Effects of management on carbon sequestration in forest biomass in southeast Alaska

Ecosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1051-1065

  Leighty, Wayne W ^a,c   Hamburg, Steven P ^a   Caouette, John ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Forest management; Geographic information system

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GIS; OLD-GROWTH FOREST;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33751539516     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-005-0028-3     Document Type: Article

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