The human footprint in the carbon cycle of temperate and boreal forests

Nature

Volumn 447, Issue 7146, 2007, Pages 848-850

  Magnani, Federico ^a   Mencuccini, Maurizio ^b   Borghetti, Marco ^c   Berbigier, Paul ^d   Berninger, Frank ^e   Delzon, Sylvain ^d   Grelle, Achim ^f   Hari, Pertti ^g   Jarvis, Paul G ^b   Kolari, Pasi ^g   Kowalski, Andrew S ^d   Lankreijer, Harry ^h   Law, Beverly E ⁱ   Lindroth, Anders ^h   Loustau, Denis ^d   Manca, Giovanni ^j,k   Moncrieff, John B ^b   Rayment, Mark ^b   Tedeschi, Vanessa ^c   Valentini, Riccardo ^j   Grace, John ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^d BORDEAUX SCIENCES AGRO   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^h LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^k JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN;

BOREAL FOREST; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; DISTURBANCE; FOOTPRINT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; TEMPERATE FOREST;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; NITROGEN CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIGA; VEGETATION;

EID: 34250334315     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05847     Document Type: Article

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