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Using climate-FVS to project landscape-level forest carbon stores for 100 years from field and LiDAR measures of initial conditions [1]

Forest resources supply a wide range of environmental services like mitigation of increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). As climate is changing, forest managers have added pressure to obtain forest resources by following stand management alternatives that are biologically sustainable and economically profitable. The goal of this study is to project the effect of typical forest management actions on forest C levels, given a changing climate, in the Moscow Mountain area of north-central Idaho, USA. Harvest and prescribed fire management treatments followed by plantings of one of four regionally important commercial tree species were simulated, using the climate-sensitive version of the Forest Vegetation Simulator, to estimate the biomass of four different planted species and their C sequestration response to three climate change scenarios.

Publication Date: 
04/02/2014
Fabián B Gálvez [2], Andrew T Hudak [3], John C Byrne & et al [4]
Carbon Balance and Management [5]
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Tags:
Climate Change [6], Forests [7], Climate Science [8], Carbon Dioxide [9], Carbon Sequestration [10], Forest Resources [11], Ecosystems [12], United States Of America (US) [13], Remote Sensing [14], Biomass [15]

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[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biomass