Carbon Emissions during Wildland Fire on a North American Temperate Peatland

Fire Ecology

Table 1 Aboveground carbon content (t C ha⁻¹).

Land cover	Litter^a	Shrub^b	Foliage^c	Total
High pocosin	4.32	21.63	0.68	26.63
Low pocosin	2.68	11.21	0.02	13.91
Agriculture^d	0.00	0.00	0.00	4.50

^a Litter and shrub biomass measures were derived from Ottmar and Vihnanek 2000.
^b Shrub and tree density measures were derived from Ottmar and Vihnanek 2000.
^c Foliage biomasses were derived from equations developed by Schroder et al. 1997, MacLein and Wein 1976 (cited in Jenkins et al. 2003).
^d Agriculture biomasses were estimated from a South Carolina coastal plain wheat field in mid-May (Bauer et al. 1998).