Carbon in down woody materials of eastern U.S. forests

David C. Chojnacky; Robert A. Mickler; Linda S. Heath

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Carbon in down woody materials of eastern U.S. forests

Informally Refereed

Authors:

David C. Chojnacky, Robert A. Mickler, Linda S. Heath

Year:

2003

Type:

Other

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Proceedings of second annual conference on carbon sequestration: developing & validating the technology base to reduce carbon intensity. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory. [CD-ROM].

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Abstract

To better manage global carbon storage and other ecosystem processes, there is a need for accessible carbon data on components of down woody materials (DWM) in forests. We examined the feasibility of linking available data on DWM to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA) database, which covers the nation's forest lands. We developed regression models to predict coarse woody material (CWM), fine woody material (FWM), litter, duff, and shrub/herb cover for extension to FIA's network of about 100,000 plots in the eastern U.S.

Citation

Chojnacky, David C.; Mickler, Robert A.; Heath, Linda S. 2003. Carbon in down woody materials of eastern U.S. forests. In: Proceedings of second annual conference on carbon sequestration: developing & validating the technology base to reduce carbon intensity. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory. [CD-ROM].