Carbon Stock Changes in Soil and Aboveground Biomass from House Lot Development in King County, Washington, USA英文文献资料.docVIP

Open Journal of Forestry 2012. Vol.2, No.1, 1-8 Published Online January 2012 in SciRes (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojf) /10.4236/ojf.2012.21001 Carbon Stock Changes in Soil and Aboveground Biomass from House Lot Development in King County, Washington, USA Stephen Porder , Deborah Lipson , Robert Harrison 1 2 3 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, USA 1 2 Center for Environmental Studies, Brown University, Providence, USA 3 College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Email: stephen_porder@ Received November 28 , 2011; revised December 28 , 2011; accepted January 6 , 2012 th th th Fossil fuel burning and deforestation have driven dramatic increases in atmospheric CO2 since the indus- trial revolution. However, forests in the northern temperate region sequester a substantial (~0.6 Pg·yr –1 ) amount of carbon (C), largely through the regrowth of secondary forests that were originally cleared for timber over one hundred years ago. In the United States, however, some regions are approaching a maxi- mum regrowth as forests are cleared again, this time for suburban and exurban development. Here we ex- plore the effects of such development on C stocks in King County, WA, an area with high forest cover but rapid suburban expansion. We measured soil and biomass C on 18 paired-house/forest lots, and found house lots stored ~80 Mg·C·ha less soil C, and between 130 and 280 Mg·C·ha less above-ground bio- –1 –1 mass C than adjacent forest lots. Combining soil C losses with estimates of C emissions from forest products yields average C