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Richard A. Birdsey
Researcher at United States Forest Service
Publications - 150
Citations - 14241
Richard A. Birdsey is an academic researcher from United States Forest Service. The author has contributed to research in topics: Carbon sequestration & Forest inventory. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 143 publications receiving 13129 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard A. Birdsey include Woods Hole Research Center.
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Terrestrial biological carbon sequestration: science for enhancement and implementation
Wilfred M. Post,James E. Amonette,Richard A. Birdsey,Charles T. Garten,R. Cesar Izaurralde,Philip M. Jardine,Julie D. Jastrow,Rattan Lal,Gregg Marland,Bruce A. McCarl,Allison M. Thomson,Tristram O. West,Stan D. Wullschleger,F. Blaine Metting +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review progress on key scientific, economic, and social issues; postulate the extent to which new technologies might significantly enhance terrestrial sequestration potential; and address remaining research needs.
Climate Change and the Nation's Forests: Challenges and Opportunities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the impacts of climate change on America's forests and proposed specific management actions that will reduce the vulnerability of forests to climate change and enhance their natural capacity to adapt.
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Normalized algorithm for mapping and dating forest disturbances and regrowth for the United States
Liming He,Jing M. Chen,Shaoliang Zhang,Gustavo Gomez,Yude Pan,Kevin McCullough,Richard A. Birdsey,Jeffrey G. Masek +7 more
TL;DR: This study mapped forest disturbances in the USA for the period of ~1990-2000 using 400+ pairs of re-sampled Landsat TM/ETM scenes in 500m resolution, which were provided by the Landsat Ecosystem Disturbance Adaptive Processing System project.
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Decadal change of forest biomass carbon stocks and tree demography in the Delaware River Basin
TL;DR: In this paper, the Delaware River Basin (DRB) was used to measure forest biomass carbon (C) stock change over the past decade, and the results suggest that the biomass C stock of the DRB forest increased, and was thus a carbon sink.
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Ecology: Drought and dead trees
Richard A. Birdsey,Yude Pan +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that tree mortality in Canada's boreal forests has increased by nearly 5% per year, much higher than expected, owing to water stress from regional warming, which is a major threat to the world's forests.