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Advanced estimation of carbon storage in deadwood for the German greenhouse gas reporting (Totholz-THG)
Project
Project code: 28WC413601
Contract period: 06.06.2017
- 31.08.2020
Budget: 526,995 Euro
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Keywords: forestry, climate (climate relevance, climate protection, climate change), monitoring, emissions
Within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto protocol Germany has to fulfill international reporting obligations. Greenhouse gas emissions for forests are reported in the sector land use, land-use change, and forestry. Carbon stock changes in forests are reported for five different pools. One of those is deadwood. This pool comprises standing as well as lying deadwood, dead roots, and tree stumps. Currently there are some shortcomings in the reporting of deadwood regarding the completeness and, level of detail. This project aims in particular at improving and advancing the estimation of carbon storage in deadwood for the German greenhouse gas reporting, and in a more general perspective enhances the knowledge on deadwood. The estimation of carbon storage in deadwood for the German greenhouse gas reporting will be improved by following research activities developing: 1) Methods and procedures for the survey and estimation of dead roots and dead stumps; 2) Conception, planning and implementation of field inventory; 3) Collocation error budgets; 4) Estimators and functions for dead wood biomass. Additionally the project intends to improve the: 5) Calculation and compilation of wood density and carbon contents; 6) Calculation and compilation as well as evaluation and assessment of dead wood inventory; 7) Integration of method and procedure in greenhouse gas reporting. The working plan comprises of three modules, subdivided into corresponding working packages and steps. The first module is focusing on the elaboration of methods and the development of improved procedures. Within the second module all work regarding the dead wood survey in the field and the error budget is included. The calculation and compilation as well as evaluation and assessment of the dead wood inventory are part of module three. Finally the methods and procedures will be integrated in the greenhouse gas reporting. These new methods and procedures, the new calculation algorithms, and the dead wood inventory will be introduced and presented in a concluding workshop.
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Subjects
- Silviculture
- Climate Change
- Computer science
