DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.03.026
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84898474576
论文题名: Progressive, idiosyncratic changes in wood hardness during decay: Implications for dead wood inventory and cycling
作者: Oberle B. ; Dunham K. ; Milo A.M. ; Walton M. ; Young D.F. ; Zanne A.E.
刊名: Forest Ecology and Management
ISSN: 0378-1127
出版年: 2014
卷: 323 起始页码: 1
结束页码: 9
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Case hardening
; Ozark forest
; Penetrometer
Scopus关键词: Case hardening
; Decay (organic)
; Forestry
; Hardness
; Moisture determination
; Surveys
; Coarse woody debris
; Experimental control
; Highly-correlated
; Interspecific variations
; Mechanical parameters
; Ozark forest
; Penetrometer
; Standard conditions
; Hardwoods
; Decay
; Forestry
; Hardness
; Hardwoods
; Surveys
英文摘要: Coarse woody debris (CWD) plays important roles in forests including carbon storage. Calculating the size of this carbon pool from survey data entails estimating the volume and density of dead wood. Density is highly correlated with other mechanical parameters in intact wood, explaining how penetrometers, which measure a mechanical parameter related to hardness, have proven useful for estimating dead wood density. However, the relationship between wood density and hardness varies with three key factors that vary in CWD: moisture content, tree species and degree of decay. We estimated how these factors influence penetrometer measurements across conditions ranging from lab standards to field conditions during a CWD survey. When measuring experimentally decayed wood under standard conditions, penetrometer distance was highly correlated with sample density and the effects of moisture content and interspecific variation were similar to those expected from analyses of intact wood. However, when we relaxed experimental controls and included samples that had decayed for different lengths of time, these relationships shifted such that penetrometer measurements no longer correlated with intact wood hardness and tended to increase relative to density and moisture content. The decoupling of mechanical properties in decaying wood is consistent with case hardening, which developed differently in different species and contributed to high variability in penetrometer measurements during the CWD survey. These results demonstrate temporal changes in decaying wood mechanical properties that have implications for surveying CWD and understanding carbon dynamics in temperate hardwood forests. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/65960
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作者单位: Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, 2023 G St. NW, Washington, DC 20052, United States; Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO 63166, United States; Department of Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63166, United States
Recommended Citation:
Oberle B.,Dunham K.,Milo A.M.,et al. Progressive, idiosyncratic changes in wood hardness during decay: Implications for dead wood inventory and cycling[J]. Forest Ecology and Management,2014-01-01,323