Forest Inventory: The Monitoring of Biomass and Carbon Stocks

Dear Colleagues,

Forests act as carbon sinks, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in biomass and soil. Therefore, the monitoring biomass and carbon stocks is crucial for our understanding of the capacity of forests to mitigate climate change, our ability to assess the health of forests, and their ability to sustain biodiversity, as well as being crucial in terms of helping governments and international organizations to formulate policies for forest conservation, sustainable land use, and climate change mitigation. This Special Issue aims to explore the critical role of forest inventory in assessing and managing biomass and carbon stocks. Meanwhile, this it also seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and promote advancements in forest inventory methodologies for the effective management of biomass and carbon stocks. Research articles, review papers, and case studies on the following potential topics are all welcome. 

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Modeling approaches for forest carbon stock estimation;
• The integration of field and remote sensing data in monitoring biomass and carbon stocks;
• Predictions of forest carbon stocks and climate change mitigation potential;
• Methodologies and standards for accounting for forest carbon stocks and changes;
• Temporal and spatial dynamic variation characteristics and research methods of forest ecosystem carbon storage;
• Future trends of forest carbon storage under different scenarios;
• Identification of challenges and gaps in current monitoring and assessment practices.

Prof. Dr. Tianxiang Yue
Dr. Zhe Xu
Dr. Zong Wang
Guest Editors

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• forest inventory
• biomass assessment
• carbon stocks
• monitoring techniques
• remote sensing
• data fusion
• climate change mitigation
• forest carbon dynamics
• biodiversity conservation
• policy implications