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Global Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on Agricultural Land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, July 2016
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Title
Global Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on Agricultural Land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets
Published in
Scientific Reports, July 2016
DOI 10.1038/srep29987
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Authors

Robert J. Zomer, Henry Neufeldt, Jianchu Xu, Antje Ahrends, Deborah Bossio, Antonio Trabucco, Meine van Noordwijk, Mingcheng Wang

Abstract

Agroforestry systems and tree cover on agricultural land make an important contribution to climate change mitigation, but are not systematically accounted for in either global carbon budgets or national carbon accounting. This paper assesses the role of trees on agricultural land and their significance for carbon sequestration at a global level, along with recent change trends. Remote sensing data show that in 2010, 43% of all agricultural land globally had at least 10% tree cover and that this has increased by 2% over the previous ten years. Combining geographically and bioclimatically stratified Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Tier 1 default estimates of carbon storage with this tree cover analysis, we estimated 45.3 PgC on agricultural land globally, with trees contributing >75%. Between 2000 and 2010 tree cover increased by 3.7%, resulting in an increase of >2 PgC (or 4.6%) of biomass carbon. On average, globally, biomass carbon increased from 20.4 to 21.4 tC ha(-1). Regional and country-level variation in stocks and trends were mapped and tabulated globally, and for all countries. Brazil, Indonesia, China and India had the largest increases in biomass carbon stored on agricultural land, while Argentina, Myanmar, and Sierra Leone had the largest decreases.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 1 <1%
Morocco 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Costa Rica 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Thailand 1 <1%
Unknown 865 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 144 17%
Student > Master 138 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 134 15%
Student > Bachelor 57 7%
Other 44 5%
Other 136 16%
Unknown 219 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 223 26%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 212 24%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 55 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 23 3%
Social Sciences 21 2%
Other 73 8%
Unknown 265 30%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 317. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 February 2024.
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#107,028
of 25,416,581 outputs
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#1,358
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#2,261
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Outputs of similar age from Scientific Reports
#38
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