Available fuel dynamics in nine contrasting forest ecosystems in North America

Environmental Management

Volumn 33, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages

  Ryu, Soung Ryoul ^a   Chen, Jiquan ^a   Crow, Thomas R ^b   Saunders, Sari C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b NORTH CENTRAL RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Available fuel; Decomposition; Ecosystem productivity; Fire frequency; Fire intensity; Harvesting; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; FUELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTIVITY;

AVAILABLE FUELS; ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY; FIRE FREQUENCY; FIRE INTENSITY; FUEL DYNAMICS; TREE MORTALITY;

FORESTRY;

FUEL;

DECOMPOSITION; FIRE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUEL; HARVESTING;

ARTICLE; CARBON ALLOCATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECOMPOSITION; FIRE; FOREST; FOREST DYNAMICS; NORTH AMERICA; PUBLISHING;

DECAY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FUELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTIVITY; SIMULATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 5044239657     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-9120-7     Document Type: Article

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