Estimates of biomass and carbon storage in two Taiwania plantations of the Liukuei experimental forest

Taiwan Journal of Forest Science

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 85-94

  Lin, Kuo Chuan ^a   Wang, Chiao Ping ^a   Huang, Chu Mei ^a   Horng, Fu Wen ^a   Chiu, Chih Ming ^a  

^a TAIWAN FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Biomass; Carbon storage; Litter layer; Regression method; Taiwania; Understory vegetation

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS; VEGETATION;

CARBON STORAGE;

BIOMASS;

TAIWANIA;

EID: 0041975781     PISSN: 10264469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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