Temporal evolution of carbon budgets of the Appalachian forests in the U.S. from 1972 to 2000

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 222, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 191-201

  Liu, Jinxun ^a,b,c   Liu, Shuguang ^b   Loveland, Thomas R ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon source and sink; Forest ecosystem; Land cover change; Model; Scaling

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CARBON; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; SOILS; VEGETATION;

CARBON SOURCE AND SINK; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAND COVER CHANGE; SCALING;

FORESTRY;

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAND USE CHANGE; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY; MODELS; PLANTS; SOIL;

APPALACHIANS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 31444433534     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.09.028     Document Type: Article

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