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Integrating a process-based ecosystem model with Landsat imagery to assess impacts of forest disturbance on terrestrial carbon dynamics: Case studies in Alabama and Mississippi


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dc.contributorHanqin Tian, tianhan@auburn.eduen_US
dc.creatorChen, Guangsheng
dc.creatorTian, Hanqin
dc.creatorHuang, Chengquan
dc.creatorPrior, Stephen
dc.creatorPan, Shufen
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-02T14:42:20Z
dc.date.available2022-12-02T14:42:20Z
dc.date.created2013
dc.identifier10.1002/jgrg.20098en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jgrg.20098en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50467
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.35099/aurora-535
dc.description.abstractForest ecosystems in the southern United States are dramatically altered by three major disturbances: timber harvesting, hurricane, and permanent land conversion. Understanding and quantifying effects of disturbance on forest carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles is critical for sustainable forest management in this region. In this study, we introduced a process-based ecosystem model for simulating forest disturbance impacts on ecosystem carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles. Based on forest mortality data classified from Landsat TM/ETM+images, this model was then applied to estimate changes in carbon storage using Mississippi and Alabama as a case study. Mean annual forest mortality rate for these states was 2.37%. Due to frequent disturbance, over 50% of the forest land in the study region was less than 30years old. Forest disturbance events caused a large carbon source (138.92 Tg C, 6.04 Tg C yr(-1); 1 Tg=10(12)g) for both states during 1984-2007, accounting for 2.89% (4.81% if disregard carbon storage changes in wood products) of the total forest carbon storage in this region. Large decreases and slow recovery of forest biomass were the main causes for carbon release. Forest disturbance could result in a carbon sink in few areas if wood product carbon was considered as a local carbon pool, indicating the importance of accounting for wood product carbon when assessing forest disturbance effects. The legacy effects of forest disturbance on ecosystem carbon storage could last over 50years. This study implies that understanding forest disturbance impacts on carbon dynamics is of critical importance for assessing regional carbon budgets.en_US
dc.formatPDFen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Geophysical Unionen_US
dc.relation.ispartofJOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCESen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries2169-8953en_US
dc.rights©American Geophysical Union 2013. This is this the version of record co-published by the American Geophysical Union and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. It is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Item should be cited as: Chen, G., Tian, H., Huang, C., Prior, S. A., & Pan, S. (2013). Integrating a process‐based ecosystem model with Landsat imagery to assess impacts of forest disturbance on terrestrial carbon dynamics: Case studies in Alabama and Mississippi. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 118(3), 1208-1224.en_US
dc.titleIntegrating a process-based ecosystem model with Landsat imagery to assess impacts of forest disturbance on terrestrial carbon dynamics: Case studies in Alabama and Mississippien_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreJournal Article, Academic Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume118en_US
dc.citation.issue3en_US
dc.citation.spage1208en_US
dc.citation.epage1224en_US
dc.description.statusPublisheden_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-1806-4091en_US
dc.creator.orcid0000-0003-1750-6326en_US
dc.creator.orcid0000-0001-7920-1427en_US
dc.creator.orcid0000-0003-0055-9798en_US

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