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Decay Of Woody Residues As The Counterfactual Treatment To Mobilization For Bioelectricity Generation, Max A. Blasdel
Decay Of Woody Residues As The Counterfactual Treatment To Mobilization For Bioelectricity Generation, Max A. Blasdel
Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects
Decay of woody debris is a major carbon flux for forests. Decay processes are not well documented in forest modeling frameworks but play an important role in forest carbon cycling and life cycle assessments of forest-derived products. The main drivers of decay are species, vertical location, and climate. A database of literature values for decay by tree species was created to parameterize a larger model of California forestland carbon cycling. A novel methodology was applied to vary these decay values for each species spatially based on climatic drivers of decay. This resulted in decay values for each species and size …