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Methods For The Spatial Modeling Of Forest Carbon In The Northern Forest, Alison Adams
Methods For The Spatial Modeling Of Forest Carbon In The Northern Forest, Alison Adams
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
The ability to accurately assess forest carbon storage is critical to understanding global carbon cycles and the effects of changes in land cover on ecological processes. However, existing methods for calculating carbon storage do not explicitly account for differences in carbon stored by different species of trees. Those methods that do reflect some of this variability, such as remotely-sensing canopy structure to estimate biomass, can be resource-intensive and difficult to reproduce over past or future time steps in order to assess change. I examined the accuracy of several carbon mapping approaches to understand how specificity of forest type classification (for …