Developing Tools for Ecological Forestry and Carbon Management in Longleaf Pine

Abstract

Carbon density was measured in longleaf pine stands across the range to directly quantify ecosystem carbon pools and calibrate and validate longleaf pine carbon models. An even-aged longleaf pine model which enables simulation of scenarios for young planted stands being managed for transition toward uneven-aged structures with silvicultural tools such as thinning and prescribed fire was developed and linked to a modified single-tree-based longleaf pine model which enables simulation of older stands which are managed with silvicultural tools such as single tree or group selection harvests and prescribed fire.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1024215

Entities

People

  • Carlos A. Gonzalez-Benecke
  • John Butnor
  • Kurt Jonsen
  • Lisa Samuelson
  • Tim Martin
  • Wendell Jr Cropper

Organizations

  • Auburn University

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  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Chemistry
  • Climate Change
  • Climate Change Adaptation
  • Computational Science
  • Databases
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Protection
  • Forests
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geography
  • Greenhouse Effect
  • Habitats
  • Information Science
  • Liquid Chromatography
  • Soil Science
  • Surveys

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

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  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Forest Ecology
  • Nanocomposite Materials Science