Estimates of live-tree carbon stores in the Pacific Northwest are sensitive to model selection |
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| Authors: | Susanna L Melson Mark E Harmon Jeremy S Fried James B Domingo |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Forest Science Department, Oregon State University, 321 Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR USA, 97331-5752;(2) Portland Forestry Sciences Laboratory, P.O. Box 3890, Portland, OR USA, 7208-3890;(3) Green Code LLC, P.O. Box 3232, Las Cruces, NM USA, 88003 |
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| Abstract: | Background Estimates of live-tree carbon stores are influenced by numerous uncertainties. One of them is model-selection uncertainty: one has to choose among multiple empirical equations and conversion factors that can be plausibly justified as locally applicable to calculate the carbon store from inventory measurements such as tree height and diameter at breast height (DBH). Here we quantify the model-selection uncertainty for the five most numerous tree species in six counties of northwest Oregon, USA. |
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