B24A:
Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Wood-Use and Forest Management II Posters

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Session ID#: 6359

Session Description:
The sustainable use of forest biomass for bioenergy presents an opportunity to address climate change by reducing fossil fuel emissions. Changing practices in forest management, wood-use, and also post-consumer wood products can also result in lower emissions to the atmosphere.
This session focuses on the quantification of climate change mitigation for wood-use and forest management at the landscape scale. Wood-use includes using wood energy for substituting fossil fuels or using wood for substituting concrete or other products.  Forest management can include adjusting rotation ages, reducing logging wastes, eliminating on-site residue burning, and/or increasing growth.
OSPA Liaison:  Carolyn Smyth, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC, Canada
Chair:  Carolyn Smyth, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC, Canada
Primary Convener:  Carolyn Smyth, Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Convener:  Olaf Schwab, Natural Resources Canada, Policy, Economics and Industry Branch, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Index Terms:

0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • ES - Earth Surface Processes

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
B24A-0072
SUGARCANE CARBON SEQUESTRATION POTENTIAL UNDER THE CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM THE CASE OF KAKIRA SUGAR ESTATES-UGANDA (33456)
John Sekajugo, Busitema University, Natural Resource Economics, Kampala, Uganda and Sekajugo John1, Moses Isabirye1, D.V.N Raju2 and Bruno Verbist2
 
B24A-0074
Environmental Controls on Tree-Ring Growth in an Age-Sequence of Planted Pine Forests (35360)
Shawn M McKenzie1, Muhammad Altaf Arain1,2, Michael FJ Pisaric3 and Michelle Kula1,2, (1)McMaster University, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (2)McMaster Centre for Climate Change, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (3)Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada
 
B24A-0075
Carbon Dynamics of a Young White Pine Plantation Forest (35457)
Felix C.C. Chan1,2, Muhammad Altaf Arain1,2, Rachel Skubel1,2, Myroslava Khomik1,2 and Jason J Brodeur1,2, (1)McMaster Centre for Climate Change, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (2)McMaster University, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada
 
B24A-0076
An Analysis of Soil CO2 Emissions in a Temperate Deciduous Forest Ecosystem (35390)
Katelynn Michelle Daly1,2, Muhammad Altaf Arain1,2 and Myroslava Khomik1,2, (1)McMaster Centre for Climate Change, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (2)McMaster University, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada
 
B24A-0077
Response of Soil Respiration to Thinning of a Temperate Pine Forest in Southern Ontario (35998)
Robin Thorne1, Muhammad Altaf Arain2, Emily Nicholas1 and Jason J Brodeur1, (1)McMaster University, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (2)McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
 
B24A-0078
Quantitative, Non-destructive Estimates of Coarse Root Biomass using 3-D Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) (36723)
Joe I Boyce, Muhammad Altaf Arain, Michelle Molon and Doug Blomfield, McMaster University, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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