The global relationship between forest productivity and biomass

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 618-631

  Keeling, Helen C ^a   Phillips, Oliver L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomass; Carbon storage; Dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs); Global data set; Global forests; Net primary productivity

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 34547975363     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00314.x     Document Type: Article

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