Estimates of down woody materials in eastern US forests

Environmental Management

Volumn 33, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages

  Chojnacky, David C ^a   Mickler, Robert A ^b   Heath, Linda S ^a   Woodall, Christopher W ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b ALION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Coarse woody debris; CWD; Down dead wood; Duff; FIA; Fire fuels; Forest; Global climate; Litter; Modeling

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ECOSYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WOOD PRODUCTS;

COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; CWD; DOWN DEAD WOOD; DOWN WOODY MATERIALS (DWM); DUFF; FIA; FIRE FUELS; FOREST INVENTORY AND ANALYSIS (FIA); GLOBAL CLIMATE; LITTER;

FORESTRY;

CARBON;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; LITTER; WOODY DEBRIS;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CARBON STORAGE; FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HAZARD; HERB; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; UNITED STATES; WOODY STEM;

DATA PROCESSING; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WOOD PRODUCTS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 27544476990     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-9116-3     Document Type: Article

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