Sawtooth National Forest balances interests of different groups, such as those interested in recreation, preservation, or resource extraction.
However, changes in future wildfire and regeneration regimes may affect forest carbon balance and these climate-induced changes may influence forest carbon balance as much, or more, than bioenergy production.
For our national analyses, we used the biogeographically-based estimates of mean and uncertainty of carbon balance in each region to estimate the area-weighted mean mature Amazon forest carbon balance per country, based on the area of forest represented in each biogeographical region in each nation.
Also, other models like CBM-CFS3 are being employed for European forest carbon balance assessments (Pilli et al. 2016).
In a later publication on the European forest carbon balance Luyssaert et al. notice large uncertainties related to the "estimates of the fate of carbon inputs via NPP [24].
Another effect of canopy gaps is the local modification of the forest nutrient balance due to the large amounts of dead leaves and wood that decompose and mineralize (Brokaw and Busing 2000) and that shapes in turn the small-scale spatial variations in forest carbon balance (Feeley et al. 2007; Guitet et al. 2015; Rutishauser et al. 2010).
Fuel reduction treatments also influence forest C balance both through their potential to modify fire behavior in recently treated forest stands, and because the treatments themselves remove woody biomass from the forest [1]-[4].
The ecosystem services included in the analyses were net present value, volume of harvested timber, cowberry and bilberry yields, scenic value of the forest, carbon balance and suitability of the forest to Siberian jay.
At multi-decadal time scales, wildfires have a near neutral effect on atmospheric CO2: forest regrowth balances punctuated C losses due to combustion, assuming that fire return intervals remain constant [18].
