Carbon dynamics of Oregon and Northern California forests and potential land-based carbon storage

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 163-180

  Hudiburg, Tara ^a   Law, Beverly ^a   Turner, David P ^a   Campbell, John ^a   Donato, Dan ^a   Duane, Maureen ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Climate regime; Coarse woody debris; CWD; Inventory data; Management; Mortality rates; Net primary production; USA; West coast forests

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

BIOMASS; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; MORTALITY; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEMIARID REGION;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TREE; UNITED STATES;

BIOMASS; CALIFORNIA; CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; OREGON; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

CASCADE RANGE; COAST RANGES; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 63849229053     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-2006.1     Document Type: Article

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