The International Boreal Forest Research Association: Understanding boreal forests and forestry in a changing world

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-32

  Shvidenko, Anatoly ^a   Apps, Mike ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical cycles; Boreal biome; Carbon; Circumpolar; Climate change; Disturbance; Ecology; Forest science; Global change; IBFRA; Sustainable forest management

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; FORESTRY; GLOBAL CHANGE;

EID: 33645218882     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-006-0986-6     Document Type: Article

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