Woody debris function and decay class
Carbon concentration declines with decay class in tropical forest woody debris
... of decay on the surface but still relatively hard 3 Intermediate Without bark or nails can press into the woods; hardness intermediate 4 Slightly rotten Can become fragments when pressed ...
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Coarse Woody Debris and the Carbon Balance of a Moderately Disturbed Forest
... Coarse Woody Debris Enzyme Analysis Methods Coarse woody debris samples were collected in mid-July 2014 from the FASET experimental area in the UMBS ...all decay classes (1-5) using a ...
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Transport and deposition of large woody debris in streams: a flume experiment
... Large woody debris LWD is an integral component of forested streams of the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere, yet little is known about how far wood is transported and where it is deposited in ...a ...
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Ant colonization and coarse woody debris decomposition in temperate forests
... coarse woody debris decomposition are ...coarse woody debris for nesting, and this puts them in con- tact with fauna and microbes that utilize coarse woody debris as habitat and ...
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Instream Woody Debris and Riparian Forest Characteristics in the Sabine River, Texas
... Because woody debris is critical for proper function of aquatic ecosys- tems, it is imperative that woody debris budgets be evaluated in order to ensure that adequate habitat for ...
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Coarse woody debris carbon stocks in natural spruce forests of Babia hora
... the decay process proceeds, the twigs, parts of branches and bark become traces to ...in decay class 4, only stubs of branches of diameter greater than 4–5 cm are present, a knife can slide up to 3 ...
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Structure of coarse woody debris in Lange-Leitn Natural Forest Reserve, Austria
... coarse woody debris (CWD) in an oak-dominated natural forest reserve in Austria were studied in ...of decay, and structural characteristics, creating a high diversity of CWD habitats for ...
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Wood density and carbon concentration of coarse woody debris in native forests, Brazil
... in decay classes 1 and 2, whereas the species could be identified on only about 50% of the samples in decay class 4 and ...one decay class. The densities generally decline with ...
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A simplified inventory approach for estimating carbon in coarse woody debris in high biomass forests
... coarse woody debris (CWD) and its embedded C (CWD-C) may be designed efficiently at the scale of logs, plots, and the landscape in Tasmanian tall Eucalyptus obliqua forests, which have very high levels of ...
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Transient catchment hydrology after wildfires in a Mediterranean basin: runoff, sediment and woody debris
... a function of rainfall intensity, the USLE soil erodibility factor, the USLE cover and management factor and a slope factor (Foster, ...simple function of discharge, the slope of the channel and a ...
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Nutrient limitation of woody debris decomposition in a tropical forest:contrasting effects of N and P addition
... the decay rate constant k; collection time was included as an additional random effect in the models for mass loss, nutrient concentrations and nutrient release during three years of ...
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Understory Diversity and Succession on Coarse Woody Debris in a Coastal, Old-growth Forest, Oregon
... communities, with similar levels of diversity, from the forest floor. I also hypothesize that CWD assemblages will reflect decay class of log and show an eventual convergence with forest floor communities ...
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Black Carbon on Coarse Woody Debris in Once- and Twice-Burned Mixed-Conifer Forest
... Coarse woody debris and associated char- coal were sampled in August 2014 using the planar intercept method (Donato et ...species, decay class, and depth of char for each CWD piece that inter- ...
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Decomposition dynamics of coarse woody debris of three important central European tree species
... same decay class were compar- able to the variations within the same decay class when collected from a large population of logs in the field (see also Müller-Using and Bartsch ...
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Working Paper 21: Managing Coarse Woody Debris in Fire-adapted Southwestern Forests
... downed woody material depends on forest type, tree species, stage of succession/decay, the amount of insect and disease activity, climate, fire return intervals, windthrow, and management ...downed ...
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Assessment of coarse woody debris following selective logging in Caspian forests: implications for conservation and management
... suitable for use in Caspian forests. In order to pre- serve the ecological integrity of Caspian forests and for better planning and management in the region, the line intersect sampling method is suggested to estimate ...
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Influence of transect length and downed woody debris abundance on precision of the line-intersect sampling method
... that is, some locations showed positive and others negative autocorrelation (Fig. 2). Simulations also revealed that precision of the LIS es- timate improved with increasing DWD volume present, meaning that for a given ...
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Climatic regions as an indicator of forest coarse and fine woody debris carbon stocks in the United States
... coarse/fine woody debris carbon stocks and climate at the continental ...Forest woody detritus carbon stocks are found in the largest amounts in climates that are moist enough to sup- port productive ...
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Woody debris is related to reach-scale hotspots of lowland stream ecosystem respiration under baseflow conditions
... Abstract Stream metabolism is a fundamental, integrative indicator of aquatic ecosystem functioning. However, it is not well understood how heterogeneity in physical channel form, particularly in relation to and caused ...
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Coarse woody debris, macrofungal assemblages, and sustainable forest management in a Eucalyptus obliqua forest of southern Tasmania
... of decay with more bryophyte cover and a vascular plant community more representative of Old growth than the plot of which it was a ...to decay class, volume and number of pieces of the stags and ...
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