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Field Measurements for Forest Carbon Monitoring

A Landscape-Scale Approach

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Editors:
  1. Coeli M. Hoover

    1. US Forest Service, Durham, USA

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  • Brings together all of the methods needed for measuring and monitoring forest carbon pools and fluxes into one volume
  • Presents a roadmap for creating forest carbon monitoring sites that can be used as a link between remotely sensed data and national scale inventories
  • Includes a chapter on lessons learned while implementing the protocols at a variety of field sites
  • Multidisciplinary volume suitable for investigators from a variety of fields; background information on each type of measurement is provided and specialized knowledge is not assumed

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Establishing a Landscape-Scale Forest Carbon Monitoring Site

    1. Defining a Landscape-Scale Monitoring Tier for the North American Carbon Program

      • David Y. Hollinger
      Pages 3-16

    2. Study Site Characterization

      • Chris Potter, Richard Birdsey
      Pages 17-25

    3. Meteorological Measurements

      • David Y. Hollinger
      Pages 27-35

  3. Measuring Aboveground Carbon Pools

    1. Estimating Aboveground Carbon in Live and Standing Dead Trees

      • Peter S. Curtis
      Pages 39-44

    2. Measuring Carbon in Shrubs

      • David C. Chojnacky, Mikaila Milton
      Pages 45-72

    3. Estimating the Carbon in Coarse Woody Debris with Perpendicular Distance Sampling

      • Harry T. Valentine, Jeffrey H. Gove, Mark J. Ducey, Timothy G. Gregoire, Michael S. Williams
      Pages 73-87

  4. Measuring Aboveground Carbon Fluxes

    1. Measuring Litterfall and Branchfall

      • Pierre Bernier, Paul J. Hanson, Peter S. Curtis
      Pages 91-101

    2. Methods for Estimating Litter Decomposition

      • Noah J. Karberg, Neal A. Scott, Christian P. Giardina
      Pages 103-111

    3. Measuring the Decomposition of Down Dead-Wood

      • Neal A. Scott, Sandra Brown
      Pages 113-126

  5. Measuring Belowground Carbon Pools and Fluxes

    1. Measuring Forest Floor, Mineral Soil, and Root Carbon Stocks

      • Andrew J. Burton, Kurt S. Pregitzer
      Pages 129-142

    2. Quantifying Soil Respiration at Landscape Scales

      • John B. Bradford, Michael G. Ryan
      Pages 143-162

    3. Measurement of Methane Fluxes from Terrestrial Landscapes Using Static, Non-steady State Enclosures

      • Peter Weishampel, Randall Kolka
      Pages 163-170

    4. Measurement and Importance of Dissolved Organic Carbon

      • Randall Kolka, Peter Weishampel, Mats Fröberg
      Pages 171-176

  6. Supplemental Variables for Carbon Cycle Modeling

    1. Forest Canopy Structural Properties

      • Marie-Louise Smith, Jeanne Anderson, Matthew Fladeland
      Pages 179-196

    2. Estimation of Forest Canopy Nitrogen Concentration

      • Marie-Louise Smith, David Y. Hollinger, Scott Ollinger
      Pages 197-203

  7. Lessons from the Past and Opportunities in the Future

    1. Integrating Field Measurements with Flux Tower and Remote Sensing Data

      • Kenneth J. Davis
      Pages 207-225

    2. Landscape-Scale Carbon Sampling Strategy – Lessons Learned

      • John B. Bradford, Peter Weishampel, Marie-Louise Smith, Randall Kolka, David Y. Hollinger, Richard A. Birdsey et al.
      Pages 227-238

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 239-240
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About this book

In the summer of 2003, a workshop was held in Portsmouth, NH, to discuss land measurement techniques for the North American Carbon Program. Over 40 sci- tists representing government agencies, academia and nonprofit research organi- tions located in Canada, the US and Mexico participated. During the course of the workshop a number of topics were discussed, with an emphasis on the following: • The need for an intermediate tier of carbon measurements. This level of study would be more extensive than state-level inventories of the US Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis Program, but less detailed than intensive ecos- tem studies sites such as those in Long Term Ecological Research network. This tier would ideally provide a basis to link and scale remote sensing measurements and inventory data, and supply data required to parameterize existing models (see Wofsy and Harriss 2002, Denning et al. 2005). • The design criteria that such a network of sites should meet. The network and s- pling design should be standardized, but flexible enough to be applied across North America. The design also needs to be efficient enough to be implemented without the need for large field crews, yet robust enough to provide useful information. Finally, the spatial scale must permit easy linkage to remotely sensed data. • The key variables that should be measured at each site, and the frequency of measurement.

Editors and Affiliations

  • US Forest Service, Durham, USA

    Coeli M. Hoover

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Field Measurements for Forest Carbon Monitoring

  • Book Subtitle: A Landscape-Scale Approach

  • Editors: Coeli M. Hoover

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8506-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8505-5Published: 24 September 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7896-4Published: 19 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8506-2Published: 20 October 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 240

  • Topics: Ecology, Forestry, Climatology, Biogeosciences

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