Decomposition and fragmentation of coarse woody debris: Re-visiting a boreal black spruce chronosequence

Ecosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 831-840

  Bond Lamberty, Ben ^a   Gower, Stith T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Black spruce; Boreal forest; Chronosequence; Coarse woody debris; Decomposition; Fragmentation; Snag failure

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CARBON FLUX; CHRONOSEQUENCE; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECOMPOSITION; FRAGMENTATION; MORTALITY; SNAG; SPATIAL VARIATION; STAND DYNAMICS;

CANADA; MANITOBA; NORTH AMERICA; THOMPSON;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 52949154635     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-008-9163-y     Document Type: Article

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