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Developed-developing world partnerships for sustainable development (3): Reducing carbon sequestration uncertainties in south Indian tropical dry evergreen forest

Everard, Mark; Longhurst, James W S; Pontin, John; Stephenson, Wendy; Brooks, Joss; Byrne, Molly

Authors

Mark Everard Mark.Everard@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Ecosystem Services

John Pontin

Wendy Stephenson

Joss Brooks

Molly Byrne



Abstract

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Climate regulation services provided by tropical dry evergreen forest (TDEF), a threatened habitat of India's Coromandel Coast, appear significant due to high carbon assimilation rates. International markets for climate regulation represent an ‘anchor service’ potentially promoting TDEF restoration, co-beneficially generating multiple linked ecosystem services. Understanding the forest type and carbon sequestration rate is essential to underpin these markets. Literature suggests that TDEF is a broad categorisation of forest types shaped by environmental conditions and human pressures, a plastic biome rather than a definitive vegetation type, though regionally representative if now highly fragmented. Previous estimates of carbon sequestration potential in restored TDEF were found to be flawed, calculated from incorrectly stated units in a source paper. Structured literature review confirms the sparsity of relevant literature, though the distinctive nature of TDEF makes data transfer from other forest types unreliable. From the limited literature, carbon sequestration potential from restoration of TDEF is of the order of 292 tC ha−1 (1071 tCO2e ha−1), subject to multiple stated assumptions and significant uncertainty that is unquantifiable based on limited data. Further research is required to quantify TDEF carbon sequestration and additional ecosystem services, expanding potential market-based restoration and informing optimal land use policies and practices.

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 28, 2018
Publication Date Aug 1, 2018
Deposit Date Jul 30, 2018
Publicly Available Date Aug 5, 2019
Journal Ecosystem Services
Print ISSN 2212-0416
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 32
Issue B
Pages 173-181
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.07.010
Keywords tropical dry evergreen forest, carbon sequestration, the converging world, Tamil Nadu, Coromandel Coast, payments for ecosystem services
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/863450
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.07.010
Additional Information Additional Information : This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published version is available here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.07.010.
Contract Date Jul 30, 2018

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