The high-latitude terrestrial carbon sink: A model analysis

Global Change Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 227-245

  White, A ^a,b   Cannell, M G R ^a   Friend, A D ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Carbon sink; Climate change; Elevated CO2; Fire; Nitrogen; Tundra

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; SIMULATION MODEL; SIMULATION; SOIL;

CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; NITROGEN;

EID: 0034059231     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2000.00302.x     Document Type: Article

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