Carbon sequestration and retention when management practices are applied aiming at the sustainability of forest management in the Brazilian Amazon.

• Grant number: 24/14326-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Effective date (Start): September 01, 2024
• Effective date (End): January 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Forestry Resources and Forestry Engineering - Forest Management
• Principal Investigator: Edson José Vidal da Silva
• Grantee: Jonathan William Trautenmüller
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 22/10454-8 - Going beyond the first harvest cycle in the rainforests of the Brazilian Amazon, AP.R

Abstract

The demand for timber from tropical forests has been constant in recent years, but the stocks of the main managed species have declined in recent years. Thus, the uncertainty generated by the stocks of second-cycle production forests demonstrates weaknesses in the long term. And the economic viability in subsequent cycles of the absence of high-value species is questioned. Thus, the aim of this proposal is to generate more accurate information on biomass and consequently carbon, and to make it possible to have carbon from management as a natural service contributing to maintaining the productive value of native forests managed for timber production. This study will contribute to the assessment of the effects of logging in tropical forests, including indicating potential gaps for silvicultural interventions that increase the sustainability of the activity.