Decomposition and carbon cycling of dead trees in tropical forests of the central Amazon

Oecologia

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 380-388

  Chambers, Jeffrey Q ^a,b   Higuchi, Niro ^b   Schimel, Joshua P ^a   Ferreira, Leandro V ^b   Melack, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling models; Coarse surface litter; Global biogeochemistry; Tree mortality; Wood decomposition

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON FLUX; DECOMPOSITION; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0034100389     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050044     Document Type: Article

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