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Analysis of the regional carbon balance of Pacific Northwest forests under changing climate, disturbance, and management for bioenergy

Creator:: Hudiburg, Tara W.
Abstract:: Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have been steadily increasing from anthropogenic energy production, development and use. Carbon cycling in the terrestrial biosphere, particularly forest ecosystems, has an important role in regulating atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide. US West coast forest management policies are being developed to implement forest bioenergy production while...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of timber and energy biomass. GCB Bioenergy 3:483-497. Siemers, E. 2011. Northwest Energy plans

A regional computable general equilibrium model with applications for the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Zheng, Xiaojuan
Abstract:: Many important policy problems entail linkages among multiple economic sectors, and require the use of a general equilibrium economic modeling framework. This economic approach is appropriate when the market for any one good or service is linked to numerous other goods and services, and back to fundamental inputs such as...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Title: A Regional Computable General Equilibrium Model with Applications for the Pacific Northwest

Structural component composition of Pacific Northwest grass-derived biomass : A survey

Creator:: Masrungson, Duangdao
Abstract:: The structural component compositions of thirty nine non-commercial Pacific Northwest grasses were analyzed in order to develop a database of the grasses that may have application in bioconversion processes. The samples were chosen based on near infrared reflectance (NIR) data that suggested this group of grasses, collectively, was representative of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Predictability and constraints on the structure of ecological communities in the context of climate change

Creator:: Barner, Allison K.
Abstract:: Ecologists must increasingly balance the need for accurate predictions about how ecosystems will be affected by climate change, against the fact that making such predictions at the ecosystem-level may be infeasible. Although information about responses of individual species to a changing environment is increasing, scaling such information to the community...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of the US Pacific Northwest rocky intertidal to test ecological theory. In Chapter 2, I assessed

Life Cycle Assessment of Biomass for Generation of energy : Case Studies of Poplar Management in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.A.

Creator:: Vasquez Sandoval, Marcia A.
Abstract:: A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the production of poplar biomass grown under four management conditions in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) of the U.S.A. was conducted. While the extraction of fossil fuels and the subsequent generation of energy have environmental impacts, the alternative of extracting poplar biomass also has impacts...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: producing poplar biomass for energy under different plantation management systems in the Pacific Northwest

Experimental combustion analysis and development of representative fuel specifications for selected wood and refuse derived fuel pellets from the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Haluzak, Charles Craig
Abstract:: An experimental biomass combustion facility has been built and established at Oregon State University. The furnace, or Biomass Combustion Unit ( BCU ), uses an augertype fuel feed system, grate-type fuel support with under and over fire air supply. Fourteen pellet species from five States - Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: representative fuel specifications for selected wood and refuse derived fuel pellets from the Pacific Northwest

An Integrated Approach to Gauge the Effects of Global Climate Change on Headwater Stream Ecosystems

Creator:: Bury, Gwendolynn W.
Abstract:: Climate change is predicted to affect ecosystems, including systems already stressed by human impacts. One ecosystem that is already highly impacted by human land use is the cold headwater stream system of the Pacific Northwest. One method of assessing the function of an ecosystem is by using an indicator species....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: headwater stream system of the Pacific Northwest. One method of assessing the function of an ecosystem is

Outcome Distributions in Impact Assessment : Climate Change and Technology Adoption in Pacific Northwest Agriculture

Creator:: Zhang, Hongliang
Abstract:: Increased temperature and precipitation variability and frequent extreme weather events due to climate change pose a threat to farming operations and agricultural communities. The recent IPCC assessment shows that the projected climate change will, on average, reduce wheat yields by 5% in temperate regions without adaptation and even more if...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Technology Adoption in Pacific Northwest Agriculture

Ecological thresholds, climate extremes, and tree species' distributions across the Pacific coastal United States

Creator:: Lintz, Heather E.
Abstract:: Species' distributions across the landscape are perhaps the least understood yet most conspicuous features of life on earth. Ecologists have long studied species' distributions; yet, many questions remain about why species occur where they do. Such questions persist largely because species' distributions are complex systems with challenging properties like non-linearity,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Extremes, and Tree Species’ Distributions across the Pacific Coastal United States. Abstract

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Analysis of the regional carbon balance of Pacific Northwest forests under changing climate, disturbance, and management for bioenergy

A regional computable general equilibrium model with applications for the Pacific Northwest

Structural component composition of Pacific Northwest grass-derived biomass : A survey

Predictability and constraints on the structure of ecological communities in the context of climate change

Life Cycle Assessment of Biomass for Generation of energy : Case Studies of Poplar Management in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.A.

Experimental combustion analysis and development of representative fuel specifications for selected wood and refuse derived fuel pellets from the Pacific Northwest

An Integrated Approach to Gauge the Effects of Global Climate Change on Headwater Stream Ecosystems

Outcome Distributions in Impact Assessment : Climate Change and Technology Adoption in Pacific Northwest Agriculture

Ecological thresholds, climate extremes, and tree species' distributions across the Pacific coastal United States

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