Biomass statistics for the Northern United States

Eric Wharton; Gerhard K. Raile

doi:10.2737/NE-RN-318

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Biomass statistics for the Northern United States

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Authors:

Eric Wharton, Gerhard K. Raile

Year:

1984

Type:

Research Note

Station:

Northern Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2737/NE-RN-318

Source:

Research Note NE-318. Broomall, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 3p.

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Abstract

The USDA Forest Service now estimates biomass during periodic resource inventories. Such biomass estimates quantify more of the forest resource than do traditional volume inventories that concentrate on tree boles. More than 48 percent of the aboveground tree biomass in the northern United States can be found in woody material outside of the boles. Tree biomass in the Northeastern and North Central regions of the United States is compared by state.

Citation

Wharton, Eric H.; Raile, Gerhard K. 1984. Biomass statistics for the Northern United States. Research Note NE-318. Broomall, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 3p.