Assessing the effects of vegetation types on carbon storage fifteen years after reforestation on a Chinese fir site

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1437-1441

  Wang, Qinkui ^a   Wang, Silong ^a,b   Zhang, Jianwei ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadleaved tree; Carbon storage; Coniferous plantation; Mixed plantation

Indexed keywords

BROADLEAVED; BROADLEAVED TREE; BROADLEAVED TREE SPECIES; C SEQUESTRATION; CARBON STORAGE; CHINESE FIR; CONIFEROUS PLANTATION; CUNNINGHAMIA LANCEOLATA; EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS; FOREST ECOLOGY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HUNAN PROVINCE , CHINA; MIXED PLANTATION; SEQUESTERING CARBON; STAND GROWTH; SUBTROPICAL CHINA; VEGETATION TYPE;

AGRICULTURE; ECOSYSTEMS; REFORESTATION; REVEGETATION; SOILS;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MIXED FOREST; PLANTATION; REFORESTATION; SOIL CARBON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBTROPICAL REGION; VEGETATION TYPE;

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; PLANTATIONS; REFORESTATION; SOIL; STORAGE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

ALNUS; ALNUS CREMASTOGYNE; CUNNINGHAMIA LANCEOLATA; KALOPANAX; KALOPANAX SEPTEMLOBUS;

EID: 68949140775     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.06.050     Document Type: Article

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