The contributions of land-use change, CO2 fertilization, and climate variability to the Eastern US carbon sink

Global Change Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2370-2390

  Albani, Marco ^a   Medvigy, David ^a   Hurtt, George C ^b   Moorcroft, Paul R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; CO2 fertilization; CO2 fluxes; Disturbance history; Eastern United States; Ecosystem demography (ED) model; Forest harvesting; Land use history; Regional scale uptake; Terrestrial carbon sink

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE VARIATION; LAND USE CHANGE; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 33845245412     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01254.x     Document Type: Article

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