TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of a forest carbon and nitrogen model
T2 - Pilot application for a Pinus densiflora forest in Central Korea
AU - Kim, Hyungsub
AU - Kim, Seongjun
AU - Lee, Jongyeol
AU - Chang, Hanna
AU - Roh, Yujin
AU - An, Jiae
AU - Son, Yowhan
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by the Korea Forest Service (2017044B10-1819-BB01), the Ministry of Environment (2014001310008), and the National Research Foundation of Korea (2018R1A2B6001012).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2019/10/2
Y1 - 2019/10/2
N2 - This study aimed to develop a forest carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) model, known as the Forest Biomass and Dead organic matter Carbon And Nitrogen (FBDCAN), which can be useful under limited input data availability. An N module was designated with three N pools (biomass, dead organic matter, and soil inorganic N) and ten N cycle processes (N deposition, biological N fixation, N mineralization, immobilization, root N uptake, retranslocation, nitrification, N leaching, denitrification, and turnover), and then integrated into an existing forest C model. A pilot application was carried out for a Pinus densiflora forest in Gwangneung Experimental Forests (PGEF), to verify the performance and reliability of the model. The simulated net N mineralization in 2010 (69.91 kg N ha−1yr−1) was within the observed range in PGEF. Furthermore, the simulated N stock (3.91 Mg N ha−1) based on the FBDCAN model was consistent with the observed N stock (4.13 Mg N ha−1) in PGEF (r2 = 0.96 to 0.99). The newly developed forest C and N model could be used for the estimation of N cycle processes, N stock, and C stock, even in regions where the input data availability is low.
AB - This study aimed to develop a forest carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) model, known as the Forest Biomass and Dead organic matter Carbon And Nitrogen (FBDCAN), which can be useful under limited input data availability. An N module was designated with three N pools (biomass, dead organic matter, and soil inorganic N) and ten N cycle processes (N deposition, biological N fixation, N mineralization, immobilization, root N uptake, retranslocation, nitrification, N leaching, denitrification, and turnover), and then integrated into an existing forest C model. A pilot application was carried out for a Pinus densiflora forest in Gwangneung Experimental Forests (PGEF), to verify the performance and reliability of the model. The simulated net N mineralization in 2010 (69.91 kg N ha−1yr−1) was within the observed range in PGEF. Furthermore, the simulated N stock (3.91 Mg N ha−1) based on the FBDCAN model was consistent with the observed N stock (4.13 Mg N ha−1) in PGEF (r2 = 0.96 to 0.99). The newly developed forest C and N model could be used for the estimation of N cycle processes, N stock, and C stock, even in regions where the input data availability is low.
KW - Carbon
KW - Pinus densiflora
KW - forest
KW - modeling
KW - nitrogen
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074028933&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/21580103.2019.1666749
DO - 10.1080/21580103.2019.1666749
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074028933
VL - 15
SP - 202
EP - 209
JO - Forest Science and Technology
JF - Forest Science and Technology
SN - 2158-0103
IS - 4
ER -