Global tree cover and biomass carbon on agricultural land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research institute
cg.contributor.affiliationChinese Academy of Sciences
cg.contributor.affiliationWorld Agroforestry Centre
cg.contributor.affiliationRoyal Botanic Gardens, London
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationEuro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Sassari
cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University & Research
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.contributor.crpForests, Trees and Agroforestry
cg.coverage.countryArgentina
cg.coverage.countryBrazil
cg.coverage.countryChina
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.countryIndonesia
cg.coverage.countryMyanmar
cg.coverage.countrySierra Leone
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2AR
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BR
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2CN
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ID
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2MM
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2SL
cg.coverage.regionSouth America
cg.coverage.regionEastern Asia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asia
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.edition6
cg.howPublishedFormally Published
cg.identifier.dataurlhttp://www.worldagroforestry.org/global-tree-cover/data-download.htmlen
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1038/srep29987
cg.identifier.projectCCAFS: FP3_SAMPLES
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.issn2045-2322
cg.issue1
cg.journalScientific Reports
cg.number29987
cg.reviewStatusPeer Review
cg.subject.ccafsLOW EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENT
cg.volume6
dc.contributor.authorZomer, Robert J.
dc.contributor.authorNeufeldt, Henry
dc.contributor.authorXu, Jianchu
dc.contributor.authorAhrends, Antje
dc.contributor.authorBossio, Deborah A.
dc.contributor.authorTrabucco, Antonio
dc.contributor.authorNoordwijk, Meine van
dc.contributor.authorWang, Mingcheng
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-27T13:06:00Zen
dc.date.available2016-07-27T13:06:00Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/76292
dc.titleGlobal tree cover and biomass carbon on agricultural land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgetsen
dcterms.abstractAgroforestry systems and tree cover on agricultural land make an important contribution to climate change mitigation, but are not systematically accounted for in either global carbon budgets or national carbon accounting. This paper assesses the role of trees on agricultural land and their significance for carbon sequestration at a global level, along with recent change trends. Remote sensing data show that in 2010, 43% of all agricultural land globally had at least 10% tree cover and that this has increased by 2% over the previous ten years. Combining geographically and bioclimatically stratified Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Tier 1 default estimates of carbon storage with this tree cover analysis, we estimated 45.3 PgC on agricultural land globally, with trees contributing >75%. Between 2000 and 2010 tree cover increased by 3.7%, resulting in an increase of >2 PgC (or 4.6%) of biomass carbon. On average, globally, biomass carbon increased from 20.4 to 21.4 tC ha−1. Regional and country-level variation in stocks and trends were mapped and tabulated globally, and for all countries. Brazil, Indonesia, China and India had the largest increases in biomass carbon stored on agricultural land, while Argentina, Myanmar, and Sierra Leone had the largest decreases.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientists
dcterms.audienceAcademics
dcterms.available2016-07-20
dcterms.bibliographicCitationZomer RJ, Neufeldt H, Xu J, Ahrendts A, Bossio D, Trabucco A, van Noordwijk M, Wang M. 2016. Global tree cover and biomass carbon on agricultural land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets. Scientific Reports 6: 29987.en
dcterms.issued2016-07-20
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherSpringer
dcterms.subjectagroforestryen
dcterms.subjectclimate change mitigationen
dcterms.subjectcarbon sequestrationen
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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