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- B33D-08: Managed forests support higher carbon density and sequestration in the Congo basin
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Le Bienfaiteur Sagang Takougoum, University of California Los Angeles (First Author, Presenting Author)
Ricardo Dalagnol, CTrees
Stephanie George-Chacon, Ctrees
Samuel Favrichon, Gamma Remote Sensing
Shuang Li, CTrees
Fabien Wagner, Ecosystem Research Team, CTrees.org, Pasadena, California, USA
Zhihua Liu, CTrees
Dafeng Zhang, Brown University
Alfred Ngomanda, CENAREST
Vincent Medjibe, Independent Researcher
Bonaventure Sonké, University of Yaoundé
Nicolas Barbier, IRD Institute for Research and Development
Elsa Ordway, University of California Los Angeles
Dr. Sassan Saatchi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lee White, UK
The benefits provided by the Congo basin rainforest to both people and the planet are not guaranteed given rapid climate change and expanding human development in the region. Here we combined locally calibrated products to assess how forest land use affects aboveground live carbon storage and fluxes across the basin between 1990 and 2020. Managed forests supported higher carbon and sequestration in the region. Unmanaged forests nearly remained carbon neutral driven by the losses of intact forests. Almost half of the forest carbon storage in the region was found outside management, highly vulnerable to rapid carbon loss from unmanaged land use. Sustainable management of unmanaged forests is critical to secure the role of Congo basin rainforest in climate change mitigation.
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