Woody debris contribution to the carbon budget of selectively logged and maturing mid-latitude forests

Oecologia

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 108-117

  Liu, Wendy H ^a,b   Bryant, David M ^a,c   Hutyra, Lucy R ^a   Saleska, Scott R ^a,d   Hammond Pyle, Elizabeth ^a   Curran, Daniel ^a   Wofsy, Steven C ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse woody debris; Fine woody debris; Infrared gas analyzer; Northern hardwood forest; Respiration

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON FLUX; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; WOODY DEBRIS;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TREE; WOOD;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; TIME FACTORS; TREES; WOOD;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646482144     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0356-9     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Abbott DT, Crossley DA (1982) Woody litter decomposition following clear-cutting. Ecology 63:35-42
2. Arthur MA, Tritton LM, Fahey TJ (1993) Dead bole mass and nutrients remaining 23 years after clear-felling of a northern hardwood forest. Can J For Res 23:1298-1305
3. 2 in a mid-latitude forest. Science 294:1688-1691
4. Brown J (1974) Handbook for inventorying downed woody material. General technical report. USDA Forest Service, Ogden, Utah
5. Caspersen JP, Pacala SW, Jenkins JC, Hurtt GC, Moorcroft PR, Birdsey RA (2000) Contributions of land-use history to carbon accumulation in U.S. forests. Science 290:1148-1151
6. Chambers JQ, Schimel JP, Nobre AD (2001) Respiration from coarse wood litter in central Amazon forests. Biogeochemistry 52:115-131
7. 2. Science 269:1098-1102
8. Currie WS, Nadelhoffer KJ (2002) The imprint of land-use history: patterns of carbon and nitrogen in downed woody debris at the Harvard Forest. Ecosystems 5:446-460
9. Curtis PS, Hanson PJ, Bolstad P, Barford C, Randolph JC, Schmid HP, Wilson KB (2002) Biometric and eddy-covariance based estimates of annual carbon storage in five eastern North American deciduous forests. Agric For Meteorol 113:3-19
10. Davidson EA, Savage K, Bolstad P, Clark DA, Curtis PS, Ellsworth DS, Hanson PJ, Law BE, Luo Y, Pregitzer KS, Randolph JC, Zak D (2002) Belowground carbon allocation in forests estimated from litterfall and IRGA-based soil respiration measurements. Agric For Meteorol 113:39-51
11. Edmonds RL, Vogt DJ, Sandberg DH, Driver CH (1986) Decomposition of Douglas-fir and red alder wood in clear-cuttings. Can J For Res 16:822-831
12. Erickson HE, Edmonds RL, Peterson CE (1985) Decomposition of logging residues in Douglas-fir, western hemlock, Pacific silver fir, and Ponderosa pine ecosystems. Can J For Res 15:914-921
13. 2 evolution in Florida slash pine plantations. 1. Changes through time. Can J For Res 17:325-329
14. Fan S, Gloor M, Mahlman J, Pacala S, Sarmiento J, Takahashi T, Tans P (1998) A large terrestrial carbon sink in North America implied by atmospheric and oceanic carbon dioxide data and models. Science 282:442-446
15. Foster JR, Lang GE (1982) Decomposition of red spruce and balsam fir boles in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Can J For Res 12:617-626
16. Gaudinski JB, Trumbore SE, Davidson EA, Zheng SH (2000) Soil carbon cycling in a temperate forest: radiocarbon-based estimates of residence times, sequestration rates and partitioning of fluxes. Biogeochemistry 51:33-69
17. Goulden ML, Munger JW, Fan S, Daube BC, Wofsy SC (1996) Measurements of carbon sequestration by long-term eddy-covariance: methods and a critical evaluation of accuracy. Global Change Biol 2:169-182
