Technical Note: Linking climate change and downed woody debris decomposition across forests of the eastern United States

Russell, M. B.; Woodall, C. W.; D'Amato, A. W.; Fraver, S.; Bradford, J. B.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-6417-2014

Articles | Volume 11, issue 22

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-6417-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-6417-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 22

Technical note

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26 Nov 2014

Technical note |

| 26 Nov 2014

Technical Note: Linking climate change and downed woody debris decomposition across forests of the eastern United States

M. B. Russell, C. W. Woodall, A. W. D'Amato, S. Fraver, and J. B. Bradford

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RC C2787: 'Interesting points, but limited and questionable assumptions', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 Jun 2014
- AC C6028: 'Response to Anonymous Reviewer 1', Matthew Russell, 21 Oct 2014
RC C4992: 'The combination of complex models requires that the combined models have extremely sound basis (data and processes)', Sabina Burrascano, 09 Sep 2014
- AC C6032: 'Response to Reviewer Burrascano', Matthew Russell, 21 Oct 2014

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AR by Matthew Russell on behalf of the Authors (21 Oct 2014) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (27 Oct 2014) by Yakov Kuzyakov

AR by Matthew Russell on behalf of the Authors (27 Oct 2014)

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There is great concern about the role that forest ecosystems play in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions under future global-change scenarios. It is assumed that projected climate change will increase the decomposition rate of woody debris, but the magnitude of this increase is unknown. Across eastern US forests, we show that the residence time of downed woody debris may decrease by as much as 13% over the next 200 years, depending on various future climate-change scenarios and forest types.