Table 1 IPCC carbon pools and their equivalents in CBM (adapted from [14])
IPCC carbon pool | Pool name in CBM-CFS3 | Description |
|---|---|---|
Living Biomass | ||
 Aboveground biomass | Merchantable stemwood and bark | Live stemwood of merchantable size* plus bark |
Other wood and bark | Live branches, stumps and small trees including bark | |
Foliage | Live foliage | |
 Belowground biomass | Coarse roots | Live roots, 5 mm and larger diameter |
Fine roots | Live roots, less than 5Â mm diameter | |
Dead organic matter | ||
 Deadwood | Snag stems DOM | Dead standing stemwood of merchantable size incl. bark |
Snag branches DOM | Dead branches, stumps and small trees | |
Medium DOM | Coarse woody debris on the ground | |
Belowground fast DOM | Dead coarse roots (diam. 5Â mm and more) in mineral soil | |
 Litter | Aboveground fast DOM | Fine and small woody debris and dead coarse (submerch. size) roots in the forest floor |
Aboveground fast DOM | F, H and O horizons | |
Aboveground very fast DOM | L horizon incl. foliar litter and dead fine roots (< 5 mm diam.) | |
Soil | ||
 Soil organic matter | Belowground very fast DOM | Dead fine roots (< 5 mm diam.) in the mineral soil |
Belowground slow DOM | Humified organic matter in the mineral soil | |