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  1. The temporal distribution and carbon storage of large oak wood in streams and floodplain deposits

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    Author(s): Richard P. Guyette; Daniel C. Dey; Michael C. Stambaugh
    Date: 2008
    Source: Ecosystems. 11: 643-653.
    Publication Series: Scientific Journal (JRNL)
    Station: Northern Research Station
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    We used tree-ring dating and 14C dating to document the temporal distribution and carbon storage of oak (Quercus spp.) wood in trees recruited and buried by streams and floodplains in northern Missouri, USA. Frequency distributions indicated that oak wood has been accumulating in Midwest streams continually since at least the late Pleistocene, about 14,000 calibrated radiocarbon years before present (cal. BP). The median residence time of an oak bole in the study streams was 3,515 years (n = 200). More than 30% of sampled oak wood entered the floodplain sediments and stream waters within the last 1,000 years, though very few samples dated to the last 150 years.

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    Guyette, Richard P.; Dey, Daniel C.; Stambaugh, Michael C. 2008. The temporal distribution and carbon storage of large oak wood in streams and floodplain deposits. Ecosystems. 11: 643-653.

    Keywords

    carbon, coarse woody debris, dendroecology, Holocene, Quercus, riparian

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