Effects of national ecological restoration projects on carbon sequestration in China from 2001 to 2010

• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1700294115
• Publication Date: 2018-04-17T15:01:01Z
• Authors: Fei Lu; Huifeng Hu; Wenjuan Sun; Jiaojun Zhu; Guobin Liu; Wangming Zhou; Quanfa Zhang; Peili Shi; Xiuping Liu; Xing Wu; Lu Zhang; Xiaohua Wei; Limin Dai; Kerong Zhang; Yirong Sun; Sha Xue; Wanjun Zhang; Dingpeng Xiong; Lei Deng; Bojie Liu; Li Zhou; Chao Zhang; Xiao Zheng; Jiansheng Cao; Yao Huang; Nianpeng He; Guoyi Zhou; Yongfei Bai; Zongqiang Xie; Zhiyao Tang; Bingfang Wu; Jingyun Fang; Guohua Liu; Guirui Yu
• Keywords: Restoration Ecology; Carbon fibers

The long-term stressful utilization of forests and grasslands has led to ecosystem degradation C loss. Since the late 1970s China launched six key national ecological restoration projects protect its environment restore degraded ecosystems. Here, we conducted a large-scale field investigation literature survey biomass soil in China's forest, shrubland, grassland ecosystems across regions where were implemented (∼16% country's land area). We investigated changes stocks these evaluate contributions sink between 2001 2010. Over this decade, estimated that total annual project region was 132 Tg per y (1 = 1012 g), over half which (74 y, 56%) attributed implementation projects. Our results demonstrate have substantially contributed CO2 mitigation China.