The national inventory of carbon stock in New Zealand's pre-1990 planted forest using a LiDAR incomplete-transect approach

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 280, Issue , 2012, Pages 187-197

  Beets, P N ^a   Brandon, A M ^b   Goulding, C J ^a   Kimberley, M O ^a   Paul, T S H ^a   Searles, N ^b  

^a SCION   (New Zealand)

^b Ministry for the Environment New Zealand   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Allometric relationships; Carbon sequestration; Greenhouse gases; Kyoto protocol; LiDAR; National Forest Inventory

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRIC RELATIONSHIP; CARBON ANALYSIS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON STOCKS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEAD WOOD; DOUBLE SAMPLING; ERROR PRONES; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GROUND BASED; KYOTO PROTOCOL; LIDAR DATA; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MEASUREMENT PROTOCOL; NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; NEW ZEALAND; PERMANENT SAMPLE PLOTS; REGRESSION ESTIMATORS; STANDING TREE; TOTAL CARBON; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGES; WOODY DEBRIS;

CARBON; DEBRIS; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LAKES; OPTICAL RADAR;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ALLOMETRY; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FOREST INVENTORY; GREENHOUSE GAS; KYOTO PROTOCOL; LIDAR; SATELLITE DATA; SILVICULTURE; TRANSECT; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE; WOODY DEBRIS;

CARBON; CHELATION; EMISSION; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE GASES; INVENTORY CONTROL; LAKES; RADAR; REGULATIONS;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84863827112     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.05.035     Document Type: Article

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