TY - JOUR
T1 - Carbon recovery dynamics following disturbance by selective logging in amazonian forests
AU - Piponiot, Camille
AU - Sist, Plinio
AU - Mazzei, Lucas
AU - Peña-Claros, Marielos
AU - Putz, Francis E.
AU - Rutishauser, Ervan
AU - Shenkin, Alexander
AU - Ascarrunz, Nataly
AU - de Azevedo, Celso P.
AU - Baraloto, Christopher
AU - França, Mabiane
AU - Guedes, Marcelino
AU - Coronado, Eurídice N.Honorio
AU - d’Oliveira, Marcus V.N.
AU - Ruschel, Ademir R.
AU - da Silva, Kátia E.
AU - Sotta, Eleneide Doff
AU - de Souza, Cintia R.
AU - Vidal, Edson
AU - West, Thales A.P.
AU - Hérault, Bruno
N1 - Funding Information:
We are in debt with all technicians and colleagues who helped setting up the plots and collecting data over years. Without their precious work, this study would have not been possible and they may be warmly thanked here. We are grateful to CIRAD, the GFclim project (FEDER 2014?2020, Project GY0006894) and the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP: 2013/16262?4 and 2013/50718?5) for financial support. This study was partially funded by an Investissement d?Avenir grant of the ANR (CEBA: ANR-10-LABEX-0025) and carried out in the framework of the Tropical managed Forests Observatory (TmFO), supported by the Sentinel Landscape program of CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) - Forest Tree and Agroforestry Research Program.
Publisher Copyright:
© Piponiot et al.
PY - 2016/12/20
Y1 - 2016/12/20
N2 - When 2 Mha of Amazonian forests are disturbed by selective logging each year, more than 90 Tg of carbon (C) is emitted to the atmosphere. Emissions are then counterbalanced by forest regrowth. With an original modelling approach, calibrated on a network of 133 permanent forest plots (175 ha total) across Amazonia, we link regional differences in climate, soil and initial biomass with survivors’ and recruits’ C fluxes to provide Amazon-wide predictions of post-logging C recovery. We show that net aboveground C recovery over 10 years is higher in the Guiana Shield and in the west (21 ± 3 Mg C ha−1) than in the south (12 ± 3 Mg C ha−1) where environmental stress is high (low rainfall, high seasonality). We highlight the key role of survivors in the forest regrowth and elaborate a comprehensive map of post-disturbance C recovery potential in Amazonia.
AB - When 2 Mha of Amazonian forests are disturbed by selective logging each year, more than 90 Tg of carbon (C) is emitted to the atmosphere. Emissions are then counterbalanced by forest regrowth. With an original modelling approach, calibrated on a network of 133 permanent forest plots (175 ha total) across Amazonia, we link regional differences in climate, soil and initial biomass with survivors’ and recruits’ C fluxes to provide Amazon-wide predictions of post-logging C recovery. We show that net aboveground C recovery over 10 years is higher in the Guiana Shield and in the west (21 ± 3 Mg C ha−1) than in the south (12 ± 3 Mg C ha−1) where environmental stress is high (low rainfall, high seasonality). We highlight the key role of survivors in the forest regrowth and elaborate a comprehensive map of post-disturbance C recovery potential in Amazonia.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85009410544&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.7554/eLife.21394
DO - 10.7554/eLife.21394
M3 - Article
C2 - 27993185
AN - SCOPUS:85009410544
SN - 2050-084X
VL - 5
JO - eLife
JF - eLife
IS - DECEMBER2016
M1 - e21394
ER -
