Modelling carbon stock and carbon sequestration ecosystem services for policy 
design: a comprehensive approach using a dynamic vegetation model

Quijas, S.; Boit, A.; Thonicke, Kirsten; Murray-Tortarolo, G.; Mwampamba, T.; Skutsch, M.; Simoes, M.; Ascarrunz, N.; Pena-Claros, M.; Jones, L.; Arets, E.; Jaramillo, V. J.; Lazos, E.; Toledo, M.; Martorano, L. G.; Ferraz, R.; Balvanera, P.

doi:10.1080/26395908.2018.1542413

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Modelling carbon stock and carbon sequestration ecosystem services for policy design: a comprehensive approach using a dynamic vegetation model

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Quijas, S.
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Boit, A.
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Thonicke, Kirsten
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Murray-Tortarolo, G.
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Mwampamba, T.
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Skutsch, M.
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Simoes, M.
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Ascarrunz, N.
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Pena-Claros, M.
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Jones, L.
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Arets, E.
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Jaramillo, V. J.
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Lazos, E.
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Toledo, M.
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Martorano, L. G.
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Ferraz, R.
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Balvanera, P.
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Quijas, S., Boit, A., Thonicke, K., Murray-Tortarolo, G., Mwampamba, T., Skutsch, M., Simoes, M., Ascarrunz, N., Pena-Claros, M., Jones, L., Arets, E., Jaramillo, V. J., Lazos, E., Toledo, M., Martorano, L. G., Ferraz, R., Balvanera, P. (2018): Modelling carbon stock and carbon sequestration ecosystem services for policy design: a comprehensive approach using a dynamic vegetation model. - Ecosystems and People, 15, 1, 42-60.
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Abstract

Ecosystem service (ES) models can only inform policy design adequately if they incorporate ecological processes. We used the Lund-Potsdam-Jena managed Land (LPJmL) model, to address following questions for Mexico, Bolivia and Brazilian Amazon: (i) How different are C stocks and C sequestration quantifications under standard (when soil and litter C and heterotrophic respiration are not considered) and comprehensive (including all C stock and heterotrophic respiration) approach? and (ii) How does the valuation of C stock and C sequestration differ in national payments for ES and global C funds or markets when comparing both approach? We found that up to 65% of C stocks have not been taken into account by neglecting to include C stored in soil and litter, resulting in gross underpayments (up to 500 times lower). Since emissions from heterotrophic respiration of organic material offset a large proportion of C gained through growth of living matter, we found that markets and decision-makers are inadvertently overestimating up to 100 times C sequestrated. New approaches for modelling C services relevant ecological process-based can help accounting for C in soil, litter and heterotrophic respiration and become important for the operationalization of agreements on climate change mitigation following the COP21 in 2015.