Tree damage, allometric relationships, and above-ground net primary production in central Amazon forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 152, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 73-84

  Chambers, Jeffrey Q ^a,b   Santos, Joaquim dos ^b   Ribeiro, Ralfh J ^b   Higuchi, Niro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Coarse wood litter; Forest fragmentation; Net ecosystem production; NPP; Tree mortality; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; PRODUCTIVITY;

ALLOMETRIC RELATIONSHIPS; TREE DAMAGES;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LITTER; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TROPICAL FOREST;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0035887758     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(00)00591-0     Document Type: Article

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