Root biomass contributes a significant proportion of total biomass and carbon storage in forest ecosystems. Deadwood (including dead roots) is an essential component of the ecosystem carbon (C) balance. Currently there are some shortcomings in the reporting of deadwood regarding the completeness and the level of detail. So far it is not possible to report about dead coarse roots since there is no existing data. Therefore, we a...

Coarse woody debris (CWD) is a major component of the ecosystem carbon (C) balance. The estimation of C storage in CWD is an important element of the German greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting of forests, which is mainly based on the German National Forest Inventory. The deadwood C stock is calculated based on deadwood volume and, according to deadwood density (DD) and carbon concentration (CC) for each decay class (DC). Yet, the d...

Germany, as an Annex I Party is expected to prepare and submit annual Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventories of emissions and removals, including Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) sector. Uganda, a non-Annex 1 party, is institutionalizing a sustainable national GHG inventory system. The LULUCF sector is a key emission source and plays a vital role in these two countries’ GHG inventories. This research analyzes the dif...