Meadows, IN: Water Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2025.125173

Lakes, though covering a minor fraction of Earth’s land surface, are disproportionately important in global carbon cycling and greenhouse gas emissions. Yet how the capacity of sedimentary carbon burial responds to ecological regime shifts remains poorly understood. Here, the authors reconstruct two centuries of organic carbon (OC) dynamics in Lake Liangzi, a large shallow lake in the middle Yangtze basin, by integrating sediment OC burial rates, stable carbon isotope-based source apportionment (MixSIAR), fluorescence characterization of dissolved organic matter (DOM) using EEM-PARAFAC, and molecular-level analysis using FT-ICR MS.

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Peer-reviewed Publications

Loss of vegetation functions during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

Rogger et al. (2025): Loss of vegetation functions during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

Julian Rogger, Vera A. Korasidis, Gabriel J. Bowen, Christine A. Shields, Taras V. Gerya & Loïc Pellissier, IN: Nature Communications, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-66390-8

The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) around 56 million years ago was a 5–6°C global warming event that lasted for approximately 200 kyr. A warming-induced loss and a 70–100 kyr lagged recovery of biospheric carbon stocks was suggested to have contributed to the long duration of the climate perturbation. Here, the authors use a trait-based, eco-evolutionary vegetation model to test whether the PETM warming exceeded the adaptation capacity of vegetation systems, impacting the efficiency of terrestrial organic carbon sequestration and silicate weathering.

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Li et al. (2025): Carbon sequestration and tourist land use dynamics: Understanding the effects of urbanization and afforestation

Siyu Li, Muhammad Haseeb, Zainab Tahir, Syed Amer Mahmood, Yahia Said, Nazih Y. Rebouh, Sajid Ullah & Aqil Tariq,IN: Scientific Reports, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-30124-z

Achieving net-zero emissions and combating climate change relies on effective carbon sequestration, with forests as critical carbon sinks. This study examines the impact of land use and land cover (LULC) changes on carbon sequestration from 1993 to 2023. LULC classification was performed using a supervised decision tree classifier on Landsat imagery (1993, 2003, 2013, 2023), and carbon storage was quantified using the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) carbon model (v3.14.1), incorporating four carbon pools (aboveground, belowground, soil, and dead organic matter).

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