Future climate impacts on forest growth and implications for carbon sequestration through reforestation in southeast Australia

• Published in: Journal of environmental management Vol. 302; no. Pt A; p. 113964
• Main Authors: Wang, Bin, Waters, Cathy, Anwar, Muhuddin Rajin, Cowie, Annette, Liu, De Li, Summers, David, Paul, Keryn, Feng, Puyu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 15.01.2022
• Subjects: 3-PG model; aboveground biomass; AGB; Australia; Biomass; carbon dioxide; Carbon Sequestration; climate; Climate Change; Climate Models; CO2 fertilization; environmental management; environmental policy; forest growth; Forests; GCMs; rain; reforestation; temperature; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Australia; Climate change; 3-PG model; GCMs; AGB; CO2 fertilization; CO fertilization

Reforestation is identified as one of the key nature-based solutions to deliver carbon dioxide removal, which will be required to achieve the net zero ambition of the Paris Agreement. However, the potential for sequestration through reforestation is uncertain because climate change is expected to af...