Biometric and eddy-covariance based estimates of annual carbon storage in five eastern North American deciduous forests

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 113, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 3-19

  Curtis, Peter S ^a   Hanson, Paul J ^b   Bolstad, Paul ^c   Barford, Carol ^d   Randolph, J C ^e   Schmid, H P ^e   Wilson, Kell B ^f  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

AmeriFlux; Annual carbon storage; Deciduous forests; Net ecosystem exchange; Net ecosystem productivity

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EDDY COVARIANCE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0037010668     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(02)00099-0     Document Type: Article

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