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The potential need for national-level comparisons of greenhouse gas emissions, and the desirability of understanding terrestrial sources and sinks of carbon, has prompted interest in quantifying national forest carbon budgets. In this study, we link a forest inventory database,…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: carbon flux, carbon pools, forest inventory, woody debris, NEP - Net Ecosystem Productivity, soil carbon, tree harvest, age-class distribution, carbon sinks, carbon sources, forest carbon budget, regional carbon storage

The aim of this study was to assess the effects on combustion characteristics, and their consequences on nutrient losses, of (1) the change in load and packing ratio of the fuel bed, and (2) the change in fuel moisture content. Eighty-one experimental burns were carried out, on…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: fireline intensity, fuel loading, fuel moisture content, fuel consumption, Pinus pinaster, laboratory experiments, particulate and volatile nutrient losses, laboratory fires, air quality, combustion, fire intensity, fire management, France, fuel moisture, Mediterranean habitats, moisture, needles, nutrients, pine forests, Pinus, statistical analysis, temperature