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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. For. Glob. Change
Sec. Forest Management
Volume 8 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2025.1470065
This article is part of the Research Topic Landscape management can promote socioecological benefits and leverage environmental markets View all 4 articles

Optimizing spatial allocation schemes with a focus on carbon fixation services by the integration of GIS and a robust algorithmic approach

Provisionally accepted
Guo Eryan Guo Guo Eryan Guo 1*Jing He Jing He 2
  • 1 College of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
  • 2 Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China

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    As global climate change becomes more severe, forests, as important carbon sinks, are of great significance for mitigating climate change and protecting the ecological environment. The study took typical forest farms in southern China as the research area, constructed a multi-objective forest planning model based on Simulated Annealing Algorithm, and interfaced with geographic information systems. The aim is to achieve long-term scientific and rational arrangement of forest management measures to balance wood production and forest carbon storage. The results confirm that under the constraints of forest classification management and age structure adjustment of artificial forests, different optimization scenarios gradually stabilize corresponding logging intensity and forest resources from year 40 onwards.By assigning weights to the net present value of wood and carbon sequestration in the objective function, this study explores the impact of social preferences on spatial allocation schemes for forest management. When the carbon sequestration weight is 100%, the current savings are greater than those of other optimized scenarios starting in the 35th year, at roughly 8.8 × 10 4 m 3 , and the current carbon storage is superior to those of other optimized scenarios starting in the 25th year, at 4.9 × 10 4 t. In summary, this research can provide a scientific basis for actual forest management decisions, which is beneficial for improving forest carbon sequestration services, maintaining ecological balance, and promoting regional ecological sustainable development.

    Keywords: Carbon fixation services, GIS, forest management, space configuration, Simulated annealing algorithm, Carbon Storage, Artificial forest

    Received: 25 Jul 2024; Accepted: 13 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Eryan Guo and He. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Guo Eryan Guo, College of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China

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