| First Name: | Virginia |
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| Last Name: | Matzek |
| Email Address: | vmatzek@scu.edu |
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| Subject | need for shrub biomass data |
| Comment |
My take on the inventory reports is that the biomass figures for shrublands are really poorly constrained...and that's about 11% of California, in chaparral, coastal sage scrub, and other arid or semi-arid woody veg. Doing more LIDAR and running more models is not going to improve this, because the underlying base data for converting shrubland area to tons of biomass are just not there. ARB needs to fund the development of shrub allometrics or at the very least some groundtruthing of the remotely sensed data so that we can feed better info into the models. This would help not only to figure out fire emissions, but to understand carbon implications for land management activities like fuel thinning, ecological restoration, and utility veg management. |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2016-11-07 14:07:32 |
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