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. Global forests are the main component of the land carbonsink, which acts as a partial buffer to CO2 emissions into theatmosphere. Dynamic vegetation models offer an approach to projecting thedevelopment of forest carbon sink capacity in a future climate. Forestmanagement capabilities are important to include in dynamic vegetationmodels to account for the effects of age and species structure and woodharvest on carbon stocks and carbon storage potential. This articledescribes the implementation of a forest management module containingeven-age and clear-cut and uneven-age and continuous-cover management alternativesin the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS. Different age andspecies structure initialisation strategies and harvest alternatives areintroduced. The model is applied at stand and European scales. Differentmanagement alternatives are applied in simulations of European beech (Fagus sylvaticus) andNorway spruce (Picea abies) even-aged monoculture stands in central Europe andevaluated against above-ground standing stem volume and harvested volumedata from long-term experimental plots. At the European scale, an automatedthinning and clear-cut strategy is applied. Modelled carbon stocks andfluxes are evaluated against reported data at the continent and countrylevels. Including wood harvest in regrowth forests increases the simulatedtotal European carbon sink by 32 % in 1991–2015 and improves the fit tothe reported European carbon sink, growing stock, and net annual increment(NAI). Growing stock (156 m3 ha−1) and NAI (5.4 m3 ha1 yr1) densities in 2010 are close to reported values,while the carbon sink density in 2000–2007 (0.085 kg C m−2 yr1)equates to 63 % of reported values, most likely reflecting uncertaintiesin carbon fluxes from soil given the unaccounted for forest land-use historyin the simulations. The fit of modelled and reported values for individualEuropean countries varies, but NAI is generally closer to reported values whenincluding wood harvest in simulations.

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Accounting for forest management in the estimation of forest carbon balance using the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS (v4.0, r9710): implementation and evaluation of simulations for Europe