Forest carbon sinks in the Northern Hemisphere

Ecological Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 891-899

  Goodale, Christine L ^a,d   Apps, Michael J ^b   Birdsey, Richard A ^c   Field, Christopher B ^a   Heath, Linda S ^c   Houghton, Richard A ^d   Jenkins, Jennifer C ^c   Kohlmaier, Gundolf H ^e   Kurz, Werner ^f   Liu, Shirong ^g   Nabuurs, Gert Jan ^h,i   Nilsson, Sten ^j   Shvidenko, Anatoly Z ^j  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^g RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^h WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^j INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

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Author keywords

Carbon balance, regional; Carbon cycle; Carbon sinks and sources; Forest carbon budget; Forest disturbance; Forest inventories; Forest products

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SINK; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST INVENTORY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 0242668850     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[0891:FCSITN]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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