Data and R-scripts for estimating carbon dioxide emissions from drained peatland forest soils for the greenhouse gas inventory of Finland

• Main Authors: Alm, Jukka, Wall, Antti, Myllykangas, Jukka-Pekka, Ojanen, Paavo, Heikkinen, Juha, Henttonen, Helena M., Laiho, Raija, Minkkinen, Kari, Tuomainen, Tarja, Mikola, Juha
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: peatland; soil carbon dioxide balance; time series; method; greenhouse gas inventory; Finland; Northern Finland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8354397

Introduction A new method for estimating carbon dioxide emissions from rained peatland forest soils was developed for the Greenhouse Gas Inventory of Finland (GHG inventory). The method is based on a set of models (Ojanen et al. 2014, Tuomi et al., 2009) that dynamically compile all relevant carbon inputs and outputs into a time series of soil CO 2 emission. A complete description of the method is described in Alm et al. (2023). Here we present the input data and R-scripts (R Core Team, 2020) for computing the time series from year 1990 to 2022 of CO 2 emission from soil in forest land on drained organic soil, like it was reported by the Finnish GHG inventory (Statistics Finland, 2023). Time series data The source of forest and area data is the Finnish National Forest Inventory (NFI) as a part of Luke Statutory Services. The NFI standing forest data in the data files includes annual country-wide estimates of mean basal area and standing biomass of Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris L.), Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) H. Karst) and all the broadleaved forest trees combined. The data concerns forest land on drained organic soil only (class FRA 1 according to the FAO forest land definition). The NFI data for each year has been averaged by different drained peatland forest site types (FTYPE) and by inventory regions of southern and northern Finland. The areas and proportions of FTYPEs of all drained peatland “forests remaining forests” (i.e., forests that have not undergone another change in land use in the past 20 years) in southern and northern Finland (Alm et al., 2023), derived from NFI12 (2014–2018). Annual litter input from harvest residues was estimated using statistics of harvested stem volumes by species, collected and published by Luke (Luke statistics). The stem volumes were converted to whole trees and further to litter fractions and further to The share of residues remaining in forest is estimated by subtracting the amount of the logging residues collected for energy use, the data obtained from Luke ...