Relationships between forest fine and coarse woody debris carbon stocks across latitudinal gradients in the United States as an indicator of climate change effects

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 686-690

  Woodall, C W ^a   Liknes, G C ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Climate change; Coarse woody debris; Fine woody debris; Latitude

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS;

WOOD WASTES;

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST RESOURCE; GLOBAL WARMING; INDICATOR MINERAL; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WOOD WASTE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40649118040     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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