Methods:
NSF supports the following activities necessary to bring our Decadal Research Plan to completion: 1) periodic census of trees and woody debris in our 32 intensive plots in the paired chronosequences and late-successional reference forests; 2) digitization of and derivation of long-term aboveground NPP from 500 tree cores; 3) quantification of soil heterotrophic respiration and subsequent derivation of NEP in all plots; 4) sustained measurement of key C fluxes across all 32 plots; 5) integration and synthesis of LTREB with other forest C cycle research at UMBS.
Funding agency:
National Science Foundation