Managing carbon sinks by changing rotation length in European forests

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-219

  Kaipainen, Terhi ^a   Liski, Jari ^a,b,e   Pussinen, Ari ^a   Karjalainen, Timo ^c,d  

^a EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^e FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carbon sink; CO2FIX; Forest management; Kyoto Protocol; Rotation length

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; EUROPE; FINLAND; FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GERMANY; GREENHOUSE GAS; HARVEST; PINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPRUCE; TREE; UNITED KINGDOM; WOOD;

PICEA; PICEA SITCHENSIS; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 2342650300     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2004.03.001     Document Type: Article

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