Forest Biomass and Carbon Estimation
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2021) | Viewed by 20345
Special Issue Editor
Interests: forest sampling, measurement, and modeling; forest biomass and carbon estimation; climate change; applied statistics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forests play a critical role in the functioning of global ecosystems and climate, including serving as an important CO2 sink. Recently, we have seen intensified efforts by forest scientists around the world to identify the gaps in our understanding and to quantify the role of forests in carbon sequestration and the carbon cycle. The major focus has been on the development of allometric models to estimate aboveground biomass with limited work done in the estimation of belowground biomass. Furthermore, the estimation of forest carbon has been indirect through the assumed carbon content percent of dry biomass.
This Special Issue on Forest Biomass and Carbon Estimation aims to present the state-of-the-art developments and best practices in forest biomass and carbon estimation. The topics will include sampling and estimation methods for forest biomass and carbon; addressing forest biomass to forest carbon link; and approaches and challenges in integrating data from various sources to improve the accuracy at local, regional, national, and global scale.
Dr. Krishna P. Poudel
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Forest Biomass
- Allometric Equations
- Sampling and Estimation
- Climate Change
- Carbon Sequestration
- Bioenergy
- Forest Management
- Forest Inventory and Analysis
- Remote Sensing of Forestry
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