Climatic regions as an indicator of forest coarse and fine woody debris carbon stocks in the United States

Table 2 Pearson's correlations coefficients and associated p-values for forest coarse woody debris (CWD), fine woody debris (FWD), and total down woody carbon (C) stocks by climatic attributes

Climate variables	Coarse woody debris C		Fine woody debris C		Total down woody C
	Corr. coeff.	p-value	Corr. coeff.	p-value	Corr. coeff.	p-value
PRECIP	0.25	< 0.001	0.22	< 0.001	0.29	< 0.001
TMAX	-0.30	< 0.001	-0.13	< 0.001	-0.30	< 0.001
TMIN	-0.24	< 0.001	-0.07	< 0.001	-0.22	< 0.001
MOIST	0.29	< 0.001	0.29	< 0.001	0.36	< 0.001
VAR	-0.19	< 0.001	-0.10	< 0.001	-0.19	< 0.001
EVAP	-0.25	< 0.001	-0.06	< 0.001	-0.23	< 0.001

: 30-year mean annual yearly precipitation (PRECIP), 30-year mean daily maximum temperature (TMAX), 30-year mean daily minimum temperature (TMIN), moisture index (MOIST), variability cause (VAR), and potential evapotranspiration (EVAP)

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