Burial of downed logs from vegetation covering and its effect on wood decomposition

• Main Author: Aarø, Ida
• Other Authors: Nybakken, Line, Stokland, Jogeir
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås 2017
• Subjects: Wood burial; Vegetation covering; Wood decomposition; C concentration; N concentration; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400; Norway; Moser; Skoger; Nord-Sverige; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2450185

As dead trees fall to the ground and becomes woody debris (WD) it gradually buries by ground vegetation growing on the forest floor. The rate of the burial process can affect the decomposition of the WD, and thereby affect the release rate of the C stored in the wood. Here, I used a large-scale fiel...