Partitioning direct and indirect human-induced effects on carbon sequestration of managed coniferous forests using model simulations and forest inventories

Global Change Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 810-827

  Vetter, Mona ^a   Wirth, Christian ^a   Böttcher, Hannes ^a   Churkina, Galina ^a   Schulze, Ernst Detlef ^a   Wutzler, Thomas ^a   Weber, Georg ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b Thuringian State Institute for Forestry Game and Fishery   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Forest inventory data; Kyoto protocol; Managed forests; Modeling; Stand age

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; THURINGIA; WORLD;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 19344368867     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00932.x     Document Type: Article

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