| DOI: | 10.1007/s10584-014-1109-0
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| Scopus记录号: | 2-s2.0-84901240497
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| 论文题名: | Valuing albedo as an ecosystem service: Implications for forest management |
| 作者: | Lutz D.A.; Howarth R.B.
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| 刊名: | Climatic Change
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| ISSN: | 0165-0009
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| EISSN: | 1573-1480
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| 出版年: | 2014
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| 卷: | 124, 期:2018-01-02 | | 起始页码: | 53
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| 结束页码: | 63
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| 语种: | 英语
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| Scopus关键词: | Economics
; Ecosystems
; Productivity
; Snow
; Solar radiation
; Timber
; Ecosystem services
; Integrated assessment models
; National forests
; Optimal rotations
; Potential impacts
; Short-wave radiation
; Shortwave radiative flux
; Timber provisioning
; Forestry
; albedo
; cooling
; ecosystem service
; forest management
; growth modeling
; shadow pricing
; shortwave radiation
; solar radiation
; Economics
; Ecosystems
; Forestry
; Forests
; Productivity
; Snow
; Sun Light
; New Hampshire
; United States
; White Mountain National Forest
; Abies
; Picea
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| 英文摘要: | Surface albedo is a property of the Earth's surface that provides an important climate regulating ecosystem service through the reflection of incoming solar radiation. In some regions, the cooling effect of higher albedo associated with snow-covered bare ground and young forests, compared to mature forests, can exceed the cooling effect of carbon sequestration from forest growth. Properly assigning an economic value to the net benefits of albedo-related shortwave radiative flux is therefore important in order to understand how these two ecosystem services may tradeoff under different scenarios and in different forests. Here we place an economic value on albedo-related shortwave radiation through the use of shadow prices derived from an integrated assessment model (DICE). We then examine the potential impact of this value on optimal forest rotation in the White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) in the state of New Hampshire, USA. Our results suggest that valuing albedo can shorten optimal rotation periods significantly compared to scenarios where only timber and carbon are considered. For instance, in spruce-fir stands, very short rotation periods of just 25 years become economically optimal when albedo is considered. We attribute this to the low productivity of the sites within the WMNF as well as the substantial snowfall that occurs in the area. Thus, in high latitude forests where snowfall is common and productivity is low, incorporating the valuation of albedo may lead to relatively short optimal rotation periods if the only ecosystem services considered are timber provisioning and climate regulation. © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. |
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| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/84941
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| Appears in Collections: | 气候减缓与适应
气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: | Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
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Lutz D.A.,Howarth R.B.. Valuing albedo as an ecosystem service: Implications for forest management[J]. Climatic Change,2014-01-01,124(2018-01-02)
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