Composition and aboveground tree biomass of a dry semi-evergreen forest on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 186, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 125-132

  Cairns, Michael A ^a   Olmsted, Ingrid ^b   Granados, Julián ^b,c   Argaez, Jorge ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass; Allometric regression equations; Carbon dynamics; Forest composition; Semi evergreen tropical dry forest; Yucatan peninsula

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HARVESTING; LAND USE;

DRY FORESTS;

ECOLOGY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DRY FOREST; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS;

YUCATAN PENINSULA;

BROSIMUM; BROSIMUM ALICASTRUM; LUEHEA SPECIOSA; MANILKARA; MANILKARA ZAPOTA; POUTERIA; POUTERIA UNILOCULARIS; SPONDIAS; SPONDIAS MOMBIN; TRICHILIA; TRICHILIA MINUTIFOLIA;

EID: 0345359493     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(03)00229-9     Document Type: Article

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