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Terrestrial Biospheric Carbon Fluxes Quantification of Sinks and Sources of CO2

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  • © 1993

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  1. Joe Wisniewski

    1. Wisniewski & Associates, Inc., Falls Church, USA

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  2. R. Neil Sampson

    1. American Forests, USA

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Table of contents (46 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Workshop Summary Statement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Workshop Summary Statement: Terrestrial Bioshperic Carbon Fluxes Quantification of Sinks and Sources of CO2

      • R. Neil Sampson, Michael Apps, Sandra Brown, C. Vernon Cole, John Downing, Linda S. Heath et al.
      Pages 3-15

  3. Workshop Working Group Papers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. The Global Terrestrial Carbon Cycle

      • T. M. Smith, W. P. Cramer, R. K. Dixon, R. Leemans, R. P. Neilson, A. M. Solomon
      Pages 19-37

    3. Boreal Forests and Tundra

      • M. J. Apps, W. A. Kurz, R. J. Luxmoore, L. O. Nilsson, R. A. Sedjo, R. Schmidt et al.
      Pages 39-53

    4. Contribution of Temperate Forests to the World’s Carbon Budget

      • Linda S. Heath, Pekka E. Kauppi, Peter Burschel, Heinz-Detlev Gregor, Robert Guderian, Gundolf H. Kohlmaier et al.
      Pages 55-69

    5. Tropical Forests: Their Past, Present, and Potential Future Role in the Terrestrial Carbon Budget

      • Sandra Brown, Charles A. S. Hall, Wilhelm Knabe, James Raich, Mark C. Trexler, Paul Woomer
      Pages 71-94

    6. Assessment of C Budget for Grasslands and Drylands of the World

      • Dennis S. Ojima, Bjørn O. M. Dirks, Edward P. Glenn, Clenton E. Owensby, Jonathan O. Scurlock
      Pages 95-109

    7. Agricultural Sources and Sinks of Carbon

      • C. Vernon Cole, Klaus Flach, Jeffrey Lee, Dieter Sauerbeck, Bobby Stewart
      Pages 111-122

    8. Land and Water Interface Zones

      • John P. Downing, Michel Meybeck, James C. Orr, R. R. Twilley, H-W. Scharpenseel
      Pages 123-137

    9. Biomass Management and Energy

      • R. Neil Sampson, Lynn L. Wright, Jack K. Winjum, John D. Kinsman, John Benneman, Ernst Kürsten et al.
      Pages 139-159

  4. Workshop Research Presentations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
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    2. Forest Systems

      1. Contribution of Northern Forests to the Global C Cycle: Canada as a Case Study
        • Werner A. Kurz, Michael J. Apps
        Pages 163-176
      2. Carbon Sequestration in Norway Spruce in South Sweden as Influenced by Air Pollution, Water Availability, and Fertilization
        • Lars Owe Nilsson
        Pages 177-186
      3. Impact of Forests on Net National Emissions of Carbon Dioxide in West Europe
        • P. E. Kauppi, E. Tomppo
        Pages 187-196
      4. The Potential Aboveground Carbon Storage of North American Forests
        • Lloyd G. Simpson, Daniel B. Botkin, Robert A. Nisbet
        Pages 197-205
      5. Comparison of Two Methods to Assess the Carbon Budget of Forest Biomes in the Former Soviet Union
        • Tatyana P. Kolchugina, Ted S. Vinson
        Pages 207-221
      6. Pools and Fluxes of Biogenic Carbon in the Former Soviet Union
        • Ted S. Vinson, Tatyana P. Kolchugina
        Pages 223-237
      7. Forest Management and Carbon Storage: An Analysis of 12 Key Forest Nations
        • Jack K. Winjum, Robert K. Dixon, Paul E. Schroeder
        Pages 239-257
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Towards the Balance and Management of the Carbon Budget of the Biosphere The current state of misunderstanding of the global C cycle and our failure to resolve an issue that has been debated for 100 years (Jones and Henderson-Sellers, 1990) speaks loudly about the limitations of modem science when faced with the complexity of the biosphere. Efforts to understand and balance the global C budget have gone through several phases. First was a holistic view of the C budget as part of efforts to understand the geochemistry of the Earth (e. g. , Clarke, 1908). Next, came a period of data collection and sythesis which focused on the diversity of sectors of the biosphere. This phase culminated in the early 1970's with the realization that humans were greatly impacting the global C cycle as measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory (Keeling et al. , 1973). New syntheses of the global C budget emerged at this time (Woodwell and Pacan, 1973; Bolin et al. , 1979). The next phase was one of controversy and intense focus on particular sectors of the biosphere. The controversy rested on discrepancies about the role of the terrestrial biota in the global C cycle and the failure to account for sufficient C sinks to absorb all the C emitted by land-use change in the tropics (Woodwell et al. , 1978, 1983; Houghton et al. , 1983).

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  • Wisniewski & Associates, Inc., Falls Church, USA

    Joe Wisniewski

  • American Forests, USA

    R. Neil Sampson

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