Patrick Gonzalez, John J. Battles, Brandon M. Collins, Timothy Robards, David S. Saah

Forest Ecology and Management

Published date July 15, 2015

Aboveground live carbon stock changes of California wildland ecosystems, 2001–2010

  • Finds aboveground live carbon stock in California wildlands was 850 ± 230 Tg in 2010
  • Finds aboveground live carbon showed a net decrease of 69 ± 15 Tg from 2001 to 2010
  • Finds two-thirds of the carbon loss occurred on the 6% of the state burned by wildfire
  • Finds remote sensing classification errors accounted for most of the uncertainty