Cunninghamia

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated changes of C stocks in Chinese fir plantations converted from a natural broadleaved forest, based on a typical chronosequence in mountainland of subtropical China, which includes six first-generation Chinese fir stands at different development stages: 2- (recently regenerated), 7- (sapling), 16- (middle-aged), 21- (pre-mature), 40- (mature) and 88-year-old (overmature).

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors evaluated the contribution of these forests to regional carbon storage and explore their carbon sequestration potential after ecosystem restoration, and concluded that the evergreen broad-leaved forest has great potential for offsetting CO2 emissions.

TL;DR: Model results suggest that yield decline is caused primarily by a decline in soil fertility, largely as a consequence of slash burning in conjunction with short rotations, and may cause a gradual shift from tree dominance to shrub/herb dominance over subsequent rotations.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors developed a nested two-level nonlinear mixed-effects (NLME) model that accounts for the random effects of site index classes and sample plots on tree crown width.