Sentence examples for timber biomass from inspiring English sources

Humans may degrade forests and deplete their timber, biomass, and carbon, or they can manage them by planting faster growing trees, improving sites, and sparing mature and dead trees [2], [3], [4].

The purpose of this study was to determine if spatially-explicit commercial timber inventories (CTI) could be used in conjunction with satellite imagery to improve timber assessments and forest biomass estimates in Amazonia.

Considering the loss of forest biomass by timber harvesting and the potentially disturbing impact of harvesting activities on the forest floor, those results are evident.

Also for the forest biomass potential the recent use for timber products is modelled and deducted from the overall forest biomass potential.

These effects over-compensate the lower carbon sequestration by forests arising from the decline in timber production and the drought-induced reduction in forest biomass.

In this view, next to carbon storage in forest biomass, any sequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide by photosynthesis and timber growth additional to decay processes is of paramount importance.

The importance of choosing suitable clones for production of timber and biomass has long been recognized.

Consequently, the provisioning of renewable resources such as timber and biomass from forests is an ecosystem service of increasing importance.

In forest inventories changes are generally assessed as the difference of an attribute (e.g. forest area, timber or biomass volume, stand age, timber value, carbon stock) between successive occasions [12 15].

In this case, agencies and their allies may be spreading fear of imminent, ecosystemic collapse that can only be averted via a massive infusion of tax dollars that would also prop up the timber and biomass industries.

In forest inventories changes are generally assessed as the difference of an attribute (e.g. forest area, timber or biomass volume, stand age, timber value, carbon stock) between successive occasions [ 12- 15].