Carbon distribution of a well- and poorly-drained black spruce fire chronosequence

Global Change Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1066-1079

  Wang, Chuankuan ^a   Bond Lamberty, Ben ^a   Gower, Stith T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Black spruce; Boreal forest; Carbon; Chronosequence; Fire

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON BUDGET; CHRONOSEQUENCE; DRAINAGE; FIRE; GLOBAL CHANGE; SOIL MOISTURE;

CANADA;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE; PICEA; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 0042632590     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2003.00645.x     Document Type: Article

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