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2019-06-05Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.18452/20494
A Holistic View of Soils in Delivering Ecosystem Services in Forests: A Case Study in South Korea
dc.contributor.authorVicente-Vicente, José Luis
dc.contributor.authorFuss, Sabine
dc.contributor.authorSong, Cholho
dc.contributor.authorLee, Jongyeol
dc.contributor.authorKim, Moonil
dc.contributor.authorLee, Woo-Kyun
dc.contributor.authorson, yowhan
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-09T12:20:51Z
dc.date.available2019-09-09T12:20:51Z
dc.date.issued2019-06-05none
dc.date.updated2019-08-11T00:35:49Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/21253
dc.description.abstractIn 1955, after the Korean War, only 35% of the national land area in South Korea was covered by forests. In the 1960s, the Korean Government implemented the national forestation program in order to increase the extent of the forest surface and thereby counteract the negative ecological consequences from deforestation, such as erosion and ground instability. According to previous studies, this led to an increase in carbon (C) accumulated in the forest biomass of 1.48 Gt CO2 (0.40 Gt C) in the period 1954–2012. However, these studies did not take into account the amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) that was accumulated during that period and the influence of management practices on soil ecosystem services. Currently, South Korean authorities are considering the idea of implementing some forest management practices in order to increase timber extraction (e.g., by reducing the cutting age of the trees or by applying thinning and tending measures). In this study, we assess the influence of these management regimes on SOC dynamics and propose a theoretical framework to assess the influence of forest management practices on three ecosystem services, namely, C sequestration, water supply, and biomass production, while considering soil functioning, and especially SOC, as a group of supporting services underpinning the three named ecosystem services. We find that, in terms of SOC sequestration, reducing the cutting age from 80 to 40 years would be suitable only in the case of high biomass production forests, whereas in the case of lower biomass production forests reducing the cutting age would achieve very low SOC levels. However, we propose that increasing tree species diversity, even though it would not lead to a direct increase in the SOC content, could help to lessen the negative effects of reducing the cutting age by improving other soil properties, which in turn positively affect soil functioning (e.g., soil biodiversity, nutrient availability) and the resilience of the forest ecosystem. Finally, we discuss potential policy approaches to incentivize sustainable management practices in South Korean forests from a soil protection perspective.eng
dc.language.isoengnone
dc.publisherHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
dc.rights(CC BY 4.0) Attribution 4.0 Internationalger
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectsoil organic carboneng
dc.subjectecosystem serviceseng
dc.subjectreforestationeng
dc.subjectresilienceeng
dc.subject.ddc630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereichenone
dc.titleA Holistic View of Soils in Delivering Ecosystem Services in Forests: A Case Study in South Koreanone
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/21253-3
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18452/20494
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionnone
local.edoc.pages19none
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dc.description.versionPeer Reviewednone
dc.identifier.eissn1999-4907
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.3390/f10060487none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleForestsnone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume10none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue6none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber487none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameMDPInone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceBaselnone
bua.import.affiliationVicente-Vicente, José Luis; Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), EUREF Campus, Torgauer Str. 12, 10829 Berlin, Germany,none
bua.import.affiliationFuss, Sabine; Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), EUREF Campus, Torgauer Str. 12, 10829 Berlin, Germany, Geographical Institute, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany,none
bua.import.affiliationSong, Cholho; Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University, Anamro 145, Seoul 02841, Korea,none
bua.import.affiliationLee, Jongyeol; Center for Climate Technology Cooperation, Green Technology Center, Toegyero 173, Seoul 04554, Korea,none
bua.import.affiliationKim, Moonil; Ecosystems Services and Management, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria, Environmental GIS/RS Center, Korea University, Anamro 145, Seoul 02841, Korea,none
bua.import.affiliationLee, Woo-Kyun; Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University, Anamro 145, Seoul 02841, Korea,none
bua.import.affiliationSon, Yowhan; Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University, Anamro 145, Seoul 02841, Korea,none
bua.departmentMathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultätnone

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