University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Defining a landscape-scale monitoring tier for the North American carbon program / David Y. Hollinger -- Study site characterization / Christ Potter and Richard Birdsey -- Meteorological measurements / David Y. Hollinger -- Estimating aboveground carbon in live and standing dead trees / Peter S. Curtis -- Measuring carbon in shrubs / David C. Chojnacky and Mikaila Milton -- Estimating the carbon in coarse woody debris with perpendicular distance sampling / Harry T. Valentine [and 4 others] -- Measuring litterfall and branchfall / Pierre Bernier, Paul J. Hanson, and Peter S. Curtis -- Methods for estimating litter decomposition / Noah J. Karberg, Neal A. Scott, and Christian P. Giardina -- Measuring the decomposition of down dead-wood / Neal A. Scott and Sandra Brown -- Measuring forest floor, mineral soil, and root carbon stocks / Andrew J. Burton and Kurt Pregitzer -- Quantifying soil respiration at landscape scales / John B. Bradford and Michael G. Ryan -- Measurement of methane fluxes from terrestrial landscapes using static, non-steady state enclosures / Peter Weishampel and Randall Kolka -- Measurement and importance of dissolved organic carbon / Randall Kolka, Peter Weishampel, and Mats Fr�oberg -- Forest canopy structural properties / Marie-Louise Smith, Jeanne Anderson, and Matthew Fladeland -- Estimation of forest canopy nitrogen concentration / Marie-Louise Smith, David Y. Hollingger, and Scott Ollinger -- Integrating field measurements with flux tower and remote sensing data / Kenneth J. Davis -- Landscape-scale carbon sampling strategy : lessons learned / John B. Bradford [and 7 others].

"This volume is a comprehensive guide to the methods and techniques employed in forest carbon inventory and monitoring. Since forest carbon research is interdisciplinary, it is unlikely that any one investigator will possess expertise in all of the types of measurements needed to conduct forest carbon research at scales larger than a forest stand. Techniques used to characterize standing stocks of carbon in a forest, measure key carbon fluxes, and collect related data (such as forest canopy nitrogen concentrations and meteorological measurements) that are required to drive process models, develop predictive relationships, and link to remote sensing data are described in detail. In addition to the measurement methods, the chapters include background information, necessary calculations, and equipment requirements."--Back cover.