Secondary forest growth deviation from chronosequence predictions in central Amazonia

Global Change Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 967-979

  Feldpausch, Ted R ^a,e   da Conceicao Prates Clark, Cassia ^b,c   Fernandes, Erick C M ^d   Riha, Susan J ^a  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d WORLD BANK   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass; Brazil; Carbon sequestration; Deforestation; Oxisol; Pasture; Quadratic mean; Self thinning; Soil nutrients; Tropical ecosystem; Vismia

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; DEFORESTATION; EMERGENCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MORTALITY; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; REGENERATION; REGROWTH; SECONDARY PRODUCTION; SELF THINNING;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

VISMIA;

EID: 34247599758     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01344.x     Document Type: Article

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