Modelling carbon stock and carbon sequestration ecosystem services for policy design: a comprehensive approach using a dynamic vegetation model

Quijas, Sandra; Boit, Alice; Thonicke, Kirsten; Murray-Tortarolo, Guillermo; Mwampamba, Tuyeni; Skutsch, Margaret; Simoes, Margareth; Ascarrunz, Nataly; Peña-Claros, Marielos; Jones, Laurence ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4379-9006; Arets, Eric; Jaramillo, Víctor J.; Lazos, Elena; Toledo, Marisol; Martorano, Lucieta G.; Ferraz, Rodrigo; Balvanera, Patricia. 2019 Modelling carbon stock and carbon sequestration ecosystem services for policy design: a comprehensive approach using a dynamic vegetation model. Ecosystems and People, 15 (1). 42-60. 10.1080/26395908.2018.1542413

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/26395908.2018.1542413

Abstract/Summary

Ecosystem service (ES) models can only inform policy design adequately if they incorporate ecological processes. We used the Lund-Potsdam-Jena managed Land (LPJmL) model, to address following questions for Mexico, Bolivia and Brazilian Amazon: (i) How different are C stocks and C sequestration quantifications under standard (when soil and litter C and heterotrophic respiration are not considered) and comprehensive (including all C stock and heterotrophic respiration) approach? and (ii) How does the valuation of C stock and C sequestration differ in national payments for ES and global C funds or markets when comparing both approach? We found that up to 65% of C stocks have not been taken into account by neglecting to include C stored in soil and litter, resulting in gross underpayments (up to 500 times lower). Since emissions from heterotrophic respiration of organic material offset a large proportion of C gained through growth of living matter, we found that markets and decision-makers are inadvertently overestimating up to 100 times C sequestrated. New approaches for modelling C services relevant ecological process-based can help accounting for C in soil, litter and heterotrophic respiration and become important for the operationalization of agreements on climate change mitigation following the COP21 in 2015.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1080/26395908.2018.1542413
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Soils and Land Use (Science Area 2017-)
ISSN:	2639-5916
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.
Additional Keywords:	carbon soil, carbon litter, heterotrophic respiration, payment for ecosystem services, global carbon markets, dynamic global vegetation model, decisionmakers
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment
Date made live:	06 Mar 2019 11:52 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/522306

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1080/26395908.2018.1542413

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Soils and Land Use (Science Area 2017-)

ISSN:

2639-5916

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.

Additional Keywords:

carbon soil, carbon litter, heterotrophic respiration, payment for ecosystem services, global carbon markets, dynamic global vegetation model, decisionmakers

NORA Subject Terms:

Ecology and Environment

Date made live:

06 Mar 2019 11:52 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/522306