Forests, carbon cycle and climate change

Foreword
 
Acknowledgements

Executive summary

Part I
The carbon cycle in temperate and Mediterranean forests

Chapter 1. The forest carbon cycle: generalities, definitions and scales
Denis Loustau, Serge Rambal

Chapter 2. Environmental control of carbon fluxes in forest ecosystems in France: a comparison of temperate, Mediterranean and tropical forests
Bernard Longdoz, André Granier, Denis Loustau, Mark Bakker, Sylvain Delzon, Andrew S. Kowalski, Serge Rambal, Éric Dufrêne, Damien Bonal, Yann Nouvellon

Chapter 3. Dynamics of soil carbon and moder horizons related to age in pine and beech stands
Bernard Guillet, Jean-Robert Disnar, Denis Loustau, Jérôme Balesdent

Chapter 4. Estimating carbon stocks in forest stands: Methodological developments
Laurent Saint-André, Patrick Vallet, Gérôme Pignard, Jean-Luc Dupouey, Antoine Colin, Denis Loustau, Christine Le Bas, Céline Meredieu, Yves Caraglio, Annabel Porté, Nabila Hamza, Antoine Cazin, Yann Nouvellon, Jean-François Dhôte

Chapter 5. Estimating carbon stocks and fluxes in forest biomass: Application to the French case based upon National Forest Inventory data
Jean-Luc Dupouey, Gérôme Pignard, Nabila Hamza, Jean-François Dhôte

Part II
Forest under a changing climate

Chapter 6. Possible future climates in France
Michel Déqué, Émmanuel Cloppet

Chapter 7. Forest tree phenology and climate change
Isabelle Chuine

Chapter 8. Forest tree phenology in the French Permanent Plot Network (RENECOFOR, ICP forest network)
François Lebourgeois, Erwin Ulrich

Chapter 9. Modelling tools for predicting the carbon cycle
Hendrik Davi, Christophe François, Jérôme Ogée, Éric Dufrêne, Philippe Ciais, Alexandre Bosc, Denis Loustau, Guerric le Maire

Chapter 10. How will the production of French forests respond to climate change? An integrated analysis from site to country scale
Philippe Ciais, Denis Loustau, Alexandre Bosc, Jérôme Ogée, Éric Dufrêne, Christophe François, Hendrik Davi, Nicolas Viovy, François Delage

Part III
Climate change and forest vulnerability

Chapter 11. Climate change and the biogeography of French tree species: first results and perspectives
Vincent Badeau, Jean-Luc Dupouey, Catherine Cluzeau, Jacques Drapier, Christine Le Bas

Chapter 12. Simulating the effects of climate change on geographical range and the impact of forest pathogenic fungi
Marie-Laure Desprez-Loustau, Valérie Belrose, Magali Bergot, Gilles Capron, Émmanuel Cloppet, Claude Husson, Dominique Piou, Gregory Reynaud, Cécile Robin, Benoît Marçais

Chapter 13. Mediterranean forests, fire and carbon budget: the threats of global change
Florent Mouillot, Serge Rambal, Roland Joffre, Jean-Pierre Ratte

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