Field Measurements for Forest Carbon Monitoring - A Landscape-Scale Approach

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.

List of contents

Establishing a Landscape-Scale Forest Carbon Monitoring Site.- Defining a Landscape-Scale Monitoring Tier for the North American Carbon Program.- Study Site Characterization.- Meteorological Measurements.- Measuring Aboveground Carbon Pools.- Estimating Aboveground Carbon in Live and Standing Dead Trees.- Measuring Carbon in Shrubs.- Estimating the Carbon in Coarse Woody Debris with Perpendicular Distance Sampling.- Measuring Aboveground Carbon Fluxes.- Measuring Litterfall and Branchfall.- Methods for Estimating Litter Decomposition.- Measuring the Decomposition of Down Dead-Wood.- Measuring Belowground Carbon Pools and Fluxes.- Measuring Forest Floor, Mineral Soil, and Root Carbon Stocks.- Quantifying Soil Respiration at Landscape Scales.- Measurement of Methane Fluxes from Terrestrial Landscapes Using Static, Non-steady State Enclosures.- Measurement and Importance of Dissolved Organic Carbon.- Supplemental Variables for Carbon Cycle Modeling.- Forest Canopy Structural Properties.- Estimation of Forest Canopy Nitrogen Concentration.- Lessons from the Past and Opportunities in the Future.- Integrating Field Measurements with Flux Tower and Remote Sensing Data.- Landscape-Scale Carbon Sampling Strategy - Lessons Learned.

Summary

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.

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"… Das Buch stellt Monitoringmethoden für einen aktuellen Forschungsschwerpunkt vor. Es handelt sich ganz überwiegend um Standardmethoden ökologischer Feldforschung, die sich nicht nur zur Quantifizierung des Kohlenstoffkreislaufes einsetzen lassen, die aber in dieser Zusammenstellung bisher nicht vorlagen. … Die einzelnen Kapitel sind aufeinander abgestimmt, Wiederholungen und Unstimmigkeiten finden sich nicht, und das Einleitungskapitel und die beiden Schlusskapitel vermitteln die Zusammenhänge zwischen den einzelnen Messgrößen und -methoden. Das Buch sollte in keiner Bibliothek von Forschungseinrichtungen mit entsprechender Ausrichtung fehlen." (Norbert Bartsch, in: Forstarchiv, 2009, Vol. 80, Issue 2, S. 61)

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Aus den Rezensionen:

"... Das Buch stellt Monitoringmethoden für einen aktuellen Forschungsschwerpunkt vor. Es handelt sich ganz überwiegend um Standardmethoden ökologischer Feldforschung, die sich nicht nur zur Quantifizierung des Kohlenstoffkreislaufes einsetzen lassen, die aber in dieser Zusammenstellung bisher nicht vorlagen. ... Die einzelnen Kapitel sind aufeinander abgestimmt, Wiederholungen und Unstimmigkeiten finden sich nicht, und das Einleitungskapitel und die beiden Schlusskapitel vermitteln die Zusammenhänge zwischen den einzelnen Messgrößen und -methoden. Das Buch sollte in keiner Bibliothek von Forschungseinrichtungen mit entsprechender Ausrichtung fehlen." (Norbert Bartsch, in: Forstarchiv, 2009, Vol. 80, Issue 2, S. 61)

Product details

• Assisted by: Coeli M Hoover (Editor), Coel M Hoover (Editor), Coeli M Hoover (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.10.2010
• EAN: 9789048178964
• ISBN: 978-90-481-7896-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 176 mm x 15 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 240 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; B, Ecology, Meteorology & climatology, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Earth System Sciences, Geobiology, Biogeosciences, Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques, Biogeography, Forestry, Climatology