Projecting the carbon sink of managed forests based on standard forestry data [Elektronische Ressource] / von Thomas Wutzler

Projecting the carbon sink of managed forests based on standard forestry data Ph.D. Dissertation Thomas Wutzler June 2007 Publications updated in April 2008 Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences Institute of Geography Department of Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER-UNIVERSITY JENA Jena, Germany 2007 Projecting the carbon sink of managed forests based on standard forestry data Dissertation Zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat) vorgelegt dem Rat der Chemisch-Geowissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena von Dipl. Inf. Thomas Wutzler geboren am 12. Dezember 1977 in Meerane Gutachter: 1. Prof. Dr. Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena 2. Prof. Dr. Christiane Schmullius, FSU Jena, Institute for Geography Tag der öffentlichen Verteidigung: 21.5.2008 Acknowledgements I want to thank my supervisors Prof. Dr. Ernst-Detlef Schulze and Prof. Dr. Christiane Schmullius for supporting my work. They always quickly responded to my E-mails and I greatly appreciate the freedom that they offered to me and to the direction of this thesis. Especially, I am indebted to my colleagues Martina Mund and Hannes Böttcher for always being available for discussions.