caa a22 4500 467903522 CHVBK 20180406152826.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10661-005-9041-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10661-005-9041-4 Quantifying Carbon Budgets Of Conifer Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems, Turkey [Elektronische Daten] [Fatih Evrendilek, Suha Berberoglu, Sibel Taskinsu-Meydan, Erhan Yilmaz] Abstact: Aboveground biomass, aboveground litterfall, and leaf litter decomposition of five indigenous tree stands (pure stands ofPinus brutia,Pinus nigra,Cedrus libani,Juniperus excelsa, and a mixed stand ofAbies cilicica,P. nigra, andC. libani) were measured in an eastern Mediterranean evergreen needleleaf forest of Turkey. Measurements were converted to regional scale estimates of carbon (C) stocks and fluxes of forest ecosystems, based on general non-site-specific allometric relationships. Mean C stock of the conifer forests was estimated as 97.8± 79 Mg C ha−1consisting of 83.0 ± 67 Mg C ha−1in the aboveground and 14.8 ± 12 Mg C ha−1in the belowground biomass. The forest stands had mean soil organic carbon (SOC) and nitrogen (SON) stocks of 172.0 ± 25.7 Mg C ha−1and 9.2 ± 1.2 Mg N ha−1, respectively. Mean total monthly litterfall was 376.2± 191.3 kg C ha−1, ranging from 641 ± 385 kg C ha−1forPinus brutiato 286 ± 82 kg C ha−1forCedrus libani. Decomposition rate constants (k) for pine needles were 0.0016 forCedrus libani, 0.0009 forPinus nigra, 0.0006 for the mixed stand, and 0.0005 day−1forPinus brutiaand Juniperus excelsa. Estimation of components of the C budgets revealed that the forest ecosystems were net C sinks, with a mean sequestration rate of 2.0 ± 1.1 Mg C ha−1 yr−1ranging from 3.2 ± 2 Mg C ha−1forPinus brutiato 1.6 ± 0.6 Mg C ha−1forCedrus libani. Mean net ecosystem productivity (NEP) resulted in sequestration of 98.4 ± 54.1 Gg CO2 yr−1from the atmosphere when extrapolated for the entire study area of 134.2 km2(Gg = 109 g). The quantitative C data from the study revealed the significance of the conifer Mediterranean forests as C sinks Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 biological production nationallicence carbon budget nationallicence conifer mediterranean forests nationallicence ecosystem carbon exchange nationallicence Turkey nationallicence Evrendilek Fatih Department of Landscape Architecture, Mustafa Kemal University, 31034, Antakya-Hatay, Turkey aut Berberoglu Suha Department of Landscape Architecture, Çukurova University, Balcalı-Adana, Turkey aut Taskinsu-Meydan Sibel Department of Landscape Architecture, Çukurova University, Balcalı-Adana, Turkey aut Yilmaz Erhan Department of Landscape Architecture, Mustafa Kemal University, 31034, Antakya-Hatay, Turkey aut Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 119/1-3(2006-08-01), 527-543 0167-6369 119:1-3<527 2006 119 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9041-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9041-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Evrendilek Fatih Department of Landscape Architecture, Mustafa Kemal University, 31034, Antakya-Hatay, Turkey aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Berberoglu Suha Department of Landscape Architecture, Çukurova University, Balcalı-Adana, Turkey aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Taskinsu-Meydan Sibel Department of Landscape Architecture, Çukurova University, Balcalı-Adana, Turkey aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yilmaz Erhan Department of Landscape Architecture, Mustafa Kemal University, 31034, Antakya-Hatay, Turkey aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 119/1-3(2006-08-01), 527-543 0167-6369 119:1-3<527 2006 119 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer