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Estimation of carbonaceous gases emission from forest fires in Xiao Xing’an Mountains of Northeast China in 1953-2011.

HU Hai-qing1, LUO Bi-zhen1, WEI Shu-jing1,2, SUN Long1, WEI Shu-wei3, WEN Zheng-min2   

  1. (1College of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China;  2Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, Guangxi, China; 3Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, China)
  • Online:2013-11-18 Published:2013-11-18

Abstract: Based on the forest resources investigation data and the forest fire inventory in 1953-2011, in combining with our field research in burned areas and our laboratory experiments, this paper estimated the carbonaceous gases carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4), and nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHC) emission from the forest fires in Xiao Xing’an Mountains of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China in 1953-2011. The total carbon emission from the forest fires in the Xiao Xing’an Mountains in 1953-2011 was 1.12×107 t, and the annual emission was averagely 1.90×105 t, accounting for 1.7% of the annual average total carbon emission from the forest fires in China. The emission of CO2, CO, CH4, and NMHC was 3.39×107, 1.94×105, 1.09×105, and 7.46×104 t, respectively, and the corresponding annual average emission was 5.74×105, 3.29×104, 1.85×103, and 1.27×103 t, accounting for 1.4%, 1.2%, 1.7%, and 1.1% of the annual carbonaceous gases emitted from the forest fires in China, respectively. The combustion efficiency and the carbon emission per unit burned area of different forest types decreased in order of coniferous forest > broadleaved forest > coniferous broadleaved mixed forest. Some rational forest fire management measures were put forward.