Carbon cycling along a gradient of beech bark disease impact in the Catskill Mountains, New York

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1267-1274

  Hancock, Jessica E ^a,c   Arthur, Mary A ^a   Weathers, Kathleen C ^b   Lovett, Gary M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; DISEASE CONTROL; ECOSYSTEMS; HARDWOODS; PATHOGENS; PEST CONTROL; SOILS;

CARBON CYCLING; EXOTIC PESTS; FOREST STRUCTURE;

FORESTRY;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DOMINANCE; FUNGAL DISEASE; GROWING SEASON; INVASIVE SPECIES; LITTERFALL; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PATHOGEN;

BARK; ECOSYSTEMS; FAGUS; HARDWOODS;

APPALACHIANS; CATSKILL MOUNTAINS; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ACER; ACER SACCHARUM; FAGUS; FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA;

EID: 44449126581     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X07-228     Document Type: Article

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