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How to estimate carbon sequestration on small forest tracts estimate carbon sequestration on small forest tracts

International climate change agreements may allow carbon stored as a result of afforestation and reforestation to be used to offset CO₂ emissions. Monitoring the carbon sequestered or released through forest management activities thus becomes important. Estimating forest carbon storage is feasible even for nonindustrial private forestland (NIPF)...

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Author(s):

Coeli M. Hoover; Richard A. Birdsey; Linda S. Heath; Susan L. Stout

Year:

2000

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Journal of Forestry. September: 13-19.

Chapter 8: Uncertainty assessment for quantifying greenhouse gas sources and sinks

Quantifying the uncertainty of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reductions from agriculture and forestry practices is an important aspect of decision�]making for farmers, ranchers and forest landowners as the uncertainty range for each GHG estimate communicates our level of confidence that the estimate reflects the actual balance of GHG exchange between...

Author(s):

Jay Breidt; Stephen M. Ogle; Wendy Powers; Coeli Hoover

Year:

2014

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In: Eve, M.; Pape, D.; Flugge, M.; Steele, R.; Man, D.; Riley-Gilbert, M.; Biggar, S. Quantifying greenhouse gas fluxes in agriculture and forestry: Methods for entity-scale inventory. Tech. Bull. 1939. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Chief Economist: 8-1-8.57.

Equivalence of live tree carbon stocks produced by three estimation approaches for forests of the western United States

The focus on forest carbon estimation accompanying the implementation of increased regulatory and reporting requirements is fostering the development of numerous tools and methods to facilitate carbon estimation. One such well-established mechanism is via the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS), a growth and yield modeling system used by public and private land managers...

Author(s):

Coeli M. Hoover; James E. Smith

Year:

2017

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Forest Ecology and Management

Equivalence among three alternative approaches to estimating live tree carbon stocks in the eastern United States

Assessments of forest carbon are available via multiple alternate tools or applications and are in use to address various regulatory and reporting requirements. The various approaches to making such estimates may or may not be entirely comparable. Knowing how the estimates produced by some commonly used approaches vary across forest types and regions allows users of...

Author(s):

Coeli M. Hoover; James E. Smith

Year:

2017

Keywords:

Biomass equation, Biomass estimation, Allometry, Forest carbon stocks, Equivalence

Source:

Forest Ecology and Management

A comparison of carbon stock estimates and projections for the northeastern United States

We conducted a comparison of carbon stock estimates produced by three different methods using regional data from the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA). Two methods incorporated by the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) were compared to each other and to the current FIA component ratio method. We also examined the uncalibrated performance of FVS...

Author(s):

Richard G. MacLean; Mark J. Ducey; Coeli M. Hoover

Year:

2014

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biomass, growth and yield, model validation, carbon markets

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Forest Science. 60(2): 206-213.

Evaluating revised biomass equations: are some forest types more equivalent than others?

Background: In 2014, Chojnacky et al. published a revised set of biomass equations for trees of temperate US forests, expanding on an existing equation set (published in 2003 by Jenkins et al.), both of which were developed from published equations using a meta-analytical approach. Given the similarities in the approach to developing the equations, an examination of...

Author(s):

Coeli M. Hoover; James E. Smith

Year:

2016

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Biomass estimation, Allometry, Forest carbon stocks, Tests of equivalence, Individual-tree estimates by species group

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Carbon Balance and Management. 11(1): article 2.

Chapter 6: quantifying greenhouse gas sources and sinks in managed forest systems

This chapter provides guidance for reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with entity-level fluxes from the forestry sector. In particular, it focuses on methods for estimating carbon stocks and stock change from managed forest systems. Section 6.1 provides an overview of the sector. Section 6.2 describes the methods for forest carbon stock accounting....

Author(s):

Coeli Hoover; Richard Birdsey; Bruce Goines; Peter Lahm; Yongming Fan; David Nowak; Stephen Prisley; Elizabeth Reinhardt; Ken Skog; David Skole; James Smith; Carl Trettin; Christopher Woodall

Year:

2014

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A GIS-based tool for estimating tree canopy cover on fixed-radius plots using high-resolution aerial imagery

Recent changes to the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program's definition of forest land precipitated the development of a geographic information system (GIS)-based tool for efficiently estimating tree canopy cover for all FIA plots. The FIA definition of forest land has shifted from a density-related criterion based on stocking to a 10 percent tree canopy...

Author(s):

Sara A. Goeking; Greg C. Liknes; Erik Lindblom; John Chase; Dennis M. Jacobs; Robert Benton

Year:

2012

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statistics, estimation, sampling, modeling, remote sensing, forest health, data integrity, environmental monitoring, cover estimation, international forest monitoring

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In: Morin, Randall S.; Liknes, Greg C., comps. Moving from status to trends: Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) symposium 2012; 2012 December 4-6; Baltimore, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-105. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. [CD-ROM]: 237-241.

Dispersal movements and survival rates of juvenile Mexican Spotted Owls in northern Arizona

We monitored dispersal movements of 19 radiotagged juvenile Mexican Spotted Owls (Strix occidentalis Zucida) in northern Arizona during 1994 and 1995. All juveniles initiated dispersal movements in September or October during both years, with most dispersing during September. Initial dispersal movements were rapid and abrupt, but lacked a significant directional...

Author(s):

Joseph L. Ganey; William M. Block; Jill K. Dwyer; Brenda E. Strohmeyer; Jeffrey S. Jenness

Year:

1998

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Mexican Spotted Owls, Strix occidentalis Zucida, dispersal movements, survival rates

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Wilson Bulletin. 110(2): 206-217.

Forest carbon estimation using the Forest Vegetation Simulator: Seven things you need to know

Interest in options for forest-related greenhouse gas mitigation is growing, and so is the need to assess the carbon implications of forest management actions. Generating estimates of key carbon pools can be time consuming and cumbersome, and exploring the carbon consequences of management alternatives is often a complicated task. In response to this, carbon reporting...

Author(s):

Coeli M. Hoover; Stephanie A. Rebain

Year:

2011

Keywords:

Forest Vegetation Simulator, forest carbon estimation, forest carbon sequestration, harvested wood products

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Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-77. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 16 p.

Carbon factors and models for forest carbon estimates for the 2005-2011 National Greenhouse Gas Inventories of the United States

Most nations have ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Cha