The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports two methods for the evaluation of changes in the carbon stock of living biomass in the Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry: 1) The default method requires the biomass carbon loss to be subtracted from the biomass carbon increment for the reporting year; 2) the stock change method requires two consecutive biomass carbon stock inventories for a given forest area at two points in time. The aim of this study was the estimate of changes in carbon stock and the related uncertainty in a Douglas fir plantation constituted by plots with different planting densities, monitored at ages 15, 25, 30 and 40. Three methods were used to estimate above-ground biomass: 1) application of allometric equations; 2) constant BEF (biomass expansion factor); 3) age-dependent BEF. Results showed that estimates based on allometric equations had the lowest uncertainty, whereas biomass estimated with the constant BEF had higher uncertainty than biomass estimated with age dependent BEFs. With a constant BEF it is usually difficult to obtain a reliable value for the whole tree biomass because stem proportion increases with tree size at the expense of the other components. The age dependent BEF saim to reduce the bias representing the actual change in stock. The default method had the highest uncertainty (38.3% - 51.3%) and gave an estimate 47% higher than the stock change method, that had an uncertainty ranging from 2.5% (estimated by allometric equation) to 3.9% (estimated by constant BEF).
Il Comitato Intergovernativo per i Cambiamenti Climatici(IPCC) ha riportato due metodi per la stima delle variazioni di stock di carbonio negli ecosistemi forestali (nella Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry). Il primo metodo è il cosiddetto “default method” e si applica attraverso la sottrazione delle perdite di carbonio dagli incrementi di carbonio per l’anno di riferimento; il secondo è lo “stock change method” e si applica sommando algebricamente gli stock di carbonio di due inventari consecutivi. In questo studio è stata stimata la variazione di carbonio e l’incertezza associata, in una piantagione di douglasia costituita da plot con diverse densità d’impianto e monitorata alle età 15, 25, 30 e 40. Sono stati utilizzati 3 metodi per la stima della biomassa epigea: 1) equazioni allometriche, 2) fattore di espan-sione della biomassa (BEF) costante e 3) BEF età-dipendenti. Le stime con equazioni allometriche hanno mostrato la minore incertezza, mentre quelle con BEF costante avevano un’incertezza maggiore rispetto alle stime con BEF età-dipendenti. Un BEF costante non riesce a rappresentare le variazioni di biomassa con l’età, poiché all’aumentare delle dimensioni dell’intera pianta il fusto aumenta a spese delle altre componenti. I BEF età dipendenti riducono tale errore riuscendo a rappresentare il cambiamento di stock nell’istante di valutazione. Il metodo default è stato applicato con la più alta incertezza (38.3% - 51.3%) e ha dato stime maggiori del 47% rispetto al metodo stock change, che ha mostrato invece incertezze molto basse, da 2.5% (stime con equazione allometrica) a 3.9% (stime con BEF costante).
A comparative study between “Default Method” and “Stock Change Method” of Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (IPCC, 2003) to evaluate carbon stock changes in Forest / Marziliano, P. A.; Veltri, A.; Menguzzato, G.; Pellicone, G.; Coletta, V.; Marziliano, Pasquale Antonio. - (2015), pp. 551-557. (Intervento presentato al convegno Second International Congress of Silviculture. Designing the future of the forestry sector. tenutosi a Firenze nel 26-29 Novembre 2014) [. http://dx.doi.org/10.4129/2cis-pam-com].
A comparative study between “Default Method” and “Stock Change Method” of Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (IPCC, 2003) to evaluate carbon stock changes in Forest.
MARZILIANO, Pasquale Antonio
2015-01-01
Abstract
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports two methods for the evaluation of changes in the carbon stock of living biomass in the Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry: 1) The default method requires the biomass carbon loss to be subtracted from the biomass carbon increment for the reporting year; 2) the stock change method requires two consecutive biomass carbon stock inventories for a given forest area at two points in time. The aim of this study was the estimate of changes in carbon stock and the related uncertainty in a Douglas fir plantation constituted by plots with different planting densities, monitored at ages 15, 25, 30 and 40. Three methods were used to estimate above-ground biomass: 1) application of allometric equations; 2) constant BEF (biomass expansion factor); 3) age-dependent BEF. Results showed that estimates based on allometric equations had the lowest uncertainty, whereas biomass estimated with the constant BEF had higher uncertainty than biomass estimated with age dependent BEFs. With a constant BEF it is usually difficult to obtain a reliable value for the whole tree biomass because stem proportion increases with tree size at the expense of the other components. The age dependent BEF saim to reduce the bias representing the actual change in stock. The default method had the highest uncertainty (38.3% - 51.3%) and gave an estimate 47% higher than the stock change method, that had an uncertainty ranging from 2.5% (estimated by allometric equation) to 3.9% (estimated by constant BEF).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.