From Models to Measurements: Comparing Downed Dead Wood Carbon Stock Estimates in the U.S. Forest Inventory

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Domke, Grant M ^a   Woodall, Christopher W ^a   Walters, Brian F ^a   Smith, James E ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CARBON DENSITY; COARSE WOOD DEBRIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DENSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; UNITED STATES; WOOD DEBRIS;

CARBON; GASES; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TREES; UNITED STATES; WOOD;

EID: 84875434911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059949     Document Type: Article

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