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Average biomass of four Northwest shrubs by fuel size class and crown cover

by: Martin, Robert Edward, 1931-; Frewing, David W; McClanahan, James L; Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (Portland, Or.)

Publication date: 1981

Topics: Forest biomass Northwest, Pacific, Plant biomass Northwest, Pacific, Biomass energy Northwest, Pacific, Shrubs Northwest, Pacific, Forest biomass, Plant biomass, Biomass energy, Shrubs

Publisher: [Portland, Or.?] : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station

Collection: usda-usfspacificnorthwestregion; usdanationalagriculturallibrary; fedlink; americana; biodiversity

Contributor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

Language: English

Rights: The contributing institution believes that this item is not in copyright.

Volume: no.374

Caption title

"March 1981."

The average biomass of big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.), antelope bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata (Pursh) DC.), snowbrush ceanothus (Ceanothus velutinus Dougl. ex Hook.), and greenleaf manzanita (Arctostaphylos patula Greene) was 6.1, 5.1, 10.7, and 16.2 tons per acre (13.9, 11.3, 24.0, and 36.0 tonnes per hectare (ha), respectively, for 100-percent shrub crown coverage. Biomass by fuel size class and category is tabulated for percent crown cover

Pine Mountain, Kelsey Butte, and Pringle Falls areas of the Deschutes National Forest, the John Day River drainage of central Oregon, and Lava Beds National Monument in northern California

Bibliography: p. 6