Energy content in woody biomass of Zhytomyr Polissia’s forests

Sustainable Production of Woody Biomass for Energy

Estimating aboveground biomass of broadleaved woody plants in the understory of Florida Keys pine forests

Species-specific allometric equations that provide estimates of biomass from measured plant attributes are currently unavailable for shrubs common to South Florida pine rocklands, where fire plays an important part in shaping the structure and function of ecosystems. We developed equations to estimate total aboveground biomass and fine fuel of 10 common hardwood species in the shrub layer of pi...

Process Integration to Increase Woody Biomass Utilization for Energy Purposes

Woody biomass is an abundant renewable energy resource in Sweden, and the Swedish government has been promoting research and development programs for the exploitation of this resource as a means to meet the targets on the reduction of the carbon dioxide emissions from the industrial, energy and transportation sectors. This thesis aims at expanding the knowledge on the efficient utilization of t...

Biomass and carbon attributes of downed woody materials in forests of the United States

A large carbon sink in the woody biomass of Northern forests.

The terrestrial carbon sink, as of yet unidentified, represents 15-30% of annual global emissions of carbon from fossil fuels and industrial activities. Some of the missing carbon is sequestered in vegetation biomass and, under the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, industrialized nations can use certain forest biomass sinks to meet their greenhouse gas...