IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/nature/v553y2018i7686d10.1038_nature25138.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass

Author

Listed:
  • Karl-Heinz Erb

    (Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt-Vienna-Graz)

  • Thomas Kastner

    (Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt-Vienna-Graz
    Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F))

  • Christoph Plutzar

    (Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt-Vienna-Graz
    Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Ecology, University of Vienna)

  • Anna Liza S. Bais

    (Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt-Vienna-Graz)

  • Nuno Carvalhais

    (Max Planck Institut für Biogeochemie
    CENSE, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)

  • Tamara Fetzel

    (Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt-Vienna-Graz)

  • Simone Gingrich

    (Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt-Vienna-Graz)

  • Helmut Haberl

    (Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt-Vienna-Graz)

  • Christian Lauk

    (Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt-Vienna-Graz)

  • Maria Niedertscheider

    (Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt-Vienna-Graz)

  • Julia Pongratz

    (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)

  • Martin Thurner

    (Stockholm University
    Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University)

  • Sebastiaan Luyssaert

    (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Abstract

Analyses of potential and actual biomass stocks indicate that trade-offs exist between conserving carbon stocks on managed land and raising the contribution of biomass to raw material and energy supply for the mitigation of climate change.

Suggested Citation

  • Karl-Heinz Erb & Thomas Kastner & Christoph Plutzar & Anna Liza S. Bais & Nuno Carvalhais & Tamara Fetzel & Simone Gingrich & Helmut Haberl & Christian Lauk & Maria Niedertscheider & Julia Pongratz & , 2018. "Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass," Nature, Nature, vol. 553(7686), pages 73-76, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:553:y:2018:i:7686:d:10.1038_nature25138
    DOI: 10.1038/nature25138
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25138
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/nature25138?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:553:y:2018:i:7686:d:10.1038_nature25138. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.