The influence of silvicultural treatments and coarse woody material (CWM) on forest carbon storage and sequestration
Conference Year
2024
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to figure out what coarse woody material (CWM) in locations with varying overstory tree canopy gap sizes put into the soil as they decompose. The objective is to find a correlation between the size of the canopy gap and proximity to the CWM and the concentration of carbon (C), ammonium, and nitrate in the soil. This project works with the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) project measuring CO2 exiting twelve decaying Acer saccharum logs in Second College Grant (SCG), New Hampshire.
Primary Faculty Mentor Name
Carol Adair
Status
Graduate
Student College
Rubenstein School of Environmental and Natural Resources
Program/Major
Natural Resources
Primary Research Category
Life Sciences
The influence of silvicultural treatments and coarse woody material (CWM) on forest carbon storage and sequestration
The purpose of this research is to figure out what coarse woody material (CWM) in locations with varying overstory tree canopy gap sizes put into the soil as they decompose. The objective is to find a correlation between the size of the canopy gap and proximity to the CWM and the concentration of carbon (C), ammonium, and nitrate in the soil. This project works with the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) project measuring CO2 exiting twelve decaying Acer saccharum logs in Second College Grant (SCG), New Hampshire.