Carbon cycling and storage in world forests: Biome patterns related to forest age

Global Change Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2052-2077

  Pregitzer, Kurt S ^a   Euskirchen, Eugénie S ^b  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Climate change; Fluxes; Forest succession; Global change; Pools; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

BIOME; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SUCCESSION;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 10944266429     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00866.x     Document Type: Review

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