Wildfire in Russian boreal forests - Potential impacts of fire regime characteristics on emissions and global carbon balance estimates

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 305-313

  Conard, Susan G ^a   Ivanova, Galina A ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Boreal forests; Carbon balance; Fires; Russia

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

BOREAL FOREST; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON RELEASE; FIRE; FIRE REGIME; GLOBAL CARBON BALANCE; TREE MORTALITY;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; FOREST; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TREE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0031421504     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(97)00140-1     Document Type: Article

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