18. Gut A (1995) An intermediate course in probability. Spring, Berlin Heidelberg New York
19. Harmon ME, Hua C (1991) Coarse woody debris dynamics in two old-growth ecosystems. BioScience 41:604-610
20. Harmon ME, Sexton J (1996) Guidelines for measurements of woody detritus in forest ecosystems. LTER Network Office, Seattle, Wash.
21. Harmon ME, Franklin JF, Swanson FJ, Sollins P, Gregory SV, Lattin JD, Anderson NH, Cline SP, Aumen NG, Sedell JR, Lienkaemper GW, Cromack K Jr, Cummins KW (1986) Ecology of coarse woody debris in temperate ecosystems. Adv Ecol Res 15:133-302
22. Harmon ME, Whigham DF, Sexton J, Olmsted I (1995) Decomposition and mass of woody detritus in the dry tropical forests of the northeastern Yucatan peninsula, Mexico. Biotropica 27:305-316
23. Houghton RA, Hackler JL, Lawrence KT (1999) The US carbon budget: contributions from land-use change. Science 285:574-578
24. Kittredge DB, Finley AO, Foster DR (2003) Timber harvesting as ongoing disturbance in a landscape of diverse ownership. For Ecol Manage 180:425-442
25. Marra JL, Edmonds RL (1994) Coarse woody debris and forest floor respiration in an old-growth coniferous forest on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA. Can J For Res 24:1811-1817
26. Mattson KG, Swank WT, Waide JB (1987) Decomposition of woody debris in a regenerating, clear-cut forest in the southern Appalachians. Can J For Res 17:712-721
27. McGee GG, Leopold DJ, Nyland RD (1999) Structural characteristics of old-growth, maturing, and partially cut northern hardwood forests. Ecol Appl 9:1316-1329
28. 2 flux data. Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
29. Næsset E (1999) Relationship between relative wood density of Picea abies logs and simple classification systems of decayed coarse woody debris. Scand J For Res 14:454-461
30. Pregizter KS, Euskirchen ES (2004) Carbon cycling and storage in world forests: biome patterns related to forest age. Global Change Biol 10: 2052-2077
31. Progar RA, Schowalter TD, Freitag CM, Morrell JJ (2000) Respiration from coarse woody debris as affected by moisture and saprotroph functional diversity in Western Oregon. Oecologia 124:426-431
32. Raich JW, Bowden RD, Steudler PA (1990) Comparison of two static chamber techniques for determining carbon dioxide efflux from forest soils. Soil Sci Soc Am J 54:1754-1757
33. Rayner A, Boddy L (1988) Fungal decomposition of wood: its biology and ecology. Wiley, New York
34. Rice AH, Hammond-Pyle E, Saleska SR, Hutyra L, Palace M, Keller M, de Camargo PB, Portilho K, Marques DF, Wofsy SC (2004) Carbon balance and vegetation dynamics in an old-growth Amazonian forest. Ecol Appl 14:S55-S71
35. Schowalter TD (1992) Heterogeneity of decomposition and nutriclear ent dynamics of oak (Quercus) logs during the first 2 years of decomposition. Can J For Res 22:161-166
36. Sollins P, Cline SP, Verhoeven T, Sachs D, Spycher G (1987) Patterns of log decay in old-growth Douglas-fir forests. Can J For Res 17:1585-1595
37. Stone JN, MacKinnon A, Parminter JV, Lertzman KP (1998) Coarse woody debris decomposition documented over 65 years on southern Vancouver Island. Can J For Res 28:788-793
38. Van Wagner CE (1968) The line intersect method for forest fuel sampling. For Sci 14:20-26
39. Wang C, Bond-Lamberty B, Gower ST (2002) Environmental controls on carbon dioxide flux from black spruce coarse woody debris. Oecologia 132:374-381
40. Yin XW (1999) The decay of forest woody debris: numerical modeling and implications based on some 300 data cases from North America. Oecologia 121:81-98
41. 2 evolution of wood litter in evergreen oak forests (studies on the rate of decay of wood litter on the forest floor, V). Jpn J Ecol 35:57-66