Impacts of tropical cyclones on U.S. forest tree mortality and carbon flux from 1851 to 2000

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 7888-7892

  Zeng, Hongcheng ^a   Chambers, Jeffrey Q ^a   Negrón Juárez, Robinson I ^a   Hurtt, George C ^b   Baker, David B ^a   Powell, Mark D ^c  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon balance; Forest biomass; Hurricanes; Spatial temporal dynamics; Wind field

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SINK; COMPUTER MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; HURRICANE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELECOMMUNICATION; TREE; UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CARBON; CYCLONES; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; TREES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 66049101452     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808914106     Document Type: Article

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