The effects of prescribed fire and silvicultural thinning on the aboveground carbon stocks and net primary production of overstory trees in an oak-hickory ecosystem in southern Ohio

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 1584-1594

  Chiang, Jyh Min ^a   McEwan, Ryan W ^b   Yaussy, Daniel A ^c   Brown, Kim J ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acer; ANPP; Carbon stocks; Fire and fire surrogate; Oak regeneration; Phenology; Prescribed burning; Quercus; Thinning

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES;

FIRE SURROGATES; FOREST DYNAMICS; OAK REGENERATION; OVERSTORY TREES;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MORTALITY; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; OVERSTORY; PHENOLOGY; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; REINTRODUCTION; SILVICULTURE; STEM; SURROGATE METHOD; THINNING; VULNERABILITY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATES; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST FIRES;

NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

ACER; ACER RUBRUM; CARYA; QUERCUS;

EID: 39749192090     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.11.016     Document Type: Article

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