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Logging emissions from a Forest Stewardship Council certified forest in Guyana
Carbon Management, Vol.15(1), pp.1-11
2024
Abstract
Logging is a dominant land-use activity across the tropics and a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. This study quantifies emissions from selective logging in a Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified concession in Guyana that includes carbon in extracted logs, tree carbon left in the forest, and incidental tree mortality caused by felling and logging infrastructure. We also estimate carbon emissions from sawmilling of round logs. Emissions from harvested trees from stump to mill gate were 8.44 Mg CO2 m-3 (131.96 Mg CO2 ha-1). The main sources of emissions were from trees killed during felling (34%) and unextracted biomass of harvested trees (32%). On average, 15.5% of the harvested tree biomass and 43% of the log biomass was converted to sawn lumber (0.78 Mg CO2 m-3 of round log volume). We find similar levels of logging emissions in our study with those reported for non-FSC concessions in Guyana (8.54 Mg CO2 m-3) and Suriname (8.94 Mg CO2 m-3) but higher in two FSC-certified concessions in Suriname (6.65 Mg CO2 m-3). Adopting forest management practices that reduce residual stand mortality from felling and improved milling technology to reduce wood waste will help meet future demand for wood products and support climate mitigation goals.
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- Title
- Logging emissions from a Forest Stewardship Council certified forest in Guyana
- Authors
- Anand Roopsind (Corresponding Author) - Conservation InternationalKen Rodney (Author) - Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and DevelopmentLinsford Lagoudou (Author) - Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and DevelopmentFrancis E. Putz (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Forest Research Institute
- Publication details
- Carbon Management, Vol.15(1), pp.1-11
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1080/17583004.2024.2378740
- ISSN
- 1758-3012; 1758-3004
- Copyright note
- © 2024 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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- Data files will be stored on Dryad with associated DOI.
- Grant note
- NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC); National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)
- Organisation Unit
- Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991060768402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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