Claim · model-written summary
Agroforestry is approximately four times more profitable than monoculture agriculture in the North Western Ghats.
- Taxon
- Forestse0
- Treatment
- agroforestrye1
- Outcome
- profitablee1
- Direction
- approximately four times more profitablee1
- Comparator
- monoculture agriculturee1
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Verbatim
e0“Forests play a vital role in global carbon sinks”
e1“agroforestry is approximately four times more profitable than monoculture agriculture”
Title
Editorial: Forest landscape restoration and carbon storage dynamics
Yashwant S. Rawat; Chandra Prakash Kala; Anteneh T. Tekleyohannes Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2026. doi:10.3389/ffgc.2026.1780993
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- Method / resource The MGWR (Gaussian) model gave superior forest carbon stock estimation accuracy compared with global regression models.
- Association Green total factor productivity of Chinese forestry increased by only 1% while traditional productivity grew 11% annually.
- Observation Traditional productivity grew significantly, at 11% annually.
- Intervention effect Heavy thinning reduced aboveground biomass by up to 42.9% in Larix principis-rupprechtii plantations.
- Intervention effect Heavy thinning reduced belowground biomass by up to 42.6% in Larix principis-rupprechtii plantations.
- Recommendation Light to moderate thinning with light pruning is concluded to offer the most sustainable balance for Larix principis-rupprechtii plantations.
- Intervention effect Frequent prescribed burns reduced fine root biomass and soil autotrophic respiration in loblolly-shortleaf pine forests.
- Intervention effect Across all fire regimes the net soil carbon balance remained statistically similar in loblolly-shortleaf pine forests.
- Observation The net soil carbon balance was a loss of 71 to 167 g C m-2 year-1 in loblolly-shortleaf pine forests.
- Intervention effect Mulberry-based agroforestry significantly enhanced soil organic carbon pools in surface and deep soil layers.
- Intervention effect Integration of Morus alba with cowpea-toria cropping gave a higher carbon accumulation rate of 0.99 Mg C ha-1 yr-1 than traditional farmers' practices.
- Intervention effect Integration of Morus alba with cowpea-toria cropping gave a carbon accumulation rate 160% higher than traditional farmers' practices.
- Observation About 44.82% of carbon sequestration in mulberry-based systems is attributed to the deep soil layer (30-60 cm).
- Intervention effect Pine mixed forests with deciduous species give a superior balance for long-term ecosystem restoration than pine monocultures.
- Recommendation Differentiated regional compensation standards are advocated for forest horizontal ecological compensation.