G. J. Rampley

TL;DR: The cumulative impact of the mountain pine beetle outbreak in the affected region during 2000–2020 will be 270 megatonnes (Mt) carbon, which converted the forest from a small net carbon sink to a large net carbon source both during and immediately after the outbreak.

TL;DR: The Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3) as discussed by the authors is a generic modelling framework that can be applied at the stand, landscape and national levels and provides a spatially referenced, hierarchical system for integrating datasets originating from different forest inventory and monitoring programs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimated the C budget of Canada's 2.3 × 10 6 km 2 managed forests from 1990 to 2008 using an empirical modelling approach driven by detailed forestry datasets.

TL;DR: In this article, the potential of forests and the forest sector to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is widely recog- nized, but challenging to quantify at a national scale, and the authors determine the miti- gation potential of the 2.3 km 2 of Canada's managed forests from 2015 to 2050 using the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3), a harvested wood products (HWP) model that estimates emissions based on product half-life decay times, and an account of emis- sion substitution benefits from the

TL;DR: It is found that significant increases in net ecosystem production (NEP) would be required to balance C losses from increased natural disturbance rates, and increases in NEP would have to be sustained over several decades and be widespread across the landscape.