I want to conduct a study where the objectives are as follows :
1. To determine forest species that are buried underneath a lake
2. Examine potential for carbon emissions
I am also eager to learn how extrapolation of a similar environment can be used to calculate buried biomass in a similar environment and how this can be done?
You might be interested to look at the work of Richard Guyette (and check in Google Scholar for the articles having cited his work since):
Article Perspectives on the age and distribution of large wood in ri...
Dominique Arseneault has also done interesting research on the topic:
Article Asynchronous forest-stream coupling in a fire-prone boreal l...
Although trees that fall into lakes are likely to stay there for a long time, they appear to have a residence time, meaning they aren't there forever. I suppose that if the system is at equilibrium, inputs and outputs will be the same, and thus there will be no net carbon emission. Other possible situations would be that new trees fall into the lake faster than the old ones decompose (carbon sink) or that decomposition is faster than input (carbon source).
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