Forest ecosystem carbon accumulation during a secondary succession in the Eastern Prealps of Italy

Forestry

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-11

  Alberti, Giorgio ^a   Peressotti, Alessandro ^a   Piussi, Pietro ^b   Zerbi, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; CHRONOSEQUENCE; DECIDUOUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LAND USE CHANGE; RURAL AREA; SECONDARY FOREST; SECONDARY SUCCESSION;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PREALPS; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ACER; ACER PSEUDOPLATANUS; FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR;

EID: 41449108076     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpm026     Document Type: Article

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