Schlagwort: carbon sequestration

Peer-reviewed Publications

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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Peer-reviewed Publications

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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Peer-reviewed Publications

Hailu et al. (2025): Evaluation of selected grass species for soil and water conservation, and carbon sequestration under farmland at Jimma Zone, southwestern Ethiopia

Leta Hailu, Gizaw Tesfaye, Wondimagegn Teka, Yalemstehay Debebe, Adugna Bayata, IN: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2025.1552901

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of different grass species on soil and water conservation and carbon sequestration at a farmland in Jimma, Ethiopia. The experiment was set out as a randomized complete block design with three replications. The treatments were vetiver grass (Chrysopogon zizanioides L.), Desho grass (Pennisetum pedicellatum), Phalaris grass (Phalaris arundinacea L.) hedgerows, and the control (plots without grass). Soil erosion monitoring pins were installed, and the data were collected every 15 days. Soil samples were collected at 20 cm intervals in the top 100 cm before the grass hedgerows’ establishment and after harvesting seasons in December (2016–2019 G.C.). Fresh and oven-dry matter biomass (shoot and root) data were measured. The collected soil samples and grass biomass analysis for carbon fraction were determined following Black and Wakely (1934) and the loss on ignition standard procedure methods, respectively. Pin heights and soil moisture data were analyzed using R software.

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Suárez et al. (2025): Impact of cacao-based agroforestry systems carbon storage in above-ground biomass and necromass in the Colombian Amazon

Juan Carlos Suárez, Diana Yarledy Cruz-Cerón & Hernán J. Andrade, IN: Agroforestry Systems, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-025-01381-8

Cacao-based agroforestry systems (cAFS) represent a sustainable land use that enhances carbon storage in aboveground biomass, particularly in degraded pasture areas of the Amazon. This study estimated carbon storage across different land use systems in the Colombian Amazon, including cAFS, full-sun cocoa plantations, forests, and degraded pastures.

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