Claim · model-written summary
Intensified fertilizer, herbicide and genetic improvement application may increase total in-woods and harvested carbon storage by as much as 30 percent.
- Taxon
- loblolly pine
Pinus taedae1 - Treatment
- Intensified application of fertilizers and herbicide and genetic improvemente2
- Outcome
- total storage in in-wood and harvested carbon poolse2
- Direction
- increasee2
- Value
- 30 percente2
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Verbatim
e1“The in-woods carbon in well-managed loblolly pine plantations across the South totaled 341 million metric tons”
e2“Intensified application of fertilizers and herbicide and genetic improvement showed the potential to increase total storage in in-wood and harvested carbon pools as much as 30 percent”
Title
Huei-Jin Wang; Philip J. Radtke; Stephen P. Prisley 2012
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation In-woods carbon in well-managed loblolly pine plantations across the South totaled 341 million metric tons.
- Observation In-woods carbon storage is equivalent to 20 percent of total energy-consumed GHG emission in the United States in 2006.
- Observation Present-day carbon storage in southern pine plantations averaged 30.54 Mg•ha-1 for in-woods carbon.
- Observation Annual wood production was 62.1 and 45.9 million green metric tons from pulpwood and sawtimber yield, respectively.
- Observation Roughly one-fourth of the green weight of harvested wood is carbon.
- Observation Carbon storage in wood products increased steadily over the half-century projection without leveling off.
- Observation Storage in plantations was projected to remain constant or increase slightly over time.
- Observation An additional 11 million metric tons of harvested carbon per year was used for energy, equivalent to 25 percent of annual forest-products-industry renewable energy use in U.S.A.
- Intervention effect Intensified fertilizer, herbicide and genetic improvement application may increase energy offset by up to 40 percent.
- Intervention effect Reducing management intensity greatly increased in-woods carbon storage potential in loblolly pine plantations.
- Intervention effect Reducing management intensity eliminated the wood-products carbon sink in loblolly pine plantations.