Recovery of aboveground plant biomass and productivity after fire in mesic and dry black spruce forests of interior Alaska

Ecosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 209-225

  Mack, Michelle C ^a   Treseder, Kathleen K ^b   Manies, Kristen L ^c   Harden, Jennifer W ^c   Schuur, Edward A G ^a   Vogel, Jason G ^a   Randerson, James T ^b   Chapin III, F Stuart ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aboveground net primary production; Biomass accumulation; Boreal forest; Fire; Plant species composition; Soil drainage

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ABUNDANCE; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON BALANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FIRE; LICHEN; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SUCCESSION;

ALASKA; DELTA JUNCTION; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PICEA MARIANA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 41149155356     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-007-9117-9     Document Type: Article

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